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Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1898-08-19
DEBT OF SOUTH DAKOTA.
1t Has Been Considerably Reduced
During the Past Four Years.

1t is Il matter of interest TO all South
Dakotans that in all the group of north
west states South Dakota is the only one
which has materially reduced its debt in
the past -four years. Beginning with an
empty treasury Treasurer Phillips has
taken up all the Indebtedness which bears
over 5 per cent. interest, and by the end
of this year there will be but little if any
outstanding debt bearing over AZ per
cent. AS an instance of the financial
standing at this time, a firm of New York
brokers who are holding one of the few
blocks of 4i1a and 5 per cents. which are
yet out, have made a proposition to the
treasurer to fund their securities into 319
bonds providing they can get an extension
of the time for which they are to run.
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1898-08-19
ABERDEEN DAMAGE CASE.
Sergeant Wilkes win Bring a Ltbe
Suit Against the News.

Sergeant Wilkes, formerly a member Of
Troop d, Grigsby's cowboy regiment, has
decided to bring suit for libel against the
Aberdeen News, alleging injury done his
character by the printing Of an item some
time ago. stating that he had been dis
%honorably discharged from the regiment.
Wilkes returned to his home in Sioux
Falls from Camp Thomas about two weeks
ago, a shadow of his former self. He
brought with him his discharge papers
based on a surgeons certificate Of disable
ity. Endorsed on the back of the discharge
was the following: 'Service faithful and
honest; character excellent" This was
signed by Capt. John Foster of Troop B.
lie was an inmate Of the hospital for
thirty days and, a council of surgeons
being held, it was decided that he he dis
charged honorably and sent home. This
was accordingly done, and Wilkes arrived
in Sioux Falls the last week in July.
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1898-08-19
THE NEWS OF THE DAY
SOUTH DAKOTA HAPPENINGS IN
CONDENSED FORM.
The State Board of Equalization
Fixes the Rate Of Assessment
Levy of 8 Mills on the Dollar, 4
Mill Less Than Inst Year.
Tax Lexx of Mills.

The state board of equalization and as
scssment has completed its work and
made a tax levy of three mills on the dol
lar, which is one mill less thar the levy of
last year. The levy is two mills for the
general fund and IN mill for the board,
interest and sinking funds. A flat levy of
I2 mills vas made on telegraph, telephone,
express and sleeping car companies, which
is in lieu of all other taxes in tho state.
The valuation will be practically the same
as it was last year.
Resolutions were presented bearing on
the question of railroad assessments, N
by the governor asking for reconsideration
of the assessments for the purpose of a
raise and the other sustaining the action
of the board, as being based IN valuation
fixed by the railroad commissioners who
We're in "a better position to judge of actual
value than any individual member of the
assessment beard.
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1898-08-19
Ferretine out a Murder.

A brother of William Graham, the man
who was mysteriously murdered in
Gregory County, has arrived at the scene
of the crime to assist the authorities in
ferreting out the perpetrator of the deed.
Graham was killed by a rifle shot. the ball
having passed entirely through his body.
The body was then taken across the line
to the Rosebud Indian Reservation and
concealed in a dry and shallow well. The
officers nov believe they have o clew to
III murderer.
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1898-08-19
Alleged %Niurdcrcrs.

The preliminary hearing before the
Justice court at Watertown of Henry
Walker and P. E. Gallagher, charged with
the murder of a man found in a car several
days ago. showed evidence sufficient to
hold them for trial at the next term of
court. The evidence showed that the
murdered mans name is p. E. Gallagher,
whose home was at Gibson, Ohio. He
was travelling through the country. The
man arrested who gave the same name is
Henry Elliott, and lie assumed the name
of the murdered man in order to secure
cash for a bank draft made payable to
p. E. Gallagher, the property of the
dered man. j. V. Gallagher of Newark,
his brother. He will take the body back
with him.
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1898-08-19
State Fair at Yankton,

Yankton is making great preparation
for the state fair, which will he held from
September % to 30 inclusive. The citizens
and leading business men of Yankton
have put up a 5000 guarantee that all
premiums will be paid to winners. The
speed program covers fifteen races of all
classes with purses from 500 to $500. The
management is putting the grounds and
race track in iirst.class condition to be
one of the fastest and safest tracks in the
United States. All railroads in South Da-
kota announce one fare for round trip
during the fair week, return tickets good
until October /,
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1898-08-19
Half Breed Indian Captured.

