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Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1893-04-28
A GORGEOUS CAVERN.

The Famous Crystal Cave In the Black
Hills to be Reproduced.
Sioux Falls. Argus Leader: Col. T.
FL. Brown Of the executive board of
the South Dakota worlds fair com
mission is in the city making final
arrangements: The exhibit from
this state is now nearly complete and
it comprises some features which
will attract wide attention. One of
the most conspicuous is the repro
ductlon of the famous crystal cave
in the Black Hills. In the llorti-
cultural hail at Chicago there is to
be an immense mountain of flowers
which will cover space fully eighty
feet square, and which rises in the
form of a great bell high up in the
center of the building. The space
under this mass has been secured for
the cave and small army of work.
men are now at work constructing
its winding chambers. There are a
series of underground passageways,
containing seven apartments, the
largest of which is 30 by 40 feet.
These rooms which are of various
sizes and shapes will be covered on
the interior with a great mass of
crystals from the cave. There are
white, blue, pink and other colors of
crystals and an immense variety of
beautiful forms of stalactites and
stalagmitcs. Altogether there will
be about 100000 pounds of the stone
and every peculiar formation of the
cavern will be shown. In the corner
will be miniature lake and in
another part a small stream, while
water will be allowed to trickle down
over some of the stalactites as in a
genuine cave. There will be some
flowers and plants which have never
seen the sunlight and there is posi-
bility of some fish without eyes.
Each room will be fitted with a
different kind of crystal and all will
sparkle with an enhancing variation
of glitter. The cavern will be fitted
with electric lights throughout and
admission will be free.
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1893-04-28
l,rubaler is Back.

The steamer Oteri, from Truxilo,
Spanish Honduras, has arrived at
New Orleans, having as passenger
$. Brubaker, of Fargo, n. D., who
has lived for some years in Honduras,
where he has agricultural interests.
He was involved in the Nuelia
revolution year ago, and after it's
collapse was arrested tried and
sentenced to death. President Leiya
commuted his sentence to imprison-
ment for a term Of years, and soon
after. at the request of the American
government, granted him uncon-
ditional pardon. Hc has been out of
prison for three months.
AT the time of the Nuelia revolt
Brubaker's friends being interested
in the revolutionary movement, he
felt contrained to enlist and serve as
a private in the army of the rev.
olutionists. Before the capture of
Celia, General Nuelia walked down
the line of recruits and picked out
Private Brubaker and appointed him
on the spot to be captain of a
company. The men were placed on
the steamer Oteri, and the party
skirted along the coast toward Trux-
lilo. When about one mile from
that place Brubaker was placed in
charge of a launch and effected the
first landing of troops which af-
terwards resulted in the down
fall of Truxillo. Captain Brubaker
was then promoted to the position of
major, and after the capture of
Glancho, where over 29O stands of
arms were taken, he was made a
member of Gen. Nuelia's staff.
Then followed the reverses, the
capture and execution of Gen. Nuelia.
and the escape of Maj. Brubaker.
He reached the sea coast, where he
was recognized, thrown into prison
and held there for five months and
five days. He confirms the report of
the capture of Truxillo by the rev.
olutionists at Tegucigalpa and
the breaking up Of the govern
ment party and flight to this country
of some of The Americans.
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1893-04-28
BURIED IN A TREE.
Some Trag gedy of the Pioneer Days Of Ken
tucky Recalled.


