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

SOUTH DAKOTA NEWS.
A scheme is on foot to build a
Lead City. '
The Elkhorn has decided to extend
It's line to Lead City by way Of
Poorman's gulch.
Pennington county Jail is now
without an occupant, something that
has not happened before in the
Samuel Payne, an aged farmer of
Parker. enroute to Vanderbilt, n. d.,
dropped dead in the Milwaukee depof,
in Aberdeen, of heart disease.
The Yankton wooden mill has heen
purchased by .Iencks & Son. who will
put down an eigllt-inch artesian we'll
to furnish power for running the
same.
The lodge of the O. f. S. has been
organized at Milbank, with Mrs.
w. w. Dowine. wife of Editor
Dowine of the Herald, as Worthy
Matron.
Hon. Morris Taylor. of Huron. is in
Washington and will remain until
after the inauguration. He expects
to be appointed commissioner gener.
al of the land office.
A dividend of seven per cent. has
been directed to be paid to claimants,
whose CLAIMS have been approved.
against the defunct Fidelity Fire
Insurance company.
The wife of gambler named
Percy, who has been running a den
at Mitchell for some time past, COM
mitted suicide at the Merchants
hotel last week by taking poison.
At the directors meeting of the
Black Hills National bank ut Rapid
City, which suspended business
December u last, it was decided to
resume. All depositors will be paid
in full.
The Santee Indian band, under the
leadership Of Prof, Linger Of
Niobrara, has been secured by the
management to attend the worlds
fair. This is the only Indian cornet
band in the world.
Hon. A. NJ. Bowdle. of Mitchell.
who has spent the winter in Wash.
ingtOn for treatment of a serious kid
ney trouble, is about to undergo an
operation, with the assurance that it
will completely cure him.
The contract for the survey of the
boundary line between South Dakota
and Nebraska has been awarded to
Samuel c. Shilton, of Springfield,
S. d. He is to make the survey and
furnish the necessary monuments for
$49, 1000.
I. j. Foley. of North Platte. Neb.,
and S. ID. Wadsworth. OF Council
Bluffs. Iowa, have closed their ar
rangements to locate a wholesale inn
plement house at Sioux Falls. The
capital stock is $4,000. The firm
opens for business May /.
NJ. II. Day. of Rapid City, has been
arrested upon the charge OF selling
mortgaged property. The directors
of the Rapid Valley Horse Ranch
company made the complaint and are
looking for the equivalent of $4,000
or 100000 which Day invested for
them A ranch. mortgaged for slo.-
600. and some zoo horse. half of
which are held under mortgages and
judgments. are all there is to show
for all their cash.
Fire at Clark consumed buildings
occupied l,y IL. n. Tibbetts 4 CO..
hardware: \. G. Waite u Co., drug
gists: 5. Anderson. general store:
u. A. Jordan, wagon shop: r. Gerber.
blacksmith shop: Mrs G.. Arpin.
millinery store. and the Odd Fellows
and knights of Pythias hall. Losses
estimated at sS0.O00: insurance
Sll,OOo Those suffering the greatest
loss are Tibbetts \ 60. and :. Ander-
son. Mr.. Anderson carried out S. 600
insurance on 100000 stock. The Odd
Fellows loss is 81 900.
l.. Willsie. of Hill City. chief en-
gineer of the d.. =. 4 II. III. railway
company. has been i'm Faulkton look
ing over its advantages as a location
for the division and machine shops of
that read. y meeting of citizens was
held to sec what could he done i'm the
matter. Ii is reported that the COM
pany have already completed arrange
ments with tile c., NJ. & st. Z. com
pany Tor the purchase of thirty acres
of land for depot ground. and it is en-
pected Wnl X will commence ironingthe
road as soon as spring opens, thus
giving another competing line to the
Twin Cities and lake ports.
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