Harry Rouse, a half breed Sioux belong.
ing at Yankton Agency, who escaped from
Jail at Chamberlain, has been %racaptured
and returned after suffering unusual pri-
vations. After making his escape he
headed overland for Yankton Reservation,
To elude his pursuers he was compelled to
travel entirely at night and lie hidden in
ravines and brushwood along the Missouri
River in the day time. He did not dare
stop at ranch houses for food, and wa
forced to subsist during his entire 100 mile
journey solely ON berries and Missouri
River water.
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1898-08-19
Shortage OF school Teachers

Indications are that there will be a def.
CHENEY of teachers for the common schools
Of Kansas this year. instead OF a surplus.
as there has always been heretofore.
State Superintendent Strykcr. who has
recently returned from an extended Off
cial trip through Kansas says that all
county institutes have a small falling OF
In the number of teachers.
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1898-08-19
Valuation Much Lower.

With returns on real estate as a basis,
the valuation returned by the assessors of
the state this year, instead of being prac-
tically the same as last year, will be very
much lower. While the assessors returned
an increase of 100000 acres of taxable
land in the state, the total valuation is S.
100000 less. The average value of lands
last year was put at 1928 per acre, while
this year it is but $4.05, so that with an in
creased acreage the valuation has de-
creased. Town lots have also fallen off in
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1898-08-19
Cr.me of a Drunken Brute.

Policeman Henry e. Hawlcy of the
Tcmderloin station In New York City.
while LII u tit of drunken rage shot his
wife. his mother. Mary Hawley. his T.
year-old sou and his 0-year.old daughter.
lie then shot himself in the head and died
soon afterward. Mrs. Mary llawley. the
mother of the policeman. and the two
children died at the hospital.
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1898-08-19
Anatchtsts Fire GU Police.

While a policeman was arrestinga mill.
tant anarchist uamed Williams in Brussels
the latter shot and wounded tile officer
and escaped. lie also shot several persons
who attempted to capture him, but was
finally arrested. Later the police visited
Williams lodgings. where they found two
anarchists, who promptly opened fire on
the officers. The police replied. fatally
wounding one. Ills companion was cap-
turad-
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1898-08-19
Young Woman Eicctrocutcd.

While leaning from u window of the
Shamokin Valley Knitting Works at
Shamolin. Pa. Miss Jennie Allison, aged
IL years. was e%lectrocuted by her nose
coming III contact with u telephone wire
that hat been crossed by u live arc light
wire and thus charged with 1900 volts Of
electricity. She had tier feet resting on o
coil Of steam heating pircs at the time.
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1898-08-19
Case of Infanttcide.

The decomposed body of an infant was
found last week under a bridge on the
Milwaukee road, a short distance north Of
the penitentiary at Sioux Falls. The
children who were at play near the spot
and who discovered the body reported the
discovery to their parents and the author.
ties, who took charge of the remains.
Physicians who examined the body state
that the child was murdered after birth.
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1898-08-19
Illinois BANK Fails.

The doors of the bank of wavcrly. Ill.,.
Albert Booilrer president. failed TO open
Saturday morning. On the front window
was posted a placarL announcing that the
bank was compelled to suspend payment
because of inability to procure enough
funds TO meet the demands upon tile bank
The banks liabilities are all the way iron,
500, coo to 5000, 900.
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1898-08-19
New Telephone Line.

A new telephone company has been
organized at Aberdeen under the name of
the Central Dakota Telephone Company.
They will build and operate a telephone
line from Brookings to Pierre, with a side
line branching out 10 all towns of any inn
portance on either side. When completed
the new line will fill in the gap between
the lines OF the Dakota Central telephone
lines on the north and the Western Elec.
trio Company on the south.
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1898-08-19
Indians object to the Fence.