Lexington Dispatch to Phila
delphia Times: In the fruit orchard
of f. T. Daviss, within few miles OF
this place, there was recently felled
an apple tree, the exact age of which
no man can say. This tree was
known far and wide as the largest
known specimen of the apple family,
and bore the name of Old Dave from
David Crockett, who is said to have
paused on this exact spot to eat an
apple, and that, finishing the de-
licious morsel, he stopped and dug
with his hunting knife cavity large
enough to contain a handful of seed
which he dropped into it. A recent
gale felled the giant to the earth,
from which violent fall the trunk
was split from top to bottom, expos
ing the rotten punk-like contents,
as we'll as pitiatle relic of the days
of barbarous warfare with the
treacherous, blood-thirsty redskins.
This was a child's skeleton, with
the delicate little skull cloven from
crown to chin by tomahawk, which
was still sticking in the rent. The
blade of the weapon was a sharpencd
stone or flint with a handle of horn
or some such substance. Doctors say
the child was three or four years old
little girl, whose hair was golden
to judge from the strands, which,
catching at the inner wood of the
trunk, became imbedded in it, and
which today remain to tell of the
little sunny head probably hurried
from its pillow by the sudden sound
of midnight attack from yelling,
painted savages, and in the wild
flight like helpless song birds from
the swoop of the hawk, fell victim
to the cruel tomahawk.
The mother, probably having her
child killed in her arms, instinctively
shrinking from thoughts of the
mutilation that beloved little form
would suffer at the hands of the
shricking tends on their track, had
bethought her, as she passed it, of
the old apple tree, the secret of
whose cavity she knew, had thrust
the little dead thing within, hoping
to return if she succeeded in eluding
the Indians to give the child Chris
1 tian burial. Rllt, she herself had in
all probability gone but few steps
on ere an arrow pierced some vital
spot or tomallawk had given her
the same fate her child had met.
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1893-04-28
Big Anarchist Nest.

A group of 1OS Russian anarchists
has been unearthed in Pittsburg by
the police after a search of several
weeks. Immediately after the
attempt of the French anarchists to
blow up the police headquarters at
Paris the police authorities at New
York and Chicago notified the local
police that an organization of bomb
throwers had recently organized in
Pittsburg and that it's purpose was
to make war on the police. The
group was organized by Bauer and
Mold, who were recently sent to the
penitentiary as accomplices of Berk.
man. Meetings have been held
nightly and circulars were recently
distributed calling upon workingmcn
to prepare for what was termed .san
approaching crisis" The meetings
were stopped and hdteaders promised
to leave the city.
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1893-04-28
Pettigrew's Record.

During the two sessions of the fifty
second congress the following bills
introduced by Senator Pettigrew
were passed:
]. To permit the Milwaukee rail-
way to bridge the Missouri at
Chamberlain.
2. To permit the Norfolk railway to
bridge the Missouri at Yankton,
3. To sub-divide a city lot in Wash
ington, ID. c.
4. Changing the date for holding
United States courts in South
Dakota.
5. To protect livery stable keepers
in Washington, ID. G.
6. Permitting stone lands to be held
as placer mining claims.
I. Correcting an error in the title
to the site of the Yankton asylum.
8. Disposing of Fort Randall mill
tary reservations and permitting the
state to select school lands therefrom.
9. Providing for publishing a re.
port on the climate of the Dakotas.
10. Permitting the librarian of con-
gress to exhibit documents lin his
possession at the worlds fair.
IL. Allowing foreign laborers to
come to Chicago to prepare worlds
fair exhibits.
The senator also should have credit
for the following amendments to the
general appropriations bill:
!. Increasing the cost of surveying
timber lands.
2. $4,000 extra for Sioux Falls
building.
3. 100000 increase in item for com.
pensati0n of registers and receivers
of land offices.
4. sl25,0O0 for surveying public
lands within land grants.
s. $4,000 improving Missouri river
above Sioux City.
9. $1,000 extra for surveyor general
Of South Dakota.
Z. Increasing fees of United States
marshal, South Dakota.
8. $4,000 for sisseton Indian
grants.
9. $4,000 for artesian wells on the
reservation.
10. $500 for blacksmiths at Forest
City agency.
IL. $4,000 for agency school build,
ihgs at Lower Brule and Chamber
lain.
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1893-04-28
Domestic Infeliclty.

