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Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1897-08-13
HAS TURNED OVER ALL BOOKS
Old Board of Regents Asks to Have
Its Accounts Settled.

In reply to the demand of Mr.. Williams
attorney on Mr.. Blair of Elk Point for set
Element Mr.. Blair writes Judge Campbell
of EanlSton that the board of regents will
be ready to make settlement with Mr..
Williams whenever tile books and records
belonging 10 the regents are delivered to
this board. Mr.. Blair makes no demand
for any money.
To this letter Mr.. Williams replies as
follows:
Dear Sir: Replying to your favor of the
9th inst. addressed to my attorney, Hon
Hugh j. Campbell of YanktOn, would sayi
When appeared before your honorable
board at Nermillion informed You tha
the treasurcr's books, together with the
money, had been sent to State Treasurer
Phillips at Pierre on July Is, according ts
Telegram sent you on that date, and I
exhibited to you at Vcrmillion the receipts
for the same. Your secretary said they
would order the books forwarded to
Brookings from Pierre and there compare
the itemized accounts. submitted by me at
Vermillion, with the books.
All books which were in my possession
! are in the hands Of your treasurer. subject
to your inspection. There are no other
books or papers or documents in my pos
session pertaining to the regents of etluca-
tion. except the vouchers exhibited by me
at Nermillion with my itemized accounts,
which am ready to turn over to you upon
a final and complete settlement. Respects
fully yours, DAVID WILLIAMS.
| The above correspondence was lately
received by Mr.. Campbell and shows moro
fully the true facts of the matter as it now
I! exists.
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1897-08-13
MUST BEGIN ALL OVER AGAIN
South Dakota Railroad Commissions
Schedules Illegal.

Judge Garland of Sioux Falls has handed
down his decision in the state railroad
commissioners case. While denying the
demand for temporary injunction, the
decision declares that all work done by the
railway commission prior TO July is void !;
thatisto say that the hearings held in June
are illegal, and that the schedules agreed
upon by commissioners cannot be enforced
since the commissioners did not lay
the necessary foundation required by law.
Under the decision it will be necessary for
the commissioners to begin all over again,
to give new notice, hold new hearings,
promuigate rates and then give ample mo-
tice to the railway companies before put
ting them in force. Thus the companies
will have time to analyZe the rates before
they go into effect, and, if they think best,
to begin injunction proceedings.
The decision is Il particularly severe de-
feat for Judge Palmer. AT the meeting of
the commissioners two months ago At
torney Null took the same position as laid
down by Judge Garland. He insisted that
the Palmer plan was illegal and would
certainly bring defeat. He argued the case
claborately, but Palmer was sure his way
was right and declared it was his full in
tention at Pierre to deprive the railroads
OF amy opportunity to review tie new rates
before they went into operation. lie car
ried the commission with him. and the re-
suit is q delay of two or three months in
establishing the rates.
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1897-08-13
.CANOvAs is KILLED
SPA,N's PRIME MINISTER VIC.
TIM OF AN assassin.
The Murderer Is Captured and Mare
rowly Escapes Lynclling-United
States Pension Isoll Near the Mill
ion Mark-OtIer Items.
spnin's Prime Minister Slain

SoIptatn - 1-TltuC NVInIStcT 9lsllHs
Scnor Canovas del Castillo, the prime
minister of Spain, was assassinatcd Sunday
at Santa Aguetla, Spain. by an anarchist.
The murderer fired three shots, two of
which struck the premier in the head and
the other in the chest. The wounded man
fingered unconscious for two hours and
died at 3 o'clock i'll the afternoon.
The assassin narrowly escaped lyncfing
at the hands of the walters and attendants
who rushed forward. Detectives and civil
guards Immediately secured him. He was
very pale, trembled violently and evidently
believed that he would he killed OH the
spot. The murderer is Neapolitan and
gives the name of Rinaldi, but it is believed
that this is an assumed name, and that his
real name is MichellO AngOni Ami. He
declares that he killed SenOr Canovas Sin
accomplishment of just revenge" and
that the deed is the outcome of vast
anarchist conspiracy. He is believed to
have arrived at Santa Angueda at the
same day as the premier, and he was
frequently seen lurking in the passages of
the bathing establishment in a suspicious
manner
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1897-08-13
FLoR,DA's ORANGE CROP.
Scnson's Yield Will BE Between
10000 and 100000 Boxes.

