Daily press and Dakotaian. [volume] (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1875-1880, 1880-03-27
GENERAL HILLS EXPERIENCES IN nloBRAR.
From the Pioneer, March 16.

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The departure of Gen. Geo. D. Hill, ex.
surveyor general Of Dakota and active Sec
rotary and general manager of the Missouri
& Niobrara Valley railroad company" ha.
met with disappointment until to-day. Las
Monday week this railroad magnate crossed
the river from Running Water, where he
had, to tell his own story, Slept for two
nights on the floor with an Irishman. who
had failed to keep his toilet up to the mark
Of cleanliness" and registered here at the
Hubbard. He at once informed the land.
lord of his business as connected with the
above railroad company, and was directed
to the best room in the house. s. Draper
was afterward entertained with the railroad
scheme, of which the general claimed az fol-
lows: This route is now recognized a. the
north branch of the Union Pacific road, pro.
vided for in the amended Pacific railroad
law of 1864, and under an arrangement with
the c. NJ. q St. Paul railway company, the
Detroit q Milwaukee company and Great
Western road company OF Canada, will ef-
feet . saving in distance between Rock
Creek and Buffalo of two hundred and ffty
miles az compared with the Omaha route"
The next morning the general presented
q draft for $50 on Detroit to the Niobrara
Valley bank, with the request that $40 be
paid him The cashier. however, thought
the generals appearance gave him away"
and told him he could not cash il without a
good endorser. But the endorser was not
found. The general told q story of his ex.
perience in Yankton while lying ill. Dr..
Van Velsor was attending him and advised i
him to take three or four drinks of ~hiskey |
. day. He said that he had been doing that. |
but requested the doctor to write q prescrip. |
zion to that effect, which was done. .Doc.
tor said the general, II have been slander-
ed a. good deal here at Yankton about nv
drinking lately, and l wish you would date
this prescription back about three weeks"
The generals first duty, in a railroad capa.
city, was to draught a map of the free drink
routes in Niobrara. Having made several
preliminary surveys the first day,
with most gratifying results, a grade
was established the next night,
BY a spirit" level. He awards the medal
to Niobrara beer against that of Milwaukee.
as it contains no aloes, aud requires no pep
perment to counterfeit its effects. One place
he called for q bottle of beer to take to his
room, and as the proprietor handed it over
him he remarked that he would "hand
him the money in the morning." bnt lest
his pocketbook as security before taking the
beer. At the "Senate" he called for a glass
Of whisky. and Joe requested him to pay
for it, to which he remarked. "Sir, there 10
one thing in your life you have yet to learn,
and that is to w-a-l.t." The next time he
called Dell was on deck, and when the gen.
eral ordered his "hot whisky" was ans zered
with q rejoinder, "sir. you'll have to
He made arrangement for a lee.
ture last Wednesday night, but didn't make
his appearance, there having been too many
aIoes in the beer he had been drinking.
To-day, having become a public nuisance
by his dead beating. some who had known
him in early days shipped him over the riv.
er with . view Of bis going to Milwaukee, a
pass having been sent him by President
Mitchell. Gen. Hill is a man Of education
and once possessed Of an excellent roper,v
in Ann Arbor. but hard drinking has
brought him down to what he il, .nd his
condition il to be pittied. That there j.
something in his railroad scheme. "a far "a
. grant Is concerned, there 10 no doubt; and
it is thought that the Milwaukee company
are looking this important matter:up.