Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1892-05-27
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SAN FRANCISCO special. The report
comes from Fort Ross. Sonoma County.
that the stage was rui,lmI near there IN
Turner's anon Two mra sln.e !, rifle
and Shotgun a Fort Ross and wien
The stage was going up h;ll in Il lonely
part vi the caiicn the Hrivcr heard an
order To halt With The thought Of the
lucdilins robbery fresh in lbs mind. he
0ldn Il hesitate. bun pulled up his horses.
One massei man covered the driver
and ordered him to throw out the Well.
Fargo ~ Co.'s box ha k OF the stage.
while his ,oml anion cane up on that
5 de and shook the box. 1t WIS light.
and there was no rattle of c in pack
ages. 81 the lighwayman returned it.
saying that it wasn't worth the tto,ibic
of breaking it open. The robbers ;hen
ordered the five passengers inside to
cGme out. They We're told to stand i'm
line and hold up their han is while the
masked man who had examined the cN-
pres box searched them carefully. lie
got several hundred dollars and several
wat hes. and then politely requested
the passengers to resume their seats.
The mail bags We're not touched. The
ROBBERY took place not far from Fort
Ross which was the scene OF The early
Russian settlement in California, ard
which was purchased by Gen. suttcr
before the gold discovery. The stage
o winds about the o can cliffs for
miles, and stages on this lire have sell
dom been TO, be because of the small
sums carried in the express box.
CASPER. Wyo., special: a rich strike
OF gray carbonatcs and galcnl was
made oil Casper Mountain by Captain
Eads. The find is in the contact bee
tween the lime II the s%erpentine rack
and carl les about twenty-five ounces of
silver IL 80 Ter cent. lead. Excite
ment is intense over the find. and some
thirty men left for the mountain, and
only the superhuman efforts of all the
sheep men kept the shea,ers at the pens
from leaving their work and going to
the mountain. William iiutts and
George Rempo DIS of Omaha have u
party locating claims and competent
miners command their own prices.
Casper never had Il more exciting day,
and men seem to be wild to get to the
amp. The find is the richest thing of
the kind ever brought to light in Wyo-
ming, and confirms the local belief that
Casper Mountain is rich in mineral be-
You'd what it has heretofore been cred
tied by outsiders.
CHICAGO special: The grand jury has
returned mo bill" In the cas- of Mrs.
II. G. Stebbins. the exponent of s.faith
cure Mrs. Stebbins was held re-
sponsible by q coroner's jury for the
death of Mrs. Jenny l.. Nichols. The
latter, it appeared, went to Mrs. Stcb-
bins and submitted to her treatment.
The phi jsician who was summoned by
the police officers. had to force his way
into the house. Mrs. Stebbins was ar
rested and released OH the surety of
City Building Commissioner O'Neil. Af-
ter hearing all the evidence i'm the case,
the grand jury concluded that If any
one wanted to submit to the faith cure
or Christian science, it was nobody $
business but his own.
CHICAGO special: The packers an
nounced their intention to buy hogs
only in original lots from the country.
which will cause u lively contest i'm the
stock yards. The reason given for the
change IS that the system of sorting and
moving hogs around the yards results
in II large percentage of bruising and
o%verheating. The commission men say
that the move is Il rGsc on the part OF
the packers TO gain control of the East-
ern shipping trade of live animals as
we'll Us product. There was very little
dealing in consequence of the uncer-
tainty of the situation.
BUTTE, Mont, special: Two more
men were killed at the Inflated Ana
conda mine, making eleven in the past
few days, and twenty-sevcn within u
year. Tho last two are Morris Shea,
aged 80, and Mike Burns, aged As.
They fell down a chute from the surface
to the aOO-foot level. Burns neck was
broken and Shea's skull crushed.
Burns was subject to fits, and it is be-
lieved he fell into the chute in a fit and
pulled Shea with him. The bodies of
five of the nine victims of the recent
cave.fn have not yet been recovered.
EscANABA, Mich, special: a gang
of 100 union trimmers, armel with re-
volvers and clubs, tried to drive non-
union men from the Steamer Kalcynga.
The %non-union men met the hoardrrs
with Il volley from rifles and made them
beat a hasty retreat, leaving one of
their number Lehind with IL broken
hip. the result of u bullet wound.
CHICAGO special: s'Dr." Tecd of tho
Koreshan Community. was made IL de-
PENDANT in another 500. COO damage
suit. The complainant Is Thomas Cole,
manager of the local canning company.
His grievance is the alienation Of his
wifc's affections. Mrs. Cole became an.
inmate of n Of Tecd's ''heavcns'' solnc
time ago.
GUTHRIE, o. T.. specials: A mail car
rier from Marshall says that a pitched
battle took place between liorsethicves
and deputy shcriffs in the Sac and Fox
country. Two horsethieves and inc of
the deputies we're killed.