Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1897-10-01
HoHsnHEAD NOTES.


surprised to find SO much Improvement
going on there. The government has
expended about 100000 ON the reser-
walton this summer for educational
purposes, and the most of it at Pine
Ridge. One-half mile west of the
agency are eight brick buildings just
being finished. They are heated by
steam, lighted by electricity, and and
fitted with a complete system of sew
ers. The school building is 6~Ox12Ofeet
two stories high with a basement. In
connection with this are two dormator-
les, each 1OOx1W feet, two stories high,
and basement. They stand facing each
other, one for the boys and one for the
girls. The mess hall is u building 5Ox
10 feet aud stands by itself. The
laundry is 22x4O feet, and the supply
house 2OX6O feet. There are two dou-
BILE buildings each two stories high, for
the professors and teachers. These
buildings, together with the two engine
houses that furnish the heat, light and
GNa Az NoVC 4l4UO u Cttllh UutlC SIIilluS
l4N70, looks like u small town all by
itself. We travelled the entire length
of White Clay Creek which runs
through the Agency. Both banks of the
creek are thickly settled with Indians.
where nature has supplied them boun-
tifully with water, fuel, wild fruit and
shelter. Their families may differ
greatly in size but their huts never do.
We saw hundreds of huts and they all
looked alike with their tepees standing
by the side of them. The huts are
made of round logs, and have dirt
roofs. They are low and long with a
window in each end and a door in the
side. We saw no land under cultsva-
ton by the Indians. The government
supplies their needful wants. and they
care not for luxury. Four and a half
miles below the agency on White Clay
Creek the Holy Rosary Mission is To-
Gated. 1t was built by the Catholics in
1883 at a cost of S41,5OO. The building
is brick, 14ONl5O feet two stories high.
1t is an industrial boarding school with
a capacity of 200 students. They have
a contract with the government for
s10S a scholar for 115 scholars, all above
this number are taught free of charge.
They have u beautiful irrigated farm
joining the mission. There are two
fathers, ten brothers and fifteen sisters.
We found Father Alysinus Bosch very
obliging. He tookus into the building.
You will find churches and school
houses wherever there is a settlement.
which is always along the creeks and
rivers. You can usually stand at one
church and see another not far off.
This is also true of school houses. The
latter are 2Ox4S feet, with a cottage 20
ND feet beside of each for the teacher
and his family. The churches are all
equipped with belfries and bells which
you can hear ringing all over the res
ervation on Sunday mornings. The
buildings are all nicely painted and
have good fences around them.
Andy Handy has purchased George
Riches entire bunch of horses for $500
and has secured the help of Dave and
Frank Peterson to drive them to his
ranch near Valentine, Nebraska.
AT the election last Friday in Del
richs school district No. 4. 1t was
decided not to consolidate the Rose and
Fisher schools. But to move the Rose
school ono mile west of where it now
stands.
Arthur Montgomery has sold his
entire bunch of cattle, something
over 200 hsad, to johnson, near Rush
Vile, Nebraska.
John Hall preached to a full house
last Sunday at the Phillips school
house. We noticed u number from
from Smithwick.
John Yeager would like to find some
good boy that would stay with him this
winter to do chores and go to school.
The weather is fine and at this writ
ing. September %. there has been no
frost on lower ROrSehead.
James Mcfarland and his partner,
Theo Allen, of Gordon. Nebraska, have
made Il contract to build two school
houses 2OX4S, and two cottages 2Ox:322
Oh the reservation.
One day last week while r. NJ.
Phillips was tending his flock he vas
bitten in the foot by Il rattle snake. At
the time MIR. Phillips was bitten he
was a mile and q half from home and
alone. He had on an old shoe and the
snake struck him on the bare foot
where there was a hole in his shoe. Mr..
Phillips is u very cool headed man
which probably saved his life. Hetore
off the shoe as soon rs possible and
opened his pocket knife. By this time
HE foot was beginning to swell badly.