Officers of the Florida Fruit Exchange
in Jacksonville, who keep themselves
posted on the condition of the orange crop
throughout the state, now estimate that
the crop this fall will amount to between
10000 and 100000 boxes. The bulk of the
oranges will come from the counties of
Manatec and Lee. Volusia County will
come next with from $4,000 to 10000 boxes.
The crop would probably have reached
,O00 boxes had il not been for the drouth
in the spring and early summer. This
caused quantities of small oranges to drop
from the trees, especially in the middle
orange growing section of the state. In
1898 the probabilities are, freezes and
drou,hs barred, the crop will reach as high
as GOO, 0G0 boxes. All of the orange growers
are sanguine of success. They have now
tidcd over the worst period, that following
the disaster of the freeze, and have re-
stored their groves to something like their
old time beauty.
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1897-08-13
Writes BLACK Hills History.

Mrs. Annie ID. Talent of Rapid City is
collecting material for history of the
Black Hills. She was the first white
woman to enter the Black Hills, having
come with the Collin Il Russell expedition
i'll 1874. Her book will be specially interest,"
ing for it will contain, as no other book yet
published on this subject, historical events.
of a personal nature of many old-timers
still living in the hills. 1T was i'll the
spring of 1875 that Capt. Mix and his COM
mand of the Second cavalry arrived as
Gordon's stockade, taking the occupants
prisoners and giving them thirty six hours
to prepare for their removal to Fort Lara
mie. Mrs. Talent was among the number
and Was given the choice OF walking or
riding Il mammoth government mule
distance of twelve miles To the camp of the
troops. She rode the mule, much TO the
satisfaction of the soldiers. The book will
soon be ready for the press.
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1897-08-13
Lottic Temple Not Slain.

Definite trace has at last been secured of
t4ottie Temple. tile Rapids City, Mich,
girl who mysterousiy disappeared in Chi
cago month ago and was supposed to
have been murdered. She had come to
Chicago to earn Il living and became ac-
quaintcd with railroad brakeman named
William Garrison. Detectives Corbus and
Cudmore have learned of her movements
Tor several days after she had separated
from Garrison, and now believe she has
gone to western city with former engi-
neer Of the Burlington road.
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1897-08-13
Ordered out of Germany.

tion of Ambassador White young Alfred
Wessling, son of Charles Wcssling of New
York, who, while visiting Germany last
spring, was drafted into the German army,
enrolled in the Seventy fourth Regiment,
stationed in Hanover, and was recently,
for the petty otfense of chatting, struck a
violent blow by his sergeant which pro-
voked him TO retaliate, thus laying himself
open to court martial, has been liberated
by the authorities, discharged from the
army and ordered to leave Germany with.
in three DAYS
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1897-08-13
MARKET QUOTATIONS

Chlcago-Cattle. common to prime,
$500 to $3.50; hogs. shipping grades,
$500 to $500; sheep, fair to choice, $500
to $4.221: wheat, No. 2 red, 17c to 7Sc;
corn, No. .. 2ic to PC; oats, No. 2, ice
to lac; rye. No. 2, Ale to 43c; butter,
choice creamery, 14c to 15c; eggs. fresh,
3c to lie; new potatoes, 4Oc to 6Oc per
bushel.
lndianapolis-Cattlc. shipping, $500 to
500; hogs. choice light, $500 to $4.225;
sheep. common to choice. $500 to $3.75:
wheat, No. .. 77c to 79c; corn, No. =
white. 27c to 2Sc; oats, No. . white. PIC
to 22c.
St. Louis-Cattlc. $500 to S5.25: hogs,
$500 to $500; sheep. $500 to $500:
wheat. No. 2, Sic to S:'c; corn. No. 2
yellow. 25c to 26c; oats. No. = white. 16c
to 1Sc; rye. No. 9. Ale to 42c.
Clncinnati-Cattle. $3.50 to $500: hogs.
$500 to $500: sheep. $3.50 to $4.UO;
wheat No. 2, &c to 7Sc; corn, No. .
mixed, 2Sc to Doc: oats, No. . mixed. ice
to 1Sc: rye. No. .. SIC to 39c.
Detroit-Cattle, $3.50 to $5.2j; hogs,
$500 to $500: sheep. $3.50 to $500;
wheat. No. .. Sic to S3c; corn. No. =
yellow, 29c to Soc; oats, No. . white, PIC
to 22:3c; rye. 42c to 44c.
Toledo-Whcat. No. red. Sic to Sac;
corn, No. = mixed. 27c to 2Sc: oats. No.
2white. lie to 19c: rye. No. ., 42c to 43c:
clover seed. $4.3O to $40.
Milwaukce-Whcat. No. . spring, s2c
to Sac: corn, No. 3. 27c to osc; oats. No.
2 white. 2Oc to .1c: rye, No. 1. 4Oc to 42c:
barley. No. 2. 34c to 3Sc; pork, mess,
$3.50 to $S.25.
Bufralo-Cattle. $500 to s5.o5: hogs,
$500 to $4.25: sheep. $500 TO S4.75:
wheat, No. 2 red. S3c to Sac: corn. No. 2
yellow, 3Oc to &c; oats, No. 9 white, 24c
to 25c.
New York-Cattlc. $500 to s5.25; hogs,
$3.50 to $3.50; sheep, $500 to $4.o5;
wheat. No. 2 red. Soc to 9Oc: corn. No. =,
32c to 34c; oats, No. white, 3ec to
223c; butter. creamery, l2c to 16c; eggs,
Western. 12c to 14c.
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1897-08-13

