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Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1897-01-22

The famous agricultural writer and
eNperimentalist, ''Iama jim Wilson
of Tama, Iowa, is said to be slated for
the portfolio of agriculture.
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1897-01-22

Prussia has had, including the pres
emit King, who is also German emperor,
seven kings. The royal house of Hohen-
zollern was established by Frederick
William of Brandenburg in 1901.
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1897-01-22
GARDEN SEED FREE.

The time for your getting the STAR
a year for sl.OO has passed. But we
have just completed arrangements
whereby we can give
SLIGO WORTH OF SEEDS
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1897-01-22

Senator Sherman admits that he will
he secretary of state in President Nc
kinley's cabinet.
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1897-01-22
HOTSPRINGS STAR,
OF THE WEEKLY STAR.
OND $500 Six MoNrHs.,,
TnR1l M0HTHa. kQ caDfa

0Nn YnAR.....1a00 Six oNrHs.......Si.
TnR1l MoNrHs, 50 cents.
The 0fAR 10 published every Friday.
Advertising rates made known on application.
JOB work neatly and promptly executed at
Monthly settlements will be made with adver-
Seefo unless Otherwise arranged.
Snort newsy communication are solicited
from all localities.
ocThe STAR ofice lie in the Minnekahta block.
Drop in and zee Us. We solicit your business.
When more convenient call us ny. by .TELE-
PHONE. Send us iteme of social affairs, the
arrival or departure of friends, or anything Of
interest ie cordially solicited It will AID us In
friends.
ia. STANLEY, Editor and Proprietor.
Member South DakOtH Press Association
WIN. II. STANLEY, City Editor.
Entered at the Hot Springs postothce as second
elAss matter.
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1897-01-22

Hot stuf-Glenrock coal-sold only
by Hesnard's drayline.
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1897-01-22

The Hill City Miner has the follow
ing comment IN 81 business proposition
which il received which is sc fitting we
print il in full. "a Chicago house
which does business on the Montgom-
cry Ward plan asks us in "a letter for a
list of probable customers to whom
they may send catalogues soliciting
trade: Offering to pay us for our
trouble and promisingt to run an ad for
year. We burnt the letter for two
reasons. First, the merchants of Key
stone have given the Miner Il liberal
and willing patronage i'll the past and
we Will not he the means of diverting
trade from their houses. Secondly.
there is no citizen of the Black Hills
who is Independent of his neighbors
and We believe it is the first duty of
every citizen to do his part to main
tain home enterprises. There are
none SO independent as not to be in
need OF occasional accommodation and
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1897-01-22
II RETIRED
His Most uae.peoted Recovery Of . 1e.e
Lost Dog.

Lost Dog.
"Speaking OF watchdogs," said the
retired burglar, 81 never owned o
watchdog, but I did once own a jolly
little mongrcl dog that we called some.
times Nibs, but mostly Nibsy. a lively,
sensitive little fellow, but no watchdog.
You might have played a brass band
outside. and he'd never hear it, but let
anybody that he knew walk across tho
floor, and he'd wag his tail in his sleep.
"Well, after we'd had Nibsy "a mum
Der of years we lost him. He just disap-
peared one day and didn't come back.
and we didn't know whether he'd been
run owe by u train of cars or strayed
away and got lost, or whether somebody
had picked him up and carried him of,
or what was the matter. hut he didn't
come back, and we missed him very
much because we all liked Nibsy.
CHOW, maybe you can guess what
happened. One morning early, about .
or half past 2, some months after that,
as I was moving slowly in the darl,
across IL room OH the second floor of u
house that l had called at some so miles
from where l lived, 1 felt the legs of u
small dog thrown against mine. 1
couldn't see the dog at all, but it was
standing OIL its hind legs and resting its
fore legs against me, and l could tell by
the movement Of them that he was wag-
ging his tail violently. 1t was Nibsy,
of course. He'd known my tread, soft
as it was, aid woke up to receive me.
"Well, yon know. glad as I was to
find Nibsy, I'd rather not have found
him right there, because he was almost
certain to mako trouble for me. He be-
gan to whine with joy the first thing,
and then he gave a little yelp. That
was just what l was afraid of. He didn't
want to make any trouble for me, but
that one yelp was enough. A man in
the bed sits up and pulls u string and
turns OIL u light and says:
"'Now. what's the matter?'
"And l puts up "a great polar bluff
and says. You swiped my dog, and I've
come to get him.
"'Swiped nothing he says. TN
swipe you i'll q minute and he wasn't
slow i'll getting at it either. He was
getting out Of bed and coming for me all
the time he was talking, and IL good
healthy, powerful looking ma he was
too. But Nibsy was bright. Nibsy
made just one dive ut the mans feet,
but that Was enough to stop him until
I'd got turned and started, and IL minute
later 1 was going down the road, with
Nibsy coming Oh behind. Now York
Sun.
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1897-01-22

