Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1894-09-14

From Tuesdays Daily.
| w. A. Turner arrived from Coin, To-,
this morning.
\ The next conference of the M. E.
church will be held at Lead.
Rev. Frame and family expect to
get started on their trip to Indianan next
Tuesday.
More good fish are being caught in
the Cheyenne river this season than
ever before.
The frosts last night and the night
before killed many of the tender vege-
tables and vines.
Lloyd Boomer left Sunday night for
Mount Vernon, TO-, where he will at
tend college for the next year.
1 While riding horseback last evening
Miss Jessie Wilson's horse fellwith her
and bruised her foot quite badly.
Another car of stone has arrived and
the work on the new conservatory at
the Evans bath house is being pushed.
Mrs. Kent and little daughter who
have been spending the summer at the
Gillespie, left last night for Mime
apolis.
Students of Black Hills college are
coming in rather earlier than usual
and in greater numbers than was ex-
pected these hard times.
Orrin Lampert came down from Hill
City last evening to attend Black Hills
college. His sister Miss Ada willteach
in the Hill City school this year.
Since the citizens of the place have
found out what Russian thistles are,
an active warfare has been carried on
and they have been almost extermina-
| ted.
A new post Office has been estab-
lished on the Rosebud reservation
called Ponca Issue Station, with w. w.
Griswold, son of the chief farmer, as
postmaster. It will be a great con-
venience.
Traut & Gillespie with their usual
force of men, went to work at the Sol
diers' home this morning laying pipes
for the water and steam heat to the
hospital aud other buildings erected
there this summer.
Clayton P. Kinsey, the new professor
of music for Black Hills College, came
in from Clarinda this morning and for
the time being is at the Gillespie. The
professor is an all around musician
and is an artist with the cornet.
George Trimmer went to Sturgis this
morning with as fine collection of Or
chard fruits as was ever raised in the
Black Hills, which he will place on ex-
hibition at the fair at that place. It
will be very funny if he don't capture
some of the premiums.
A. L. Baker has returned to take up
his studies at Black Hills college again.
His summer outing with the surveying
party has done him good and he is
much improved in health. His return
to school will be good news to the old
students with whom he was a general
favorite.
Rev. j. G. Mckee, the Baptist minis.
ter at Custer, has accepted call to
Albany, Oregon, and will leave with his
family next week to take up his pastor
al duties at that place. He has been
in the Hills for number of years and
many friends will be sorry to see him
go SO far. For the present Rev. Leslie,
of this city will supply the church at
Custer.
The attendance at our public schools
/ is not what it should be. There are
only about 24O children, when there
should be about 800. Parents should
see that their children are put into
school right from the start, SO that
they may be put in the proper classes
and kept right along with the grade to
which they belong. It is an exaspera-
tion to teachers and great damage to
the child to start in late.
It is hard to undo a wrong done a
good citizen, and the effort to saddle a
crime upon w. A. Widney, one of the
exemplary citizens of the county, was
thwarted yesterday and Mr.. Widney's
good name was fully vindicated by his
being discharged and the action dis
missed on motion of Prosecuting At
torney Kellar. He was charged with
having stolen saddle from the Gamets
but the real theft was placed upon one
Pete Mccormick, now in custody in.
Custer county. Messrs. Camel are very
sorry they made him the trouble and
will do all they can to make reparation.
Charley Mccoy and A. B. Hulitt re-
ceived word that crowd of cattle men
were to be on hand where they have
their sheep camp on the Cheyenne
river yesterday to compel them to
move their sheep out of the county or
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