Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1893-05-19
SOUTH DAKOTA NEWS.

SOUTH DAKOTA NEWS.
The president has appointed Mrs.
Bertha WOOdvice ia, be postmaster at
Custer.
Slight earthquake shocks were felt
last week at Madison, Howard and
Carthage.
A new postofice has been establish
ed at Badger, Dawson county, with
e. ID. Watkins as postmaster.
The tenth annual conclave of the !
Grand Commandery, Knight Tenn
plars Of South Dakota, will meet in
Huron on June 10th.
Geo. w. Gallant has been removed
as receiver for the bank of Salem and
A. c. Bfernatzki, county Judge at
Salem, appointed in his stead.
Black Hills physicians met at HotI
Springs and effected a temporary
organization. They will form al
permanent organization May 20.
The American Express company
will supercede the WELSH go FIX.
press company on the line of Tie Elk
horn railroad the first day of June.
o. II. Peterson, a hardware mer-
chant of Litchfield, Mimi, who owns
q branch store at Grove City and
other places, was granted a divorce
at Bookings by Judge Andrews.
Mrs. Thomas j. Mills, while tenn
porarfly insane, jumped in the Sioux
river at Sioux Falls and was drowned.
The body was recovered. Mrs. Mills
was an old settler.
District Deputy w. H. Game of
saltwater, Mimi, has instituted
lodges of Elks at Sioux Falls and
WatertOwn. These are the first
lodges Of the order in the state.
The Oldest son of Louis Nicholson,
of Bradley, while playing with an
other boy of about his age, 10 years,
was accfdently shot and instantly
killed. The whole side of his forehead
was blown away.
White Bros, a firm dealing in
gents furnishing goods at Woon-
socket, has made an assignment.
Liabilities from $4,000 to $40, 900,
assets about the same. Low price
OF wheat and slow collections the
cause.
At a depth of l,O25 feet the con-
tractors at the government Indian
school artesian well at Pierre struck
a flow of water, enough so that it is q
J constant overflow. The contractor is
5 confident he will have a regular
, guSher after another 100 feet.
! The new western telegraph line to
, Huron has been completed and is now
+ in operation. The line gives, for the
first time, direct Geographic commu-
nication between Sioux City and the
, towns along the Northwern road be.
= tween Hawarden and Huron.
Harry L. Williams, a young school
!, teacher, has heen indicted at Sioux
. Falls for stealing three 2,OOO-mile
3 mileage books from the Chicago, Mil,
], waukee & St. Paul depot here, and
for forging names to them. Bonds
were put at $500, which he was unable
Z to furnish.
A. ID. Tomlison sold his farm OF
$50 acres, situated in Middleton
township, eight miles southeast OF
d Parker, for $4,000, being exactly
$35 per acre. 1t is conceded by real
estate men to be the best sale eve
made in Turner county, as the land
is several miles from a railroad and
i has only ordinary Improvements.
Commissioner Lamareaux has
+ awarded the contract of surveying
the boundry line between South
Dakota and Nebraska to Joseph III.
Jenkins of Winona, Mimi, for sl1, 700
D The monuments which are to b.
: placed on the line will be one-hal1
mile apart, six feet in length and
eight inches square and are to be OF
Sioux Falls Jasper.
: Hon. F. A. Luse. of Aberdeen will
: be a candidate before the republican
convention for I'M of the judges OF
e the supreme court. Mr.. Luse came
from southern Wisconsin to South
Dakota in the spring of 1880 and
: has been thoroughly identified with
. the interests of the country ever
. since. He graduated from the Wis
. cOnsin law school.
, The reception given at Yankton
: to BARTLETT Tripp, the recently an.
pointed minister to Austria, was a
magnificent affair. One hundred
and fifty guests attended. The
speakers were Robert j. Gamble,
; Judges Kellam, Corson and Bennett,
of the supreme court, United States
Attorney Miller, Judge Hugh Camp
I bell and A. b. Wilcox, of Yankton.
: Minister Trip will sail on the 10Th.
1t is quite likely that Phelps Kroop,
of New York, will be appointed
secretary of the Austrian legation.
The state railroad commission con-
ferred at Sioux Falls last week with
the interstate commerce commission
touching the legal right of the state
commission to determine maximum
n~aSSpnppr rates nndnr tho low on.