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Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1893-05-05

Anton johnson, an incurable con.
sumltive living near Flandreau.
ended . life Of suffering BY CUTTING
his throat with q butcher knife dur.
ing the temporary absence OF his
nurse from the room. He was, 4
quiet citizen and leaves q wife and
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1893-05-05

Railway company for damages Of
account of being put off q train ao
Canton, has commenced another sufti
This time 1t is against the conductor
who put her of, which will come up
at WOOnsocket next month. In the.
first suit she secured $500 damages
but a new trial was granted and she
got LETT altogether the next time.
Rev. j. T. g. Wilson, who was CON-
yicted OF having carnal intercourse
with Eva Moulton, a girl thirteen
years of age, at her parents home on
a farm in Lincoln county, was denied
a new trial by Judge Aikens and
sentenced to Imprisonment for fifteen
years. A very large proportion of
his congregation and the community
have faith in his innocence despite
the result Of the trial and doubtless
still further effort will be made to
secure his freedom.
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1893-05-05
The Lehish Goes Under.

A bill asking for an accountant and
q receiver for the Lehigh Coal & Iron
Company was fled in the United
States circuit court at Chicago, by
James ID. Hurd. Similar bills, it is
stated by the attorneys in the case,
were filed in st. Paul. Milwaukee,
Duluth, West Superior and Madison,
Wis, in aid of which cities the COM
pany has extensive interests.
The assets of the company are fixed
at 81, $50, 900 and its liabilities, 81, $50
600. Ona basis of these figures it is
stated that the company is not insol-
vent. The complainant sets out that
the defendant company is very large
ly involved by promissory notes, d.
rect and contingent. Its present IL
abilities for bills payable are SS26,s35.
The contingentliabilities are s2OS,53 3
The holders of t%hese.notes are as fol-
lows: Ohio Coal Exchange, $62,s24;
the Crescent Coal Company, $4,000;
A. c. Yates, of New York, e23, 1885;
Lehigh s. Franklin Coal Company,
az, 1856, and the Rochester Trapspor-
tation Company, Of New York, bal
ance Of liabilities.
At Milwaukee, Levi r. Doty, of
Chicago, was appointed receiver for
the company.
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1893-05-05

At Hot Springs, Judge Gardner
passed sentence upon the following:
Henry Clark, grand larceny. one year
In the penttentiary; Ernest Thoelich,
petty larceny, 800 fine;.J. NJ. Kirby,
q man fifty years Of age, convicted Of
incest, his victim being his own
daughter, who is only seventeen years
of age, sentenced to term of ten
years in the penitentiary. At Sioux
Falls w. III. -Aughey, convicted OF
stealing cattle, received a sentence Of
two years.
The commissioner of the general
land Office has rendered a decision in
the case of Humphrey ws. Hoffman,
Involving a, tract of land adjoining
the townsite of Faullkton, county
seat of Faux county, which has been
in litigation about ten years. The
land was formerly held as a tree
claim by one Gerould. who was con-
tested by Hoffman. Thiscontest was
enormously dismissed by the loca.
office and Humphrey allowed the
contest. The cast was taken to the
secretary of the anterior on. appeal by
Hoffman, and by his decision Hof-
mans contest was reinstated ard
returned for trial, and Humphreys
held subject to it. At the trial HofT-
man produced Gerould's relinquish-
ment and was allowed to file and
make homestead proof. To this
proof Humphrey protested, the pro-
test Now being rejected by the COM
m~issi0na.
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1893-05-05

Business men and citizens of Yank-
TN held an enthusiastic meeting to
consider the question Of raising $685.
600 for Yankton college to complete
the endowment of 800, 600, pay the
indebtedness of the institution and
at the same time secure $4,000 from
DIR. Pearson, of Chicago, for a science
hall. There is no doubt that the
money will be raised.
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1893-05-05
Had the Women q Vote.

