Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1893-07-14

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the Elkhorn sleeper this year than any
previous year. That speaks we'll for
the number and class oe our visitors.
Heavy rains are reported in the
neighborhood of Buffalo Gap. Her.
mosa, Rapid City and south of the
Cheyenne River, and corn and potatoes
look very we'll and are growing fast.
The CaLholicon received about $500
worth of bamboo furniture for the
purpose of fitting up the bath rooms
there in nice shape, and we must say
it is decided Improvement too. Their
rooms are very convenient now.
John H. Parker and wife have
bought out Kenetick's restaurant, and
took charge yesterday noon. Mr..
Parker is late of the 9th cavalry; his
wife is fine cook and we bespeak for
them liberal patronage.
The first bridge over Fall river
down near the Cheyenne crossing is
now up and if the approaches were
made could be used. The second one,
near Evans siding, is being rapidly
built, and it won't be very long until
they are completed.
Before leaving our city Thursday
Prof. Carlisle of Charlton, Ia, pur-
chased through S. Loudenback, lot IL
in block 16, Minnekahta addition to
Hot Springs, consideration $3.50. He
was SO we'll pleased that he couldn' t
leave without some of our property.
He will probably return again.
Jno. y. Sidey has got tired having
the many visitors view his wild ami
mails for nothing, SO he has determined
to start dime museum with them.
He viii! add u great many more ami
mails to those lie already has and make
quite an exhibition of the fauna of the
northwest. He is putting up build
ing today and will he open for visitors
about noon tomorrow.
Some OF our farmers who are in
from south OF tine river report the grass
nice and green again and growing
nicely from the recent rains. and if
they are continued we will still have
quite little hay. This is the usual
ume for cutting but the farmers are
all waiting to give it a chance to grow.
There will be excellent range feed
now ii it cures in time.
III. L. Catlin, the B. & NJ. agent at
this place, received the sad news We'd
f1esday morning of the death of Mrs
4 Catlin's father, MIR. Ellison b. Smith,
which occurred Tuesday evening at
his home at Danvllie. la. He has been
IN very poor health for SIN months
during most of which time Mrs. Catlin
has been at his bedside. Her many
friends here will sympathize with her
in this sad bereavement.
There seems to be war on between
the city authorities and the draymen.
Our regular draymen have been putting
up $25 year regularly for license,
but now they have made strike and
say that they will not pay cent more
until the other fellows about town
who are doing dray business put up
too. We don't blame them very much
either, for these are hard times and
they deserve all the business, if they
pay license for it.
From E. b. White who has been
making up the county assessors books
we learn that the real property in the
county outside of Hot Springs and
Oelrichs, Smithwick and Union pre-
cincts amounts to $2l7,22224. The
precincts above mentioned not having
turned in their books yet. and it is eX-
pected the assessment will he raised a
little over 500, 600 more. The entire
total county assessment will not nearly
equal that of the city of Hot Springs.
Our board of county commissioners
have been hard at work as board of
equalization for the last two days and
!. they have been just going for our
town assessment. Our stocks of goods
have all been raised to double the
amount they were assessed at by our
city assessor. They are, however,
showing no partiallty in the matter,
but doubling everything. While this
may seem rather rough on taxpayers,
it is not making taxes any higher. pro-
vided they just double the assessment
all through. But if they fail to do
this on real estate and household ef-
fects, and in fact everything, it will
work our merchants hardship. We
understand they are going to let the
farmers assessment down; and that
very little of the actual farm land
throughout the county, unless adjacent
to Hot Springs or the other towns,
viii! be allowed to go for more than
$3.50 an acre, while it has been assessed
from $3.50 to S. an acre.
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