Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1878-05-29


lasted a week, and when it ceased five feet of
of snow upon the land indicated its
severity. Scarcely had communication
lished, when this later cyclone burst,
dashing to the ground all hopes for an early,
long and unparalleled season of prosperity.
A more gloomy place than Deadwood, during
unfavorable weather, cannot be found.
Streets and stores are deserted, and hotels,
wretchedly forlorn. At the several gambling
saloons, concert halls, dance houses and
theatres, we find small gatherings, but the
faces and actions of the people indicate more
a desire to ''ki]l time' than fancy for the
place and surroundings. Times are very
dull at present, in fact, they are of charac
ter suggestive of an oft heard remark that
''the bottom has fallen out of the Hills De-
spondency and not correct appreciation
of circumstances incite the expression.
There are more people in this gulch, to-day.
than there were year ago, and more money
than at any time last season. But the
personnel is of an entirely different charac-
ter, and the population is scattered over ter
ritory thrice the size of that inhabited dur
ing the great rush of II.
CONTRAST.
year ago and the proportion of stage ar
rivals, with those coming in on foot and
with freight trains, was about one in seven.
Now, the reverse is the case. Every coach
is crowded. A year ago Deadwood con-
tanned full complement of business houses
of all kinds, and dealers realized
handsome profits. Competition in
creased, however, until now we have
surplus of at least eight establishments of
every legitimate pursuit. Each catches
little trade, but it is SO badly cut up that
large sales and profits are no longer realized.
The season is very backward. Miners have
done little more than prepare for work, No
gold, scarcely, has been taken from the
grounds everybody feels poor, and loudly
complain of hard times. Thus, say, that
the promiscuous damning of the country as
fraud is unjust, and unwarrantable by any
fact.
THE LEE MURDER.
The examination of Geo. w. Bell
for the murder of G. E. Lee, relieved
the past week of much of it's
monotony, and revealed character in the
person of the murderer, about as thoroughly
depraved as tbs possible for man to become.
BELLS not over % gears of age, yet, if few
of the many reports be true, he has fully
earned the privilege Of being hung. He is
accused of the murder of Marshal O'Connor.
of Leadyille, Col, April 25th last; of the
abandonment of a young and estimable wife.
He was committed to await the action of the
grand jury at the June term of court. In
appearance he is five feet eleven inches tall:
heavy frame; light complexion, sandy
hair, smooth face, large mouth
and brown eyes. AS he is
said to be an escaped convict from the
Minnesota penitentiary, give the descrip-
ton for the benefit of your authorities. He
has several aliases, including Merrill, Brown
and Lee.
OTHER CRIMINALS.
Yesterday was also field day in the JUS
tees court, and terminated by the holding
to bail. of four notorious bunko men upon
the charge of robbery. One of their vic
TINS, Mr.. E. G. Dwinnell. of Minnesota,
departed for the East on Wednesday, first
converting his cash, $215, into check upon
the N. w. Stage company at St. Paul. At
Crook city he was capped into throw
ing dice-':top and bottom game
and of course lost his money. He therefore
returned to this city, entered complaint and
caused the arrest of three Of the most no
torious operators in the country-s'Doc.' y
Baggs, ''Denver," and Dan Rice. On the
following day, the gang successfully
marked another Bismarck passenger, and
he in turn had others of the blackleg fra
ternity arrested. Baggs and Rice were dis
| charged for lack of evidence. Baggs is the
head and front of the ''sure thing men" of
the bills, and in costly fitted up Office
next to my hotel concocts schemes to be
executed by his associates in crime.
So dexterously does he operate that he vir-
tually deties our courts and laws, and, as a
result, the vigilance committee are consider
ing the propriety of giving him twenty four
hours time in which to leave town.
Owing to the stringency of the times,
there is very little square gambling to be
seen in town, while heavy confidence trans
actions, losses at ssbrace games,'' robbery.
etc., are constantly reported.
At the Eureka, there is keno and faro game
the former never open after IL o'clock
At Morton's old club house, a
door or two below, there are
five faro games, two Of which are surround
ed night and day by crowd of spectators
and players. The others are poorly patron
lied. The proprietor of this institution has
recently built and opened an elegant, spa
cious club room on Lee street, opposite
WEIGHS, which, in decoration and appoint
ments, surpasses anything ever beheld in a
mining camp, Brussels carpets, lace curtains,
silk lambrequins, massive chandeliers,
richly upholstered furniture, elab-
crate sideboards containing the shospital-
ity'' of the house, and every detail
that could add to the beauty and allure
ments of the place are visible in regal splen-
dor. This is an exclusive resort from which
FOUNDERS professional gamblers, and the
rough element generally are excluded. Two
faro, a roulette and several whist and poker
tables are arranged in the roon1 and are in
variably surrounded by class of men who
would blush to have it known that they
were habitues of a gambling hell. The city
is overrun with professional gamblers, many
of whom, / fear, are deserving arrangements
for much more serious offences. How they
live is the mystery to honest men, and is ex-
plainable only upon the hypothesis that they
are the pampered proteges of debased
women. Z. F. w.
The Sugar Yield of Cuba.
HAVANA, May 28.-Actual receipts of sugar
exceed last years at Matanzas, Cardenas and
Sagua. while the receipts at Havana and
Mantanzas is 1000 tons less than last year. 1t
is estimated 500, 600 tons have been made in
the whole island. The yield is now falling off
considerably. Because Of the great heat and
rains the season is much advanced.