, 1876-05-12
THE BLACK HILLS.


Private Letter from O Chfcasoan.
ULSTER c179, Black Hills. April 23.-I have
reached this place after hard struggle with the
neat and the cold tho rain and the snow, the winds
and 1he dust. ! got here this morning. Vaughn is
here also, and this afternoon went up French
creek,-the creek this town is located Onto sec
II it wouldn't pay to work some claims which are
open for us to ake, we have to wait Tor the OK
teams bringing our provisions, and the delay will
be unavoidable, as We must have more provisions
before We move farther north into the Hills, This
town stands badly in need Of provisions Of all
Kinds, food for man and beast.
You can 1maginc how bad the roads, and how Sc
sete ehe weather must have been, when it has
taken US twcnty-cight days to move over these 56O
miles between here nul Cheyenne distance that
has deen Travelled time aud ugain in fourteen avs
BY wagons no heavier 1oadcd than ours OF course,
ets, and nov prices Of groceries are: SIS to $40
per hundred for 1iour; bacon, 10 to 10 cents per
pound, ETC.. Thoe. truth Of the matter is, bad
"catAcf and lndlans are the cause OF all the
trouble. BAD weather kills the horses; and the
Indians scare, and sometimes kill, the people On
thst he road here M gausans experience and mine will
account OF massacre that happened last Sunday
(Easter- Sunday:
Charles Metz, . baker, who came here to do husi-
ness from Laramie City, WIS in wagon with his
wife and negro servunt, passing through Red Canon
aplace in the Hills where the road for II miles
almost is between walls Of solid rock hundreds Of
feet hlss, and where when were on the road
W. were told TO he very cautious, or some Of US
would catch it from, the Indians. Right ahead Of
Metz, about mile, were three other 1ncn-tyo in
the boly OF wagon, and one driving-the only one
that was mark for the lndnn shots. lie was fired
At and shot through the back. lie jumped out,
still whipping up his horses. running in stooDiue
position, keeping, his head below the bed Of the
wagon, when another shotatruek him in the calf of
the leg. When he came to the road where there Is
a eut-oH, he tried to take the short cut, but his
mules could not draw the wagon out Of the ditch
and he nnloosened it and made his escape; but the
men who were with him could not do 80. and were
hilled. The man now lies u rancho at Cheyenne
River, where conrcrsed with him. and is not like
to recover very soon II he RECEIVERS at ali Ate.
they shot him, they went back and attacked the
baker his wife and servant and killed the three
It was clear nlassscre. They have been in the
habit Of attacking small parties, and several per-
have lost their lives or been wounded on the
ea1ne route, ut different points, only few days
apart. There WAS almost Il stampede from Custer
when the news came, last Thursday, Of the Sunday
massacre. Business was at q stand~etill, at any
rate. P.J. Q'C.
r. S.-The effect Of the Indian fights have pass
ed away by this time, and, although this is Sunday,
house building is going on; one place is weighing
out gold dust; another place is putting up scaies to
weigh the same, and. altogether, tho little town
flor it IL only collection OF log houses has q
busy look, very uu Sunday like.