Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1894-05-11
State Notes.

n HEAVY hail storm visited b. ,ok.
ings, breaking the glass in the win.
dows of nearly all the residences and
business houses.
DISPATCHES from Edgemont are to
the effect that the recent rains have
SO swelled the Cheyenne River that it
has overtiowed its banks, and fears are
entertained that the wagon bridge and
the b. II NJ. Railway bridge will be
washed out.
MAJOR CLEMENTS, Indian agent,
has been at Flandreau distributing
houses and barns to the Flandrau In
dians. About fifty houses and barns
have been distributed among the In
dams. Soon $50 head of cattle will be
distributed among the same Indians.
AT Worthwhile u young man was en-
gagged in cleaning out the bottom of q
grain bin in an elevator when the adj
joining bin burst, letting the immense
load of grain i'll upon him. smothering
him to death. A hole was cut in the
side of the elevator in trying to reach
him, but life was extinct when he yves
found.
PRosPECToRs down from Bald
Mountain report more snow on the
ground in that section than ever be-
fore known. One branch of the Dead
wood Central Railroad is covered with
q ten-foot blanket of the beautiful,
we'll packed. and should o heavy rain
come there is no question but that an
immense volume of water would down
this gulch.
Work on the big irrigation ditch at
Edgelnont is progressing finely. The
ditch will be completed in time for
use to water this years crop. The
water will be stored in two large res
ervoirs until it is necessary to use it,
and there will at all times be enough
water to supply the land. The ditch
Is large enough to furnish a forty
horse power reserve of water to be
used for manufacturing purposes ut
Edgemont.
A Hot SPRINGS man who has had q
force of men ut work eXcavating fish
ponds struck o few cOlols of geld in the
gravel. which leads him to believe
that the source of Solomon's revenue
matter of fact, all the gravel in this
country is more or less a%uriferous.
and a healthy, industrious man can go
out with n gold pan and make from Is
to % cents in most any sunshiny, ten
hour day.
The Highland Mining Company at
Lead are now having timbers put on
the ground preparatory to adding forty
more stamps to their l2O stamp mill,
the work to commence as soon Us the
weather will permit. When this is
completed this mill will be equal in
size and capacity to the Star of the
Hon estake Company, which has long
been known as the largest gold stamp
mill in the world. This Improvement
will necessitate an increased force In
the Highland Mine.
WHILE Joseph Dusk. an Aurora
County farmer, was hunting along the
creek on the Meter Ranch in that
county he killed o very fine specimen
OF water fowl. 1t was measured and
stands five and one-half feet high,
with a spread Of wings of six feet. The
plumage, which is in four different
colors, Is very; beautiful. No n in
the vicinity knows the name of this
strange fowl, although there is little
doubt that it belongs to the stork or
heron family. Hunters who have
killed birds Of every variety common
to the country say they never before
saw anything Of this kind. On &C.
count Of there being no taxidermist
within reach it was found impossible
to preserve the interesting epecimap.
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