The question as to whether or not
the women were entitled to vote at
the last school election under the law
passed by the recent legislature will
probably be settled in, the supreme
court. Ex-senator A. B. Kittredge,
of Sioux Falls and Speaker Lawson,
of Aberdeen, have expressed the con-
viction that women were not entitled
to vote. ]. w. Jones, the attorney
for the school board at Sioux Falls,
and the city attorney, have both sub
mitted opinions that the women we're
entitled to vote. As a matter Of fact
they did vote in Sioux Fall, at Pierre
and other places, but not at Aber.
deem. Under the new law the board
is an entirely independent body, with
power to make the tax levy and to call
elections for a vote upon the issue OF
school bonds. The city council has
no longer the veto power ovel the
acts of the board. The legality, there
fore, of the board is likely to become
at any time q very important ques-
ton, and all concerned are likely to
have 1t settled now, and right. At
the last meeting Of the retiring board
at Sioux Falls, Judge John E. Garland
was present as legal adviser, and ex-
pressed the opinion that the women
had . right TO vote and that the new.
~ elected board was qusliaed to cit.
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1893-05-05
A Cont.st.a WIN case.

The town OF Parker, this state, is
all torn up over the contest of the
will OF the late Joseph j. Moore. MI.
Moore died February 2etb last, leav-
ing his whole estate worth 8S, 1000 to
his niece Miss Nettie G. Moore. Eber
and Elwood Moore, brothers Of the
dead man, have contested the will
on the ground that Nettie used un-
due influence over their brother and
that In this way she secured all his
property. G. P. Bates Of Sioux Falls
represents the contestants and w. Y.
Quigley Of Parker the heiress. The
case has been heard by the probate
Judge but the decision has been held
up pending the submission of written
arguments.
The girl, who, by the terms Of the
will, inherits all the property, SO the
evidence shows, has been cultivating
her uncle for several years. Moore
was a we'll known and respectable
farmer and his relations with his
niece caused much talk in Parker.
For a period of two months one Wit
ness testified that Moore aud his
niece occupied one room which con-
tanned two beds. When remon-
strated with by Mrs. Mott, who lived.
at the house, the girl is quoted as
having said that she proposed to get
all of her uncle's property. The con-
tention of the contestants is that
Miss Moore used improper influences
over her uncle and at the time the
will was made, that Mr.. Moore was
not in sound mental condition. At
torney 'Quigley, who drew up the
will, testified that Mooredictated it
wtile other reputable witnesses swore
that on the day before and the day
after the will was made, Moore's
mind was in.so confused:a condition
that he was unable to talk intel
Lightly. Miss Moore was present in
she house when the will was made
and nursed her uncle during his last
sickness. The will vas made about
a week before Moore died. The case
has caused a great deal Of talk and
will be appealed by the defeated
side.
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1893-05-05

Two hundred Zulus for the worlds
fair have arrived. The first advices
Of thei-. approach was aecall for
police. Aload Of bluecoats was sent
out to meet the train. They found
the train crew besieged in the bag
gage car and the Zulus.in possession
Of the train. 1t seems that one Of
their number lost something and
they held the ciew responsible. They
we're only paciled cater . long
pelayer and taken to their desti-
nation within the grounds.
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1893-05-05
How To Compare ..Iiar."

They are telling this story Of Rev.
Dr. Hale. Called upon by some Of
his fellow students in ethics to COM
pare the word liar he did it in this
fashion: "Positive, Liar; Compare
tive, Damned Liar; Speculative,
E~tatistics.n
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1893-05-05
q DECISIONS.
North Dakot. sur.eme Court Hand
Down Important Decisions.