There is considerable dissatisfaction
among the Indians of Pine Ridge agency
over the building of the wire fence along
the northern border of the reservation.
Raymond j. Smith, who represents the
Ogallalla council Of Indians, las started
for Washington from Pine Ridge for the
purpose Of presenting the matter before
the president and the Indian Commissioners
and prevent, If possible, the building Of
the fence.
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1898-08-19
GARCIA QUITS FIGHTING.

Report Brought to Santiago by an
American Who was with Him.
A Santiago dispatch says: Jack York of
Pennsylvania, who has been serving with
Garcia, the Cuban general, has arrived
here, and reports that Garcia has sus.
pended operations for thirty days and
given his men permission to go home,
with instructions to report to him at tho
end of that period.
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1898-08-19

Roosevelt's Rough Riders Arrive
Rooscvelt's rough riders arrived at Jer.
sey City Thursday III their way to the
camp of recuperation at Montauk. l.. 1.
Eacl, section as 1t arrived was taken over
to Bay Ridge on f%erryboats. at Bay
Ridge the men we're sent on a special train
over the Long Island Railroad.
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1898-08-19
Governor in the Guard House

Governor Barnes of Oklahoma was
prisoner far over two hours In the guard
h"use at Fort Reno a few days ago The
governor and his stat, utttred as civilians.
made u tour of the camp. After spending
some time in camp they were challenged
by . private named Big Israel, q half
breed Indian, who. on their failure to give
the password and countersign. marched
them on "a the guard house.
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1898-08-19
An Outlaw Killed

United States Postofice inspector Rice
q posse of citizens has killed Will Nail, an
outlaw. who murdered F. q. Taylor, post
master Of Melville.
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1898-08-19
a HEARrRENDlNa SIGHT,.
Enbarkation of the Sick Spanish
Soldiers at Santiago.

SUItIIcrN ut S0nttnNO.
The embarkation of the sick Spaniards
from Santiago Wednesday on the Alicante
was Il most pitiful sight. They were
brought from the hospitals on stretci,ers,
in wagons and upon the backs of THEFT
comrades. often scarcely stronger than the
sick e they bore. The docks we're
lined with officers and soldiers, who sup
ported Or carried their wives and daugll-
tiers. Tile American wagons and ambu-
lanccs brought carloads of miserable,
cOl0rlcss skeletons. 1t was a h~eartrending
spectacle.
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1898-08-19
CHICAGO BREWING COMBINE
Thirteen Concerns in the Windy
CITY form n Co%rporation.

ThIrtccn Concerns In the Windy
City form a Corporation.
The deal by which thirteen beer brew.
ing concerns Of Chicago become a New
Jersey corporation under the title of the
United Brewers Company, was consum.
mated at the Office of the Continental Trust
Company in New York Saturday. The
company has a capitalization of IS. 100000,
and the nominal incorporates are Fred
erick Dwight, Brooklyn; John T. Tracey,
Jersey City; Philip Abren, New York;
Sherman Evarts, plainfield, N. j., and II.
w. Thomas, New York. The company is
to brew lager beer solely in Chicago. with
out the intention of extending eastward as
was rumored.
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1898-08-19
TURNS UP AGAIN.
carran.a. the Spanish Spy. Reap.
pears In Montreal,

pears In Montreal.
Lieut.. Ramon de Carranza, formerly
naval attache of the Spanish embassy at.
Washington. who was supposed to have.
sailed for England three weeks ago. in &C.
cordance with an order from the Canadian
government to leave the country. reap
peared at Montreal again Thursday. He
refuses to say where he has been. n. H.
st. Pierre, Lieut.. Carranza'. lawyer. says
that the lieutenant has been on a visit to
st. Pierre. M,quelon. experimenting the.
sending Of blockade runners to Cuba Dis
work being over now and peace at hand.
he has gone back to bid farewell to his
friends before leaving for Europe.
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1898-08-19
water Company Wins Its Case,

AVo OW0O
The case of Farwell ct al. VS.. the Stur.
gis Water Company has come to an end,
the water company winning. 1t is a case
wherein the plaintiffs (farmers) seek to
stop the water company from using water
which they claim would penetrate through
the hills into their farms. Tie case has
once been in the supreme court and was
remanded. No appeal will he taken.
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1898-08-19
In q California Wreck.