Jim Jackson-sutiing,y.
Deacon Johnson-Hab yo' ebber seen
iler eat when nobody was watchtn her?
New York Tribune.
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1897-01-22

The question of the relations exist
ing between the city and the Water.
Light and Power company as to fran
chise and conduct under it, is Justly
considered; but it hardly seems fair to
attempt to impeach the honor and in
tegrity of III official, citing that
he had disturbed the records as IL cause
for action against him, because he hap
pens to be i'll the employ of the com
pany AS superintendent. The records
are open for inspection. If irragulari-
ties nre found Il specific charge should
he made. If they are clear any sugges-
zion limiting ut irregularity should not
appear. The STAR defends Mr.. Parks
in this respect. The matter of his
eligibility in other ways and the power
on the mayor to remove him from the
office of city auditor are other ques-
tions, hut his honor should not be at
tackled without evidence warranting it.
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1897-01-22

The Best Way
To Sioux City is via O'Neill and the
Pacific Short Line. Try it.
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1897-01-22
Legal Notices.
NOTICE FOR PUBLICATION.
NOTICE TO CREDITORS.

ISE " 4NEJl HI
In the matter of the estate of Abel ID. Bond,
deceased.
All persons having claims against said Abel
D.. Bond, deceased, are required to exhibit
the same. with the necessary vouchers. to the
Undersigned ADMINISTRATORS of said estateaut
her residence i'll the county of Fall River.
state of South Dakota. l.. %. uddLcss Buffalo
Gap. :; D.. and that four months have been
limited us the time for creditors to present
their claims against said estate.
Dated the It'll day of January, 1897.
ElEcrA $. BoND. Administrators.
WOOD Il PORTER, Attorneys.
First publication Jan. ., 1877. 40
NOTICE OF HEARING PETITION FOR LET
IN ters of administration
State of South Dakota. county of Fall River. 81
In County court, January term, 1sg7.
In the matter of the estate of Frank w. Young
deceased.
The state of South Dakota sends greeting to
Maggie Young, Walter Young and Louise Young,
heirs at law and next of kin of Frank W. Young.
deceased. and to all to whom these presents may
come.
Notice is hereby given, That David C. Robin
son has filed with the Judge OF this court a peti-
tion praying for Letters of administration of the
estate 0f Frank w. Young, deceased, and that
Saturday, the a3rl day Of January, 1897, ut ten
o'clock II. IN. of said day, being q day of u regular
term of this court, tO-wit: of the January term
1851. at the court house in the city of Hot Springs.
county of Fall River, state of South Dakota, has
heen set for hearing said petition, when and
where any person interested may appear ard
show cause why the said petition should not be
granted.
Dated at Hot Springs, S. d., this 9TH day of
January, 1897.
ELMER II JucKETT,
Judge of the County Court.
Attest: TmoS. II. MILLS, Clerk.
[sEALl MATTER ANDERSON,
Attorney for Petitioner.
First publication Jan. s, 1897.
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1897-01-22

such as u splendid Atlas, State Journal
Almanac, United States History, etc.
Send postal card request for premium
list. You should read the Journal dur
ing the legislature, no matter what
other papers you read at other times
You must send your money direct to
the State Journal, Lincoln, Nebraska
to get any of these free premiums.
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1897-01-22

ED. w. BLAKEY.
Sheriff of Fall River County, So. Dnk.
MARTIN 4 MASON, PLAINTIFFS ATTORNEYS.
First publication Dec. IL. 1876. 80
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1897-01-22
A Pertinent Query

