Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1893-08-11
: M. Mclaughlin of West Point, Neh.,
is here in search Of health in our heal

DIR. Jennings is now happy. Mrs.
Jennings and Abbie returned from
their two months visit to the Worlds
fair Saturday looking we'll and
having enjoyed their visit immensely.
Mrs. S. B. Colson of Fremont came
up Saturday to visit her husband
who is here quite under the weather.
He is much improved, however, and
was surprised and delih hted to see her.
Eugene H. Spratt, wife and son, and
John w. Brown, party of prominent
st. Joseph people came in Saturday
on the b. & NJ. to remain a week
or more enjoying our health giving air
and baths. They are stopping at the
Evans.
Homer Moore came down from
Central Monday to post up some
bills for the big celebration they will
have at that place on Labor day, Aug.
Is, and also to secure the services of
Major Anderson to deliver an Grafton
on that occasion.
A pleasant party came up from
Chadron and spent Sunday with us.
1t consisted of Wm. Fowler. engineer,
and his three sisters. Misses Ella. Clim-
mie and Sue, who are here from Ha-
zelton. Pa. visiting him and Conduc.
tor Bowring. They stopped at the
Gillespie.
The Edgemont Express has changed
hands. DIR. G. q. Cri>t is now the ed
itor and publisher. DeForest Sanford,
who formerly worked on the STAR,
went over to look after the mechani-
cal department. We sincerely wish
the paper under its new management
unbounded success,
MARRlED-At the Congregational
church Tuesday Rev. Frame performed
the ceremony that united the lives and
fortunes of John Bennett and Mrs.
Sarah Carmichael of this city. They
are both we'll known in Hot Springs
and will go to housekeeping in the
Wells house. The STAR congratu-
lates.
Messrs. Jos. Petty, LaFleiche, Saw
yer and Marshal returned from their
trip through the Hills Monday evening
and report a pleasant time, but every
thing very dull and most of the able
bodied men out in the hills prospecting
and placer mining. They were not
successful in any great finds, but are
all in better health.
Col. Clough came down Monday
to attend an adjourned meeting of the
board Of trustees of Black Hills college
and to look after business at the home.
We never saw a man so enthusiastic
over the progress being made by the
Leavenworth detail. He gave us some
very encouraging pointers in reference
to them which are not for print, but
if Hot Springs fails to secure the ma
tional sanitarium now it will simply
be their own fault.
The STAR thinks that our state fair
would be good place to do some ad-
vertising. Why wouldn't it be good
plan to send a man down there with a
collection of samples of our building
stone, minerals and fossils, and pic
lures of our leading hotels and public
Improvements, with budget of adj
vertising matter for Hot Springs?
We believe it would be Just the thing
to introduce ourselves to the farming
community east of the river.
From County Clerk Judkins we
learn that the surveyors plats for
townships 10 and II in range 1, IL in
range 2, and 5, 6, z, 8, 8, 10, IL and
12 in range IL have been filed in the
land Office at Rapid City, and all land
within them is now st>bject to entry.
This will be good news to many set.
tiers on this land who have lived here
a long time and have not been able to
prove up, because the survey had not
been made. Townships 5 and 6 in
ranges 8 are in Custer county. Mr..
Judkins informs us that this now
completes the U. S. government sur
vey in Fall River county. The sur.
veying was done by Monroe Warner
about four months ago and the return
of the plats to the land Office has been
quicker than any former one.
j. r.. Phelan, the efficient superin-
tendent of the Wyoming division of
B. e. NJ. came in this morning to spend
the day with us. He says the hard
times are necessitatlng the reducing of
expenses all along the line and within
the last thirty days $4,000 a month
has been cut off the actual salary list
of the division. "Stock shipments. -
he continued, "are slow on account Of
poor market. The work at the west
end has ceased. but the company is still
paying out $l25OOo month on the
Spearflsh extension, but how our COM
pany can have the sand to pay it out,
and what their intentions are is more
than can tell. believe the New
berry bill will be decided unconstitu-
tional. and even now some of the
ponulists would like to take it back.
believe the free silver men won't be in
it. The Sherman bill will he repealed
in jitfv and some compromise will lie
made that will set things right in
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