Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1894-08-10
South Dakota short Notes.

The Sioux Falls Driving Park AS
ISOLATION finds itself in debt 81, 1886 as q
result of being unable to get q good
attendance at the race meetings.
The pontoon bridge across the Mis-
souri, at Chamberlain has been placed
in position and is now ready for traffic.
1T was washed out by high water early
in the spring.
IN many parts of Dakota the severe
drouth has been broken by heavy
rains, two inches of rainfall being re-
ported around Vermillion. and other
sections having a through drenching.
The most successful teachers insti-
tute ever held in that part of the state
Is now in progress at Armour. Ninety-
four teachers are in attendance and it
is the intention to have q four weeks
session.
The Fremont, Elkhorn and Missouri
Valley Railroad Company has begun
work preliminary to an extension ofits
line from Belle Fourche to the Hay
Creek coal fields, about twenty miles
distant. Chief Engineer Berry is in
the field with a large corps of assist
ants. The work of grading the new
line will begin in about q week.
LIE u0W 1OuulQ0uU ~ Vu6 oOlUl6rSS
Home at Hot Springs was erected in
ment is cut from the sandstone quarry
there, and represents the general in
full uniform. This monument is
erected by the Monumental Asssocia-
ton of the Soldiers Home of South
Dakota, and it is its intention to erect
other monuments to heroes.
The Water Works COMPANY per.
manently shut down its plant at Yer.
million owing to the inability of the
city council and company to agree as
to the proper compensation. This will
cause much inconvenience to consum.
ers, who depend entirely upon the sup.
ply derived from the plant. The few
wells and cisterns in town are mostly
dry On account of lack of rain and act
ual hardship will result from the shut.
ting down of the works..
POINTS of law involved in the case
of the North American Loans and Trust
Company against the Colonial and
United States Mortgage Company Of
Hull, England, r being argued in
Redfeld before Hon. Thomas Ster.
ling, referee. The suit was brought
by the North American Company tc
recover $40, 600 claimed to be due for
fees and commissions earned while
managing for several years the bust.
ness of the Colonial in this and other
states. The ease has been pending
for nearly two years.
The rich strike of refractory ore in
Yellow Creek Gulch, one and a half
miles from Lead, created excitement
similar to that of the early days. All
the ground in the neighborhood has
been staked off and the owners con-.
slider they have a fortune in sight.
The r assays all the way from 800
to $40 q ton in gold, with about twelve
ounces in silver. Development work
has already commenced on several Of
the claims with good results, and
should the ore prove lasting It will
create considerable of q boom for the
Hills. especially Lead. The ground is
all owned by Lead people.
SOUTH DAKOTA crops in general are
not over half " good as they should
be. One is led to believe that the
farmer is more or less to blame for bad
crops. An interview with several
farmers who claim their crops are ali
right while others fields are damaged,
reveals the fact that the manner OF
sowing grain is Of Importance. The
former SOW their grain deep and
change the land from wheat to corn
ground from year to year, while tho
latter simply harrow their grain in
and the winds dry the ground up and
spoil the crop. Reports from over the
state indicate that fully half Q crop
will be harvested and In some Local.
tiles Q full crop.