Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1899-10-06
WEEKS HAPPENINGS
SOUTH DAKOTA EVENTS IN A
CONDENSED FORM.
Date Now Fixed for the Muster Out
of the Members of the First Vol
untccr Rcgimcnt-WiM Embark
Immediately Upon Becoming Free
Datc Eixcd nt OCT. 8.

| Special correspondence from Frisco.
The First South Dakota Regiment will
he mustered out Oct. 5. If the special
train to he provided by the libcrality of the
people of South Dakota is ready on that
date Col. Frost says he will start for home
with the regiment the same day. II is not
certain yet what route tie regiment will
take for its homeward trip. There is some
talk of securing u steamer to transport it
from here to Portland, whence it may go
by the Great Northern. In that case three
companies will he switched off to the Black
Hills and the others will go OH to Sioux
Falls, whence they will be distributed to
their destinations. 1t is not understood
here that there are to be any formalities or
a general reception to the regiment when
it gets home.
With a lively appreciation of the treat to
soldiers just landed from Il transport that a
good meal presents, which appreciation
dates from the hospitality extended by the
North Dakota regiment tOtlle fighting men
of the South Dakota on their arrival in
this Port. the South DakUtans are making
extensive preparations TO entertain the
Montana regiment. o expected to arrive
at any tine. Practically no expense. will
lie spared to make the feast a memorable
one in every respect. Eacll collnany will
take care of the corresponding N Of the
Montana regiment in its mess house.
There will. be Il prOfasipm Of decorations,
and the meal, while teciihically.a soldier
dinner. will not lack any of the good things
that The market affords-and it lis con-
coded that nowhere In the world do the
markets abound SO greatly III ever! thin.
that ticlles the palate of the gourmet.
Above all the feast will be Favored with
those two sauces more potent than any
concocted by skillful chefs with condiments
and spiecs-a heartfelt welcome and the
appetite that waits upon abstinence.
The welcome is now taking the place of
the interest that until a few days ago CEN
tered around the coming of pay day. That
has come and gone. and with a months
stipend in their purses the boys feel that
the financial atmosphere has heen cleared
considerably. The health of the regiment
is exceptionally good. There is very little
sickness Oh the PresidiO reservation, the
only serious thing being nh outbreak of
smallpox in the Thirty-t first Regiment, as
a result of which the general hospital has
been quarantined and the entire regiment
removed to the government quarantine
station at Angel Island. Fifteen men who
have been exposed to Il suspected ease have
Dcen lSOlateu Ill u camp Ill II remote pdtt vi
the Preside reservation.
There is IL great air of business around
the South Dakota camp, where much work
is being done getting up the records pre-
paratory to being mustered out. Troops
are constantly arriving and departing,
making this a busy military depot. The
famous Thirty-third, composed largely of
Texas rangers--a fine fighting regiment
is the latest to arrive. Among its officers
are many men we'll known in the service
and in civil life.
Necessarily there is little that by anv
stretch of the imagination can he called
news in camp these sunsliny days, when
the most serious complaints are that the
wind is too fresh off the sea, or the dust
interferes too greatly with good house
keeping, or that there are amy camp rcgu-
lations to observe. Many good stories arc
told of the c~ampaign-SOmc Of them new.
while others are OF events that were OF
such moncntous interest that they will be
told to the grandchildren of the present
soldiers when the actors III them are under
the sod. The stories cannOt fail to have q
living interest TO all who hold kinship to
all who hold kinship to the actors in them.