Word has been received from DR.. v. T.
McGillicuddy, formerly dean of the state
school of mines at Rapid City, stating that
he had gotten out of the hospital in San
Francisco. lie went through q railroad
wreck thirty miles out OF the city and sus.
tanned u dangerous injury internally which
oecessitatel an operation.
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1898-08-19
Will Go to Omaha.

Tie Dcadwood fire department decided
at its regular meeting to attend in a body
the National Firemen's Association, 10 lie
held at Omaha September s to 10. The
Deadwood department is n of the best
equipped in the state and the members
confidently expect to get a portion of the
$1,000 prize money.
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1898-08-19
Buys Dendwood SCHOOL Rond..

Tie school bonds, to the amount Of Slo,-
600, which were voted recently for q new
school building at Deadwood, were taken
by the American National Bank Of that
city ut a premium Of &l65. Workhas com.
menced on a fine school building.
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1898-08-19
su6ocated Dy Fire Damp.

Oliver Barth and his son. aged IS. both
lost their lives by descending into a we'll
at Upper %Sandusky. Ohio. where there was
s'ire damp" The son went down first and
was %asphyxiated and the father descended
TO help him and suffered a like fate.
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1898-08-19
Turn Over Citizenship Role.

Judge Ciayton's rule requiring Ispar-
hecher of the Creek nation to turn over to.
the Dawes commission the rolls of citizen
ship of the Creek nation or show cause
why lie should not do SO, has had the de.
sired effect and the commission is for the.
first time In possession OF the rolls OF the
citizenship Of tile Creek nation. The
commissioners are now enrolling the
Creek freedmen at Muskogce. I. 7.
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1898-08-19

100000 Fire in New Orleans.
A fire in Osborn's Turkish bath estab-
lishment in New Orleans penetrated into
several large Canal Street retail stores do.
ing considerable damage TO stocks. The
loss will approximate $500. 600.
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1898-08-19

Another Safe Robbery in the Hills.
The safe in the Derby saloon at Terra.
vile was broken into and about $S5 in
cash AMI other vaiuables were stolen. The
work was Gone by expert safe crackers,
Identical with the recent safe opening in
DeadwOud.
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1898-08-19
Accidental Discharee.

Albert sheaf was seriously injured al
Altamont, Willie resting the muzzle of a
shotgun on his foot. The gun was ac-
ctdently discharged, severing three toes,
and splintering the foot.
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1898-08-19
skaguay was in Flames,

A Especial from Vancouver. B. c., says
the steamer Farralin il In port from
Skaguay. The purser says that when she
left skaguay the town was in flames, and
that the fire was fast approaching tho
dynamite stores with NO prospect Of check
ing II.
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1898-08-19
Huron,s college, BuIdine.

The work of putting in complete order
Huron college building isprogressing. and
1t will be completed in ample time for the
opening Of the fall term Of that Institution,
September 90. Chairs In the various de.
partmenS will be filed and the faculty
completed In . short time.
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1898-08-19

Near Circle City, Klondike, men who
were trying to trace a coal vein found
the richest gold deposit ever before dis.
covered in that region.
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1898-08-19
John Baker Found Murdered.

News has been received of the brutal
murder of John Baker, a single man, liv-
ing fourteen miles south of Bristol. When
last seen alive Baker was in company with
a stranger, who has disappeared, as also
has Bakers team and quite a sum of
money known to be In his possession.
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1898-08-19

Salmon Packing Season Closes.
The salmon fishing on the Columbia
River closed Friday last. The seasons
pack amounts to 1884, 600 cases, which is
5000 cases below the pack Of last year.
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1898-08-19

A pardon has been issued by Gov. Lee
for Thomas Morse who was sent up from
Roberts County five years ago on a charge
Of manslaughter.
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1898-08-19
outck Work at Porto Rico.

