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Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1896-12-11
u. s. is AFTER THEM
IowA's SOLDIERS HOME OFF,
GALS TO BE ARRESTED.
Claimed that the Practice of Confis-
eating All but SO n Month of the
Old Soldiers Pensions Is in Con.
traycntion of U. s. Statutes.
Uncle Sam After Them.

UnCkC SuIIl ktIvCr x11CIIls
Federal officers of the southern district of
Iowa will next week arrest the officers and
trustees of the Soldiers Home at MARSHALL
town for committing a misdemeanOrag against
the federal government by interfering
with the pensions of soldiers who are in
males of the home. They will be taken at
once before Judge Woolson at Des
Moines for trial. The hearing will be
sensational. The arrests will be made on
information furnished by Special Agent
Gray of the federal service, who has been
at Marshalltown for some time working on
the matter. District Attorney G. ID. Full
len of the southern district, first worked
upon the case, which grew out of the pol
icy of the home in requiring inmates to
pay over to the managers all their pension
money in excess of So per month.
About two years ago the managers Of the
home determined that the inmates who had
comfortable pensions ought to contribute
part of them to the support of the institu-
ton. Accordingly the rule was adopted
that inmates should pay all the money
drawn in excess of SIS per month over to the
commandment, who should turn the money
over to the support fund of the institution.
AS soon as the rule was adopted it
caused opposition, and the matter went
into the courts. The inmates started
a case and in the Marshall County
courts it was decided that they could
not be compelled to turn over their pen
sions. The officers of the home appealed
to the state supreme court, which held
that the rule of the home could be en-
forced.
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1896-12-11
Many Sheep Perish.

Later returns from the range country are
not so favorable as those which came in
earlier. While there were but few cattle
lost. the storm has proved to be a serious
one for sheep men. Henry Seville, a
rancher, came in and reports passing a pile
1,4OO sheep, which belonged to a Montana
man, all of which had s%mothercd. Losses
of other slieepmen range from a few head
up to 200 head, which is the highest indi-
,vidual loss so far reported by home men.
$50 far as has been learned at least 5000 are
;lost, with a large part of the sheep range
ITO hear from
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1896-12-11
WORK OF OUR MINIS
OPERATIONS OF M,NTs AN AS.
SAY OFFICES DURING 1896.
Total Amount Coined During the
Last Fiscal Year Amounted to
$71,1Sa,52s-Dun Il Co.'s Review
of the Past Week i'm Trade.
Mint Directors Report.

The report of II. Il. Preston, director of
the mint, shows the operations of the minis
and assay offices during theliscalyea 1896.
The original gold bullion deposited at the
minis and assay Offices during the year was
valued at $6S, 769,3S3. The original silver
bullion deposited represented a coinage
value of $11,672,077.
The purchase of silver bullion for SUBJ
sidiary coinage was 1Si,57S fine ounces,
costing $122, 429.
The coinage executed at the minis during
the fiscal year was as follows:
siOiu .S3S,SiS.fW
Silver dollars 7.5O0,SS2
Subsidiary silvcr................. 3,93a,Sl9
Minor coins. S69,337
Total .S71 1873, 52S
There was a total coinage under the act
of July IL, 1890, up to November l, 1896. of
$56,306, $50, with a scigniorage of $780,
O3i, leaving on hand at the minis a balance
of 125. O6l ,22t2 fine ounces, costing $l12 1885,
625.
Gold and silver bars were manufactured
at the minis II assay Offices during the
fiscal year rs follows:
@oo,SfS.o-o
Silver T,3g0.i6i
Tho average London price of silver bull
ion during the fiscal year was equivalent to
.6SO05. The commercial ratio of gold to
silver was 1 to 3O.5S and the bullion value
of a United States silver dollar, at the
yearly average price, .52252.
The net gold export for the fiscal year
1p,nc 6.S Qnf RIO nc arptNct cN III OR for
the previous year. The net silver exports
were $3s, 262, 25s, as against s27, G3l $3.50 for
the previous year.
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1896-12-11
Dynamite Explosion.

An explosion of dynamite which shook
the country for miles around occurred in
Jay, Maine, killing Orland Larocca, an
Italian workman, fatally injuring another
and manning several others. Larocca was
thawing out the dynamite over a fire on
the new Phillips railroad extension. About
sixty sticks of dynamite were alongside of
Larocca and the explosion of II caused
that of the others. A terrible report fol-
lowed, the conclusion shaking the build
ings Of the village and adjoining country.
Larocca was blown to atoms. Fifty men
were at work nearby and the explosion
created havoc, every man being thrown to
the ground and several hit by flying earth
and debris.
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1896-12-11
Pioneer Educator Rcsirns.

