The Hot Springs star. (Hot Spings [Hot Springs], Dakota [Dakota Territory, i.e. S.D.]) 1886-189?, 1891-10-02
State News.

CLtttC news.
Judg Sc Campbell granted four di.
yorces at Huron last week.
The independents and democrats
have fused at Highmore.
Despite bad weather tho state fair
came out even, financially.
All three parties held their county
conventions in Yankton Saturday.
Carl Christian, near Salem, had ten
stacks of grain burned, it is thought
by an incendiary.
Grading has commenced on aspur
railroad four miles long to connect the
Addie mine with Hill City.
Complaint comes from all parts of
the state that an insuficiency Of
thrashers is delaying the marketing Of
wheat.
A commercial club has been organ.
lied at Watertown and plans are being
matured to push the industrial devel-
opment of the city.
The Chicago, Milwaukee & st. Paul
railroad company has ordered its train
men to furnish water and to assist
in putting out prairie fires when
necessary.
Col. Sheafe, Of Watertown, and
Judge Campbell, Of Yankton, will
probably be the congressional nomi-
nees Of the democrats and independents
respectively.
The reported sale of the Sioux Falls
Press to Ohio parties has fallen
through, and the paper will remain
under the charge of E. w. Caldwell
and Mrs. w. H. D. Bliss.
A Custer county resident, while
driving his cattle over to Wyoming,
was overtaken and a number Of the
cattle levied on sufficient to liquidate
a bill Of delinquent taxes.
A subscriber left the country and
forgot to settle his subscription and
the editor of the Montrose He, aid has
come to the conclusion that "about the
most Objectionable kind Of a creature
on earth is the man who won't pay his
debts"
Ed Ward was arrested at Sturgis,
Monday, charged with robbing the
proprietor Of the Campbell house in
Lead City on the 2sd. Ward succeed
ed in getting away with $3.50 cash, a
gold watch, notes, checks, and clothing
aggregating a clean up of about 81, 900.
Ward wa formerly a sergeant in the
Third infantry and was f~avorably
known there.
Hermosa Pilot: What's the reason
the Black Hills can't organize a press
association of its own? We are at
present too far away from the eastern
part Of the state to derive much bene.
fit from the state ASSOCIATION, and Ger.
tainly there are enough publishers
here to form quite a respectable associ.
alton, and as the Black Hills is a little
empire of itself, we believe an associa.
ton might lie organized here that
would prove very beneficial to the
newspaper publishers of the Hills.
A good joke is told on Maj. Pickler
in the Watertown Public Opinion. He
attended services at the Methodist
church on a recent Sunday and also
staid to Sunday school. AT the close
Of the lesson the superintendent invit,
ed the congressman to say a few words
The invitation was accepted, and ra,s
ing his towering form before the con,
gregation the major proceeded to poin,
a moral and adorn a tale. He took &
bank as a text, and was explaining t.
the scholars how the Sunday scboo
represented a bank, where they could
draw their checks when temptation
overlook them and have them honored
ETC., and "a making some goot
points when the fire alarm sounded
though unknown by him, and as the
boys commenced to file out he couldn't
understand what it meant, and he was
obliged to stop and look in blank as
constituent. The superintendent
broke the news to him about the alarm
and the major subsidized. Perhaps he
thought the boys were making a run
on the hank.