The Hot Springs star. (Hot Spings [Hot Springs], Dakota [Dakota Territory, i.e. S.D.]) 1886-189?, 1890-05-30


were sliced up indiscriminately. The
track was torn up for nearly loo rods, and
I, the train wrecked. Engineer joe Dixon
was terribly scalded, probably fatally. He
resides at MilLank, where he has q wife aud
light children. No one else was hurt.
South Dakota Doings.
PosrofFIcE has been established at
Fislo, Campbell county.
The United States land Office at Pierre
opened for business on the 18th.
THE work of building the second pom
toon bridge at Pierre has been com.
menced.
SEVERAL head of cattle died from
"blackleg" in the vicinity of I.eola last
week.
The new town OF Piedmont is to have
a newspaper, the Pioneer, which will ap-
pear May 20,
The farmhouse of j. Nj. Mead, near
iilnnt. with all its contents, was destroyed
by fire q few nights ago Loss, $1,000.
The steamer Chaska, which passed up
the river a short time ago on route from
Pittsburg, Pa, for Bismarck, has arrived
at her destination.
THE Dakota Knights of Labor Printing
and Publishing company has filed articles
OF incorporation with the secretary of state.
The headquarters of the company will be
at Aberdeen.
WHILE boring for water on Il farm in
Suily county the other day a strong flow of
gas WAS struck ut IL depth Of 200 feet. Mud
n gravel were thrown from the we'll sew
eral feet into the air.
IKE annual spring roundup on the Lit
tie Missouri ranges begins May 20. The
calf crop has been exceptionally large, and
stockmen expect this year to make up for
all the losses of the past two or three
seasons.
THE Brown county Sunday school con-
vention will be held at Aberdeen, Juno IS
and 10.
MANY acres of old lake beds in the
vicinity of Volga are being ploweh and
seeded with fax.
IT IS expected that 1000 Russians will
settle in Mcpherson and adjoining coun.
ties this season.
CONTRACTS have been let for the sink
ing of six ~nrtesian wells in Sphinx county at
all average of 81 LOCO, on a basis of l,O0D
feet to each we'll.
THE Brown county Farmers alliance
will meet ut Aberdeen on the 23d inst. for
the purpose of recognizing the order ON
the secret plan.
NowLlS citizens are considering a prop
osition to establish q fifty barrel Touring
mill at that place.
C~HAMBEELA1N and Kimball will send q
4>s.l:~-a:z. l~-. 1900. - -..--,-
tournament at Pierre.
A STAGE line Is now running between
Chamberlain and Rapid City. taking in the
new towns on the route.
THE w. c.. T. U. of the Third district
will meet at Fsulkton Juno 3, A and .. The
district comprises ten counties.
IT is predicted that Eowlin, one Of the
reservation counties now being settled.
will cast 1000 votes at the fall election.
A A boy in the Plankinton reform
school is lG years old, weighs 200 pounds
and shoots up into the air 6 feet and 8
inches.
The Norwegian holiday, May II, will be
appropriately celebrated at Miller, one OF
the features being u balloon ascension witt
o parachute descent.
The government supplied the Flandreau
Indians last week with twenty-five horses
SIXTY cows. and o large quantity Of house,
hold furniture and other articles.
IN the tiss. criminal case in Stanle,
co%nnty-that OF tns State against Love La
kota and Mrs. Eli Spotted Bear, charged
with adultery-the defendants were dis.
\ missed for lack of sufficient evidence t.
I pnp,1ok tba,n Tkio &c Io1;aual % ~ Al.
Nfrst time on record that an Indian has ap.
tried for the above crime.
TIE Fremont, Elkhorn & Missouri Val.
f:ASey will work shortly on tn,
funnel route between Whitewood and
Deadwood. a change has been made il
the tunnel location whereby the length o.
the same is reduced from 1850 to 45t
feet.
The South Dakota republican state con
vention is called to meet in Mitchell on the
9th of August. That point being settled
the, Republican suggests: "Now, let's al
go out of politics for q month or SO and at.
telji to business. The outlook is mos
promising for a prosperous year in thii
section"
I.AENEN UuSlIleSS DloCks uI0 III COuEot
of construction at Pierre.
THERE are twenty-ti five Sunday school
in Charles Mix county, with an enrolment
of 1,2O0 scholars.
THE joint commission to make a tina
settlement between North and South Da
kota organized by electing Auditor Bray
of North Dakota, chairman, and .Audito
Taylor, of South Dakota, secretary. Ex
Deputy Territorial Auditor Gerton, o
Pierre. and the deputy public examiner o
Fargo lave been appointed clerks and viii
prepare a statement to present to the com
mission, which meets on the Goth.
So far this season the auditor OF Ii
Moure county has paid bounties on $500
- gopher tails, which at 3 cents per tail rep
.resents the neat sum Of $50.
MILLER people are suffering with tooth
ache for want of a dentist.
Pursuing His Outlined Policy.
Emperor William has sent experts Il
examine tho Hygenic arrangements Of the
state mines OF Saarbruoken and investigate
the grievances OF the miners.
siavin Challenger Corbett.
d t.nrG< Olav;, tho Auct,oil;nn puus1;Sk