The Hot Springs star. (Hot Spings [Hot Springs], Dakota [Dakota Territory, i.e. S.D.]) 1886-189?, 1890-03-21

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The name of Sandman p~ostofice is TO
be changed to Monroe.
"A posToFFIcE has been established at
March, Charles Mix county.
1lLFoRD will put in a complete system
of water-works this spring.
A sIx-FOoT vein of coal was struck last
week at depth of $50 feet near Lodi, Clay
county, by parties boring for water. A like
tind was made near Centerville, Turner
county, recently. and it is thought there
are extensive coal deposits underlying that
section of the state.
LAST year Lincoln county produced
323,334 bushels of wheat, S27.4SO bushels
of oats, 1884, OO2 bushels of corn, 57,4SU
bushels of barley, 2,037 bushels of rye,
1896 bushels of flax. 90, 4 bushels of
potatoes and S6,G93 tons of hay. Lincoln
claims to DO the banner farming county in
the state.
PECULIAR family resides in Pennipg-
ton county, consisting Of father, mother
and seven children. The Oldest boy and
girl are twins aged 10: the next two girls,
aged 10, are also twins, aud the youngest
OF the family are three little tfiplet girls,
aged } years. All the children are perfectly
formed and very pretty.
The Brookings agricultural college has
recently been furnished with two three.
inch field pieces aud gun carriages, $50
springfield rifles md q quantity of am.
nlunition for target practice ana salutes.
First Lieut.. Larry. of the Fourth artillery,
has been ordered to report at the college
as professor OF military science and tactics.
ASwILDcAT weighing twenty-five pounds
was shot on Marshall's island, near
Bloomington, the other day. 1t vas the
first animal of the kind ever killed in that
vicinity.
SENATOR PETTIGREw and Editor
Haokett, Of the Parker New Era, have been
elected members of the executive Commit
tee Of the National Republican league for
South Dakota.
ISAAC HILL, a smooth confidence man,
is held 10 await tho action Of the Brook.
ings county grand jury on q charge of
swindling Thomas Alton out Of $500 by
the green goods game.
The Pierre Capital has succeeded in
making it too warm for the gamblers and
they have folded their faro layouts and
gathered their walnut shells and will start
q town Of their own somewhere on the res.
= ervation.
The new town to be located across the
river from Yankton is to be called Bartlett.
The Holland church at Bloomington,
which was burned recently, is being re.
built.
The new town OF Nowlin is already rep.
resented by q newspaper-the Nowlin Re.
porter.
A HOTEL is being erected in the new
town of Midland which will accommodate
$50 guests.
AN artesian we'll is being bored at Cakes.
The contractors are using o wire cable, and
in tw~enty-three DAYS went down over 800
feet.
The pens used in signing the South
Dakota prohibition bill bv the governor,
president of the senate and speaker of the
house are to be preserved by the historical
society.
W. B. KING, q %well.known character OF
the Black Hills, dropped dead in a Central
City saloon Saturday. Death resulted
from heart failure.
DIR. LoNDEN, of Deadwood, has been
been adjudged insane and will be sent Ia
the Yankton asylum.
BENJAMIN HARRISON, Of Bald Mount.
aiu, missed . stick Of wood he was chop
ping u andis nov = the Lead City hospi.
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