G. H. Parker, deputy in the office of SUI
p~erintendcnt of public instruction, has
rendered his resignation. Prof. NJ. a.
Lange of Canistota will be appointed to
the position. Prof. LANCE has been for
several years n of the most successful in
stitute conductors of the state and has
been superintendent of schools for McCook
County for twelve years, which is the long
est length of time any mar has ever held
that Office in the territory and state, the
nearest any other official has approached
that continuous service as county superin-
tendent being Superintendent Crane, who
held the position in Codington County for
fen vaars.
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1896-12-11
F,NANcEsoFTHE GOVERNMENT.
Statement of the Public Debt and
Osher Eiacal Mattere of Interest.

Statement of the Public Debt ana
Other Fiscal Matters of Interest.
The statement of the public debt, issued
Tuesday, shows that OF Nov. 30, the debt,
less. cash in the treasury, amounted to
1895, 7GD. 1S0, an increase for the month
of SS,27O,2O3. This increase is account
ed for by the corresponding decrease in
the amount of cash on hand. The debt
is recapitulated us follows:
Interest-bearing debt, $S4I,364,52O.
Debt on which interest has ceased since
maturity, S1,591 ,62O.
Debt bearing no interest, $3372,11O,117.
Total, S1,221, 126,257.
This does not include $56I. 523,923 in
certificates and treasury notes outstand-
ing, which are offset by an equal amount
of cash in the treasury. The cash in thes
treasury is recapitulated as follows, cents
omitted:
Gold, $780, 27, 1O1.
Silver, sos, 6SO,45O.
Paper, $3.50, GIG, 155.
ETC., ST., 137.S72.
Total, $685., 9G1, 500, against which there
are demand liabilities amounting to $780,
G04,4S1, which leaves a cash balance in
the treasury of $225,357,O9S.
LIZ SOAllJit1tllNG StIlSl1c1tI VI CAS V
ceipts and expenditures of the United
States shows that during November,
1896, the total receipts were S25.21O,696,
and the expenditures $32.26O 720. The
receipts for the five months of the fiscal
year amoun to S131.G50,4S0 and the ex-
p%cnditures Sill, 597 $3.50. The deficit for
the month of November. therefore, is
$7,050.O24. and for the five months $780,
946,S46, as compared With STA, S69,337
for the corresponding five months of last
year.
The receipts from customs during Mo-
vember amounted to $0.930.3S5; from in
ternal evenue, $13, 1O4,S2S. and from
miscellaneous soruccs, $~2,175.4S2. This
is a loss in customs, as compared with
November, 1895, of 81, 929: a gain
from internal revenue of S64. IA. and o
gain of $6S4,379 from i%sccllaneous
sources.
The monthly statement of the Comp
troller of the Currency shows that on
NOV. ~ the amount of national bank
notes in circulation was $2335. 312. Jos. an
increase for the month of $414,446. and
for the last twelve months of S21.
The amount of circulation based on Uni
ted States bonds was $21G,6U9.6S4 an in
crease for the month of $99.47O, and for
the last twelve months of 26,140,15S.
The amount of circulation secured by
lawful money was SIS, . 2.41O. an in
crease for the month of S314,776, and Il
decrease for the last twelve months of
$4,699,351. The amount Of United States
registered bonds on deposit to secure cir
c~ulating notes was $241.2272. $50, and to
secure public deposits SIS, SOB. 900.
The statement of the director of the
mint shows that during the month OF
November, 1896. the total coinage ut the
mints of the United States was S7,45S,-
722, of which $5,OG4.TO O was gold, So
3O5,022 silver and $4,000 minor coins.
The coinage of standard silver dollars
during the month was $1,914.OOO.
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1896-12-11
BRINGS A RARE PRICE.
benjamin FrankIin's Prayer Book
Sold ut Auction.

A copy of the Book of Common Prayer
of the Church of England, abridged and
edited by Benjamin Franklin at London i'll
the year 1913, was sold for $1.25O at auction
in Boston Friday. The firm of Dodd,
Mead & Co. of New York was the pur-
chaser. The firm bought the book, it is
said for Il client.
This famous Franklin prayer book is
supposed TO he the only copy i'll America
and is perhaps the only copy in cXistance
today. as no other has been found to date.
Bibliomaniacs and experts set the price it
would bring at $500. The book was included
in the valuable collection i'll the library of
Prof. Henry Reed of the University of
PENNSYLVANIA.
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1896-12-11
THE NEWS OF THE DAY
souTH DAKOTA HAPPENINGS IN
CONDENSED FORM.
A Mockline Widow Robbed in the
Daytime at verrmillion While on
Her Way to the Court House to
Pay Her ~Taxes-short Notes.
Robbed in Vermillion,s Streets.

