The Hot Springs star. (Hot Spings [Hot Springs], Dakota [Dakota Territory, i.e. S.D.]) 1886-189?, 1890-10-17
HOTSPRINGS.S STAR.
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Fresh invoice, of wall paper at
Martyrs.
Elsey will save you money on flour
md groceries.
j. w. Fowler, a prominent legal
light, Of Rapid City, is doing the city
oday.
s. Z. Wilson and DIR. Adams went
I've 10 Oelrichs last evening. Mr..
Wilson returned this morning.
Rev. A. Bailey Hill, pastor of the
Episcopal church of Pierre for the past
hree years, has accepted a Deadwood
;harge.
Messrs Stewart, Price e. Co. are put.
ting in a stock Of lumber in the yards
just south of the depot. They will
also handle wood and coal.
Mr.. q. D. Davis, of Shawnee, Ohio,
.rrived at the Springs today. He thinks
omething of taking up his. abode in
his country for the winter, at any
ate.
n. Melbourn, formerly of the Fall
River County Republican, but now of
The Alliance Boomerang, at Crawford,
Ncbr., is visiting in the city for a few
days.
WIN. U. Germond leaves this,
Friday evening for sparkell, New
York, where lie goes to look after some
business. He will remain away about
4 month.
President Harrison is making a tour
trough the west this week, though he
loes not come as far west as the Black
Hills meridian. He was to visit the
,oal palace at Ottumwa, Iowa. yestcr-
lay. From there he will go to Kansas
Jity, from which place he will return
home.
A special to the Sioux City Journal
says that the best trotting time ever
made in the Black Hills was scored on
the grounds of the Buffalo Gap Driv-
ing Park association last Saturday by
King Russell, who trotted three heats
in $3.50, 2:4l and 2:37a. This track
unlike many western tracks, measures
nine feet over the mile. King Russell
is owned by Fuller Bros, of Minnesota
Butte county, this state, and is sired
by Lord Russell, the brother Of Maud
$. The association fair was a success
full meeting in every respect.
The Chicago Herald. though a demo-
cratic paper, only condemns the course
Of the democrats in Wisconsin, in array
ing the party against the Bennett law.
1t says: 1.-THE honest democrats Of the
state of Wisconsin have been victim.
lied by the scalawag Democratic lead
ers of Milwaukee. To enable the lat.
ter to seize the county and city officers
with the assistance Of . misguided
foreign vote the entire party though.
out the state has been falsely placed
in antagonism to principles that are
vital to American liberty and Ameri.
can nationality"
Capt. w. v. Lucas and Maj. 7. A
I%.l3ones, members of the Soldiers Home
board arrived tins morning. To
STAR reporter Mr.. Lucas SAID that a
this meeting Of the board the home
would be opened and started. To the
Question as to whether the newspapers
had been correct in their statement
that he was to be commandment, the
Captain said that was only newspaper
guessing. Maj. Bones however stated
thatit was pretty we'll understood thai
Capt Lucas would be elected command
ant. The first action of the hoard will
be tolnspect the homo and ascertain
whether or not it is completed accord
ing to contract; this will be done today
and tomorrow.
Rapid City has another railroad 4
present on paper) and concerning i
the Journal says; ARTICLES of in
corporation Of the Dakota, Wyomin,
, and Missouri River Railroad co,npan,
were yesterday mailed from this cit,
to the secretary Of the state at Pierre
This road will traverse the followin,
counties with it's main line ant
branches: Custer, Pennington, Zle
bach, Nowlin, Pratt, Stanley, Presho
Lyman, Brule, Hughes, Hyda
Buffalo and Charles Mix. This roa,
: will build to Hill City and run througl
the Wyoming oil and coal fields, an,
ultimately to the Pacific coast. From
some point on the Missouri river j
will build to Sioux City and Omaha
Articles of Incorporation and othe
papers have been sent to the secretar
of state at Lincoln, Nebraska, and ais
to the secretary of state of Wyoming
. at Cheyenne. Besides the eastern capi
~talists, there are interested in the pre-
ject several prominent citizens o