Daily press and Dakotaian. [volume] (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1875-1880, 1878-06-24
BLACK HILLS NOTES.

BLACK HILLS NOTES. w
Flour and all kinds of provisions are sell
ling at very low figures. sra
D~eadwoodites are making extensive prep
a~rations for an old fashioned spread-eagle
4th of July celebration.
Rapid City journal, 9Th: Stephen Flick,
father OF our townsman, Thomas Flick, ar
rived from Yankton on Tuesday.
For thirty-ive consecutive days prior to
the 9Th Of June it either rained or showed
in Deadwood. And yet "it never rains in
Dakota"
Ansley Gray, of Bismarck, is in the Hills
for the purpose, so q Deadwood paper says,
of setting up the pms in his own favor for
delegate in congress.
The Pioneer finds fault with the appoint
ment ofW. J. Thornby to the position deputy
sheriff of Lawrence county, and character
ierizes him as a '"defaulter n q rogue"
1t is reported in Deadwood hat gold
mines have been discovered in Powder river
which yield as high as Sis to the pan. A
considerable stampede to the new mines has
commenced. .44
Judge Bennett has a troublesome boil-it
interferes with his duty Of setting on the
bench-and informs a correspondent of the
Times that the best place to have a boil is
on another man's-hip.
The last evidence of the pre-occupation
Of the Black Hills by white men was the
discovery of a Colts revolver in a placer
mine, 16 feet under ground. The shooter
was manufactured in 1858.
Seek-No Farther is the name given to a
newly discovered quartz mine in Spruce
gulch near Deadwood. Seven assays have
been made from the ore, the lowest yielding
at the rate of $30.97 and the highest S4,956.-
81 per ton.
While Col. .Lounsberry was in the Hills
his admirers there presented him with a hat
and pair Of boots, but the paper which men
tons the matter fails to say whether the
colonel had any other clothes or not. Thus
equipped the colonel is expected to make a
rafting race for congress.
The U. s. district court, Judge Bennett
presiding, convened at Rapid City on the
Sd inst. There are Fl criminal cases on the
calendar. Fred. J. Cross was appointed
foreman OF the United States grand jury,
and the names Of the following former
Y%anktonians are among the list Of jurors
Alex. Mckenzie, John Lawrence, George
Trimmer, Richard Mathieson, Thomas
Flick and G. w. Tones. +.
Deadwood Pioneer: Messrs. Smith,
Pringle &. Co., at Lead City, yesterday
cleaned up nearly four thousand dollars
from ninety tons of ore from the %consoli:
dated Palmetto American Flag lode, near
Lead City. The average per ton is some
thing over forty dollars, and is particularly
gratifying, as it compares fayorably with
the returns received from Comstock ores,
which are not as easily and cheaply worked
as these.
Rapid City Journal: The. journal pre-.
diets that next year the honest miller will
be asking his toll as the wheels roll round
in a grist mill on Rapid river... The Fort
Pierre and Rapid City stage coaches will
ply along Rapid river for a distance Of
about eighteen miles, and through q thickly
settled farming region.....On Thursday
morning the delegation of Indians subpe'
naed in the case Of E-Chap sen-Te ala,
"Whipps," who is now in Jail at this place
arrived in Rapid from the Cheyenne Indian
agency, in charge Of DeputyiU. 8. Marshal
VIM. H. Fielder, who is al.o interpreter.
The party stuck up their tepee on the north
side Of Rapid, river, and the outfit consists
of two females, "White Buffalo Cow" and
1.-THE Woman With The Tongue Black Like
a Snake" and two bucks .Drags the Iron
and "White Robe" At this writing w
cannot state when the case Of Whips vii
be taken up. Za- A-Lateif 4
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