Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1896-06-19
Ex-C Commissioner John s. White was
it town Wednasdav


store ut Lead City, spent Sunday here.
Rev. +. 2. Baker is the proud posses
sor of a brand new bicycle of the Belvi-
dere type, the gift of u North Dakota
friend.
Miss Wayne Stanley departed YES
terday morning for Lead City where
she will visit her sister, Mrs. N. NJ.
Wade, during vacation.
Mrs. Harris and daughter, of Onawa.
Iowa, arrived Wednesday morning and
will spend the summerwith Mrs. Harris
sister, Mrs. Suttertield.
j. Il. Dickover came down from
Rapid City Monday night to arrange
for the removal of his familyand house
hold goods to Rapid City.
Fred Dotcn and bride returned Sun
day morning to their home at Terry
after spending IL brief but pleasant
honeymoon in this place.
Mrs. j. a. Green, mother of Ike
Green, pastry cook ut the Evans, left
on Thursday night of last week for
Eldon, Iowa, where she will hereafter
reside.
Go to Mrs. Rivers for your dress
making. lower town: rooms up stairs
in Petty block. s.ll
Mrs. James F%innegan and sister. Miss
Lizzie Trimmer, arrived "Wednesday
morning from Chadron. and are visit.
ing Geo. Trimmer and family. They
are attending the Pioneers picnic at
Custer.
The horscmen of Pierre have organ
lied Il racing association. fixed up IA
good track and propose to give the
pubic the best race meeting eve held
III the state. They have arranged their
meeting for july, Band 4, and though
the purses have not been announced.
it is understood that they will be lib
eral in the full sense of the word.
Hon. S. b. Colson, a prominent Ere.
mont capitalist and heavy stakeholder
in the Nye-Schneider grain elevator
company, arrived Wednesday morning
and expects to spend thesummer here.
MIR. Colson, who is a great suffer from
asthma, is a fixture in Hot Springs
during the summer season as here
only can he obtain relief from his dis
trossing ailment. His health has been
quite good during the past winter. He
has taken rooms at the Evans.
The Elkhorn company after working
almost night and day since the late
d sastrous floods succeededon Monday
afternoon in closing the gaps in their
track caused by the washout and the
first train on the Elkhorn for over a
week went east Monday evening. The
track has been temporarily cribbed in
several places and it will be several
weeks before the grading and rip-rap-
ping is completed, although it is now
perfectly safe. Traffic is now being
carried on uninterruptedly.
W.J. Thornby came up from Hot
Springs yesterday Sunday and will
remain i'll this locality Il few days. MIR.
Thornby is "a candidate for railroad
commissioner before the approaching
state convention and is receiving a
warm support on both sides of the
river. He is fully capable aud we be.
lieve would discharge his duties we'll
and conscientiously. We are reliably
informed that j. II. Brennan will NOT
be Il candidate and the selection of MIR.
Iho1nby, SO far as We have been able
to learn, would give perfect salts
faction. to the peopie.-Deadwooa
Times.
Norm Atcheson left Thursday morn
ing for the Hayward mining district
where he will commence development
work on some iron property which bids
fair to become valuable. The ore is
% per cent iron and is valuable chiefly
for fiuX though it contains about 81. 80
per ton in gold. Mr.. Atcheson will
sink a thirty foot shaft and endeavor to
ascertain the extent of the ledge of
iron ore. He will also turn his atten.
ton to placermining by "dry process"
recently patened by a Council Bluffs
man. 1t is said that there is much
valuable placer ground in the Rocker.
Vile and Hayward districts that has
never been worked owing to it's remote
ness from water. Ii this dry process
proves successful, placer mining on an
extensive scale will soon be in operation
in the central Hills.
About all that remains of the demo-
cratic party in this part of the Hills
the only surviving members of the
%unwashed and unterriied in the city
held an all-day session in the Jury
box at the court house during the meet
ing of the double headed and rantank-
erous republican county convention on
Friday last. They watched with I'M
feigned delight the discord that was
rampant in the ranks of their anc;op+