Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1896-11-20

Hills during the latter's absence on n
business trip to Omaha.
The Stars Odell correspondent is a
''crackerjack." His letters are breezy
and full of interest. We would be
pleased to have acorrespondentin every
township in the county.
Thomas Jewell returned yesterday
Thursday from Hot Springs, where
he has been sojourning for the past
few weeks, for the benefit of his health.
He has improved very much but is still
very weak.-Call.
Ira A. Prisbey, who has had charge
of the Evans steam laundry for several
months past, has accepted a position
in Gilberts steam laundry. Mi. Pris-
hey has given good satisfaction as
manager of the Evans laundry.
Telephone connection with Edge.
mont would be a great convenience
and, in view of the large and rapidly
increasing business between the MID.
Republic city and the county seat,
would be u profitable venture. The
line should be built via Cascade and
the Cheyenne river coal mines.
Rev. A. L. Baker came over from
Edgemont ON Friday of last week to
make application to Judge Juckett in
behalf of Miss Allie Jewell, superin-
tendent of the Childrens'h home at Sioux
Falls, TOR letters of guardianship for
two children who we're recently taken
to the home from Edgemont by Miss
Jewell.
Col. Clough came down from Dead
wood Thursday night to confer with
Commandment Lucas of the soldiers
home upon the forthcoming report to
the governor and legislature, outliping
appropriations for the institution.
Captain Lucas left Monday night for
Sioux Falls to attend a meeting of the
board of trustees of the soldiers home
on the 18th inst.
The council of administration of the
G. A. r. which was directed by Senior
Vice Commander Baker of Hermosa.
and Assistant General Streupre of
Aberdeen. to convene in special ses-
sion in Sioux Falls on the 18th inst.
for the purpose of electing Il depart
ment commander to fill the vacancy
caused by the deathof General Ackley,
has been called off by reason of the
heavy expense incidental thereto.
The statement which has been pub
lisfed that the republican management
felt that Captain Lucas, amony Others
had been cool in his support of the
ticket and had it been otherwise results
might have been different in his Sec
ton of the state is entirely unfounded.
Secretary Persons says that no II re-
publican was more diligent in support
of the ticket, working late and early.
Speaking all over the Black Hills and
doing so entirely Mt his own expense
Yankton Gazette.
Particular attention is being given
here. says a Huron special. to the re-
Gently incorporated railway company,
which proposes to construct a railway
from Rapid City to Sioux Falls, cross
ing the river at Chamberlain. with a
branch from Il point in Pratt county to
Pierre, and 81 branch from Chamber
lain to Huron. The charter also per-
mits an extension of the same line
westward from Rapid City to a point in
Wyoming. The capital stock is fixed
at $4,000 per mile or a total of s1S,OOO,-
0OO.
There is land enough vet untaken in
the Rapid City land district. says the
Rapid City Journal, to provide 46.4S5
people with a farm of 100 acres each,
to say nothing of one third as much
more that is as yet unsurveyed or re-
cognized as mineral lands. This land
district covers a large area and con
tains more land subject to entry than
all the other land districts Of South
Dakota and Nebraska combined. Ac-
cording to the Journals statement Fall
ASANOt SOuALy COi1UttllS IlV,JlO dCC0S
subject to entry under the homestead
laws.
Mrs. A. G. Duke, of this city, is TAX
ing considerable interest in the work
of the South Dakota Children's Home
society. whose mission is finding home.
less children and childless homes. She
has contributed quite literally for the
support of the home at Sioux Falls and
has induced several of her friends to
do likewise. In the course of a recent
letter to the superintendent of the
home Mrs. Duke says: Husband and
| are Interested in the cause of Gods
little ones. and we are grieved that WI
cannot do more for them. Oh, il you
could have the money that is spent
, dishonesty in this campaign. 1 won.
der why We. rs IL Christian people, dc
not study and practice Gods economy