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

Dakota Short Notes.
The first lodge of Sheiks of Damascus in
the state has been organized at Webster.
Brule County has expended SIS. 565. 73 for
artesian wells, not including those put
down by private parties.
The ice on the Missouri River was O
sidered unsafe last week but it is in good
condition for crossing now.
The dentists a law passed to protect
them fromthe travelling tooth doctor, whose
chief endorsement is his s'painless opera
ton"
The artesian we'll in Andes Lake is now
completed at a depth of 725 feet. 1t is a
siN-ineh pipe and throws 1900 gallons a
minute.
CThe Locke Hotel Company presented
each of the members of both houses with
a complimentary ticket to the baths, good
for the season.
Washington A. o. U. w. lodge last week
initiated fourteen members. They now
have n%inety-one members with several
more applications.
Out of forty-seven pronounced candi-
dates for the office of state oil inspector
Gov. Lee ought to be able to pick one
mar capable to %'.inspect."
Miss Jennie G.. West of Mitchell, late
candidate for state superintendent of pub
lie instruction, has been selected as prin-
cipal of the Salem high school.
n meeting of the stockholders of the
Bridgewater Creamery Association will be
held Monday evening, january Is. All
stockholders are requested to attend.
The water from the artcsian well at
Frankfort was "backed up" by the snow
SO that it nearly flooded the streets. The
snow blockaded the regular channel.
A Turner County young man has been
arrested for stealing siXty-nine bushels
of grain. An unshod ho0f on one of his
horses furnished the clue to his guilt.
n Sanborn county farmer after getting a
rainstorm every time he attemptedtot hresh,.
has decided to save Il small setting for july
threshing to insure "a good crop next
summer.
The Dakopolis Hotel at Kimball was sold
at the administrators sale to Frank Sypal
of Rosebud Agency for $3.50. This hotel
has been one of the kimball land marks
for years.
Brookings had a narrow escape from a
dangerous fire during the high wind of the.
late storm. \ restaurant gasoline stove
exploded, but the fire was luckily confined
i'll the building.
The Madison Masons gave a brilliantly
successful ball, their annual event. The
Eastern Star ladies served over two hun.
dred suppers and the music was well e n
dered by a local orchestra.
A successful apparatus for sterilizing
milk IN creamerics by exhaust steam is
reported. BY its use all the germs in the
milk are destroyed and it will remain sweet
for over forty-eight hours.
1t is estimated that 100000 cattle were,
handled in the roundup of this fall. These
at $3Oa head would amount to 81, 0 ,OOO.,
Perhaps our cattlemen are entitled to a lit
tie consideration after all.
Two printing companies have received
judgments to the amount of 81, 1876 AS for
contracted work which was given to other
companies by the state officers. They have
been pending for several years.
The Trip artesian well continues to inn,
prove. The pressure is increasing and the
water is clear and much softer and better
than formerly. The well is better in every,
way than it was when first sunk.
j. l.. LOckhart, commissioner of school
and public lands says that parties owing
payments on school lands coming due next
March would not be pressed for the same
IIoN iuC0 Gicy pau UP Tie interest n
taxes.
Redtield has been buying oil of the Corn,
Planters Oil Company Of Minneapolis and
are well pleased with the quality. It is
cheaper than Standard oil has been and
the people will probably stand by the new,
concern.
A Mitchell saloon keeper drew a revolt
yer on a store keeper who was across the
way and was promptly knocked down and
sat on by his husky neighbor. By the way
it takes nerve to face a gun even in the
hands of Il great big coward.
a telegram arrested Arthur Patterson
just as he was getting out oft he state last,
week. He was caught at Parker and held
for stealing wheat from Artesian parties.
He has been implicated in petty robberies
before in company with a small by.
Daniel Elliott, postmaster at Buffalo Gan.
has been arrested at the instance of bis
bondsmen for embezzlement.
A Yankton student is paying his wav
through the college by opening a NIGHT
school OF penmanship and bookkeeping.
His purpose is laudable and should be EN-.
couraged, especially as he is well nm in
those branches.
Capt. H. P. Lason of Tyndall attrihutes
the fact Of his herd Of fancy hogs NOT
catching the cholera, which has been tai.
ing of many hogs around in his neiehbor.
hood, TO- his. giving them quite q iiheral
supply OF sugar beets In their feed.