Robbed in vermillion's Streets.
A bold robbery took place in Vermillion
the other day. Mrs. l.. Hessick, a widow
from Mcckling, was OF her way to pay hel
X at the court house, when she was
met by a man who snatched a pocket book
from her hands, which contained $50. Be-
fore she could give an alarm the thief
escaped. Officers were soon informed and
a hot pursuit made in the direction sup.
posed to have been taken. One man was
arrested but released. a good description
OK the man is given. lie wore a wolf-skin
coat, full beard, fur cap, scarf around neck
and weighed about 100 pounds.
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1896-12-11
WILL RIVAL CRIPPLE CREEK.
Fields of Ore in Arizona Believed to
lie Very Rich.

The Picacho gold mines neal Yuma,
Arizona, are now attracting great atten-
ton. Ex-senator Stephen Dorsey, who is
heavily interested in these mines, has been
to Europe, and returned with sufficient
capital, it is said, to erect a lO0-ton stamp
mill and build a railroad from the mine to
the Colorado River, besides pushing the
mining work vigorously. ID. II. Motfat
and other Denver mining men and Jesse
Grant, son of Gen. Grant, are also inter-
csted in the enterprise. There is an i'm
mense amount of ore in sight, but the in
convenience of reaching and transporting
it has been q drawback Now, with the con-
venienccs that are promised, it is conf
IDENTIFY predicted that an excitement in the
mining world rivaling that created at Grip
pie Greek will result.
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1896-12-11
BOGUS SILVER DOLLARS.
Dangerous Counterfeits Are Being
Floatcd in Texas.

A dangerous counterfeit silver dollar is
passing into the circulating medium Of
Texas cites. The piece is eXcellently mold
ed and has a good color, but is deficient in
weight. Those examined Thursday by
Assistant Treasurer Small of the st. Louis
subtreasury, fell from 90 to 30 grains short
of standard weight, and this lightness in
weight may enable the public to distin-
guish the spurious from the genuine coin.
Other defects are in the milling, the edges
being rough as compared with the good
dollar. There is also a marked difference
In thickness, the good coins being at least
30 per cent. thinner than their counterfeit
prcscn,ment. Treasurer Small regards
the new counterfeit as particularly dan
gerous, and cautions the public to carcfully
scrutinizc tho silver dollars that may be
offered them.
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1896-12-11
BOOSTERS Must. Not Crow.

The growing of the cock at an unseemly
hour in the night was decided by Justice
Foster of Chicago to be unlawful and
against the city ordinance regarding null
sances. Mrs. Nina Fleck, wner of the
bird at bar, was fined $40. The complain
ant alleged that the fowl had q habit of
growing shortly after midnight and kept
up his Observation-Disclosures until daylight;
that by so doing She was prevented from
slumbering, and that her health was break
ing down under loss of sleep.
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1896-12-11
Corbett After sharkcy.

After learning the result of the Fitzsim-
mons-Sharkey fight in San Francisco T'u-
gilist Jim Corbctt tclegraphed Sharkey as
follows: 81 am very sorry that Fitzsim-
mons foul tactics in the contest with you
prevented your getting a decision over him
in a full ten-rOund contest without a foul.
l am ready to meet you on or before jan
uary 1, 1872
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1896-12-11
DakOta Short, Notes