Quick Work nc Porto Rico.
Gen. Greedy is advised that n hundred
miles of military telegraph are now in
operation in Porto Rico connecting the
points OCCUPIED by the United States
troole with the cable station at Ponce.
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1898-08-19

a steamer collide with an iceberg and sink
soon after. The fisherman said that the
steamer looked like a passenger ship and
he could see the people trying to launch
boats, but she sank before they could do
anything.
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1898-08-19
STEAMER STRIKES icEeERa.

Fisherman Confirms Story of sinkina
of an Unknown Vessel.
The mail steamer Virginia Lake arriv.
cd at Tilt cove, on West bay, $50 miles
from st. Johns, N. r., bringing corrob.
GRAFTON of the reported loss of an ocean
liner in the Straits of Belle Isle. A. fish
erman at Noddy bay reported that he saw
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1898-08-19
Russia to Try Dynamite Gun

1t is announced in st. Petersburg in
view Of the success which attended the use
of dynamite guns in Cuba, the minister Of
marine proposes to mount such weapons
on four Russian warships. Their use will
be extended IL they turn out satisfactory.
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1898-08-19
he heaviest individual losses are:

A pet monkey belonging to a gentleman
In Ottawa, Canada, deliberately commit.
ted suicide. Climbing to the top of his
large cage, he secured an old coat which
hung on the wall outside. He tore the
lining from the garment, and, making one
end fast at the top of his cage and plac-
ing the other end around his neck, jumped
toward the bottom of the age. He was
found in this position strangled to death.
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1898-08-19

Protect Americans in Guatemala
The United States steamship Alabatross
left San Francisco Saturday for Guate.
mala. 1t carried a large amount of am.
munition and is fully prepared TO protect
American citizens should occasion arise.
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1898-08-19
OHIO RIVER OVER BANKS

Two Hundred Thousand Dollars
Damage Already Done.
The floods in the Scioto valley in Ohio.
have covered over ~, 900 acres of corn land
in the Scioto bottoms, in the immediate
vicinity of Portsmouth, causing a loss of
over $4,000. 1t is feared the loss will he
Increased fully 800, 900 more as the rivers
were still rising Saturday.
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1898-08-19
Damage by Monday Night's Fire Es.
timated at $75O,OOO.

The total loss in Bismarck, n. D., from
Monday nights fire will be from $GOO,OOO
20 $75O.OOO, with insurance not to exceed
S25O,OOO.
The heaviest individual losses are:
Joseph Hare $4,000
First National NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.. 5000
Merchants Block ................ $4,000
Postofice Block 2O.OOU
:. H. Phelps. 3l,OOO
Northern Pacific Railroad. ......... $4,000
The daily morning journal and courier., 1898-11-05
Brief Mention.
High water to-day, 3:15 a. m.
 Buy a lot s1oO. R. E. Baldwin

High water to-day, 3:15 a. m.
 Buy lot s1OO. R. E. Baldwin.
 The members of Golden Rule encamp- ment, l. O. o. F., had an old fashioned oyster roast in the basement of the Odd Fellows building Thursday even- ing.
 ter the next regular meeting of the Martha Washington temple, Ladies of the Golden Eagle, on Thursday even ing, November 10.
 Mrs. Smith of Eld street, wife of the H. H. Olds pie manufactory, left this week for treatment at a hospital by Mrs. Downes of Eld street.
 The democratic association held a ganization, room "A, Insurance build- ing last night and talked over the pros- poets of democratic successsin the va rious wards in the coming election.
 The many friends of Miss Martha Bull is of Humphrey street, sister of Mrs. Whaples, wife of Clarence G. Whaples, the job printer, will regret to hear that she is dangerously ill. Miss Bulls is well known member of Humphrey street Congregational church and very highly esteemed.
 Miss Ryerson, of St. Bartholomew S church, New York, and the national secretary of the Daughters of the King of the Episcopal church, together with Mrs. J. w. s. Peck of New Haven, vice president of the Connecticut Daugh- ters, and Mrs. Jarvis of Seymour, ad- dressed the young women of St. An drew's church, Meriden, in the parish house of the church last evening.