Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1896-06-12
Miss Anna Walton returned Monday
to Whitewood going via Deadwood

over the B. & NJ.
DIR. A. s. Stewart left Tuesday morn
ing for Lead City on private business.
He will be absent indefinitely.
+. A. Harmon tho Elkhorn CONNER
cial agent, was looking after the inter
ests of his company here Saturday.
Miss Helen Fowler, of Rapid City,
has been the guest of her sister, Mrs.
Fred Whitfield, during the past week.
H. S. Manville, of Fremont, aud his
son O. H. Manville, formerly a resident
of this city but now of Tilden, Neb.,
spent Saturday and unday in the city.
Mrs. Livingston and daughter will
leave some time next week for their
old home in Pennsylvania, much to the
regret of their numerous friends in
Hot Springs.
Capt. w. v. Lucas, delegate to the
national republican convention, left
Thursday night for st. Louis to help
nominate the next president of the
United States.
Fannie Judkins, the little daughter
of Mr.. and Mrs. w. l.. Judkins, left
Tuesday morning in the care of Jim
Noodle, for a visit to MIR. and Mrs.
Pool at Lead City.
Il. G. johnson, of Chicago, son of \.
johnson who resides near Buffalo Gap.
and his cousin, Chas. Goss, of Ohio,
arrived from the east on Wednesday of
last week and will spend a week or two
in making "a tour of the Hills.
Clement Chase, editor of the Excel
sior, Omaha's leading society paper,
arrived Monday morning accompanied
by his wife and children and will re-
main several days longer. They are
quartered at the Evans.
MIR. and Mrs. Brown and soi. of
Peoria, ILL.,, who have been the guests
of Nh. and Mrs. James Bradley since
their arrival here some days ago, are
now keeping house in one of Mr.. Brad
leys furnished cottages on College hill.
Jos. Barker, president of the Com
mercial National bank of Omaha, and
wife, and NJ. 7. Patrick, of the well
known and wealthy firm of Patrick
Bros, are among the late arrivals at
Evans who are going to remain several
weeks.
The Lead City Call intimates that
the popular plumbing firm of Traut
Il Gillespie, of this city, have got a
serious attack of the Lead City fever
and are making preparations to join
the Hot Springs colony at the City OF
Mills. Mr. Traut is now at Lead look.
ing for u building to move into.
A bicyclist from Aberdeen arrived
here Monday, having come all the way
from Aberdeen on his wheel, a distance
as indicated by the cyclometer, of Az
miles. He was eve days on the road
and had muddy roads and rainy weather
to contend with all the way.
1t is reported that Miss Shumate, the
assistant principal of our public school
had a sister on the train that was
overturned on the big bridge at st.
Louis during the recent cyclone. Moth.
ing had been heard from her up to the
time Miss Shumate left here.
Miss Werdna Kellar returned Mon.
day morning from a several months
visit to friendsin Memphis, Tenn. She
was accompanied by her cousin. Miss
Rutherford Chambers, of Little Rock
Ark, who will spend the summer here.
Chambers Kellar met the young ladies
at Omaha and accompanied them tc
this city.
The Aspen mine, situated seven miles
northwest of Custer and owned by
Fred L. Evans, of this city and Messrs
Porter and Wood, of Custer, is showing
up remarkably we'll aud the owners are
already counting themselves among
the STATIONS, the Higgins and the
bonanza kings of the central Hills
Recent assays of ore taken from the
shaft on this property show a value il
gold of s125, s46, s96.75, 1913 and s1S.1s
respectively. An assay of the ore made
in Denver shows it to have a value O
1922. The Deadwood Times of the
18th inst. says: 1.-THE workings show 6
ledge of quartz four feet wide, between
we'll defined slate walls; the gangue il
a hard white quartz impregnated witt
a soft, whitish metal resembling sylvan.
tie; tests, however, show it to be some
thing different. The superstition il
that it ismetallic bismuth. Apeculiar
ity of the property is that on tn,
' foot wall, a seam of black material Of
a slatey nature six inches thick inter
! venes between the wall and the ledg,
! proper. This black stuff shows som,
, free gold and assays s68 per ton. Th,
. ledge. can be traced quite a distanc
on the surface and has been Stripe,
4 for fifty feet along its course. A shat
has been sunk thirty feet OH the vein.