D0kOta short Notes.
Owing to the sickness of the butter maker
The Memo creamery is likely to be shut
down.
Many Marshall County farmers are burn
ing straw this winter in order to beat the
coal trust.
n. l.. Hoyne, a Centerville merchant,
lost about $4,OO0in the First National Bank
Of Sioux City.
Three car loads of prairie schooners re-
moved to Lincoln County q few days ago
from Kingsbury County.
Salem is reporting q number of improve
mcnts. 1t has some new buildings and
several new business firms.
DR.. C. w. Stuttcnroth of Watertown, has
been advised of the death of his father, Mr..
Edward Stuttenroth of Mapleville, Ill.
The kimball creamery has been running
successfully the present season, having
received from four to six thousand pounds
of milk daily.
Hon. w. II. Roddle of Brookings, Re-
publican candidate for secretary of state,
has sold his hardware business to l.. III.
Sknff of that place.
The state university has provided itself
with an athletic park. It has q quarter
mile pedestrian and cycle track, a skating
pond and tennis court.
The pigeon shoot at Parkston was q sue
cess. The attendance was not large, but
the shooting was good. f. A. French of
Trip, carried off most of the prizes.
The Salem Creamery Association last
week paid out 81 cents per hundred for
milk. During this month the price paid
for milk will range from so to so cents.
Hen. Colonel 1. Crawford, attorney gen.
eral for South Dakota, and Miss Lavina
Curtis Robinson of Iowa City, Iowa, were
united in marriage in that city on Thanks
giving day.
There is more wood being used in Yank-
ton this winter than usual on account of
its cheapncss. A cord of wood costs a
Yanlltonian $3.50 and q ton of coal 5000.
Dave Mc-Afce, who was arrested for per-
fury in swearing in his vote at Britton
when not a voter, has been bound over to
the circuit court. The evidence showsrthat
he has been in the state only since July 90
The contract has been let for q new
church at Dalcsburg, Clay County. The
structure will be the finest of its kind out
side Of the county seat. Contractor Matson
expects to begin work at once, and will.
push It until the church is completed.
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1896-12-11
Ends Goodwin Divorce Case.

Superior Judge Murphy of San Francisco
has decided the answer and cross COM
plant filed by Mrs. Nat Goodwin to her
husbands suit for divorce must be stricken
from the records of the case, having been
filed after the action had been dismissed by
Mr.. Goodwin. AT the same time his honor
held that Goodwin was not in contempt of
court for having failed to answer a SUBJ
poena served upon him Sunday. So the
Goodwin divorce case is for the present at
an anl
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1896-12-11
Suicide at Vermillion.

James p. Wylie, the junior member of
the clothing firm of Simpson & Wylie, at
Vermillion. committed suicide by the pistol
route. He went into a hardware store and
purchased a revolver, saying that he
wanted it around his home. He then went
into the cellar of his store and shot himself
through the right temple. He was highly
esteemed by the people of Vermillion. He.
leaves a young wife to whom he had been
married a year, who is Frustrated by the
shock. No cause can be given for the ras.
act.
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1896-12-11
Goes crazy over Politics,

w. l.. Cundiff, n of the most prom,-
nent lawyers in Oklahoma, has been COM
mittcd to the Norman insane asylum.
lie has become crazed over politics. Cum
diff is a personal friend of w. j. BRYAN and
nominated the latter for congress the first
time. Two weeks ago he returned ia the
territory from Nebraska, having stumped
that state for the silver candidate his
condition is dangerous,
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1896-12-11
COME CLOSE TO HAVANA.

Insurgents Defeat the S%paniarls in u
Fight in the Suburbs.
The insurgent attack on Guanabaco, a
suburb of Havana, was more serious than
at first reported. According to the insur-
gent accounts the town was attacked sim
.ultaneously at several points, while another
insurgent force fired on the Spanish out
post at Bucaramas, on the coast. The gar
rison of the fort left the place to resist the
attack, but was ambushed between stone
walls and farm fences by 200 insurgents,
and all the Spaniards killed. 1t is admit
ted a number of insurgents were also
killed. The insurgents have burned sew
enty-four houses in Guanabaco.
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1896-12-11
burglars Blow a Kansas Safe.

Burglars entered the National Bank of
Belleville, Kan, Thursday night and blew
off the heavy front door of the vault with
dynamite, but failed to get into the money
safe. Quite a sum of money and diamonds
valued at $3.50, belonging to private parties,
were taken from outside drawers.
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1896-12-11
WRECK ON ROCK ISLAND.
One Killed and a Number Hurt
Near Brooklyn, Iowa.

Ancxtra Chicago, Rock Island and PACING
freight, running west collidcd with u
special meat train five miles westof Brook
Ign, Iowa. The trains should have met at
Grinnell, but o. S. Howell, a substitute
operator at that place, allowed the meat
train to pass. There is no night operator
at Malcolm, and Howell discovered his
error too late to prevent the wreck. James
Dyer, an engineer of Davenport, was
killed. and q number of both rows were
seriously injured. Both engines were de.
molished and twenty-five cars wrecked.
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1896-12-11
FOOTBALL AND CIGARETTES.
Measures Introduced in the Georgia
Legislature to knock Roth Out.

