Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1892-04-08

Tuesday evening about nine O'Clock
a shooting affair happened in small
house near Bailey's grocery store. The
shooting is said to have been accidental
but 1T is very serious for the party shot,
Charley Walker, a bullet from a a
calibre revolver passing clear through
his shoulder. 1t seems that Charley
jackson and the man shot were exam.
lining gun and discussing the relative
merits of the different kinds, when
Mrs. Grandon, who supposed the revol-
YER was unloaded, grabbed 1T and re-
marked that if any man insulted her
as one did once. she would shoot him.
The gun went off with the result above
stated. DIR. Wade was called to aud
the wounded man and he pronounces
the injury not fatal.
A little ripple of excitement was oc-
casioned on Tuesday, in which one Jim
Butler. a colored man, figured con-
spicuously and which resulted in the
riddance to Hot Springs of a worthless
character. Butler was observed APP
propriating to his own use pair Of
rubbers from Fargo's store, and when
followed to certain house near the
railroad track, stood off in a threaten
ing way his pursuers. The marshal's
assistance was solicited and the mis-
creant was finally relocated in under
lie rocks in the gulch up college hill.
He was taken to the city's quarters
provided fo- such cases, but he crawled
up through the chimney hole and made
his escape. Rumor says that he was
last seen near Minnekahta, making
tracks at the rate of fifteen feet per
step.
The stormy weather of the last
week, while doing much for the farm
ing community in the way of furnish
ing an abundant supply of moisture,
has had the effect of suspending or de-
laying almost all the works of inn
provement going on IN the city. The
graders at work on the hill on River
avenue and those who are changing
the course of the river have been idle
most of the time. However, the neces-
sary amount of grading is now almost
done to change the river bed and the
hill has already been leveled down
considerable On the Minnekahta.
work was actually suspended for but
one day, yet the work for this week
has not progressed with its accustomed
vigor. On the work of rebmld,nr the
burnt district the storms have had a
demoralizing effect. But when this
cold snap is over everything will again
become lively. The work of building
and of improving will go rapidly On
and few more weeks of good weather
will bring great change in the APP.
pearance of the city.
Although but a short time elapses
until the city elections, politics seem to
lie very quiet. Perhaps it is best that
such is the case, yet it seems as if con-
siderable good is often obtained by a
lively political skirmish. AT any rate
tits much better that matters of pub
lie Importance should be discussed
pretty fully and that when policy
has once been inaugurated it should
be adhered to pretty closely except of
course for very weighty reasons. A
municipal election usually does not ex-
cite nearly so much feeling as does a
national or state election, but when
people begin more thoroughly to un-
derstand that when it comes to ques-
tion of dollars and cents the control of
municipal affairs is vastly more i'm.
portant than are most Of the issues
upon which the great political parties
are divided. The question of granting
franchises for electric lighting, water
works, street railways and gas works
should be more important to the voters
than the tariff, because for the ordin-
airy tax payer there is more money in.
volved in the former than there is in
the latter. Many cities and towns
own and operate or control all or part
of such natural monopolies, and it is
not much longer questioned but that
it is the wisest and best plan where it
is possible for cities to do so. In city
elections adherence to party ties should
not be too closely observed. The main
thing to be considered is the fitness of
the candidate for the office.