Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1893-09-15
HOT SPRINGS, SOUTH DAKOTA, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER

Roger Young, our hard working
blacksmith took the train for Sioux
City on Tuesday evening.
Charley and Will Dudlsy and E. B.
hite are taking vacation and are
spending it camping in the bills near
Custer.
w. j. and A. w. Mcgowan are TAX.
ing an outing and are camping in the
hills north Of us. They took their fam.
lilies along, and to say they will have .
good time is entirely superfluous.
DR.. Dodde has returned from bis
trip to Missouri to be present at the
burial OF his wife's brothers. Mrs.
Dodds aud the children will remain in
Missouri couple weeks longer visit
ing.
Ferdinand Kruth came in from Ash
creekSaturday and swore out . warrant
against Louis Haepner, charging him
with pounding up his IS year old boy
in bad shape Tho particulars will be
brought out in the examination on
Monday.
Contractor Mckay says be can have
the city hall ready to turn over most
any time the treasurer Is ready with
the balance Of the money due on the
contract. and We understand steps are
being taken to get the money, which
went with the crash Of the First Ma.
tional.
John Henton, who has been up To
the mica mines for . couple OF weeks,
came down to stay over Sunday. He
reports things active up there and
prospects Of considerable work in that
line h-inR done dnring tho winter.
He will remain up in the hills during
the winter as superintendent.
A party Of u. S. Typographical .ngi.
neers who have been at work all sum.
mer making up a sheet Of 1000 square
miles of territory, mostlv in this coun.
lty. passed through on their way tn
Custer where they will take M the
work Of Prof. Farmer in the same line.
"a that gentleman has heen called ia
Washington. Tho party consists of
T. M Bannon. chief. and r B. Carson
and r. u. Lees. They will return ia
Hot Springs in few weeks and make
their camp on cold brt,ok while they
finish their work in this conntv. The
oljsrt of their work j. to make thor
onohlv ,orrect man Of the conntry I'D.
;acent TO the Indian reserves which
may he nsed hv the government in
case of another outbreak.
The commissioners have concluded
to appoint u. NJ. Wiic,,X, county treas.
urer ln case MIR. Bradley resigns
lucy calue lo tins conclusion lasl even.
lug anu Mr.. Wilcox was notified ui
Tue tact. The securities put up Ds
Mr. Bradley aud hl> Uoudsuen nave
been accepted as sufficient as regards
4 tue money Ia The First 4iatlOual Uauk.
1. fter considerable figuring security
Vas ID So i,u, up fo. tue money III tn.
Mlnnekautd S.a.e bank. but tue bUud
Was lllade UuL tu the county cumlnls
sloners. Mr.. Wilcox requested tual
tile l,umd be made tu tho county treas
urer aud we understand tile cudtlge /,
being made louay. When tue pre-
l,Mluarles nave Ueen arranged and MIR.
Bradley Is satl fled that the colnmls
sloners have done all they have agreed,
il Is Thought he will resign and Mr..
Wilcox will take his place. We Will
walt until after the change has been
anlcably made before we offer con.
RratulatlOns-but NO better choice
could have been made.
| We bad the pleasure of an inter-
view with Prof. Lester 4. Ward of the
Smithsonian Institute and me .Aber uf
the U. S geological survey. Prof.
Ward has charge of that branch Of
Paleontology relating to vegetable
fossils. Solne months ago he re-.
celved photographs of the cycads found
near here, which while not new, were
Of such gigantic size that they awoke
great interest. Samples were then
sent and he says they were just what
lie had expected to see. They are fos.
sils of a tropical palm growth
aye which ON examination must have
grown at u period not designated ON
the map M de by Newton e. Jenny IN
the geological survey made of the hills
in 1875. There did not appear to be
any indication Of lower cretaceous
period. just between the Jurassic and
the Dakota group which would admit
of the tropical growth the cycads in.
dictate. Profs. Ward & Jenny have
spent two days looking over the forma
tions in this vicinity and are satisfied
that this period, overlooked in the
survey made by the gentlemen pre-.
v,ousIy. is here, and strong evidences
of it's existence were found in nun.
ber Of places. This is what Prof.
Ward considered of such Importance
to the scientific world and also of great
econ"mic value to the practical bust
ness world; for in this deposit or per-
iod of the geological formation of this
'conntry it vii: pay To prospect for coal
though the Indications Of it found in
this immediate neixhborhood have
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