"A Pertinent G.cry.
Deacon Johnsnn--Do yo' fink yo'
kood support muh daughter Ct yo' mar
ried her?
Jim Jackson-Suttilgly.
Deacon Johnson-Hab yo' cbber seen
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1897-12-02
Week Remarkable for Wheat Exports,
Lower Prices For Iron on-Failures Far Below
Those OF Last Year.

r. G.. Dun & Co.'S weekly review
of trade says:
The heavy exports of wheat, with
the renewed advance in price, is the
most interesting and important feature
OF the week. Since August I, when
the extent OF the foreign deficiency be-
came realized, exports have been
larger than in corresponding weeks of
any previous year. The cotton ex-
ports also became very heavy, and the
outgo of corn falls but little below last
years unprecedented record, while in
exports of manufacturing products,
especially machinery, all records for
the season have been surpassed.
The iron industry shows no de-
crease in production or consumption
of pig, but with much reduced orders
for products excess of production is
expected, and Bessemer falls a shade
to $Io.I5, and gray forge to $o.a5 at
Plttsburg, though Chicago and eastern
ihdihSto ouON ilo DlllClS al
also weaker at Pttsburg, SIS.
Expectation of lower prices tends
to prodvce them at time when new
business is naturally small, and the
mills are working mostly on old orders
with buyers impatient for deliveries.
Other large orders are held back in
plates by the inability of the works to
deliver in the time desired. In bars,
agricultural and railroad manufactur
ing causes heavy demand at Chicago,
iron being preferred to steel, and thin
sheets are also in better demand, but
bars are a shade lower at Pittsburg,
and both wire and cut nails. Some
large orders for rails by eastern rail
ways are reported.
The wooden manufacturer is still
consuming heavily in execution of
past orders, and many agents are sold
SO far ahead that they seek no further
business, while others are beginning
to question whether the demand for
the next season will suffice if prices
are made to correspond with present
quotations Of wool. Some reductions
in prices of wool appear, possibly av.
eraglng half a cent, with sales of Aus
tralian amounting to a,7oo, 900 lbs. in
a few large blocks at Boston, but the
tone is still strong.
Failures for the week have been ESQ
in the United States against 500 last
year, and IS in Canada against 3S
last year.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1897-12-02
THE PRESIDENTS CLOSE GALL,
Narrowly Escapes Collision With al
Ele ctric Car.

President Mckinley had a narrow
escape from beng run over by an
electric car running at IS miles an
hour, late Friday afternoon. After a
long, hard day, in which he say more
callers than on any other day since
his vacation, he went for drive to
get fresh air before dinner, and while
crossing Connecticut avenue, on R
street, the carriage, In avoiding fast
electric car going in one direction got
just in front Of another coming as
rapidly in the other direction, ard
nothing but the presence Of mind OF
the motorman, who succeeded in sud-
denly stopping the car within two feet
of the carriage, saved the President
from possible injury.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1897-12-02
STATE NEWS.

labor leaders are organizing tine
anthracite miners with view to order
ing general strike next year.
Citizens of South Easton are
holding meetings to protest against
the annexation of the borough to the
city of Easton.
The Reading company has issued
orders to close down all work at the
Monitor Colliery at Locust Gap, Pa,
affecting I25 hands.
While hunting near Williamsport
last week George Lipp shot and kill
ed a snow white buck deer, year
old, a great variety.
AT Tunkhannock Saturday Carl
ton ID. Adams was sentenced to I6
years and 6 months in the Eastern
Penitentiary for killing his wife.
Orders for $4,000 bicycles have
caused the Keystone Manufacturing
Company Lebanon, to increase its
force of men from 90 to $50 men.
The employees of Jones & Laugh,
lin, at Pittsburg, numbering $500,
have received an advance of ten per
cent IN wages. The firm had pro-
missed the men a raise as soon as
business woald warrant it.
Near Milton last week. Elmer
Smith, young farmer, was threshing
corn with steam machine, when his
arm caught III the gearing in some
manner, and was torn from the socket.
He is in critical condition.
DIR. Demmett Walsh, physician
of Grand Rapids, Mich, who came to
Columbia two weeks ago to visit his
father, David Welsh, after returning
from a trip to Europe, has disappear
ed under mysterious circumstances,
and as he had large sum of money
on his person his relatives fear foul
play. The last seen of him was on a
trolley Car between Lancaster and
Columbia Sunday evening. Welsh is
a graduate of Jefferson Medical Col
lege, Philadelphia.
"A second knockout has been
given to the Pure Food State Com
mission of this State. The commits
sion brought suit against Charles
Brown and Learn & Was for selling
impure vinegar. The attorneys for
the dealers asked that the indictments
be quashed, on the grounds that an
act OF Assembly passed in 1897, sub
sequent to the time of the defendants
arrest, repealed the acts under which
they were taken up. Judge Craig
said in his decision: ''It is impossible
for us to sustain this indictment"
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1897-12-02
MILLIONS In SNOW HEAPS.
Claims Of K!ondikers Grabbed at Fabulous
Prices.

