Daily press and Dakotaian. [volume] (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1875-1880, 1880-03-09
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psctol. il ON the eve Of . boom Of. pros
perity.
Sunday is the ~liveliest day Of the week IN
Dead wood.
Servant girls are less plentiful 10 the
Hills than bonanza kings.
Rockford needs Q bank. and wants to or
eanize fire department.
The Deadwood bar conprises over thy
members Of The legal fraternity.
A number of new stage stations vii! soon
be located on the Pierre route to the Hills.
The snox was three feet deep on q level
last,week, between .Deadwood and Rockford.
Vim. Darr, q miner, was found dead In
his cabin In Bessie gulch. near Central, last
Friday.
Custer City has a spelling stho'l, !a
Masonic lodge, Q rOusing lyceum, sud Q Tel
ephone.
The German Mennerchor, in Deadwood.
ia gradually increasing in membership and
proficiency.
An old man living In Black Tai! gulch
wears and carries on his person $2O,VVV
worth Of diamonds.
Trains will be running on one hundred
miles of the Cheyenne and Deadwood rail-
road BY August Let.
The Dead wood Times thinks tina. some
of their fifty lawyers would be more sue
cesstul as carpenters.
Dan Scott says aye don't tell on q woman
out In the H Ils. Tue longer che lives
there the " unRer sh- gets.
The man Who was accidentally shot in a
slaughter house in Deadwood, q short time
ago, died last Thursday evening.
A mother quarreling with her son. both
using prntane and obsc, nc l. nguage, make
the nights hideous at Central.
With commendable zeal the citizens Of
Rockville are erecting . large school
house by voluntary contribution.
Tue telephone line between Sheridan and
Rockerville ia about completed. 1t will be
extended to Rapid City as soon as possible.
The sad, startling. shocking. sinful intel.
ligence has just reached US that Colonel
DOnan of toe Pioneer, has q wart behind
OILS left ear.
The miners of the Homestakc company
have bid defiance to the weather, and
worked right through the worst storms of
the winter.
They say the republicans of Lawrence
county are papping, while the democrats
are already picking up all the slack In
their line of policy.
The richest ore in extent that has YET
been found in the Central Hills was struck
on the "Lou Ray" lode in Friday Gulch
at q depth Of forty feet.
The Rapid CITY Journal thinks that the
Cross mine in Harney's Peak contributes
one of the most important features of the
|, mineral resources of the Central and South
ern Hills.
1t is currently reported that there is
counterfeit mint somewhere in the Hills
probably 10 Deadwood. Large plumbers 81
counterfeit quarters and dimes are largely
in circulation.
The mine owners of the Hills are taking
Q lively interest In Col. Lnunsberry't
T scheme for advertising the Hills. and ar,
contributing largely in the way of infor'
nation, and literally in the way of tn
siueW.
The Deadwood Times SAYS that If tn,
politician who is now packing the "gtrl'
and the gang" and the church on hi
shoulders, don't stumble before the No.
vember election, he is q good one and vii
get there.
Deadwood Pioneer: Clerk of the cour
: Washabaugh is a frank fellow in act ant
speech, and the reporter true friend {; h,
8 u.ver lets them go hungry for vant of mea,
hut We can't say whether he courts the muse
: or not.
Rapid City Journal Mr.. John Hide
0 brand, Of Deadwood, is mentioned az a prob
able candidate for congress. He is a mai
t Of mo.t excellent Judgment. and is other
wiee naturally qualified to gil the position
J. and he has never prominently figured j,
party politics, which would be greatly t
his advantage as a candidate, in the opinio,
of many.
The first ladies in the Rockford nininI
9 camp we're Mrs. Myers and daughters; tn
first marriage ceremony vas performed b,
Justice c. 1. seip, and the parties theret'
were w. W. Smithson and Miss Hannal
L Thompson /; the first birth occurred Jan 9Th
1873 the frat church service was 5eld i,
q December, 1873; the first saw mill was pu
up in November, 1873. and the first schoo
, was taught in June, 1878.