Daily press and Dakotaian. [volume] (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1875-1880, 1879-10-31
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Dsadwood has al organization Of Of,
j seetlars.
Deer and antelope are herding In Il
, hoshtlls In great numbeEs
The daily average Of express mater int
Dsadwood - about 5000 pounds.
Dipthssia is raging to an alarming exlen
in Pactola and immediate vicinity.
The Caledonia mill IL said to b the mos
complete 60.stamp mill In the Hills.
Our boot md shos Arm, In Dsadwood, sole
POO worth Of goods In q day, mostl,
Several hundred new lock boxes hav,
been put into the Deadwood post office sinca
the fire.
Our Fort Pierre freight line delivered IN
Deadvood IN one day 10000 pounds Q,
merchandise. +.
The big snow and rain storm in and
around Deadwood, did mot reach to the
Southern Hills.
7. J. Hammer, former local for he En-
terprise. = preparing to issue . daily paper
in Lead City soon.
A female ghost 10 . nightly visitor at 4
certain cabin near the Caledonia mill site,
in Deadwood gulch.
Dsadwood is talking of erecting brick
fire walls, running from one street to anoth.
o., throughout the city. .
In upper wildwood gulch the fall Of
snow was . foot deep OF the level, on the
seventeenth of this month. 6
Deadwood Times: Fred Evans has put
up q frame building in front of his freproof,
reaching out to the sidewalk.
The new building to be occupied BY the
Daily News Of Deadwood will be completed
and taken possession of next week.
Rev. Whitfield of Deadweod, has recently
changed from Methodism to Congregation
alism, and is nov located at Rapid City.
A family by the name of Kineen, of
Custer City. have lost three children within
the last six weeks. All died of mountain
fever.
Nearly $4,000 acres of timber land has
been burned of near Rapid City. 1t will
be safe 70 predict . scarcity of wood in that
section.
Central City has water company. The
supply Of water comes from three springs in
the gulch above Central, ii the neighbor-
hood Of Golden Gate.
Ice forming on the telegraph wires, to the
thickness of . mans finger, bore them to
the ground in dozens Of places between
Lead and Custer cities.
The county seat of Custer county has
been removed from Hayward to Custer
City, and that city aims to be the metropo.
lis of the Southern Hills.
Pioneer: Five hundred feet of hose con.
l okSt,Htnu The A0n~S,nk ~~- ~ hA~N w.
hundred more and two hose carts are en-
route and will arrive shortly.
A new town has been started south of
TigerviDle, known a. Junction City. Al
ready thirty-eight houses have been erected,
aud building is going OF constantly.
The big silver mill upon the Florence
mine, in Bear Butte district. is now in
active operation, and from all accounts is
the greatest bonanza in that country.
The First National bank building in
Deadwood is being rapidly put up, and up
on its completion will be the finest building
in the city. 1t is to have an iron front.
A freighter encountered a number of In
dams near the junction Of the Pierre and
Sidney. They treated him with great 20.
likeness and themselves to what tobacco he
had.
Since the fire in Deadwood the streets Of
that city are n perfect jam and blockade,
making it impossible to move in any d.
rection without the aid Of . policeman with
q club.
Unfortunate Deadwood was threatened
with another c~onflagrstion the evening OF
the 18th. The fire started ON lower main
street from sparks from . stove pipe, pro-
jecting from q roof.
Pioneer: Something is evidently wrong
somewhere when we'll known character can
laugh at justices and tell them they now
have the bulge on them, but the days Of
timing offenders have passed away.
Lead City barely escaped being cremated
one morning a short time ago, . FIRE
started from a paper being carelessly
thrown near the stove, in . building occu-
pied q . millinery store. No serious loss
was sustained but it was a close call.