MeaSUFcS 1htFOltiCeu III n
Legislature to Knock Both Out.
The much abused game of football and
the deadly cigarette must go in Georgia.
That is the purport of the two bills intro
duced in the house of representatives,. One
of the measures makes it unlawful for any
person or persons to sell or furnish to other
persons cigarettes, and subjects violators to
punishment as prescribed in the act dctin-
ing misdcmeanors. The football bill makes
it unlawful for any persons to engage in a
match game of football in that state, and
enacts that violators shall be guilty of mis-
IampaOOr-
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1896-12-11
Illinois, Revised Figures.

The official vote of Illinois for president
as tabulated by the secretary of state is rs
follows: Mckinley. co., 1So; Bryan, 1884,
523; middle of the road Populists, 1901;
lowering, Prohibitionist. 9.796; Matchctt,
Socialist Labor, l,l47; Bentley, National
Party. 1913; Palmer. $3.50.
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1896-12-11
Mrs. Leases Home Forcclosed.

The story about the sheriff's service on
Mrs. Lease is an ordinary foreclosure of an
amount on her homestead in Wichita, Kan.
The amount involved is s1,4OS and costs.
Mrs. Lease is in New York and it is not
known whether she will redeem or permit
the property to go. The home is a pretty
one and apparently worth more than the
amount involved.
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1896-12-11
Jealousy Causes a Shooting.

d. Coykendall shot NJ. j. C%oddington
with a revolver in the abdomen and leg.
Both men live at Frederick. Coddington
will recover. Coykendall was rendered
Jealous by attentions said to have been
paid his wife by Coddington.
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1896-12-11
Satisfied with the West.

John Carmichael, a Choteau Vail,
farmer, has reason to be pretty well salts
fled with South Dakota. During the past
season he raised close to 10000 bushels OF
grain, which he estimates will bring him
the sum of 81 900 Mt present.
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1896-12-11
THURsToN At N 4
Nebraska Senator Makes a Call on
the Presidcnt.Elect.

the FTeS1Ucnt.EIeCt.
Senator Thurston of Nebraska, and ex-
Congressman William E. Mason of Illinois.
arrived in Canton Thursday morning and
had al extended conference with Mr.. Nc
Kinley. Mr.. Thurston is on his way to
Washington in anticipation of the as
scmbling of congress, and Mr.. Mason
came for the purpose of making a social
call on Mr.. Mckinley. Mr.. Thurston does
not expect congress to pass q revenue
measure at the coming session. He be-
lieves it will recognize Cuban belligercncy
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1896-12-11

Mrs. William sAstor gave her first din
ner party of the season at her residence.
$40 9th avenue. New York, in honor Of
Prince Louis of Savoy, Duke of Abruxzi.
nephew of his Majesty, King Humbert
Of Italy.
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1896-12-11

Balance of Trade Against Germany.
The German minister of foreign affairs,
replying in the rcichstag to the criticism of
Count o Kardorff, the agrarian leader,
said the official statistics showed that the
balance of trade against Germany had
been considerably reduced since the con-
clusion of the recent commercial treaties.
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1896-12-11
Two Chamberlain A.nirants.

G. r. oven of the Chamberlain Register,
is a prominent candidate for register of the
United States land Office, in that city, in
stead of the postoffice. T. A. Stevens
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1896-12-11
Two Eire,nen Killed.

Two men were killed in a fire at Atlantic
City, n. j., which destroyed $4,000 worth
of property. Another man is missing and
is supposed to be in the ruins of the church
where the fire occurred.
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1896-12-11

The news of fraudulent voting and
illegal conduct of election in a number of
precincts of Oklahoma Territory has
caused the managers of Delegate Flynn
to institute investigation upon which to
base a contest which they belieye will
result in the showing that Mr.. Flynn IL
reelected to Congress.
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1896-12-11
Plenty of Business at Parkston.

There were over nine carloads of hogs
and nearly 1000 bushels of wheat delivered
at Parkston n day the fore part of the.
week. The farmers are feeling greatly
encouraged and yet they are not buying
any more than they need, but are paying
Off old debts.
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1896-12-11
Murdered with an Az.

Harry Schneider, young man, living
in st. Louis, NO., quarreled with Christo-
pher Ludwig, aged 81, and struck Ludwig
with an ak, killing him instantly. Schmel-
ger escaped.
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1896-12-11
WILD BEASTS GROW Sold.
They Are Troublesome to the Wis.,
c0nsin Lumber Gamma.

The lumber camps in Northern Wisccn-
sin are considerably annoyed this winter
by the d~epredations of wild animals, more,
particularly the wildcat and the lynx.
1t has come to be impossible to leave 3
shoulder of beef outside the cook shanty
over night without it's being attacked by
the fierce animals which have become so