Lincoln County advocate. (Canton, Dakota Territory, [S.D.]) 1876-1877, 1876-11-29

The Deadwood Pioneer thus discourses
about the new gold "hnds' on Beaver
Creek Gulch, some 90 miles east of tho
Wolf Mountains, and about rs miles from
Deadwood: "Mr Patterson states that a.
the result eff his prospecting he found from
twenty to eighty cents to the pan, yet has
heard Of persons who have PANIED out as
much .ss one dollar and twenty five cents
from one pan Of dirt The average depth
1 Il. bed rock is about six feet, ana the indi.
cations are that next season the gulch will
b worked with the most satisfactory r.
suits, but Mr.. Patterson thinks the water
Of the creek inadequate for successful sluic.
Ing this seassn.-E1.
"A travelling man in the interest Of the
Sioux City Tribune visited the house OF
ting job wark and advertising. We con-
slider this check spiked on with brass nails.
-Courier.
| The notorious bandit of this section A.
J. Reed, who was recently captured in Har-
din county is exciting considerable inter
est in that region. He has confessed all
his crimes, and declares that during his
career he has stolen two thousand horses
and never yet been caught with one in his
possession. He has played very shrewd-
ly, and many times has ridden miles with
officers in pursuit Of him, pretending to
take deep interest in the thief and getting
them to describe him fully. He is being
guarded by four extra men besides the reg
ular officers, and there is no intention of
letting this expensive pet escape.-Fort
Dodge Messenger.
| In all this election muss Henry Clay
Dean has not been heard from until now.
A company Of scientists, investigating the
mounds Of Missouri, discovered very
curiousap appearing one in the northern part
Of the State the other day, and on digging
into it, found in its center Henry Clay
Dean, alive and we'll.
Next March will be the fourth time in
the history of our nation that inaugurA
ton has fallen on Sunday. It will not
occur again until 1905.
The wife of Silas Miller, of johnson
county, Iowa, cut her thoart with razor
few nights ago She had the consump-
ton and chose this way TO end her troub-
les.
Spirit Lake Beacon: "A rather anus
ing incident is reported from one of the
lower towns in this county. 1t is said
that a farmer IN that section called in
the trustees to arbitrate the injury his corn
crop had sustained by the incursions of =
neighbours hogs, and award 4 suitable
amount for damages. Accordingly the
trustees looked tho field over, and found
only here and there stalk with cob on
it, while all indications seemed to prove
that the grasshoppers were in reality tho
only aggressive parties, and finally arriv-
ed at the conclusion that the claimant in
the case should pay at least two dollars
aud-.a half forEfooling the hogs"
Orc of the blacklist deeds in the cata-
logus Of Iowa crimes vas attempted in
Davenport the other day, at the residence
OF VIM. H. Price, son of Hon. Hiram
Price. A little after twelve O'Clock tho
family were startled frsm their sleep by
fearful crash, and Nh. Price rushed down
stairs just in time to hear the explosion OF
great bomb shell, and to see the parlor
in flames Mrs. Price, hearing tho noise
from the room, thought the house on fire
and rushed out on an upper veranda and
cried for help. Soon it came and the
house was saved from destruction, but
only after great damage had been done.
1t was discovered that the shell had been
thrown In the bay Window four and
hslf inch shell-what army men call
six pound shell, being 1917 inches in cir
cumference, and had rolled under a sofa,
where It exploded, scattering destruction
everywhere. The day following the shell
vas examined by experts, who prolounc-
ed it a foreign shell, and one capable Of
more fearful work than an ordinary shell.
II is almost miraculous that tho shell did
not accomplish ito direful work in assas.
siainsting the entire family. The object
Of work is very mysterious. 1t is thought
that it may have boon An attempt to assss,
slnate Hon. Hiram Price, who lives with
his son and whose room is directly above
the back parlor where the shell was thrown
but who was in St. Louis at the time it &C.
cured. The Davenport City Council
have offered reward Of 81 900 for the
perpetrators of the deed-Er.
A German girl was at the depot in this
city yesterday on her way to Yankton from
some point in Minnesota, having been en-
gagged in the latter State for the past two
years in the capacity of y common farm
hand, receiving as compensation for her
services IS per month, or $50 per year
We would like to see the man who had
cheek enough to put this modest appearing
girl at work in the field at s. pr month
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