The rough-dressed millionaires
from the Klondike at the Hoffman
House, New York, increase. Frank
Phlscater, of Dawson City, who is at
the Hoffman, sold his Klondike hold
lngs for $I,ooo,ooo on Friday to an
English syndicate, through representa-
tives in New York city and Montreal.
MIR. Phiscater, whose home is at
Brodie, Mich, was the discoverer of
the gold fields on Elderado, and he
staked the first claim. He went to
Alaska three years ago, and has
travelled 1000 miles IN prospecting.
Henry G. Somers, Of Dawson City,
who is also at the Hoffman, sold a
claim for $1,000, 900 last week. Pat
Calvin and his wife and sister sailed
for Ireland on the Lucania Saturday
morning. Mr.. Calvin refused $780,
900 on Friday for one claim at the
junction of Eldorado and Bonanza
Creeks.
One Of the most picturesque visi-
tors at the Hoffman House is John
McQuesten, the "Father of the Yu-
kon." Before Joseph Ladue ever
heard of Dawson City or the Klon-
dixie, "Jack" McQuesten had pierced
the frozen barriers of the unknown
territory.
1t was at Circle City that he met
his wife, and be now has charming
6-year- daughter. She accompan-
led him as far as San Francisco on
the present trip, which is his second
return to civilization since 1868.
While there he had occasion to
visit big packing house, and took
the little girl with him. AT sight OF
all the meat and thousands of cans
she drew a deep breath and, with
true Klondike point of view, ex-
claimed
"Oh, papa, what lots of grub"
Mr.. McQuesten is a firm believer
in the future of the gold region. He
added
"Any man, with reasonable care,
can live there for $500 year. This
is just what he can earn by 50 days
work at the prevailing rate of wages,
SO an ableboded man Can do well
there if he is willing to work, and he
has always chance of making a
strike for himself"
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1897-12-02
Our Own State.

Pennsylvania ranks first in rye, iron
and steel, petroleum, coal second in
population, manufactures, buckwheat,
potatoes, printing and publishing
third in mich COWS, hay, miles of rail
way; fourth in oats and tobacco :;
fifth in silk goods, wool, malt and
distilled liquors; sixth in salt, copper
and agricultural implements; eighth
in horses and sheep. First settlement
English, I6Sa. One of the original
states.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1897-12-02
CONGRESS- NEXT WEEK.
One OF The Most Important Sessions in the
History Of the Country.

In view of the many questions of
vital importance which are certain to
come before the forthcoming session
of Congress, those persons who desire
to be well informed concerning nation
al affairs will be interested in the news
that "The Philadelphia Press" has
made arrangements to publish more
complete reports from Washington
than have ever been furnished by any
daily paper heretofore. "The Press
maintains regularly at Washington a
special bureau in charge Of one of the
best known writer's on national affairs.
The working force of this bureau has
been increased so as to leave no doubt
ofits ability to adequately and prompt
ly report every item of Washington
news. As Congress will meet next
week it will be well to begin reading
"The Press" Washington reports at
once.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1897-12-02
C0R0NERS AND JURIES.
MORE ANON.