Rapid City is considered one of the hest
towns socially in the Hills. There is no
end OF the variety of amusements. Last
week society lady invited select num-
ber of her friends out to her country home
few miles west of the city. After par
taking of the usual refreshments for such
an occasion, the hostess produced a gold
pan for each of the guests and all pro-
cee'led, not to the tennis court but to the
creek near by. The pans were filled with
dirt, held in the cool running water of the
creek, the dirt washed out and each lady
counts her gold. One lady panned out
Sl.45 OF the precious metal, while another
got eight colors in three pans of dirt. Not
exactly klondike, but yet profitable
Nastime
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1897-08-13
CHAMPION BIGANIIsT
CALLS A CONVENTION OF ALL
HIS SPOUSES.
Two N1ilitiamcn Injured by tho Pre-
mature Discharge of IL Cannon ut
Camp Wilkins - Bishop Places u
Ban un an Irish Picnic.
a Chn,nnion Bigamist.

David T.. Bates, who is under arrest in
Chicago for having five wives, three of
whom he had established in separate
households in that city, has called con-
vcntion of his various spouscs, whose num-
Der, it is thought, may reach Il dozen. He
caused the following advertisement to be
Inserted in a local paper:
NoTlcE-All wives, or women who
claim to be wives, of David l.. Bates, or
Gates, are requested to meet at the stock
yards police station, South Halstead and
Mattson Streets, Wednesday, morning, Au-
gust III, at 9 a. m., for the purpose of inter-
viewing him in "a body.
Bates wants Marquette, Kalamazoo and
Galena papers TO take notice of the re-
nueSf
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1897-08-13

BAN ON AN IRISH PICNIC.
Bishop Fink Forbids Catholics t,
Attend Gathering,

Bishop Fink of the Catholic diocese Of
14eavenworth and Kansas City, Kan, had
read in all the parishes in his diocese Sun-
day a letter forbidding members of the
Catholic church from attending the Irish
American picnic to be held in Kansas
City, Kan, next Sunday. Bishop Fink
gave as his reasons for putting ban on
the picnic that Sunday was a holy day on
which all Catholics were obliged to do
duty toward the church and God, and that
q public picnic was not tit observance of
the day. He said also that the holding of a
picnic on the Sabbath was in direct viola
tion of the laws of the Catholic church. and
that anyone taking part in such IL celebra-
tion would be guilty of otfcnse in the sight
of Cod.
Edmond Lynch, president of the United
Irish societies. states that the picnic will
be held, Notwithstanding Bishop Fnk's
letter.
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1897-08-13
THE NEWS OFTHE DAY
SOUTH DAKOTA HAPPENINGS IN
CONDENSED FORM.
..'i,is Year surpusses all Former
Years in Number of Land Leases
Grantcd-Aycragc Price Paid is
About Five Gents Per Acre.
leasing OF Public Lands.

The land commissioners office reports a
far larger number of land leases for this
year than for amy past years, and num-
Der of supplemental leases yet coming in.
The minimum lease price ~ the lands is
from 2 to Is cents per acre, according to
the location and the class of land, with an
average of about cents per acre. The
total amount of lease money which will be
received this year is approXimated at over
S20,C0O, the amount last year being under
s17 ,0c0. This money goes directly into the
interest and income fund for the benefit of
the schools
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1897-08-13
eRAosrReET's REVIEW.
General Trade shows Gains in the
West and South.

