Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1898-03-18
South Dakota Briefs

OOO ANO A1AbOA0
George w. Kenyon, one of the old time,
residents of DeSmet is dead.
The spring term of the circuit court for
Yankton County is very light in important.
cases.
The G. A. R. post at Webster has tend
cred its services to Gov. Lee in case of wa
with Spain.
The city schools of Huron gave an
entertainment recently for the benefit Of
the school library.
The normal school enrolment at SPRING.
field is now between sixty and seventy and
steadily increasing.
Springfield Normal has a ladies' brass
band. They claim the distinction of being
the only ladies' brass band in the state.
William Davidson was acquitted in tha.
circuit court at Belle Fourche for the.
alleged murder of Andrew Giles in 1894.
Putney and O'Day, the Belle Fourche
bank robbers, have been given a change
Of venue from Belle Fourche to Dead.
wood.
Emerson A. Bear, the Oldest book and.
stationery storekeeper in Sioux Falls, has
made a voluntary assignment. Mr.. Bear
Is the manager of the new opera house.
w. A. Wiersma, who was arrested in
Sioux Falls for the murder of John Liegon
at Spirit Lake, Iowa, last October, is, in.
all probability, not the man wanted and
will be released.
Noyes Brothers & Cutler of st. Paul
have levied by attachment upon the pro-
ceeds of the sale of the Salem drug stock
at Aberdeen, by which they seek to re.
cover a debt of 5000.
A train load consisting of twelve cars of
cattle and one of hogs left Springfield for
chicago the other day, and about the same
number of carloads were shipped from
Tyndall the same day.
Word has been received announcing the
sudden death of Louden Kelly at Omaha.
He was an old Yankton boy, the son of.
Capt. j. L. Kelly and grandson of ex- Gov.
Foulk of the latter city.
Albert d. Hawkins ofithe hardware firm
of Hanson s. Hawkins of Vermillion and
Miss Marie l.. Jones, a music teacher.
were married the other day at the First
Baptist Church by Rev. Mr.. Irvine.
Thu board of education of Sioux Falls
Will submit a proposition at its next meet.
ing, to be voted on at the coming spring
election, to bond the district for $4,000.
with which to erect another school house.
The board of county commissioners has
granted a liquor license for the village Of
Hecla. There were 107 names on the petit.
ton for a license, while only seventy. six.
names appeared on the protest against the
license.
Business at the United States land ofic
ut Aberdeen during February was de-.
cidedly good. There were thirty-one
homestead entries, comprising 4,B98. 93:
acres; seven homestead proofs, 9S2.5O
acres, and twenty timber culture proofs.
., 1885, 6 acres.
1t is announced that Gov. Lee will visit
Fairfax, George County, to hear argu-
ments against and in favor of the pro-
prosed organization of that county, which
lies In the Chamberlain land district.
tween those favortnR and those opposing
the organization.
A young man named Henry Miller. son,
of a we'll to do farmer and charcoal monu-.
f~acturer Of Cedar County, Nebraska, while.
attempting to cross the Missouri river at.
Yankton Saturday, went through the rot
ten ice and was drowned. A search for.
the body was made, which proved unsuc..
cessful.
Warrants were issued and served unon
all the proprietors of saloons in Deadwood.
In which gambling games are conducted.
The men arrested waived examination and
were bound over to await the action Of.
the next grand jury.
A young man by the name of Tabey. son
of a grain buyer at Ethan. commi,ted
suicide by hanging himself. He was alive.
when found, but his neck was broken and
he died shortly afterwards. He was ann
struck last summer, which affected his,
mind. was engaged to be married,
this spring.
While no formal action. has yet i zen
taken, as nearly as can be learned there.
will be another change in the insurance
department. soon, when Thomas H. Ayres.
will resign and take his old position in the
governors Office, and L. E. Camnbeli Of
Yankton will be appointed as commits.