The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1877-02-10
The HsN,EL DeRaDo.

dsred by the SAvages.
fFrum the Virginia (Nev.) Chronicle. J. q
There il no regularity about. any
hing. A man opens aplac6 of bust
ness, and makes lots of money, then he
gets the prospecting fever, starts for
the gulches and shuts up his shebang.
When a place is closed up, it means that
The owner is out digging, has been killed
in a fight, or is off on spree, We have
no municipal Government at all. Every
man thinks he's Msyor of the town.
Every once in while the boys call a
mass meeting, draw up resolutions, ETC.,
and decide to incorporate the town and
have q Board Of Aldermen; but at the
end of the week nobody knows what in
h5- .hasC become,of the ,resolutions or
the Aldermen. I'VE start a. new City
Governmentevery two weeks, and burst
one every week-if there is any.
- III !. THE THEArER.y Sy-g-C
The orchestra chairs. are made Of
stakes driven into the ground, with D
round piece of board about the size of
your hand hailed on top Admission,
- so; reserved seats, IS. They run a
sort of variety show. and sling in the
jokes and stage business as broad as
possible The "ean-can was danced
for some time until the boys got tired
Of Il, and they said: !" Give ns-some
singin' or we'll clean out the place; we
want something elevadn'," and the
had to import female senti-
mental vocalist at big expense,to ap-
pease the patrons. She sung "Sweet
Spirit, Hear My Praysry' "Consider
the Lilies,"'," l Know, that My Redeem
er Liveth;S y and other his h-toned music,
and l though the boys would 60 crazy
with delight. But they got tired of it
in about week.
~ SALOONS. 4
There are saloons all over the place,
and whisky four bits a drink. They
pat two barrels up on end, nail q board
across for q bar, and deal it out A
miner who wants to treat .pours some
golddust on the barrel head and says,
!" Set 'em up" They never weigh the
dust. Some times q man won't put
down enough dust, but they never say
a word; and if he's little tight and
pours out ten or fifteen dollars worth
they never mention it. They have three
faro banks running all the while. They
don't use checks for the boys; when
they won q pile of checks they threw
'em all over the place, and some were
too drunk to handle 'em. So the checks
got played out. Now a man puts a lit
tie golddust in q dollar greenback and
it goes for two dollars. Ten dollars
worth of dust in ten dollar greenback
goes for twenty dollars, and so on.
They never weigh dust at all, but guess
the amount.
THE DEADwooD DAILY PAPER. p
We have daily newspaper-that is,
sometimes it's dail6, and then when the
oompositors get drunk it don't come
out for several days. II man wants
gun-wadding he goes and pays four bits
tor paper. Whenever they start a new
City Government they print lot of ordi-
nances; then there's grand rush for
the paper. Sometimes it comes out
twice q week, and sometimes twice a
day. - 77sz
A GROWING GRAVEYARD.
Every man in Deadwood carries about
fourteen pounds of firearms hitched to
his belt, and they never pass any words.
The fellow that gets his gun out first is
the best man, and they lug off the other
fellows body. Our graveyard is a big
institution, and a growing one. Some
times, however, the place is right quiet
I've known times when a man wasn't
killed for twenty-fOur hours. Then,
again, perhaps, they'd lay out 1--WE o,
six day. When man gets too handy
with his shootin' irons, and kills five OF
six, they think he isn't safe, and some.
body pops him over to rid the place Of
him. :. They don't kill him for what he
has done, but for what he's liable to do
I suppose that the average deaths
amount to about 100 q month. ',-, a.
THE HOSTILE sAvAGEs.
The country swarms with sem. Thet
swoop down on the small camps y,
night and kill whole parties. In one
camp, a few miles from DeadvO9d,
ffty-two men were killed in one night
But never saw,a 6ord about it in any
newspaper. The Cheyenne papers sup
press all such items, and if the Dead.
wood papers print. them they are
bought up at any price in Cheyenne
and destroyed. 1 have gone out several
times to hunt for men who went out to
prospect, and found them all dead.
once saw fifteen men lying around a
campfire where they had been shot
down and left. The Indians take their
arms, currency and coin, but leave the
gold dust. r-. r-.=
"a q THE GOLD DIGGINGs RICH zen
The diggings are Immensely rich.
600 a day right along. OF course,
every place isn't alike. Some men
don't strike such rich deposits, but a
man who is thrifty, saving and indus
trious can take away big stake at the
end of a year. The men who come
from there broke are shiftless fellows,
who gamble and drink all the while,
and squander every cent they get. l
have seen men put down q weeks run
of dust on . single card. There is no
limit to bets, and I have seen $1,000
put down on the ace, and it was what q
man had washed out Of the gulehes, in
weak. OF course the dealer took II.
Board is SIG q week, and every thing
else in proportion. The quar-. z claims
are discovery ROB- Flaw, Just before
I left, piece of quartz literally
honey-combed with free gold-more
gold than quartz. The piece was not
as big as my nat, and there was $500
in gold init Thereare DO stamp milf,
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