West and South.
Bradstreet's Weekly Review says: Cen
eral trade shows most pronounced gains
this week Mt Chicago, st. Louis and Gall
weston. The feeling of confidence that
general business is to improve in the early
autumn is marked at these cities, and pur-
c!iascs of dry goods, clothing, shoes and
other staples have increased heavily and
are followed by disposition to move
prices up. Purchases were restricted at
Kansas City, Omaha, and some other
northwestern points early in the week
owing to heat and fears of damage TO
the Indian corn crop, but rains and cooler
weather have stimulated demand again.
On the Pacific coast business is brisk, the
feature in California being heavy wheat
shipments to San Francisco, at Portland
large exports of lumber and at Seattle and
Tacoma active demand for supplies for
Alaska and the northwest territory, and
for wheat, fruit and hops.
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1897-08-13
HOT WEATHER in LONDON.
Phenomenal Torrid Spell in London
Fatal to Hundreds.

The thermometer registered 90 in Lon
don OH Wednesday, and at Cambridge the
heat was eighteen degrees above the
average and has only twice been reached
during the last quarter of a century. Over
200 prostrations from heat were treated in
six London hospitals Thursday. One
third of an inch of rain fell iii July, and
crops were seriously threatened, and the
experiences of the 1896 water famine in
the east end of London are already loom
ing up. The heat, which has been ,,nus,,-
ally prolonged, has affected the London
death rate. There We're 2,O23 deaths the
last week, of which 1,205 were children,
bringing the death rate to 23.6 per 1909.
Many sunstrokes and general discomfort
were experienced. The judges and coun-
sci in court discarded wigs and gowns.
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1897-08-13
TURKEY BACKS DOWN.
Abandons Proposal to Send Fleet
of Warships to Crete.

Dispatches from Athens and Constants
able change in the situations as to the
peace negotiations. King George had a
long conference with NJ. Onou, the Rus
sian minister, and it is understood that the
peace conference has arranged for the APP
pointment by the powers of three dele
gates to control the revenues assigned to
the service of the Greek department.
Turkeys prompt abandonment of the
proposal TO send the Turkish fleet to Crete
is significant of her attitude whenever the
poWerS tnke a bold and united stand.
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1897-08-13
Klondilse Fever i'm the Hills.

The Alaska gold excitement has pro-
duced almost an exodus from the Black
Hills. Twenty men have already left
Deadwood, most of them old experienced
miners, and several were stakc. for the
occasion by local men of means. Fully as
many more will so this fall. and Il large,
number are preparing to leave for Klon-'
dixie next spring. Nine we'll known Black
Hills men started August 8. The members
OF the party will arrive in Juuea we'll
fixed. the poorest man among them having
over $1,000, while some carry as high as
S5.UUO
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1897-08-13
CURT BUT coMclLlAroRY.
sccrctary shcrman's Reply to the
Lntest Protest by Japan.

@AesSSSS = AOASSA ny ONlsAns
1t Is understood that the reply of Secrc-
tary Sherman to the last Japanese protest
against the annexation of Hawaii will be
brief by comparison with the long letters
that have gone before, but it will bc con-
ciliatory i'll tone. The basic tone of the
note will be a declaration by Secrc-
tary Foster, which he submitted To
President Harrison with the original
treaty of annexation, in 1898, which failed
owing TO the immediate change of admin
istratiOn.
This statement was that according to a
recognized principle of International law
the obligations of the treaties, even when
some of their stipulations are in terms
perpetual, expire in case either of the con-
tracing parties loses its existence as an
independent state. The foreign treaties of
the Hawaiian islands, therefore, terminate
upon annexation, with the competence of
the government thereof to hold diplomatic
relations. This argument is to meet the
Japanese objections that they will by ali
neXation lose certain privileges for Japan
csc subjects which they now enjoy under
the treaty with Hawaii.
The second Japanese objection that an
neXation will disturb the balance of power
in the Pacific was met with an elaboration
of the argument that the Hawaiian Islands
have for SO long time been under the i'll
1uence of the United States and have by
tradition become so closely affiliated with
the republic that no sensible change in
policies or actualities of government may
be expected to result from legal merging
of the islands into the United States.
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1897-08-13
GUN GOES OFF TOO SOON.
Cannon Prematurcly Exploies While
Being Loaded.

