Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1893-03-24
SOUTH DAKOTA NEWS.

Counterfeit coins are being circu-
lated in Rapid City.
The state temperance convention
has been indefinitely postponed.
Rev. +. +. Holp has resigned the
pastoratc of the Congregational
church in WatertOwn.
Said that Gov. Sheldon has decided
to appoint William O'Rrien, of Lead
City, as mine inspector.
Another applicant for the Yankton
postoffice has entered the contest. in
the person of Mrs. Doctor Ross.
A. Odiorne. proprietor of the Mer-
chants hotel in Yankton, had a
brother burned to death in the big
fire in Boston.
United States Judge Edgerton has
fully recovered from his reccntattack
of neuralgia uf the heart. and is able
to hold court again.
A cow owned by Hutchinson
county farmer committed suicide by
drowning because she had lost her
calf, which had strayed away.
Mrs. Owen. wifeof Attorney j. II.
Owen, of Milbank, has been admitted
to the bar by Judge Andrews to prac-
tice in the courts of South Dakota.
Mrs. Diliah Thompson. of High
more, has been bound over in $500
bonds to answer to the charge of
sending obscene letters through the
mails.
The Indian police who shot and
killed Bill Fielder, the sluaw man.
for resisting arrest. will have Il hear
ing before the United States COM
missioner.
The case of the state VS.. Ed. Wilson,
charged with murder. has been trans
ferrcd froa Moody county to Lincoln
county. where it will come ON for
trial April 3.
John ii. Haigh of Cavour has been
spending some time in Illinois and
says that IL large number of Illinois
farmers will migrate to South Dak-
ota this year.
John T. NanMctrc, of part Indian
blood. is Il candidate for agent at
Cheyenne agency. He resides mt
Fort Pierre and is engaged i'm the
practice of law.
j. y. McDougall. one of the most
prominent business men of Britton.
was nearly sutfOcated by coal gas.
When found in the morning lie could
scarcely move.
Specifications have been received
for the new Masonic temple at Brook.
ings. 1t will be three stories high OF
modern architecture and will be Il
credit to Brookings and an honor Ia
the founders.
The following patents have been
issued residents of the state: Type
writer. Nathan III. Lamb. Nerdon
brickmould sander, William Lamb
Aberdeen: wagon tire. Casper Zim
norman, Sioux Falls.
+. :. McAllstcr. the former Hart
ford druggist,i lis having a gay time on
other peoples money. Up to date
drafts aggregating s3.GG5 which ht
had casllcd have passed through tho
banks of Sioux Fails.
Don. c. Needham, of .lerauld coun
ty, is organizing state immigration
bureau. His plan is to form a stOcl
company of 1000 shares. to be sold al
50 per share. lie thinks that $lO.OO(
could easily be raised to advertise the
state and its resources.
Work has been commenced ON the
sinking of an artesian we'll at tho
United States government Indian
school located in Pierre. Swan Bros
have the contract and expect to reach
water at ], 900 or l.lOO feet.
A meeting of the officers of til.
Grain and Stock Belt association was
held at Huron and arrangements
made for publishing a vast amount
of literature descriptive of the asso.
citation and for thoroughly advertis.
ing the same in the east.
Foster predicts q great equinoctial
storm for March 2222. He says this
storm will be terrific in Missouri. and
that from Watcrtown and Huron
south it will be lively. and quite
severe about Sioux City. Omaha and
along the Mississippi river.
1t is reported that Superintendent
j. $. Childs, now i'm New York. will
return to Hill City soon, with abso.
lutte authority in The management OF
the Harncy Peak Tin company. And
that the mill will be started ut once,
with force of 1000 men.
Miss Minnie Olson, of Canton. died
i'm Sioux Falls from the effects of an
abortion supposed to have been per.
formed by DIR. Fisher, of Canton
Before she died Miss Olson said sll,
had been betrayed by Il young man
whose name she refused to disclose.
The supreme court has sustained
the decision of Judge Campbell in The
case of the Huron WaterwoYks Com.
pany against the city of Huron. and
the plant of the company will not b,
intcrtcrcd with under the proceedings
instituted 10y Mayor Myers year ago
Hattie Wrenn. proprietor of a pala.
tial bagnio in Yankton, died las,
week. She was being treated for the
morphine habit by Il local bichloride
of gold institute and died in great
agony. She leaves large fortune
but nothing of her past life is known.
The state board nf regents have ap-
pointed Hon. w. Il. Tipton on the
board of trustees OF the state univcr-
sity. To fiji the vacancy caused by the
appointment OF MIR. Hale on the
state board. and y. II. kribbs, of Leo
In, to fill the vacancy on the board Ot