The Hot Springs star. (Hot Spings [Hot Springs], Dakota [Dakota Territory, i.e. S.D.]) 1886-189?, 1891-08-21

for some time IN the employ Of the
Hot Springs company left last even
ing for Chadron, where he will here
after be found in the office Of E. G.
Harris, superintendent of the Black
Hills Division of the y. Z. e. NJ. V.
road, as stenographer. Mr.. Brenne-
man, since his residence here has
gained many friends, and his depar-
ture from the city causes much regret.
To the STAR it seems that the county
commissioners have done an unbusiness
like thing when they issued a $4,000
warrant to +. Z. Evans before any
work had been done on the count house.
1t certainly is an unusual proceeding.
and the STAR belives unlawful. The
county commissioners are in substance
loaning the money of the county to
MIR. Evans. The county does not w
Mr.. Evans n penny, and yet he gets
$4,000 of the county's money.
The DAILY STAR is one year old to.
day. Twelve months ago the DAILY
STAR was launched as an experiment
to u during Chautauqua-and
whether longer depended upon circum-
stances. Circumstances seemed pro.
pitious and the DAILY STAR has con-
tinued to issue. From a financial
standpoint it cannot be truthfully said
that the DAILY STAR has been a .howl-
ing success" 1t has many warm
friends in this community who have
done what they could to maintain it,
but there Il men in this community
that have not given to the enterprise
the materia! backing it vas entitled to.
10 run a daily-even a small daily
in a city the size of Hot Springs is no
small undertaking. 1t has required a
large expenditure of strength of body
and mind and a vlgilant watchfulness
over expenses to keep it going. The
DAILY STAR has no notion of suspend.
ing publication after Chautauqua
closes this year. 1t expects to keep
right on aud grow with the city, if the
city grows. But right here we may be
pardoned for saying that the growth
Of thls town will depend very materi.
ally upon the course adopted by its
citizens. Constant and continued strife
will never build a town. The court
house controversy has damaged the
city already more than four times the
value of the building. If the orislna,
site as agreed upon had been selected
AN this would have been avoided
There is no law compelling people tt
come to Hot Springs nor keeping then
here after they come. When theil
interests are promoted they come, no
otherwise. Nor is there anything tina
repels so much as a bitter local strife
Contention is expensive in more way;
than The contention Hot Spring:
is IN is beginning to tell. Vacant stor,
buildings can now he found in Ho
Springs, a thing never before known
5 to the city. Nor can it be said tina
: either end of the town has the advant
t age in this respect over the ether. III
fact of the matter is that the bite
local fight that Hot Springs is engaged
+ in is hurting all binds of business an,
particularly is it hurting the sale o
5 real estate. Both portions Of the cit,
r has interests and when one end tram
y piles upon the interests of the other en-
, a fight ensues. This is natural. Thes
suggestions the DAILY STAR throws OH
because of its extreme age-one yea
today, believing that it is justified il
I speaking plainly occasionally. They ar
truths, however, that it would be we!
: for interested parties of this city t
ponder over.