Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1899-05-26
COMING ENCAMpNIENT
Old Soldiers and Their Friends to Flock to
tile Black Hills June Seventh,
Eighth and Ninth.

Eighth ana Ninth.
The Sioux City Journal of the 18th
contained the following excellent men
tion of the coming encampment and of
Hot Springs, also containing hand
some half tone cut of the Home and of
Commandant Linn:
"The annual G. A. r. encampment of
South Dakota will be held at Hot
Springs during the second week in
June, and it is expected that from the
cities, towns and farms of the state
Grand Army men and members of
their families and their friends to the
number of 800 will swarm into Sioux
City from the evening trains from the
north June 5. They will tax the hotel
accommodations here and create quite a
stir for while. The next morning the
excursion trains to Hot Springs will
leave at o'clock, and with luggage for
weeks stay and tin cup for the
Grand Army dinner which is to be
served at Long Pine on the trip the ex-
cursionists will roll out of the North
Westerns station and away.
"Indications are that the encampment
in this Black Hills city is going to be
largely attended, as the railways have
made special rates from Missouri river
points and for side trips in the Hills.
One of the attractions of Hot Springs
itself, of course, is the South Dakota
Soldiers Home. When he was in Sioux
City some weeks ago Col. Arthur Linn,
commandant of the Home, said he was
glad that the veterans were to have
s'the opportunity of seeing the benefits
and comforts for those who are march
ing along to final roll CALL" There
are at present, he said, 1919 old soldiers
who are spending their last days in the
handsome stone building on the hill
which slopes to the town of Hot
Springs, to the baths and the railways.
Among these old soldiers the coming
of former comrades and their friends
has for weeks been foremost topic of
conversation. At the Home Maj. A. G.
Cleveland is adjutant, Maj. B. A. Wade
surgeon, Capt. w. P. Phillips quarter
master, and Mrs. Arthur Linn matron.
The board of commissioners are as fol-
lows: Col. Edgar F.. Clough, of Dead
wood, president; A. L. Van Osdell, Of
Mission Hill, secretary; H. Gunderson,
of Vermillion, treasurer; and @. s.
Palmer, of Sioux Falls, and Col. o. E.
Dewey, of Watertown.
II SIT is some thirty years ago that
thirty invalid veterans of the civil war
were transferred from the Soldier
Home at Leavenworth, Kan, to Hot
Springs to undergo treatment. It is
rsaid that all but two of the veterans,
} by the way, were restored to health,
and that this fact was so convincing to
the congressional committee that it re-
commended that the proposed sanitar-
, ium for veterans be located there.
1.-THE annual encampment of the
Back Hills Soldiers and Sailors asso.
citation will be held at Hot Springs at
the same time that the South Dakota
Grand Army men are gathered there
and this will attract veterans Of Ne
braska, Wyoming and Montana, and
promises to be one of the most ei.joy
able reunions the old soldiers Of thu
northwest have held. The surround
ing country offers many novel attrac
. tions, and the sight seeing which viii
be done will be entirely new and YER,
j, 4 interesting to great many who attend
'In itself Hot Springs is an unusua
kind of place; the baths about which
, the town was built, largely through
l the efforts of Col. Fred Evans, former
{ ly of Sioux City, are Of remarkable
virtues, have daily flow Of over mil
lion gallons and are of varying tenn
J. peratures, the hottest being l03 de
b grees Fahrenheit. The largest Of the
, springs are the Minnekahta, Lakota
a Stewart and Catholicon. The primi
g tive tub, hewed out of stone, of moe
casin shape, and large enough to con
9 tain several persons, still remains a
.. the Minnekahta spring where Re'
Dog and his contemporaries will
q whom the treaty Of purchase for thes
a lands was made by the government
d used to come, as did their ancestor
q for generations, for their infrequent
a aboriginal baths and for relief in cas-
a of illness. Their legends refer to thes
q springs (Minne, water; kahta, hot-ho
water) as beneficent gift of the Grea
"a Father. End of the century apprecis
a. tion has erected statue to Hygei
{. near the Hygeia spring house.
I "From June until October the street
"a of Hot Springs are filed with glitter
"a ing traps and rumbling three-seatel
by which Wind Cave, Cascade Spring
and even the Bad Lands are visite
and fashion, suffering and ennui mall
o, daily pilgrimages to the bath hous,