Daily press and Dakotaian. [volume] (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1875-1880, 1880-02-21
THE SLACK MILLS.

the Black MILLS.
Friday Gulch 10 . great center Of activity.
Hay 10 worth S22 per ton in Dead wood,
and scarce u that.
The court room 1t Deadwood VISA densely
crowded during the whole of the Boughton
trial.
A we'll defined ledge Carrying chloride Of
silver has been struck on the Golden Crown
mine.
The Queen Bee mine 1t Newton'e Fork,
has 2 large force of men ct work erecting
buildings.
The ore from the Lightning mine ne.r
Custer. is said TO fully equal / that of The
Bengal Tiger mine.
A grand ball will occur in Rockerville in
celebration of the anniversary of George
Washington's birth day.
There are forty farming families in the
Elk Creek settlement, and the settlers are
calling loudly for a postofice.
When the new mill is we'll At work in the
High Lode mine. it is expected that 81 900
per day will be taken out of it.
The Episcopal ladies of Deadwood are
talking of giving a series of literary enter
tainments through Lent.
D. N. Ely, of Custer, had the misfortune
to have his horse fall on him, by slipping
on the ice, very seriously injuring one Of
bis feet.
The ore now in sight in the Durango
mine is estimated at 5000 Ions. The gold
is very rich being found in quartz and
oxydized iron.
The Deadwood mine consists of 1000
feet ON the same lode as the Homestake and
Father DeSmet, and adjoins the Father De
Smet on the southeast.
Deadwood Piess: G. P. Moody and j
NJ. Stokes, the coal "oil crooks" we're com-
mitted TO Jail in default of $500 each to
await the action Of the grand jury 10 their
case.
The First National bank of Desdwood
have 700 pounds of the finest plate glass,
each pane being niue and one half feet high
by four aud one half in width, with which
to adorn the front Of their building. 49,
The Episcopal ladies of Deadwood are
preparing to give q theatrical entertain
ment for the benefit Of their former rector,
E. K. Lessel, who has been prostrated by
sickness ever since his departure from the
Hills.
The u Of the De Smet sO.stamp mill in
90 days produced 100000; at this rate the
200 stamps of the Homestake mills should
have cleaned up SAC, 900; and the aekre-
gate of all the mills on the "belt' at least
$500 600. or at the rate of $4,000, 600 pei
annum.
The Deadwood Times says: As evidence
of our hightoneishness We would state tbs,
during our three years. %sojourn in the Hills
we do not, to "our best knowledge and be.
lief" remember Of having ever seen a
calico frock worn in Deadwood, not even by
a servant girl.
By the 1rst of September the total O
duct of the mills In Central CITY and Lead
City will be at the rate of 5000, 600 per
month, aud $1,000, 900 per snnum: and The
total yield OF the Hills. at least, $4,000 600
per month, and 12,0OO,O 900 per year. jus,
put q pin there.
A scheme is on foot 10 Dead wood to
swell the Irish relief fund BY selling q sack
Of -four at public auction to the highest
bidder. The plan is to have each success
full bidder put up the sack. and when 1t has
had It's run 10 Deadwood to send it through
the upper camps. 1t is thought that by
this plan the fund can be run up to at least
one thousand dollars. !.
Deadwood Times The young fellows
who preside over the destiny of the Yank.
ton Press and Dakotaian have been fooline
with the Victorian Of this paragraph in the
columns Of their paper for the past few
weeks. That's all right enough; We don't
care, but we desire to warn them right in
this line that We are "laying for them" and
some day We expect to get them out here in
the Hills again, and then-well, We won't
give the job away.
Mrs. Simmons . principle witness in the
Beughton case. unfavorsble to Couk, made
the following impression Upon the editor Of
the DeadWo0d Times: Zone witness, Mrs
Simmons, testified yesterday for the prose-
cution and from the general appearance and
character oil this witness, were we upos
trial on q charge of horse stealing aud w
were entirely innocent, and she q witnee.
against US, we would be tempted to throw
up our hands, plead guilty, aud ask mercy
Of the court.
A lady acquaintance of the Deadwood
Times talks in the following manner. 81
know q woman at Central who probably
knows more about the murder than Mrs
Vandeventer. She saw q msn and woman
near Mrs. Collisions house late on the nigh
Of the murderer at least one of the per.
sons she saw wore Q dress and that persol
entered the house, and that person WASH
Couk. II Couk was one of the two be re.
manned outside, as the one who entered va
larger than Couk. She watched thei
movements and made close observations.
A good deal Of testimony favorable =
Couk Was giyel during the trial of Mr..
Boughton. but he vas sentenced to b
hanged just the same.