North Dakota suRueme Court Hands
Down ImportaEt Decisions.
Three decisions have been handed
down in the supreme court at Bis
marck. The state lex rel. Diebold
Safe s. Lock Company vs.. Auditor of
Eddy County was an;action to compel
the county auditor Of Eddy county to
issue a warrant in favor of the plain
tiff for certain TAIL work performed.
under a contract with the county
commissioners. The board in open
session had approved the account and
ordered it paid, but the auditor re-
fused to draw the warrant on the
ground that the expenditure was be-
yond the power of the board of COM
missiOners, under a section which re-
guired all expenditures greater than
the revenues for a SINGLE year to be
submitted to a vote Of the people.
Mandamas was broughtto compel the
drawing of the warrant and the writ
denied in the lower court. Affirmed.
Edwards s. M Culloch Lumber Com
pany VS.. Baker came up from Rich
land .cc:anty and the appeal is dis
missed, the court holding that after a
trial Judge has decidedand announced
what shall be embodied ina bill of ex-
ceptions it is not his duty to engross
the bill in accordance with his decis-
ion, and he cannot be said to have neg
lected to settle such bill uRless he
neglects to sign the bill after 1t is
presented to him for signature, en-
crossed as settled by him.
w. N. Coler s. Co. vs.. Dwight
school township, of Richland county,
was an action to compel the payment
of certain interest coupons. The
Judgment of the district court is
affirmed on the ground that the dis
trict was a defacto municipal cor
poration and the defense could not
be interposed that the bonds were
void on the ground that the district
had no legal existence because of
failure to comply with provisions of
the statute regulating the organize
tion of the district In a matter which
went to the jurisdiction of the
county superintendent in organizing
the same. Municipal corporations
are estopped, as against bona ade
holders Of municipal bonds, from set.
ting up as a defense to an action
thereon that all the preliminary
steps necessary to authorize the issue
of the bonds were not taken, when
the officers who have charge of the
issue of such bonds are expressly OF
implicitly authorized to determine
whether all the conditions precedent
to the issue of valid bonds have been
complied with, and recite in the
bonds SO issued that they have been
so complied with. tits not necessary
to estop the corporation that this
statement should set forth in detail
that all the preliminary steps have
been taken. 1t is sufficient that it
declare that the bonds are issued in
pursuance Of a certain statute,
specifying 1t. Neither is it essential
that the officers issuing the bonds
should be expressly authorized to
determine such questions. It is
SUFFICIENT II they are given full con-
troll In the matter.
Carl Schurz was elected president
ofthe National Civil Service Reform
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1893-05-05

Aberdeen business men and ship
pers will endcavor to SO buy their
goods this fall that a solid train of
Aberdeen freight can be run from
Chicago to that city. Tue cars will
be appropriately lettered. 1t is be.
lieved Aberdeen can get one of the
finest advertising cards ever known
olt of this scheme and no effort will
fe spared to make 1T win. A COM
mittee of business men are pushing
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1893-05-05

Carl Schurz was elected president
ofsthe National Civil Service Reform
League. /,
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1893-05-05

It is expected that 5000 visitors
will be in Sioux Falls on June 3, the
dateOf the Sunday school mass meet
ings. Special trains have been
secured on the Omaha road from
Luverne and Salem, and the Mil
waukce road promises special trains
on its line. An interesting program
has been arranged, a feature of which
will be a parade of thirty Sunday
schools, with $500 children in line.
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1893-03-10
AN ANNUAL EVENT,

The St. Paul Weekly Pioneer Press has
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The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1893-03-10
THE FARM AND HOME.
GYPSUM AS FERTILIZER FOR
POTATOES.
Tried With Beneficial Results-A Good
Sheep Gate-The Spread of Tree
Roots Farm Notes and
Home Hints.
Gypsum on Potatoes.

