Daily press and Dakotaian. [volume] (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1875-1880, 1879-12-19
THE BLACK mis-.

Diamond City 10 . growing town neal
A 80 company Is about organized ia
Deadoood.
ed near Rapid City.
A grand Christmas ball will be given at
Rockerville Christmss eve.
The Homestske company paid outS7O,O 900
Dec. 10Th to their employees.
Marryingland giving in marriage is the
order Of the day in Lead city.
The HomeS1ke minera are receiving
$500 FER day. and shovclers $3.50.
The Grand Junction mine will be the
Eint patented In the southern Hills.
The Dead~ood Evening News is back
again to its original size before the fire.
The last footlngs of the census returns.
make the population of Deadwood, 1900.
Sheriff Moulton's son and only child, died
q diphshsris, . sRapid City last Tuesday.
The press and all mterprising citizens of
DeadWood are anxious for 4 town organixa.
ton.
One Of the richest mines yet discovered
In the Hills. 10 the Flora Belle. on Dead
wood Gulch.
A festival was held for the benefit of the
miners hoepitalin Lead city last week which
.et.ed $1,000
The opera Of, Pinafore Wa produced in
at Stones new opera house, last
Saturday evening.
One year ego Rockford contained but
one cabin, now there are $50 houses there,
aud 800 inhabitaute.
John H.. Burns and Andrew F. Burleigb,
have entered into partnership for the prac.
tice, Of law In Deadwood.
It is predictedsthat Standby mining stock
viii be worth more another season than
mining stock.
The Deadwood Pioneer is established in
is new quarters. nj of the handsomest and
buildings in Deadwood.
There is a corner on eggs In the Dsad-
wood market. They are firm at $l4 pr
case with a decidedly upward tendency.
The Times deems 1t perfectly sac to pro-
claim to the world, that within sixty 10
ninety days. Deadwood will be an in:orpor.
ated town.
The,frst illustrated paper ever published
IN the territory, will be the German week
y soon to be launched at Deadwood, on q
$4,000 basis.
A man by the name of Charles Gardner
vas frozen to death about sixty miles out
from Rapid City, on the Sidney stage road
last Tuesday night.
Fred Cross's mine in the southern Hills is
.aid' 10 be one Of, the most valuable mines in
the Hills, showing free gold IS richly as
ever did the Bengal Tiger.
A petition asking for an increase o. Judge
Moody's salary. from $4,000 10 5000. was
circulated sad signed by lawyers, bankers,
journalists, merchants, etc, Ia Deadwood re.
Gently.
A bridal couple in Deadwood, at break
fast, conversed as follows:
He-Sball l skin you . pertater, honey?
She-No, thank you, dearie; I've one
already skun."
While excavating ON new ground in
Deadwood, laborers uuearthed q masonic
finger ring, at the depth of ninety feet.
How it came there, or how long it had been
there, is the query.
The Lead City Toll company are build
ing q canal. for the purpose of turning
Wildwood creek, which will Strengthen
the creek, save two bridges, and make the
road shorter and letter.
The Deadwood News says: One of the
greatest placer strikes yet made in the Hills
was made a few days ago on Spring creek
IN Rockford district. SO far the result is
about 800 per week to the man.
The Deadwood Pioneer published an ex
ira large edition, besides its regular. o
papers containing the decision Of Judge
Moody on the Golden Terra mining case, ant
the Reno trial, and later a thousand supple
ments we're offered for sale, which barrel.
filled the demand.