Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1879-08-20

land is now open for settlement, q
recent order to that effect having
been made.
OUn DEADWOOD LETTER.
DEADwooD, Aug. 9Th, 1879,
EDIroR CoUR1ER: Yesterday, the
there was q horse race at
Fort Meade that was largely attend
ed, but this time it cost more than .
skinned cranium-it cost = human
life. Jacob Behrman and Joseph
Cramer were returning together in .
buggy, when in coming up the gulch
in some naccountable way, horse,
buggy and men went over the bank
onto the rocks one hundred feet be-
Cramer was killed, skull
smashed. Behrman terribly injur-
ed. Horse rendered useless. Sure
" the wages Of sin are death, and
yet I know Of no three classes Of
persons that are slower to recognize
the fact than attorneys, fire insurance
agents and the average country edi-
tor. A fire at Fort Meade yesterday
destroyed the suffers store Of Fam
chon q CO. Loss 100000. Cause
incendiary.
This h not . first class place to
raise children. For instance, I no
ticed ! lad about seven years Of age
smoking ! cigar on the street the
other day, l said in q mild and
kindly voice, MY boy, throw the
cigar away you don't want to learn
to smoke" The lad with some 9TH
ers stopped, and the one smoking
looked square at me and in q very
positive and plain voice replied,
1You Just 90 to hi" Seeing that
/ had approached him in the wrong
way or had mistaken his age, I said
no more. Two theaters every night
flourish in Deadwood. A band pa
rades the streets each evening, and
they do play my Granfather's Clock
and When | am under the Daisies
Darling, too nice for anything. A.
Z. Peterson, A. L. Doe, Ole Doe and
Peter Edwards of Sphinx Township
and Andrew Anderson of Brule, are
all located at Central and are work
ing. in the mines. Although absent
they still have q longing for old
Union, but the finances call for a
change.
On Main street there are 40
saloons. On Lee street there are
seven in . row one door after anoth-
er. More men get full on Sunday
than any other day. Everything in
full blast, no screens, doors wide
open. Quite often in going to break
fast / see men lying prone on the
sidewalk bruised and dirty. Some
get snaix and some get boa constric-
tors and then wont quit, and one is
led 70 say 20 whiskey, you are the
dewitt"
The hills are 20 high on each side
Of the gulch that the sun rises on
the city ct 6 o'clock and sets at 6.
IL ono wears linen pants during the
day, 10 30 comfortable you must
change at supper time for wooden.
Tho average whacker speaks of a
pair Of three year old steers a. "dai-
sies," and claims that with twoyears
more age they would be "darlings."
When 8 team gets stuck one driver
after . trial or two ono driver will
remark to another who has come up,
Fl Guess Ne had better burn them q
little" and with 4 lash from Is to
20 teet ii length the business begins,
and 70 see the hair fly and the hide
raise il amazing to q tender foot.
The cattle will get their narratives
between their legs, round up their
backs and low, and oct altogether as
II they would like to 20 through
their yokes. There are some very
fine opportunities for BerRh to oper-
ate between here and Pierre.
OF hotels the WEIGH, Wentworth,
Overland and Hilary's Restaurant
~ the leading ones. The WEIGH
house i 80 BY 400 feet, the first $50
5eet j. two stories high and the rear
80 y three stories high. Every
thing there, ike the boys lemonade,
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