Daily press and Dakotaian. [volume] (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1875-1880, 1879-05-06

assert itself in the manners and customs Of
water men.
NORTHWESTERN GLEAHIHes.
Leadville tramps are beginning to make
their appearance in Cheyenne in squads Of
from four to six.
The legislature of Montana has passed q
law requiring the owners of scabby sheep
to keep them in an enclosure six miles
from any corral where other sheep are
kept.
The largest train of the season started
from Helena, Montana. for the railroad on
the Goth. 1t was Murphy, Neel s. Co.'S.
OK train, and consisted of 81 wagons, %
bullwhackers and $50 head of cattle.
The railroad and stage companies are
now carrying emigrants from Chicago to
Helena for $5S. This is second. class car
rates, and Schuttler wagons on the stage
road running from the terminus to Helena
in eight days.
Mr.. n. NJ. Hill writes from Clancy, Mon
tana, that a gold ledge, said to be Of mar.
velous richness, has been discovered about
six miles below that place, and a - great ex-
citement prevails over the discovery. The
new mine is called the Bonanza Chief
and was discovered by Messrs. Boyd and
RAIDER.
Bob Casey, the young man who got lost
while carrying the mail near Benton and
passed nine days and nights without food,
and who was so badly frozen as 10 require
the amputation Of both of his feet, is about
making a tour of Montana for the purpose
of raising q sum of money TO take him to
his home in Wisconsin.
AUnion Pacific surveying party of twelve
men. under the direction of Mr.. A. p.
Wood, has gone to Columbus, Neb., to make
the preliminary survey of a proposed north
branch Of the Union Pacific, starting
from Columbus, and called the columbus
and Northwestern railway"
A Maine man, formerly a trunkmaker in
Massachusetts, travelled 10 the new town Of
Leadville, Col, where he went into partner
with a Kentucky photographer, and for
a few hundred dollars purchased a claim
the town. Unlike many unfortun.
ates, they struck silver and within three
months have become m%illionaires.
Since the LIST of last September, when
Secretary Schurz announced his decision
concerning the Union Pacific land grant, the
following prescriptions have been made: At
the Grand Island land Office, 1888; Lincoln,
1Sl; Norfolk, 159; North Platte, l3; Bloom.
%; Salt Lake, 139; Denver, 4; Chey-
enne, "a; Evanston, 4.
There has recently been invented a system
Of sluice boxes by which the placer miner
can catch the fine -four gold which has here
eluded his grasp. This invention has
been tried in the Snake river mines in south
eastern Idaho, and diggings which did not
oay expenses with the ordinary set of sluices
yield a handsome profit with the inn
proved method.
A letter from General Stark, vice presi.
lent of the Northern Pacific railroad com.
AMY, says: I'VE shall be in the Yellow.
tone valley with our railroad next year.
\ movement is being made TO commence
work 10 eastern Washington territory.
hundred tons Of rails are now
being shipped around Cape Horn for the
road, and 9 corps of locating engineers is
on the way to that section"
A time schedule of the special train or.
dered by the national democratic committee
to take Hon. John Whitaker, congressman.
elect. from San Francisco to Washington,
in time to take part in the organization of
the house, shows that the whole distance
was made in four days, fourteen hours and
thirty minutes actual running time. The
speed of the train averaged thirty-one
miles per hour between San Francisco and
Ogden and tifty-one miles per hour he.
tween Cheyenne and Sidney.
The Silver State, a Nevada newspaper,
publishes the following lively cArd:-"My
husband, Jim Barney, the ugliest man that
ever lived, has left my bed and board with.
out any %iusti6able cause. 1 used to do all I
could to make him pretty comfortable, and
in spite of all my wishes he would cut up
like the devil and run after women. Now,
l want all the women to notice this act Of
mine. l won't pay a darned cent Of his
debts, and l hope no one will return him to
me, COS l don't want him. Maria Barney.
Big Meadows"
The Arizona Enterprise says:-"Amonl
other wonderful things in Arizona, tradition
has for all these ages pointed to the north
eastern portion of the territory as the sea
of the great mountain of gold, a cone who's
sides were said to glitter with crystal quartz
veined with drops and threads of virgin
gold. That in all the world this was tn
great storehouse Of the precious metals ha
been believed for ages. A prospector claim
that he has discovered the place designatet
by tradition as the Mountain of Gold an,
that its richness in reality is fabulous"
An officer and twelve men, detailed to &C
company the Bannock Indians to Fort Hall
their new reservation, waited upon the In
dams and read their orders. The sscon,
chief, who speaks fair English, said in sub
stance: II am not going to Fort Hall, an,
you have not enough soldiers to take m
there. Iknow how it ia at Fort Hall. Fo
. week or two I will be fed and cared fol
and then I will starve. There is no game j
that country. We will not go to Fort Hal
We will live on the Yellowstone, where v
can find something to eat" The officer an
command returned to Ellis, and have report
Cd BY telegraph to headquarters.