Considerable of a sensation has
been created by the breaking up of
the families of w. Fl. Harris and +.
L. Chapman, near LIE Mars, Iowa.
Harris and Chapman have been
neighbors for several years. They
are we'll to do families and have
been on every intimate terms.
About the first of February Mrs.
Chapman suspected her husband of
intidelity to his marriage vows and
left him, going home to her folks at
Aurora, Iii. On March IA Mrs. Harris
took her youngest child and went to
her old home at Streator, Ill.
She explained to her folks that her
husband ill-treated her, and they
gave her money to return to Yankton
and secure divorce. She returned
to LIE Mars and filed a petition for a
divorce in the Plymouth county
court. In the meantime Chapman
had sold his farm, first having to give
his wife s., 600 in cash to get her to
sign the decd. He then went to Cen
terville, S. D., and purchased a farm
near that place. About two weeks
ago Harris began to suspect that
Chapman may have had something to
do with his wife's leaving him, SO he
went to Centerville to look into the
matter. He took an officer and a wit
ness with him ard watched the house
of Chapman two nights and found
that Chapman and Harris wife were
living together as man and wife.
When the couple were confronted
they admitted living together as man
and wife, and that the money given
Mrs. Harris by her father, ostensibly
to live in Dakota to procure a divorce,
was used to buy furniture for the
house they were living in. Harris
has now sued for a divorce. 1t is ex.
pected that Mrs. Chapman will sue
for her share of Chapman's property.
Mrs. Harris is bright, pretty woman
and was a favorite in the community.
Chapman was leading young farmer
we'll fixed. Both parties are we'll con-
nected.
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1893-04-28
on, In the st,lly N,sht.

Oft, in the stilly night.
Ere slumber's chain has bound me,
Fond memory brings the light
OF other days around me;
The smiles, the tears,
Ofboyhood's years.
Tho words of love then spoken;
The eyes that shone,
Now dimmcd and gone,
The cheerful hearts now broken
Thus in the stilly night.
Ere sluniber's chain has bound me,
Sad memory brings the light
OF other days around me.
When remember all
The friends SO linked together,
I've seen around me fall,
Like leaves in wintry weather;
l feel like one
Who treads alone
Some banquet-hall deserted,
Whose lights are fed.
Whose garlands dead,
And all but he departed!
Thus In the Silly night,
Ere slumber's chain has bound mo
Sad memory brings the light
OF other days around me.
THOMAS MOORE.
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1893-04-28

A practical test is to be made bv
Ralph Granger, rich rancher near
San Diego, CAL, OF the influence Of
electricity ON growing oranges and
lemons. He is having an electric
plant put in and will have an acre of
trees supplied with incandescent.
light, and over all powerful tower
light to demonstrate what there "a -
the theory that vegetables, trees ana
plants develop and mature fruit mora
rapidly under the constant influencs
OF a astrong light than when in dark-
ness every night.
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1893-04-28
ssEcRErAaY aREsHAM.s PLUCK.
How He Dowaeei an Insolent Bully in ln-
diana.

How He Dowhed an Insolent Bully In In
diana.
Kate Fields Washington: It is
told of him that in 1866, when he was
running for Congress against Michael
G. Kerr, both candidates happened
to have hit one day upon the same
place and the same hour for public
meeting. An immense crowd
gathered, a large share of it being
made upof the political enemies of
Gresham. 1t was decided that the
speakers on both sides should he
heard, the Democrats first and the
Republicans afterward.
When it came Gresham's time to
speak big bully in the audience,
with pistol fastened conspicuously
outside of his clothing, attempted to
howl him down. Gresham insisted
on being heard. The bully kept up
his disturbance, and Gresham pres
emily sprang down from the stage
and advanced upon the troublesome
auditor.
II came here to make a speech, !" he
said, 'and am going to make it.
My friends and l have listened
|courteously to the speeches on your
side and all we ask is that those who
don't want to give us fair play in
return shall quit the place. AS for
you personally" shaking his finger
ominously at the disturbcr, 81 know
you for a vagabond and scoundrel.
You are the man who shot Enrolling
Officer B-and threw his body into
the Wabash river!
The charge created great excite
ment, for the substance of it had
been secretly whispered about the
neighborllood for years. The accused
drew his pistol, but Gresham had one
ready, too, and the pair stood facing
each other for perhaps a minute in
silence. Then the bully dropped his
pistol arm at his side and skunk away
in the crowd, while Gresham returned
to the platform and coolly finished
his speech.
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1893-04-28
Thomas A. Edison.

