Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1893-11-03
HOT SPRINGS. SOUTH DAKOTA, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER B. 1898

John Sidey has moved his family in.
to the rear Ut his store building.
Alderman Ellsworth and wife arc
laid up with an attack OF mountain
fever.
Charley Wilcox has received . nice
lot of honey from his old homo in Wis.
consin.
Ed. Catlin, night clerk at the Giles.
pie, has returned from his visit to the
the Worlds fair.
e. j. Moore, wife and boys returned
last Tuesday. Mrs. M. is much i'm.
proved IN health.
J. H. Ryan, a Minnesotian, IS her,
taking baths for rheumatism AMI is
stopping at the Mower.
Will Crane and E. EIsey returned
from Chicago last Tuesday. They
each bought large stock of goods.
The stone quarries are heing put in
shape for promising business next
year, especially the Elm Greek quaries.
Jim Noodle captured good sized
tarantula in James Park aud E. F.
King has preserved the remains Of the
ugly insect.
MIR. and Mrs. John Boyer have gone
friends. Mrs. B. will be gone some
time but Mr.. B. will return in few
days.
Lafe Richards has closed his con-
tract as cook at the Gillespie, and is
contemplating trip east. A colored
conk has taken his place and is giving
satisfaction.
There are lots of grouse out on the
flats west of town, but they are so wild
you amt near get within gufshot of
them. Let them alone, boys, and they
will be plenty next year.
MIR. Green, of Custer, brought the
STAR an elegant small cheese made by
the Custer factory which is owned by
himself, Newton and d. b. Tubbs. Il
is tirst.class and the cheese made nv
them will no donbt find ready sale in
Hot Springs at all times.
H. s. Soule departed Tuesday night
for his home at Burlington, Vermont.
He is considerably interested in real
estate in Hot Springs, although he had
never been here before, and is much
hetter pleased with his investments
than before he came. He g,es home
great admirer 1T Hot Springs.
Dr. Flick, chairman of the Penning-
ton county Democratic centr:l com.
mittee, conceded to the Rapid City
Journal that Judge Gardner would
carry Pennington county by majority
not exceeding one hundred and eighty.
five. DIR. Flick is known to he pretty
good authority upon such matters, and
his uplnlon is rather iiscou.aging to
those who have been hoping the other
way.
The Chautanqua excursion to Wind
cave, Numbering seventy three people,
was a grand success. Most of the ex-
cur>ionists took the short route to the
Garden Of Eden. Nearly all the col.
lege students went to the Pearly Cats,
beyond the Fair Grounds. They were
almost enraptnred with the exquisite
beauty and awe in>p ring grandeur of
this route and proclaim it. wonderful
hevond description. We are glad to
know it was such a great success, al.
though the receipts do not entirely
cover the deficiency of the Chautauqua
Bob Sbann returned from Edoemont
Tuesday where he has been buy-
ing cattle to ship. He says 200 In.
dians passed through there on their
return from a hnnt in the mountains
and say they secnred 700 deer and an.
telope. We have come to the con.
rlnSion that the Indian agents are
dung nothing to stop this fearfu,
slaughter of game, and forbidding the
white settler from killing for hiS own
use would do very little toward pro.
tectirg it, If this wanton destruc.
tion by beef fed redskins is allowed to
go on.
The school board held a lengthy sea.
sion last Tuesday. it heine the first they
have held for some time. They passed
a whole host Of hills and resolutions
and let the contract for printing the
conrse of study, 500 copies Of 36 pages;
ordered the secretary to write the rom.
rany from whom the slate was ordered
that il they would nav tha freight,
(ahout S24O) they wonld honor the hill
at the first contract price. Other i'm.
portan.. business matters were trans.
acted of private nature.
Hallowe' en-. as usual, was duly csle.
l,rated by the kids, and goats, too. for
that matter. We have heard of q
eood many incongruous situations
which signs, out houses, steps and
o,h,r loose property occupied this
morning, but nothing malicious or
badly wrong was done. r. F. Counor
found his horsa unhitched and his
buggy dragged o6 when he got ready
tn 90 home from the store. A. d.
Wood was surpri:ed at the rapidity
with which buildings are put up in
the west. One Young man wears a