Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1894-07-20
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South Dakota Briefs.
FLANDREAu is putting in a fine sys-
tenn of water works.
RAIN in the vicinity of Flandreau
has broken the longest drouth that
has visited that section in twenty
years.
AN extra strong artesian we'll was
struck near st. Lawrence, in conse-
quence of which st. Lawrence people
are jubilant.
The official organ of the state audi
tor, in a recent issue, takes the ground
that the state an.well afford to put in
a state printing house and bindery,
and thus be in y position to do its own
work.
A NUMBER of travelling men are as
good as stranded in the Hills owing to
the Pullman strike. The mails are
delayed, checks do not come, and
business is in q condition of innocuous
desuetude.
REPORTS from the Hills west of
Rockford are that deer are very nu-
merOus and are as tame as sheep.
Stray horses seem to have gotten into
that country, and it is said there were
lots of horses with all kinds of brands
, on running around without anybody
looking after them.
The roundup of the lower Belle
Fourche country is about over and
that on the northern will be over
about the 10th or 18th. The cattle are
in good shape and the beef roundup
which will commence some time in
August, will be the best one for fat
beeves that has ever been held on this
range.
FROM parties down from Castle
Creek it is learned that men are at
present working from one end of the
creek to the other and all are making
good wages, says the Rapid City Jour-
nal. The gold found IN the numerous
bars is very coarse, while that near
bed rock on the creek is fine, bright
gold.
DIR. F. II. FILES of Sioux Falls re-
turned from Humboldt Township,
where he had been investigating the
diptheria epidemic which now pre-
walls there to an alarming extent.
During the past ninety days there
have been over forty cases in that
in several deaths. There are at i
ent thirteen cases.
MAJOR L. II. RUTH, commissioner
filed for entry at the United States
Land Office in Aberdeen q list Of in
demnity lands covering from So 900 to
80. 600 acres in Mcpherson and Ed.
munds Counties. The lands are in
place of those rejected by the Interior
Department some months since.
There are nearly $4,000 acres yet to
select.
CHARLEY MCDONALD was down
from his claim on Rapid Creek, says
the Rapid City Journal, and disposed
of two ounces and thirteen penny.
weights of placer gold. He has just
reached pay gravel on the bar and exc
poets to take out good pay for some
time. He stated that placer gold from
his section of the country is'worth
only $17.75 per ounce or account of the
quality found.
GENERAL MANAGER NIX Of the new
railroad, says the Deadw0od Times, 10
engaged with his corps Of engineers
surveying and c~ross-sectioning . line
from Belle Fourche to the point on
Hay Creek where the original survey
bore off toward Minnesota. This line
Is about = mile shorter than Mime.
sela, and it is now, pretty thoroughly
understood that the road will DO built
from Belle Fourche.
A VERY sensational elopement has
occurred at Bryant. Frank Eastling,
Il years Ut aye, and his cousin, Lizzie
Eastling, - years Of age, packed their
worldly effects and repatriation ciimes
unknown. The only clew to the
whereabouts of the youthful lovers u
. rumor adoat that they had been seen
two miles east Of Estsline. The pa
rents and relatives of the couple are
very indignant. Both children are
large and we'll developed, and could
easily pass among strangers for people
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