Being Loaded.
There was Il shocking accident at Camp
Wilkins, Fort Dodge, Iowa, Monday. 1t
was arranged as usual to fire a governors
salute of seventeen guns as le approached
The camp. AT the third gun there was a
premature discharge just as Private James
Daily of Company f, Algona, was about
to withdraw the ramner. There was u
second of shock and confusion, aud then
the gun squad and spectators, as the smoke
began to clear away, saw Daily lying
PROSTATE on his face about ten feet in
front of the gun. When taken to the hos
pital, however, the surgeons. after Il care
tul examination, found that Dally's in
Suries were not as bad as at first appeared,
although they were very severe. Frank
Foreman of Sioux City was thumbing the
vent at the time, and the best evidence that
he was doing his duty is that his thumb
was wrencled out of Joint,
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1897-08-13
Defines an Original Package.

court at Charleston, S. c., has filed his de-
cison defining an original package and
thereby settling a disputed feature in the
dispensary law. The court holds that the
original package is the form in which the
liquor is delivered to the initial carrier at
the point of shipment. Ifa box of liquor
is imported the whole box must be sold
and not single bott!eful out of the box
The decision will require all dealers ia
import liquor in single packages.
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1897-08-13
THE PENSION ROLL.
The Million Mark Has Almost Been
Reached.

The pension roll of the United States
has almost reached the million mark.
Commissioner Evans has just issued a
statement showing that at the beginning
of this fiscal year the pensioners numbered
just 9s3.25S, an increase of 1850 for the
past year. During that year 5O,1O1 new
pensions were granted, and 3.971 persons
were restored to the rolls. Old age and
disease, however, is working great inroads
into the lists, for there were 81 1850 deaths
during the year. Other sources of loss
were 1, ,704 from remarriage of widows, L.
sS5 orphans attained majority, 1858 fail
urcs to claim pensions and 1850 losses
from l,nrccOrdcd causes
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1897-08-13
NOVEL SCHEME TO Law DUST
New Jersey Railroad sprinkles It's
Right of Way with Oil.


The recent discovery of Chief Engineer
j. II. Nichols of the West Jersey and Sea-
shore Railroad at Mays Landing, n. J.,
that crude oil applied to the ground along
the railroad track would e1fectually lay
dust, proved to work far better
than expected. Both lines of track
from Camden to Atlantic City are
being thoroughly saturated for
a distance of six feet on both sides of the
tracks. The oil is applied on much the
same plan as streets are sprinklcd with
water, and recently an oil train with IL
sprinlSling apparatus sprinlSled more than
twenty miles of track. One sprinlSling Il
year, at Il cost of $50 per mile, it is claimed,
will lay the dust effectually. The entire
Pennsylvania system, it is said, is to be
sprinkled with oil as speedily as possible.
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1897-08-13
Treasury Ruling ON Alaska.

In response to query from Seattle,
WASH, the following telegram was re-
ceived from the treasury department:
SINNERS can land their effects and go to
British Columbia territory from Dyea
nnder customs supervision without pay
ment of duty and without giving bonds. !"
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1897-08-13
Fatal Arkansas Eence Eeud.

Near Fairview, in Dallas County, Arkan-
sas, Friday morning, Paul Horton shot and
killed VIM. McQuade and made his escape.
Both men were prominent in the COM
munity. The killing resulted from an at
tempt of Horton to tear down AlcQuade's
fences. Friends of both families are talk
ing sides in the affair and another feud is
almost sure to result.
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1897-08-13
Photographers Name officers.

The Northwestern Photographers con-
sention, in session at st. Paul, Minn.,
elected officers as follows: President. j.
a. Brush of Minneapolis: first vice presi-
dent, NJ. +. Heinzelman of Owatonna:
secretary, p. J. Nelson of Anoka; treas
urer, A. II. Opsall of Minneapolis; vice
president for Iowa, nj. w. Starks of Sioux
City: vice president for South Dakota, l..
v. Bean of Sioux Falls.
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1897-08-13
Will Benefit Stock Shippers.

An important change has been made by
all the railway companies west of the Mis-
souri, River in their methods of making
rates for shipment of all live stock. Here
after the charge will be made per hundred
pounds instead of by the car. Shippers
will he benefited by this change and can
figure accurately the freight cost on con-
signment. The ElkhOrn and Burlington
roads have made announcement that the
new rate went into effect August 10.
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1897-08-13
Decides 1t IL Unconstitutionnl.

What is known in Missouri us the Breed
ers' Law, under which pool selling and
bookmaking are prohibited, except OH race
tracks, was pronounced unconstitutional
the other day by Judge David Murphy of
the court of criminal correction at st.
Lonis. This will probably have the effect
of reOpening the pool rooms,
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1897-08-13
Arrange a Black Hills Exhibit.

a meeting of the cllairmen of the vari-
Gus exposition committees appointed to ar
range for Black Hills exhibit at Omaha
was held in DeadwOOd last week. The
consensus of opinion was that general
display should be made, to be known dis
tinctively as the Black Hills exhibit, a de-
partment being given to each product,
properly arranged and labeled, giving
name of producer and locality from which
the article came