The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1877-05-08
OUR DEADwooD LETTER
Scheming Seamps, Who Are Endeavoring
to Bull-Doze the Deadwoods-
men Out of Their Rights.
mendacious Meyer and HIS Mission "A
Word Aboa. the County Seat Business
TIE Returning Pilgrims.
lFom our own Correspondent

new territory to be- known as "Black
Hills, ~ Montenegro" "~Eldorado,'
or something, meets with the unquali-
fled approval of the people ofthis city
and vicinity. In my travels among
both Argonauts and newcomers, 1
find but one sentiment, viz: Annex us
to Wyoming and we will be happy and
contented. t.
Yesterdays coach was weighted
down with the gassy carcass of that
king of blow-hards, Cdr. and Hon." c.
W. Meyer, who, after a deadhead tour
to the capital of our country and other
points, is actively engaged in working
up a sentiment" in favor of IL new ter
ritorial organization. lie is the bio
waiting blow-hard who was originally
sent out by Il few of his bibulous
friends to represent the people of the
Black Hills in that puny body of imbe-
cile creatures, known as the Dakota
legislature. When he reached Chey-
enne his mission had changed and he
was then, as he said, delegate to the
Dakota legislature from the Black Hills,
with authority to go to Washington if
Dakota did not treat him well. He had
plenty of money, supplied him by
Deadwood people, and he could "'get
anything he wanted here" but that did
not prevent him from trying to make a
raise by borrowing from Cheyenne
men, though he failed to beat them out
of much lucre. Meyer was next heard
from at Yankton, where he undertook
to bull-doze the Legislature, and was
%summarily hushed. He then issued a
manifesto, declaring his purpose of Wis
iting Washington and raising the ID
generally, signing himself delegate to
Congress from the Black Hills" AT
ter this he snotf heard of; bat he was
undoubtedly engaged in his favorite
pursuit of borrowing money and lying.
1t is known that he reached Washing
ton and it is believed that he stayed
there as long as he could secure sufficient
free lunch to live on, but how he got
back here is something of a mystery.
At all events he is here, and as he oc-
casionally induces II lucky miner to
''set 'em up for the crowd,'' he is fol-
lowed by 4 coterie of sy~cophants. He
is endeavoring to create sentiment in
favor of n new territory and is already
disheartened over his poor success.
Deadwood is in a painful state of I'M
certainty vel the county seat question.
The county commissioners are n gay
and festive trio of snoozers who de-
serve detailed description. One is a
carpet-bagger from God knows where;
another is a resident Of Sioux City,
Iowa, while the third chances to be a
,bona-iide resident of Deadwood. All
ganized the ''Black Hills Town Com
pany," Established the town of Sheri-
dan at some remote and unheard of To-
cality out on the plains, induced the
location of the U. S. Land Office at
that point, and are now on the high
road to fortune, as it were. l men-
toned in my last the fact that 4 meet
ing had been called to protest against
the locating of the county seat at
Crook City. Well, the meeting was
held and adjourned Independently,
upon the announcement that the COM
missioners had agreed to reconsider
their action and locate the county seat
at Deadwood. 1t now turns out that
they have done nothing of the kind;
but that the only n who is here made
some sort of u statement to a citizens
committee which sounded good and
meant nothing. The excitement over,
the all-important question settled for
the nonce, is again rising, and / look
for loud times. $500
The tide of travel flows in undated
ly, and the streets are thronged with
men. As is the case in all new oun
tries, there is already a scattering
among the lazy and the discontinued.
Hundreds who had set their faces to-
ward Ell Dorado last year, were known
to have turned and sought their homes
before the golden Mecca of their
dreams was even in sight, and now
there are scores and perhaps hundreds
who have seen Deadwood and are sat
isfied. Many are of the class who, should
they enter Paradise and gaze upon its
wonders and attractions, would turn
and leave it with curses OH their lips,
others arrive penniless and hungry,
beg a meal or two, and walk out toward
home; others have a few dollars when
they get in, spend the night in taking
in the town." interview the tiger and
in the morning give their blankets to
some teamster for passage to the rail-
road or the river, and depart. The
Black Hills need them not. Drones do
not thrive in these mines and those
who come here to shovel up gold in the
streets must needs go back to the old