Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1894-03-16

ing the room in the rear of the bank.
Mrs. w. r. Benedict is down from
Hermosa to visit her sister, Miss Druse,
and will remain about week.
DR.. Dodds did splendid business in
dentistry while at Rapid and will make
another visit to that place in about a
month.
Douglas Green is making arrange
ments for running four horse stage
from this place to Wind cave during
the summer.
The new arc light has been put up
at the corner of Lincoln and Chicago
avenues. 1t will light up the south
end of town in fine shape,
Strangers are becoming more nu-
merous every day, and all who arrive
state that many friends are expecting
to come to the Springs before long.
The Royal Arch chapter has decided
to move to the Masonic hall and they
will hold their next meeting at that
place.
A number of parties are arranging
to drive overland to the Big Horn
country and the Yellowstone park as
soon as the weather becomes settled.
DIR. Hargens' brother and wife ar
rived from Missouri Valley last
Saturday and they will be-
come permanent residents of Hot
Springs. The STAR bids them hearty
welcome and wishes they may realize
their fondest hopes for prosperity in
this change they are making.
Joseph Jennings, brother of DIR. R.
D. Jennings, arrived with his wife
from Boone, la. Thursday afternoon
and will spend couple of weeks here
visiting. Mr.. Jennings is a>locomo-
motive engineer on the Northwestern,
and pulls passenger out of Boone. The
doctor has very little advantage of
him in the matter of weight.
Good natured, big Mike Flanagan
came in from Minneapolis Friday
where he has been spending the
winter with his family. Mr.. Flanagan
says we do not know what hard times
are here in Hot Springs. He says the
destitution among the lower classes in
the large cities is something pitlable.
He will spend the summer here as is
his custom.
Nat. Pool had the ulna of his left
arm broken Friday morning. He was
riding out to bring in some cattle and
when down near the Falls, his horse
slipped and fell, and in trying to save
himself lie broke his arm. Mounting
his horse again he rode to town and
DIR. Wade reduced the fracture. He
will have chance to rest now until
the roads dry of.
Commissioner Colgan was over from
Oelrichs Friday looking after some per-
sonal business and trying to see if
there is no way of avoiding that clause
of the constitution limiting them in
the matter Of issuing any more war.
rants on the general fund, as they
have already issued warrants on that
fund beyond the limit prescribed by
law for this year.
j. r. Buchanan, the efficient gener-
al passenger and ticket agent for the
Elkhoru, with his wife and Mrs. Percy
B. Ford Of Omaha came in Friday
and spent a couple of days in the
city. Mr.. Buchanan has been an inde-
fatigable worker for Hot Springs and
is here now to arrange for some more
systematic means of advertising than
has heretofore been done,
r. B. Hughes, surveyor general for
South Dakota, accompanied by Oscar
A. Ricke. who will be his chief deputy,
left on last evenings train for Huron
where they will at once assume the du-
ties devolving upon them. These gem
tlemen carry with them the best
wishes Of a large number Of friends
who haye been intimately acquainted
with them for number Of years.
Rapid Journal 8th.
w. q. Germond received a centrifu-
gal pump from Rochester, N. Y. last
Saturday that is something Of ma
chine. 1t works on the reverse princi-
pie from the turbine water wheel and
while only a little thing, he says it
will throw stream equivalent to
eighty or ninety miners inches. He
will use ii for pu mpinr the water ont