A great deal is said against coroners
on account of some of the verdlcts
rendered by their juries and because
it is held that the coroner is a wholly
useless official. 1t is therefore urged
that his office be abolished.
The coroner may or may not be
useless perhaps he is. But it would
not be more fair to abolish the office
because coroner's jury verdicts are
sometimes silly than to abolish trial
juries for their verdicts, which are at
times idiotic. For instance, a trial
jury in Philadelphia week ago heard
the case of doctor who was charged
with malpractice. AS the trial pro-
gressed it became evident to the pro-
secution that it had no case and the
jury was so informed by the attorney
for the prosecution. Nevertheless the
jury returned verdict of "guilty" and
it took the eloquence of the whole
court to induce that jury to reverse
the finding.
Should all juries be abolished be-
cause that one was incompetent !?
And it is not the only one that falls
below the standard set up by the
public. The Mack juries, for instance,
are incompetent under the public
standard, for a man who has read of
the murder and its developments
without forming an opinion as to the
commission of tie crime has moi the
mental ability to sit on any case.
And here in Pennsylvania juries stop
just short of bringing a verdict of
mot guilty, but we recommend that
the defendant be sent to jail for ten
years." No doubt such a Jury might
find Martin Thorn not guilty but ask
that he be hanged. Should trial juries
be abolished because of these little
ldiosyneracies J?
The coroner, if he is not, may be
made useful official. The usual
coroner knows nothing of medicine
and nothing of law and not too much
of anything else. He should know
something of both and at least be an
intelligent man with due regard for
the public, his Office and himself.
Then there would be an end of foolish
verdicts and of attacks upon the
coroner'S Office.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1897-12-02
Electoral Fraud.

If there could have been motive
which more than any other should
have moved the voters of Pennsylvania
to take the state government out of
the hands of the present governing
party, it should have been the desire
to rescue the ballot system from the
debased and corrupted condition to
which it has been brought by Repub-
hcan management.
How the ballot law has been per-
verted from its intended object of pro-
tecting the secrecy and purity of the
elective franchise, and made the in
strument of electoral fraud and cor
rupton, is a well known and shameful
fact. 1t was done avowedly for the
purpose of securing party advantage,
and there was not shame enough in
the perpetrators to conceal their OBJ.
ject. The declaration was openly
made in the state Legislature that the
Republican party could not afford to
have an honest ballot.
But as if there was not advantage
enough in perverting the Australian
system from its intended object, Re.
publican election officers in Philadel-
phia, at the last election, made false
returns from a number of districts, re-
sorting to such rascally means Of
swelling the party vote. A number
of them were arrested and gave Judges
Arnold, Gordon and Sultzberger the
opportunity of making an example of
them, but this method Of keeping the
Republican party in power can not be
stopped until the election laws are
thoroughly overhauled and reformed.
-Bellefonte Wakehman.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1897-12-02
New Style Postal Gard.

1t is expected that within a week
all the first and second class post
Offices of the coNtry will have been
supplied with the new style postal
card. The new issue comprises a
small single card with vignette of
John Adams, for domestic use only /;
domestic single and reply card, a
quarter of an inch or so smaller than
the present card, and a new card for
foreign use, which is somewhat small
er than the International card now
employed. .
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1897-12-02
Chambers Prediction.

Senator Chandler, Rep, of New
Hampshire, delivers this opinion
AS TO the elections, they prove with
reasonable clearness that if the Repub-
lican party permanently acquiesces in
''the existing gold standard" and gives
up the struggle for bimetallism, that
party will be defeated in the congress
ional elections of 1898 and the presi.
dental election of 1900. The silver
monometalists will then take posses.
sion of all branches of the national
government, and free coinage bill.
with silver made the tender for ali
debts, public and private, domestic
and foreign, will pass both houses OF
congress and be signed by President
Bryan.
This is a bold prediction. Its i'm
portance, however, is not so much as
prophecy as sign. 1t forecasts
the failure of "currency reform" legis,
lation In the United States Senate.
A patch work of eastern and western
senators must be fitted together be,
fore such legislation can pass and the
silver Republican senators of the west
will not be in a hurry to join the
'gold standard" advocates in the cas-
when an eastern senator assumes thi.
attitude. e.-Ex.