Gypsum Potatoes.
We were much Interested in talk
We had the other day with a friend
who is something Of an experiment
talist in horticulture, as we'll US a
practical farmer. Last season he tried
gypsum on piece of potatoes with
very beneficial results, says the
Farmers Voice. Gypsum, as it is COM
monty called. is combination of
caustic lime and sulphuric acid, and
contains oxygen in large quantities.
The oxygen in this substance is ever
ready to enter into com bination
with other materials and change
their chemical form, and it is this
tendency that makes the gypsum of
value. for by the action of the oxygen
the fertilizing elements of the soil are
released from their insoluble forms
and become at once available for the
growing crops. Proceeding on this
theory, our friend proceeded to carry
out his experiment. His soil was a
loamy mold undertake at quite depth
with limestone. 1t is what is known
as strong limestone loan. He tried
several plans of distributing the
gypsum, but the most satisfactory
results were got from strewing it
along in the burrows made to receive
the potatoes, before the potatoes we're
planted. Six or seven hundred pounds
to the acre was used, and it was
dropped by hand on a strip about a
foot wide. The increase of the crop
where this gypsum was used was from
twenty-five to thi1ty-three per cent
as compared with that portion of the
field where none was used. The I'M
usual wetness OF the season was
no doubt Of advantage to the portion
sown with gypsum, and helped to
make the results SO satisfactory. It
is our opinion that on new. swampy
soils, where there is a la.ge amount
Of acid in the soil, gypsum could be
sown with benefit. as it would tend to
neut-'alize this acid condition and
make the fertility more fully avail
able. On such soils caustic lime
alone has proven of benefit, and a
wonderful Improvement has been
known to follow its use We know of
field that had a coat Of gypsum as
much as fifteen years ago that has
always produced good crops since,
though before that time it was badly
run down. OF course since that time
it has been farmed in q rotation. OF
which one crop was clover. but it has
had very little Of anything else in
the way Of fertilizers.
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1893-03-10
A Good Sheep Gate.

A door or gate through which a
hundred sheep are to rush, eager for
their feed of grain, must be SO con
structed that it can be opened with
the greatest dispatch. A swing door
is apt to be obstructed by drifts,
orts, ice, manure, etc; besides which
it is always swinging open in the
wind when it ought to be shut and
vice versa. Then, too, no matter
which wayit opens, when the time
arrives for it to be opened the sheep
are very often huddled against it so
that it cannot be moved. If swing
doors are to be used at all, they
should be folding doors, carefully
hung in such position as to avoid all
obstacles.
A writer For the Ohio Farmer. after
doors and gates has adopted the fol-
lowing: Where the side of the stable
is low he has a sliding-door, eight
feet long, hung on rollers aid a slide.
A one and one-fourth inch strip of
wood is faced with a one and one-half
inch bar of iron. three-eighths inch
thick. which projects one-fourth inch
above the wooden strip. and furnishes
guide for tie door-rollers to travel
on. This strip, put on with two
inch screws. one every foot, will hold
up ten times the weight of the door.
The bottom Of the door has to be con-
fined with stakes to prevent the sheep
from carrying II away when they
rush out.
Where the side of the stable is high
enough to permit it he has a hoist
gate Of the same length, suspended
from pulleyS overhead with weights
enough to balance it. 1t should be
made of very light Stats. set close
enough together TO prevent the sheep
from getting their heads between
them as the gate is hoisted. The
framework or guide on each side, in
which the gate plays up and down,
must be nicely adjusted and true, and
it is we'll to have small pulleys let
into the outer sides of the posts to OBJ
viate friction. An iron rod. fastened
to the upper corner of the gate, bent
upward and provided with a loop in
the middle to receive the rope. is the
best attachment for hosting gate.
When the. door is double. that is, a
tight outer door and an inside one of
Stats. it is a very good arrangement
to have the inside door fastened up
80 that it can be thrown down and let
the sheep run over it. This should
be made light but strong and close,
and put together with clinch nails.
This can be kept in place by some
simple fastening at each end.
1t is better. however, not to have
the sheep in such large focks as to
require such wide gates. Fifty or
forty 10 a flock are enough for health.
Where they are grained ewes, how
ever, there should be provided the
best possible facilities letting
them rush without getting damned.
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1893-03-10
August
Flower

am Post Master here and keep
q Store. Ihave kept August Flower
FOR sale for some time. think it is
a splendid medicine" E. A. Bond,
P. M, Pavilion Centre, NY.
The stomach is the reservoir.
If it fails, everything fails. The
liver, the kidneys, the lungs, the
heart, the head, the blood, thenerves
all 60 wrong. If you feel wrong,
look to the stomach first. Put that
right at once by using August
Flower. 1t assures good appetite
and a good digestion. Q
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1893-03-10
CUP TO DATE, MAPS.

