Daily press and Dakotaian. [volume] (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1875-1880, 1880-02-13

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each forty acres thereof during aperiod Of
three year,.
THE BLACK aLls.
A night school has been opened in Gus.
ter.
Fort Meade has INDUCED 10 . leap year
ball.
Building ia going on extensively in Custer
City.
Custer City will be divided into seven
wards.
Lawrence county hss . "Frieud in need
mining Co"
Rapid City would make q splendid tele-
phonic centre.
There is an immensely Of ore expoeed in
the Cross mine.
The new hose company in Deadwood is
called the "Piutes."
Twenty-Five pupils are enrolled at the
school in Rockford.
There is not lease Of diphtherla OF pneu.
monia in Rapid City.
The reported average of the Atlantic mine
will be $45 to the ton.
Mr.. Atwood of Deadwood has invented
adry copying process.
There was not . single crop failure in the
Rapid valley last year.
Gen. Dawson and wife, of Deadwood
have gone east on . visit.
The De Smet mill has had an accident
and is shut down for repairs.
The stage line between Custer and Dead.
wood 10 experiencing q boom.
The leading capitalists Of the Hills have
property interests in Rapid City.
]. L. Taylor, formerly Of Yankton, has
opened . law Office in Custer City.
Over three hundred men were paid off
last Thursday at tine De smet mine.
Rubber ovefcoats for the Deadwood fire.
men, have been ordered from Chicago.
Rapid City hopes to be eventually the
general distributing point for the Hills.
Anew local man has taken possession of
the local columns Of the Deadwoo Pioneer.
Rapid City positively needs q good strong
banking house with extensive connections.
There is an immense bankers safe
waiting at Sidney to be transported to Gus
ter.
David Fales, aged sixteen, died at Dead
wood Feb. 9Th, after a long p~rotracted sick
ness.
The Knights Of Cyrus, Of Deadwood, are
making preparations for . grand installa
ton.
The Lightning mine, seven miles west
from Custer City, 10 fast proving itselfs bo-
nanza.
Rapid City will have, before the close of
the year, one of the leading grist mills Of
the west.
Nearly every brick building in Deadwood
10 supplied with fire and burglar proofd doors
and shutters.
A $1,000 clean up of Esmeraldi ore
through the Hidden treasure mill, is the
latest excitement.
Col Donsn has been struck again. This
time ii lie one of Cupid's little darts, 1t hit
hard and stuck fast.
Experts claim that the amount Of gold
now in the R0ckerville basin will amount
to over $2,336. 100000.
A seven foot breast Of big paying quartz
has been brought to light in the Champion
mine in Spruce gulch.
The Elizsbethtown school Is now one of
the best attended and conducted institutes
of learning IN the Hills.
The Times man has been permitted to
witness ore that produces Q dollar to the
pound, or $4,000 to the ton.
The Custer City Chronicle deems it per
fectly safe to predict that ca. ter will DO the
first rsilroad point in the Hills.
A tea store in Rapid City, to be owned
and conducted BY Mongoliaas, is one Of the
probabilities of the near future.
One Of the eminent dlyines. " think at
Deadwood, Is doing oil 10 his power to
expose Masonry and Odd fellowship.
Deadwood claims to have On irregular"
physician who receives an astonishing /
number Of isits from women after dark.
Gus N. Wood. formerly an engineer on
the Dakota Southern railroad and . resident
of Yankton, is o deputy sheriff of Lawr.
ence county.
There will be . demand, the coming sea-
Son, for three times the quantity of goods
that were consumed last year BY the people
Of Pennington county.
The clean up Of the Homestaks, High.
land, Giant snd Old Abe, Golden Terra and
Deadwood mines, for the month Of January,
il estimeted at $2S5,00o.
Last Friday mornings Sidney sage car .
rted out OF Desdwood several thousand
dollars 10 solid gold bricks, escorted By
seven armed messengers.
A retort from the E.msraldi mine valued
.: over 5000 and q brick from the Gale.
don's. of over $S.OOO we're deposited 10 the
DeadW00d banks, February 9Th.