The Hot Springs star. (Hot Spings [Hot Springs], Dakota [Dakota Territory, i.e. S.D.]) 1886-189?, 1890-06-06

A RAILROAD grader in the Black Hills
plowed up a gold nugget worth $50 the
other day.
SINCE the prohibition law went into eff
feet only one arrest for intoXlcation has
been made ut Aberdeen.
WHITE SWAN, head chief of the Mimi
kanju band and IL of the principal chiefs
OF the Sioux nation, in an interview ut
Pierre the other day, expressed the belief
that his race is doomed to determination
throngh the injustice of the government,
no claims, in inducing the Indians to sign
away their lands. lie further stated that
he had discovered that his people were not
farmers and that he was directing tl.eir at.
tention to stock raising, and, as it II. quired
n large area to carry on that industry he
would protest against any further sale of
reservation lands.
PIERRE firemen will put on style with
new uniforms at the coming tournament,
the city council having appropriated
money to purchase q complete outfit.
ADv1cEs from all points i'll the James
river valley report crops in excellent con-
dition. Plentiful rains have fallen every
where in the valley, and the ground never
was in n better condition for an abundant
yield.
The 5-year-old daughter of Mr.. Dayton.
living near Rondell, WAS recently kicked on
the head by n horse and remained uncon-
scious for six DAYS. 1t is thought the lit
tie ono will recover, though she is still in
precarions condition.
n ann. 1,ahy waio1i,p c,,a wound ,,,,1 an
= half Was born in the family of Horace
jerks, of Vale, Butte county, last week.
The little mite is perfectly formed and
shows all signs of health. When IL week
old the baby weighed Just three pounds.
The parents are large, robust people.
BEDS of ny excellent; quality of potter's
clay have been discovered near Yankton.
The stockmen of the Cheyenne valley
have organized an nnti-cattle thief society.
GEN. ALGER has accepted an invitation
to be present ut the encampment of the
Dakota Veterans ass ociation. to be held mt
lakewood.
The Methodists of Brule and neighbour
ing counties are preparing to hold % camp
meeting ON American island some time
next month. The island is situated in
the Missouri river near Chamberlain, and
possesses one of the finest groves in South
Dakota.
THE dead body of Wm. Conley, a mar
who disappeared from Ipswich last winter,
was found the other day on the rairie n
few miles from that place. The coroncr's
jury returned n verdict that Conley came
to his death from exposure shortly after
his disappearance. The young man was n
stranger i'll the locality and had been work
ing but a short time on "a farm near Ips-
wich.
A VALUABLE colt belonging to John
Wesseling, living near HARRISON, was bit
ten by a rattlesnake the other day and
died IN q few hours.
C. II. EVANS, for grand larceny, was
sentenced by Judge Fuller, at Pierre, to
one year and seven months in the peniten-
tiary at Sioux Falls.
CASES of desertion are reported from the
ranks Of the Eighth United States cavalry,
In camp near Oelrichs.
The residence of T. ID. Porter, at Har-
rold, with oil its contents, was destroyed
by fire. Loss, $1,000: no insurance.
The request of settlers to nave Fort
Abraham Lincoln retained as q military
station has been granted by the war depart.
ment.
Tx. grand jury of Meade county re.
turned an indictment for murder agains,
N. LaFlannie, charged with killing M oil
man named Carter last fall.
The gold miners en- the mineral belt Of
the Black hills are having n little difficult,
regarding hours of labor, but it is though,
the difference will be satisfactorily settled
without resort to o strike.
REPRESENTATIVES, of the gas compan,
have arrived at Yankton. The city council
will accept their proposition to use iftee1
lamps to every mile Of mains laid by til.
company. The gas company will explEs
$4,000 in establishing their plant. :,
The Ysnkton Pontoon Bridge compani
J will commence the construction of thsh
;aQe to Nebraska in a few days. III.
y"ntten, estimate the.xX4.