VI was an operator in the Memphis
Office when Thomas A. Edison ap-
piled to the manager for POSITION"
said A. G. Rockefeller, member of
the "Reminiscences Club, st. Louis.
.'He came walking into the office one
morning looking like veritable hay
seed. He wore a hickory shirt,
pair of butternut pants tucked into
the tops of boots size too large and
guiltless of backing. where's the
boss?' was his query as he glanced
round the Office. No one replied at
once and he repeated the question.
The manager asked him what he
could do for him, and the future
great proceeded to strike him for
job. Business was rushing ard the
office was two men short; so almost
any kind of a lightning Singer was
welcome. He was assigned to a desk
and a fusilade of winks went the
rounds of the Office, for the sjay' was
put on the st. Louis wire, the hard
est in the office.
SAT this end of the line was an
operator who was chain lightning
and knew it. Edison had hardly got
seated bofore st. Louis called. The
new conner responded and St. Louis
started in on long report, and he
pumped it in like house atire. Edi-
son threw his leg over the arm of his
chair, transferred a wad of spruce
gum from his pocket to his mouth,
picked up pen, examined it
CRITICALLY, and started in, about 200
words behind. He didn't stay there
long, though. St. Louis let out
another link of speed, and still
another, and the instrument on
Edison's table hummed like an old
style Singer sewing machine.
"Every man in the office left his
desk and gathered round the lay to
see what he was Going with that
electric cyclone. Well sir, he was
right ON the word, and was putting
it down in the prettiest copperplate
hand you ever saw. even crossing his,
It's, dotting his is and punctuating
with as much care as man editing
telegraph for rat printers. st.
Louis got tired by and by and began
to slow down. Edison opened the
key and said, Here, here, this is no
primer class! Get hustle on you!'
Well, sir, that broke St. Louis all
up He has been raw hiding Mem
phis for long time, and we were
terribly sore, and to have a man in
our Office that could walk all over
him made us feel like man whose
horse had won the Derby. 1 saw the
wizard not long ago. He doesn't
wear a hickory shirt nor put hi.
pants in his boots, but he is very IA,
from being a dude yet."-PracticaI
Electricity.
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1893-04-28

The earn of Charles Reed of Nash.
Vile, Tenn, was struck by lightning
and twenty-five brood mares, in foal
by the celebrated horse st. Blaze,
instantly killed. The total loss lis
over 100000.
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1893-04-28
GOLD I.Y THE TON.
A Remarkable Story of Placer Mining in
Terra Del FuegO.

Terra Del FuegO.
The state department is in receipt
of sensational information about the
gold discoveries in the islands of
Terra del Fuego. Consul Baker, at
Buenos Ayres, sends the report. He
says there is a rush of miners to the
new El Dorado. II am quite in
crcdulous.' he adds guardedly, sin
respect to the stories and think
there will be ultimate disappoint-
ment."
MIR. Baker incloses letter from
the expert Levaggi, who has been
examining the new fields. Levaggi
writes:
''If you look at the map you will
see between 55 and So degrees south
latitude three islands of irregular
shape, situated to the south of Terra
del Fuego and the east of Navarino.
Two of these islands have lcaped into
fame: the other is still stepped, from
gold point of view, in obscurity.
The two alluded to are named re-
spectively Lennox and Nueva islands.
The third is called Picton island. AS
rule they are hidden from sight by
a thick mist. They are mountainous
and covered with timber. The soil
is always damp; it is like soaked
sponge. The three cover, perhaps,
seventy square miles. There are
lakes on these islands: there are safe
harbors and creeks all round them,
and they have a beautiful beach of
auriferous sand. To these islands
the goldseekers flockcd. In SIX
months they extracted, by the simple
method of washing the sand, no less
than two tons of gold; the largest
gold particle was found to weigh -
grams. In Nueva Tor New island
200 miners extracted half a ton of
gold; eighty men in the north end of
the bay extracted a quarter of a ton,
and other gangs were equally success
full in other parts of the beach. On
Lennox island 500 men threw up 16, 900
cubic meters of sand, and found one
and a quarter tons of gold. There
have been lucky parties of eight men
who have found respectively 200
pounds of gold. One party of six men
who were returning laden with gold
were drowned, the boat capsizing and
the weight Of the precious metal
dragging the unfortunate fellows to
the bottom. They were drowned at a
short distance from the island: their
companions witnessed the disaster.
Accidents of this kind are not liz
frequent. If the seals and penguins
about here could only speak, how
many tragedies they could relate.
cat present there are about 1000
miners scattered in the archipelago.
Soon there will be double the number,
for the summer is at hand. On the
Atlantic coast there are 100 miners,
who left Punta Arenas recently and
brought horses to explore with
greater facility the auriferous shore
between Cape Espiritu Santo and
Thetis. which is supposed to be as
rich as, IL not richer than, the beach
already mentioned"
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1893-04-28

