Daily press and Dakotaian. [volume] (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1875-1880, 1880-04-05

Wildwood is having q grand boom.
A dastardly attempt has been made to fir
Deadwood.
1t Is feared that chicken pox will become
prevalent in Deadwood.
The population Of Rapid City is sieadil,
and rapidly increasing.
a fatal malady Of a peculiar nature ha'
broken out among the hens in Deadwood.
A grand reception was given to the rev
Congregational minister at Lead q shor
time ago.
A few of the Deadwooden citizens are rict
In their mines, and q host Of them are rich
in their minds.
An elegant private German will be thu
next entertainment given BY the Episcopa
ladies Of Deadwood.
The Oratorio o Queen Esther will be givel
In Lead City soon for the benefit of the Con
gregational church.
The Rapid City Journal says that whez
good weather is being enjoyed there, til,
general prospect is heavenly fair"
Rapid. City builders have found, nea,
town, an inexhaustable bank of what they
consider the very best of plssterins sand.
Col. Donan says that nowhere in til.
world is the average dimension of the femi.
nine foot divine, smaller than in Deadwood
James Clinton, Of Rapid, the original dis
coverer of the rich King Solomon mine,
thinks he has found another great bonanza
A 'cute little brick" weighing over two
hundred ounces, the result of . seven days
run of Flora Bell is on exhibition in Dead.
wood.
A new mine just located out from Dead.
wood on the Central road has been named
the Taxpayer, and is one Of the coming DO.
Danzas.
Deadwood Pioneer: The "l5" idiocy is
fast dying out, but there is q sweet fifteen OF
sixteen idiocy that, like kind words, should
never die.
A flower in full bloom was plucked from
the hillside to the south Of Rapid last Thurs
day. It was a bright purple, bell.shaped
flower Of large size.
The Pioneer says that exactly six months
have elapsed since Deadwood's cremation,
yet q stranger would fail to discover any
traces Of that great disaster.
The farmers down in the Rapid valley
are now busily engaged sowing grain. The
frost is out of the ground and the soil is in
just the right condition for easy blowing.
From a gentleman who recently visited al
most every county In Nebraska, the Dead
wood Press learns that the immigration
from that state to the Hills this summer will
be immense.
Rapid CITY Journal: General Campbell.
United States attorney for Dakota, will have
an elegant residence built in Rapid at once
-as soon as the necessary lumber can be
get on the ground.
II is told in ~strictest confidence that Edi-
tor Miller. of the Deadwood Evening News.
has q new night shirt. 1t lie all wool. cut
blasting, stripes run all round, and ruf1ed be |
fore and behind. No one knows how it
leaked out.
There is no doubt that the major portions
of the Rapid and Box Elder valleys are M.
derlaid with good coal beds. Good coal has
been found in three places within : few
miles of Rapid City within the past three
weeks.
It is nov conceded on al. sides that irri-
CATION will be no more necessary in the
Rapid valley than in southeastern Dakota.
The rainfall is as great there and "a fire.
quent in the summer season rs anywhere in
the Mississippi valley.
There has been nothing done With the
quicksilver mines of the Black Hills for
over a year, simply because the capitalists
are after gold and silver. But thar there
is quicksilver In Pennington county-pure
liquid quicksilver, in regular deposits-hss
been fully demonstrated.
A Rapid City telegram Of March 9th con.
tains the following: Great excitement here
over new placer discoveries on Rapid creek
four miles from here. Six-bits NIT the dsah.
A new district has been formed. A gravel
bar NO thousand acres in extent located. /
Captain West has named . new town iust |
laid out, "Cramerville," in honor Of the Pill
oneer night shift.
A colony of twenty Danish families ba.
been started near the crossing of the Belle
Fourche valley inthe northern portion of the
Black Hills. Their farms extend fully four
miles along the banks Of tie river. Only one
person out OF that number has visited Dead.
wood. The, Press says strange q il may
sesm 1t is almost safe TO say that hundreds OIL
people are living in the various valleys oil
whom the same may be said.
Deadwood Press: This camp lent much
for style, that is among the lords of creation.
bit when 1t comes to the fair sex, why then.
we'll hold our v with any city or camp
il the union. To give outside ladies an
ides Of the kind Of clothing their sisters ia
the Hills wear, We will mention that lace
gsrpished skirts, and chemises worth $50 =
pisce. are common articles of traffic with The
DR. goods merchants Of Deadwood. Wal
WIRE shown . number of the above 1~rticles
this morning when We 10 our simplicity
asked the polite clerk il they sold any oil
them, be gave the most plying smile ever
DeSD, 10 doubt 1eeling sorry for our iRuo |
rance, and assured % It vas quite an ordina.
thing to sell those articles. We sighed.