Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1897-02-12
Boys Suits at Cost
for cash at Chases.

T. r. Nissen and family of Daven.
port, Iowa, arrived recently are living
up Hot Krook on the Evans place.
H. j. Curtiss and wife are contem.
plating going to Washington to be
present at the Inauguration of Presi-
dent Mckinley.
Capt. w. V. Lucas left Wednesday
for Washington, to be of whatever SER
vice he can to our congressman in Sc.
curing the passage of the %sanitarium
bill.
g. =. Boyden and family have re-
turned from Custer and are now living
on their ranch south of town. MIR.
Boyden eNpectsto complete his studies
in the college.
There is still considerable sickness
about town, but not SO much as in
other parts of the country; and what is
better, there do not seem to be any
fatal cases of late, though some have
been very seriously sick.
j. ID. Elliott, the ex-postmaster of
Buffalo Gap, who was bound over to
the United States grand jury for com
hitting some offense against the pos
tai laws. was discharged, the grand
jury ut Deadwood failing to indict.
| have the finest line of goods ever
brought to town for fall and winter
clothing. Reasonable prices.
pyrrN
Bert Hite. formerly Elkhorn oper-
ator at this. place arrived in this city
Tuesday, accompanied by his wife.
They left the same evening for Grin
Junction, Wyoming. which station
Bert will have charge of.
Eiting Bennett came up from Ali
ance Tuesday and spent the day in the
city visiting his many friends. He is
engaged as passenger brakesman on
the BIS NJ. road and is getting along
nicely. Elting is a fond friend of Hot
Springs and we hope will some day
again be Il resident.
Indications are that there will be al
most a stampede to the hills this
spring from all directions. If those
who come are hard working prospec-
tors OF experience, Or men with CAPT
tai to invest they will probably never
regret their coming, but others will go
away with a distorted liver.
Charley Cummins and AL Standen
came down from the mining district
Sunday. They say there is more in
terest and real excitement in mining
this winter than yer before and that
better mines are being developed right
along. The excitement at Custer over
the new discoveries near there they
say outdid anything OF the kind they
have yet experienced.
DIR. Lydia Il. Green, who is visiting
the family of ID. Il. Kerr and who con
templates locating in Sioux Falls, is a
graduate OF the American School of
Osteopathy of K%irksville, Mo-, an insti-
tuition that has already become famous.
Should DIR. Green conclude to make
her residence in this city she will be a
practitioner of that school. In this
connection it may be stated that a bill
has been introduced in our legislature
providing that lit shall be lawful for
the graduates and holders of diplomas
from the American School of Osteopa-
thy at kirksville, No., a regular char
tered school of osteopathy requiring
their students to spend four terms of
not less than five months each, to prac-
tice their art of healing in the state of
South Dakota. -SiouX Falls Press.
Not many people are aware of it. but
it is true nevertheless. that Hot
Springs has a citizen who used to
hob-nob and do business with Hon. r..
\. A}ger, of Michigan, who is to be a
member of McKinley's cabinet, as sec
rotary of val. Il. b. Smith was in
partnership with .Alger in Michigan
from 1850 to 1860 i'll the lumber bust
ness and i'll mercantile interests. They
made so much money that Mr.. Smith
wanted to go in on a bigger scale.
Alger didn't want to: and so they sep
arated, each doing as his Judgment die
tated. About forty years have rolled
by and now we have our friend Smith
III honored business man of Hot
Springs. while his former partner,
.Alger, goes into the cabinet. They
were intimate friends when they were
associated together. their families Wis
iting each other frequently, and their
friendship continues to the present.
Neighbor j. w. Joyce returned last
Friday from Yankton where he at.
tended the state convention of Modern
Woodmen. He says he had a grand
time, but that the attendance was moi
so large as usual on account of the
blockade of the railroads in the east.
ern part of the state. There were 81
delegates present. The following of