Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1893-05-05
SOUTH DAKOTA NEWS.

SOUTH DAKOTA NEWS.
Eli Perkins is l~ecturing in the
state.
An artesian well has been, started
at De Smet.
IroQuois is to have q new 5000
school building this year.
Over twenty new buildings are now
In course OF erection at Canton.
The Huron city council fixed the
salary of the city attorney at $1,000.
for the ensuing year.
Lincoln county has raised the re-
ward offered for DIR. Fisher, the
alleged ab%ortionist, to &600.
Mitchell Odd Fellows celebrated
the 74th anniversary of their order in
the United States last week.
The summer term Of the State
Agricultural College will open May
The Dakota river is said to be the
longest unnavigable river in the
world. 1t is over 1000 miles Ions.
James Mccarthy was waylaid by
Iootpads at Sisseton and robbed Of
%5OO. The sheriff is after the thieves.
Patrick Langdon, aged thirty years,
drowned in a small creek in
Campbell county. He left a young
wife.
Whallon's new elevator, containing
$1,000 bushels of wheat, burned at
Westport last week. The loss is
heavy.
Frank Bordeaux, OF Minneapolis,
knocked out Chas. f. Morse. OF Jack
son, Mich, in 2O-round glove con-
test at Aberdeen.
Charges have been fled against
the register and receiver at Chamber
lain. Their terms will not expire
until February, 1885.
WATERFOWL is pulling for an extern
sion of the Canadian Pacific from
Hankinson, N. d.. to Watertown,
Madison and Sioux Falls.
Burroughs Abbott of Columbia has
been appointed state Statistician of
agriculture by Secretary Morton. 1t
lis worth $500 per annuM.
The report OF the business done at
the 1requois postotfice during the
past six months shows an increase of
1904 over the preceding six months.
Fifteen hundred dollars has been
raised by the Huron COursing club
toward securing the meeting of the
international Coursing association.
to be held next fall.
Judge Aikens has granted divorce
to Christine Hekking Pfaff. The
divorce is the daughter of a famous
French painter, while her late hus-
band is a Bostonian.
George Maxwell, a brother Of the
fourth assistant pOstmaster-general.
has purchased a section of land near
Clark which he intends to stock with
thoroughbred horses.
Ed Wilson has been taken to the
state penitentiary where he will
spend his life for the murder Of Otto
SolQgist Nov. 10, 1892. The prisone,
is but twenty-five years of age.
Representatives of the Nationa.
Union Company are in the state
closing up business and shipping
stocks of goods from the dozen OF
more stores to Des Moines, Iowa.
While at Springfield, Mo-. recently
t ssxi a0l the f ppes Mldaaeytog VI pr wa,
college, but declined on the ground
that the work would not be congenial
to him.
Miss Katie E. Blosser, a talented
young musician of Sioux Falls, he
composed and had published a Space
piece of instrumental music for the
piano, known as ECHOES from the
Sioux"
Rev. w. A. Lyman, who has been
pastor of the Congregational church
at Vermillion for several years, has
received a call to become pastor OF
the jackson Park Congregational
Church, Chicago.
An honest and handwriting colored
man of Yankton, who lost several
hundred dollars, his life savings, in
lie Infamous Scougal bank robbery,
las just died from the effects of
grieving over his misfortune.
The stories about NJ. H. Day rum
ming away from Rapid City to escape
prosecution upon the charge of
embezzlement are baseless fabric
ations. He intends that the authors
thereof shall be punished.
John j. Patten. who decamped
from Sioux Falls two years ago.
being about $1,000 short as deputy
Warden Of the state penitentiary, has