Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1898-08-26
Spray oai| tbe Springs.


Kava Kola,
The New Tonic.
DIR. F. Shreve and wife are at the
Gillespie.
Miss Creese and Miss Thomas left
for Omaha Monday, after a very enjoy
able stay of two weeks here.
Call at the Big Department. Store
and get a free sample of Pillsbury's
wheat Food. 1t is the best.
The faculty of the School of Mines
are out on a six weeks exploring trip
on the mineral belt of Southern Hills.
Since the recent epidemic of homi.
cide.inthe Northern Hills, even the boys
of the belt towns have taken to settl-
ingtheir disputes with deadly weapons.
Mr.. and Mrs. Reed of Madison, Neb.
left for home Monday evening. Mr..
Reed has been quite an invalid, but
returns home much improvedin health.
The Sturgis postofice was robbed ON
Wednesday night of last week and s16O
in cash and money orders taken.
THERE'S no clue to the identity of the
thief.
Miss Ina Phinney had an exciting
runaway while driving, last Monday.
No harm was done beyond spilling
things out of the wagon and scattering
them along the road.
Vigorous attacks are being made by
the city marshal, and the railroad
people on the Russian thistles, which
are like the poor, in that we have them
always with us, and also like the
Almighty, in that they are everywhere
present.
John Barth, of Milwaukee, will erect
a mill at Keystone in the near future
for the treatment of the ores of the
Bismark mine a large body of which
has recently been opened. Supt. Mat
ties has gone to Chicago to purchase
the machinery.
Letters from the boys of the First
South Dakota regiment from Honolu-
lu on the way to Manila give graphic
pictures of wholesale seasickness, and
of a royal reception in the city where
an elegant and very satisfying dinner
was rendered them.
Miss Clara ID. Coe of Deadwood has
been appointed state chairman of cor.
respondence of the Federation OF
Woman's Clubs. Mrs. Gossage of the
Rapid Jaurnal elegantly says "this
makes Miss Coe the head push of the
' state" in the club movement.
, George Welge, a Lawrence county
, ranchman, tells the Pioneer-T Times that
he will harvest 1900 bushels Of pota
!, toes from seventy acres, and 10000
!, bushels of wheat from thirty acres
These crops were raised without irri
): cation. Farming don't pay in the
. Black Hills.
;, 1. R. Grow, who has published paper.
successfully in Rapid City, Buffalo
Gap, Cascade, Sturgis and Deadwood
besides various papers in divers and
. sundry other places, has purchased
the Bald Mountain News. John
Skinner. the former publisher, made
a shrieking Gee of the newspaper
business, and has retired on his
8 laurels.
i. A Deadwood lady hid her diamonds
" in the stove, covering them with ashes,
and then forgot about it. After the
. family, the neighbors and the police
had been sufficiently worried she re.
y membered, and dug them up. We are
= assured that the lady is not an actress,
and this not an advertising scheme bu,
all her friends know that she has dia-
monds.
- Miss Cahoon, who has made bel
= home with MI. and Mrs. w. w. Stewar,
for several months past, left for tn,
home of her mother at Marengo Ills
= last Friday evening. Miss Cahoon ha.
> been a great favorite in Hot Springs
society during her residence here, anc
. her departure will be keenly regretted
= by a large circle of admirers. It IL
hoped that she will return soon t.
remain permanently.
. W.. j. Fullen, deputy sheriff, of Siou,
!" City Iowa, died suddenly last Sunday
. aged sixty years. He came here SOM
Il !. time ago i'll the last stages of Bright.
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disease of the kidneys, with the inten
ton of taking the baths. DR.. Stewart
u however, under whose treatment hi
placed himself, forbade the baths as b.
believed him to be beyond help. Mr.
Fullen was a veteran of the civil war
IS His remains were shipped to Siou,
. City Monday night.
= L. G. Faris started for Chicago las
Saturday evening. Mr.. Faris has beer