Daily press and Dakotaian. [volume] (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1875-1880, 1880-01-22
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Eggs are sl.oo /. dozen in Deadwood.

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Eggs are Sl.00 a dozen In Deadwood.
Three funerals q day occur At Deadwood.
II Is reported tha, the new Custer paper
was issued Jan. 18th.
Deadwood ia soon to have a new steam
machine which will make $4,000 brick II
day.
Building, brick laying, painting, and
such work are pushed ahead in Deadwood
all winter.
Milton E. Pinney, of Central, has just
celebrated his nintY-fourth birthday by
having a party.
The weather in Deadwood is delightful,
the thermometer ranging from so to so de,
grees during the day,
Woolsey the murderer of Coburn has
been held for homicide, in bonds Of $4,000,
which he readily secured.
A funeral procession. with two hearses at
its head, was an unusual and solemn specta-
Gle in Deadwood recently.
The Vincent theatrical management of
Deadwood tender a benefit for the relief
of the sick and suffering in that locality.
Five hundred shares OF the North Star
gold and silver mining company were sold
at Lead city in one day, at so cents per
share.
Twenty houses are in course of erection
at Custer City, and double that number of
old aud deserted ones are being repaired
and furnished.
Col. Rams, a we'll known mining expert,
went to Central from Deadwood Jan. II, in
perfect health, was.at once taken sick, and
now lies in a critical condition.
The trouble between the Grand Junction
aud Lily ofthe West mines has been ami
cably settled. The Grand Junction compa-
ny bought the claim of the Lily ofths West
for 81 500.
The Bougkton murder trial was brought
to a sudden close the other morning in Dead
wood, because of the sudden arrival of q
ten pound baby at the house of an impor-
tant female witness. The Pioneer says it is
a regular outlaw, guilty of fragrant contempt
of court. i.
The Homestake miners are on a strike,
which was occasioned by the order of the
superintendent to pay them So per day in
the place of 5 $3.50 they had been getting.
The consequence was they all refused to
work, and are now demanding more than
they formerly earned.
Patrick Purcell, a well known miner died
at Central, after an illness of only twenty
four hours. The epidemic is confined pTfin-
cipally to Lead, Central and Golden Gate.
Al Golden Gate there are twenty-eight
cases at Central, seventeen, and at Lead,
thirteen.
The d%iphtheria and pneumonia epidemic
has ragged for over three weeks in Deadwood,
and continues undated. Twenty-four fatal
cases have occurred since Jan. l, of which
number nine were @thildren under eight
years of age. DR.. Glenn, a prominent
physician of Lead City, died this morning,
after an illness of only four days.
The doctors disagree as to the cause Of the
malady, some attributing it to impure water
others to climatic influences, and others still.
TO the !mpurity of the atmosphere caused
by great quantities of garbage and filth col
lected throughout the upper gulch during
the past four years. The plausibility of tn,
latter theory is demonstrated by the absence
of sickness in Deadwood, which was puri
fed by the September fire,
Reports from Golden Gate to the Dead
wood Press are almost beyond belief, az thu
following will show: "The scenes of dealt
and desolatioa that present themselves il
that camp are sufficient to strike terror t,
the s,outest hearts. 1t is said that people
fit about az noiselessly as phantoms ane
speak only in whispers for fear of disturb
ing'th- sick. Nearly every other door ha
the emblem Of death and mourning, crap
fastened to the knob, viii lie the sobs Of til
monrners aud the gro4ns of the sick len,
additional fri ,htfnlness to the scene. Men
stout and robust and in full glory of mani,
strength and proves are smitten down will
the epidemic, and In a few short days, an,
sometimes only hours, are low and stiff ii
the embrace of death. So far the diseaa
has batied all medical skill and tn
greatest CONSERVATION prevails on ali sides