Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1898-03-04

south D0kOta Briefs.
klondike fever is broken at Davis and,
Cuban fever is 104.
Sioux Falls Kelley Institute is eXperi-.
encing Il .boom these days.
Hog cholera is causing great loss to:
farmers in the southern part of the state.
Rev. c. L. l1ager is touring the Black
Hills country in the interest of the Anti
Saloon League.
The senate has confirmed the appoint-
ment of q. w. Case as receiver of public
moneys at Watertown.
The annual charity ball given by Sioux,
Fails Ells at the New Theater was a sue
cess i'll every sense of the word.
Grain OF ali kinds is coming in freely at
Davis. Farmers are preparing to pay
taxes before they become delinquent.
Company A, South Dakota National
Guard, at Pierre, marched to Farm Island,
five miles down the river, and went into
camp for a couple of days last week.
Owing to snow blockade in the east, c..
NJ. u st. p. freight agents would not re-
ceive perishable freight or live stock for
Milwaukee or Chicago a few DAYS the past
week.
George Dudley who was convicted at
Deadwood of the crime OF rape, and sem
fenced to serve one year in the peniten-
tiary, has been taken to the Sioux Falls
prison.
Articles of incorporation have been.
filed at Pierre for the Interstate Tele-.
phone Company at Sioux Falls, with a
capital of $4,000. Incorporators, G. o.
Bailey, j. H. Voorhees, and j. w. Carter.
H. E. Lloyd, cashier of the Bank of
Aurora has increased his interest in that
institution by purchasing enough stock to.
give him a one-half interest. The bank
hereafter will be under a new manage.
ment.
A Sioux Falls man is out in a letter pro-
testing against the sale each year of un-
claimed packages by the American Ex-
press Company. He says that the sale at
Sioux Falls recently was 'a first-class
swindle." !.
The "postofice case" at Canning in,
which 9. +. Hilgenbocker, is charged with
continuing to receive mail after another
had been appointed, and with continuing
to retain the postofice sign over his door,
Is stirring up local feeling in that little
place.
Superintendent of schools of Minnehaha
County has concluded to close the school
in Burk Township, which was recently
brought to his attention ON account of the
whipping of n Of the boy pupils. II is
understood he is now looking for a teacher
whose long suit is moral suasion and a de-.
sire to please.
The singers of the Methodist and Pres.
byterian churches of Aberdeen have COM
menced rehearsals for the production. the,
last week in March, of the sacred oratorio.
sThe Holy City," Mrs. r. N. Parks, the,
premier vocalist of that section, will direct
the music and sing the leading soprano.
part. The effort will be the most preten-
tious of the kind ever attempted in that.
city.
The Eureka Telephone Company has.
elected the following officers: Presidents
VIM. Robb; vice president, E. q. Ken.
nedy; secretary, G. N. Herried; treasurer.
Walter Poehler; general manager, j. w.
Guhin. Work will be commenced soon
and Eureka will not only have a local ex-
change but will have long distance tele.
phones to- three county seats of Of rail-.
roads, viz: Leola, Mound City and Ashley.
! Eureka Telephone Company has been
incorporated with . capital Of $500.
Inquiries for land in the vicinity Of
Chamberlain are more numerous than ever,
before.