Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1892-11-25
EDITORIAL CORRESPONDENCE

sIorx- FAILS, s. D. Nov. q, 1892.
Since leaving Hot Springs on the
18th inst, ye STAR man has been KEEP.
pretty busy serving Uncle Sam as a
grand juror-besides looking after the
personal behavior of John sidey, Bob
Grow and Will Fargo, who are also
here serving as jurors. Our duties as
jurors are not in the least laborious.
although unpleasant, but in our efforts
to see that the boys" do not impair
the reputation that the Hills has here.
tofore gained in this part Of the state.
we are scarcely able to catch anv time
in which we might find interesting
subjects for communications to the
STAR.
by his poetic stories, trapediau lsa.
guage and dramatic posings, john John
S'dey has already become famously
known about the city of Sioux Falls as
"Romeo since which time he NAV
be found at almost any unexpected
moment with group Of curious on.
lockers witnessing him as he DRAMATIC
ally relates the incident Of his once as
sumlng the role of Romeo, while a
buxom country maiden ATTEMPTED to
carry through the difficult character
Of juliet We refrain from giving the
story here, but Sidey can never shake
Oft the name of "Romeo' in this neck
of the woods.
Tony Wolfe ard Charley Smith are
in the city with their ...peterfaction.S
and it is great drawing card. Hun
dreds of people are paying twenty-five
cents to see it, and the boyc are probab-
ly realizing from one to two hundred
dollars a day out of it. They have
sold it for $4,000, and are TO give up
possession in thirty days. Since SELL
ing it they have been offered $4,000,
besides each salary of $50 month
and expenses for one year. The bows
are therefore hoping that the purchas-
ers may be willing to declare the deal
of when the thirty days option is up.
Gov. Mellette and gentleman named
Cooper. of Wisconsin, are said to be-
the purchasers.
We visited the penitentiary yester-
day, and were very kindly shown
through the institution by Warden
Spooner. 1t is magnificent stone
structure, nicely arranged, and is kept
in an admirable manner. There are
sixty three prisoners at present, and
according to an old Sioux Indian who
has just been discharged it is a pretty
good place to spend the winter. After
being discharged the acquaintance Of
the old buck hardly recognized him he
was so atshv. whereupon he remarked
as he rubbed bis stomach, cheap eat.".
4 While at the prison we were permitted
to call upon dick Hebb, who will be
remembered at the Springs as the
printer who set fire TO the Herald Office
while on drunken spree. Hebb looks
healthy and appears in good spirits, al
though expressing his desire for liberty.
He thought his sentence-seven and
one-half years-wa too severe; that
the circumstances under which he
committed the crime should have been
considered. Yet he was satisfied that
the punishment lie had already re.
ceived was a good thing for him; that
his appetite for liquor had been des-'
troyed and that when he gained his
liberty be proposed to lead a different
life, and try to be Of some consequences
in the world. While he was telling Of,
his drunken life and the crime he com
mitted while crazy from whiskey, tears
flowed from his sad eyes, and his de-
termined statement to henceforth be
better to himself and the world was
touching. He is running the engine
al the pa,np honse, and the prison
officers say he is one Of the best be-
haYea i.:a!, that they have. He is an
! intelligent fellow, and under the cir.
cumstances it looks as though his SEN
tence was pretty hard one, when We
lind that there are many worse crimilss
ais who receive shorter sentences For
worse offenses. The two years that he
has spent within the prison walls have
given him ample time to seriously
mediate upon his life of drunkenness.
and now that his taste and thirst for
lliquor have been killed he realizes that
he might accomplish something for
himself and his family.
Sioux Falls is pretty good place in
which to serve as q Juror, hnt the kicks
that we hear on all sides because of de-
tentlon terc are conclusive evidence
that everyone is not pleased because
they are here, and more especially are
there bowls Ut discomfort when men
realize that they must eat their thanks:
giving turkey away from home. But
with John Sidey to entertain with his
poetical and dramatic stories and Dan
Shea IA noted independent from Lead
City, to make the political speeches we
bope to survive the painful ordeal Of
spending two or three weeks at this
great divorce seeking resort, where It
seems that half the people one meets
at the hotels are here s.for their health"
although the many buxom "widows'
do not look as though their health WAS
seriously impaired. 1''7 =
The weather is rather cool and as
the gentle zephyr zephs at about fifty
miles an hour the people over hara IN,