Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1894-05-25
HOT SPRINGS. SOUTH DAKOTA, FRIDAY, MAY 25 1894.

From Mondays Daily,
George Gibson and Ed. Warren are
both able to be up.
Chris Meyer came home this MORN
ing from his business trip down to
Grand Island and other Nebraska
towns.
The board Of insanity today ad.
judged Zeno G. Brown insane. and
be will be taken 30 Yankton as soon
as the authorities can be notified.
The Elkorn railroad will put on .
through Pullman sleeper from Omaha
June 1. This is several weeks earlier
than it is usually put on but the con.
stantly increasing travel to Hot
Springs demands it.
H. A. GODDARD returned today from
Pine Ridge agency, where be delivered
his 200 head Of cows. He says that
Humphrey & Steneer secured the con-
tract for furnishing 2600 head OF beef
cattle for Rosebud agency for the next
year, at 1924 per hundred, aud Bart.
lett Richards secured the contract for
supplying Pine Ridge agency with
$500 head, at So 80 per hundred.
The grand lodge of Odd Fellows in
session at Sioux Falls. elected the fol.
lowing officers Wednesday: Grand
master, N. G. Nash of Canton; deputy
grand master, w. E. Benedict of Her.
mosa; grand warden, Ivan w. Good
ner of Pierre; grand secretary, H. j..
Rice of Huron; grand treasurer. L. l..
Lostutter of Iroauois; grand represen-
tative to the sovereign grand lodge, A.
G.. Smith of Deadwood.
w. Binkley, brother of Mrs. II. A.
GODDARD, arrived from Omaha Saturday
and will remain here few days at
least. He represents the Keenan, &
Smith live stock commission merchants
of Omaha, and may make this place
his headquarters for the summer. As
he represents one of the leading COM
mission firms in the country he will
doubtless do successful business in
this section of country for his firm.
A special Northwestern car came in
Sunday morning with j. T.. Blunt,
chief engineer of the Northwestern,
and his wife, Mrs. P. Hollenback and
j. B. Berry, chief engineer of the Elk
horn. MIR. Blunt and wife are here
to stay several weeks; they are both in
poor health and were recommended to
come here by Supt. Hollenback. Du-
ring his stay here MIR. Blunt will su.
perintend the fixing up the park near
the union depot. Mr.. Berry returned
to Omaha last night.
G. A. Springer has mad several pack
ages Of the water from his spring at
the head of Hot brook sealed up and
sent to Chicago for analysis. He has
still in view the erection of a large
christian sanitarium at that place,
something like that at Clifton Springs,
N. Y, for the benefit of worn out min
listers and teachers of all denomina.
tions, and If he can enlist the co.opera.
ton of the church boards and the aid
of some benevolent individuals, he will
donate the spring and the 100 acres on
which it is located and aid building it.
We know Of no more philanthropic
scheme and sincerely hope it may be
consummated.
Frank Benton returned from hi.
southern trip Sunday morning. He
brought trainload of go cattle from
Oklahoma to his ranch at Manville,
Wyo., unloading them at Orin junction
and will return to the south again
Tuesday evening and will purchase
about one thousand more cattle. He
says the south is very dry and parched,
and that more grass grows on one acre
here than in whole county in Okla.
homa, but with that remark came a
smile as though it might have been
slightly exaggerated. He says be
thinks the grass is splendid in this
section of country, and thinks this
vii; be an excellent year for stock.
John Richer returned this morning
from his trip to Watertown and Sioux
Falls, where he attended the A. o. U.
W. and I. o. y. F. grand lodges. He
had very pleasant time and alto.
gether successful trip. He says that
had the candidacy Of Hot Springs been
pushed at this session for securing the
next session Of the grand lodge, il
would doubtless haye been secured,