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The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1893-03-10
How Far Tree Roots Spread.

The extent to which tree roots
spread il a question of practical i'm
portance when manuring them is in
order. We Go not see SO many fruit
growers piling manure around the
trunks OF old trees, or two or three
feet from them, as used to be COM
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1893-03-10
Life Is Worth Living,

Trying its vcissitudes are, by those unvexed by
chronic disease. Mainly because Hostetter's Stom-
ach Biters fOrtifes the system against disease by
promoting vigorous performance OF the functions
Of the system. 1t possesses wide. general utility.
It promotes strength through improved digestion.
This is the first. the most essential STEP SubSe-
queaty the Bitters insure regularity OF the bowels
liver and kidneys. Malaria, rheumatism and nerv-
GUS trouble yield to it.
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1893-03-10

Eugene Blood of Mortified shot him.
self dead. The affair was caused by
the fact that the young lady to whom
he was engaged was ill and not expected
to live.
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1893-03-10

The greatest of liniments! Mrs E. M.
Devilbiss, Triadelphia, Nd, writes: II
use Salvation Oil for sore throat. rbeu-
matism, etc, ard find it is one Of the best
liniments out"
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1893-03-10

Brigands entered the postoffice in Mis-
terbianco, Sicicly, stabbed to death the
postmaster. Perinis, and his family, and
carried off all the money and much of the
mail.
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1893-03-10

The Spanish government has ordered
the inspection, quarantining and fumiga-
ton of persons and goods coming over
the frontier from France.
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1893-03-10
Perhaus He SVyOre.

She--Oh, give me drama that has
some poetry 81 in it. In some Of the
older plays there is a wealth Of imag-
cry and force Of language that is en-
tirely absent in the writings Of our
modern playwrights. What is more
terrible, and at the same time more
grand, than the curse in "Richelieu?"
J He-I don't think that / ever heard
it. But you ought to have heard what
l had to say about the street commits
sioncr when l slipped up on the icy
sidewalk this morning. Texas Sift-
mgs.
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1893-03-10

Ask your druggist Tor bottle of the Quak-
er Catar1 Cure. Different from all other
remedies. 1t is applied directly to parts AZ
tected and gives Immediate and permanent
relief for all forms of catarrh, colds in tho
with each bot.l to refund money if not sat-
istactory. you will send US your name
and address on postal card we will send
you sample bottle free of all expense.
Address QUAKER MEp. Assn, St. Paul, Mimi
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1893-03-10

A slight cold, if neglected, often at
tacks the lungs Browns Bronchial
Troches give sure and immediate relief.
Sold only in boxes. Price 25 cents.
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1893-03-10

G. Nj. Stetson, resident of James,
vile. was injured in railway wreck
at Bath, Colo. He will recover.
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1893-03-10

While pleasant wedding party was
crossing the Dnieper, near Ekaterino-
slav, Russia, the ice broke, and two
sledges with ten persons disappeared
under water. All were swept under the
ice and were drowned
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1893-03-10

A lunatic named Secor escaped from
his attendants at Reno, and was found
frozen to death near that place.
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1893-03-10

The funeral of N. N. Stevens at Be-
lott was conducted by the Salvation
Army at that place.
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1893-03-10

The John A. Salzer conlpany's seed
plant at La Crosse was damaged by fire
to the extent of 500.