The Mcmillan Musse of Omaha
owns q gigantic OK that weighs 3,740
pounds. is 8 feet inches in height
and measures 10 feet II inches in
girth.
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1893-04-28

Mollie Nelson, the Ohio faster, has
completed her thirty days fast.
When she began she weighed 2O3
pounds. Her weight when through
was l6s pounds.
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1893-04-28

It is believed that the cow.r,,,v
murderer Of John NJ. Clayton M
recently been found In the n.,.e... a..
OF the desperado, Frank Hickey. a
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1893-04-28
LAKE MADISON cHAUrAuouA.

Programme for the Coming Assembly In
South Dakota.
A meeting of the board of directors
of the Lake Madison Chautauqua was
held in Madison, and the programme
for the summer meeting completed.
The assembly will continue from July
3 to 10. A summer school will be in
charge of II. E. Kratz, of Sioux City,
with ten assistants. Hattie Whalen
now at Evanston, will have charge of
the Young Ladies' club. George
Moody, of Vinton, Ia, will conduct
the assembly chorus, and Lee G.
kratz, of Omaha will have charge of
the institute of vocal culture. Is
abella w. Parks, of Atlanta, Ga, will
conduct the w. G. 7. u. school of
methods. Rev. H. G. Jennings will
have charge of the Round Table and
Sunday school normal. DIR. E. L.
Parks, of Atlanta, has been secured
to direct the bible school and Amer
ican Institute of Sacred Literature.
Il. B. Hassel, the prime mover in the
layman's congress, will act as pres
ident in that department this year.
ID. p. Ward and r. n. Kratz will have
charge of Sunday school day and jun
ior Sunday school normal training.
w. HI. Dempster will have charge Of
the school of patriotism.
The following special days have
been announced: July and 6, lay
mans congress; July 8, Sunday school
day; July 10, Good Templars' day;
July III and II, school of patriotism;
July -, G. A. r.. day; July 13, Chris
tian Endeavor day: July II, w. c. T.
U. day; July is, recognition day; July
10, Talmage day.
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1893-04-28

The council of administration has
decided to hold the opening exercises
of the worlds fair in the open air,
the joint selection being the big
open space in front of the admins
tratiOn building and which has room
for 10000 spectators. President
Cleveland will press the button
which will set the machinery in
motion. He will then deliver an
address, which will constitute the
formal opening of the worlds great
est exposition.
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1893-04-28

A remarkable freak Of nature oc-
Cured on the parish farm, near Flor.
ence, Ala. The phenomenon is an
immense hole fifty feet across the ton
and of undeterminable depth. The
hole was found by T. w. Redding,
who leases the farm. 1t is located in
field that has been in cultivation for
years, and at q place where the earth
was apparently solid. The sinking
occurred in the night during heavy
storm. 1t is thought that the hole
leads to vast subterrantan cave, and
1t will be explored as soon as it is de.
termined that no more earth is to
sink.