Press and daily Dakotaian. (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1880-1889, 1884-03-05
THE BLACK HILLS.


The Fort Meade comsdy company will
play at Lead the 18th.
Sturgis City veterans are preparing to
organize G. A. r. post.
Reuben Miller has been appointed
deputy sheriff at Lead City.
A g. A. r. post has been started at
Fort Meade with twenty members.
Biglin. at Dsadwood, has been con-
victed of manslaughter in the frat de-
gree.
Judge Bennett gave aleotare in Spear
fish recently. about ramble in literary
felda. ,saN a3 nN5e
Butte county takes $l4,ssa as her
portion Of the Lawrence county indebt-
edness. a 81, aaF -5e
Blacktail gulch is spoken of by the
Deadwood Times az one of the richest
gulches in the Hills.
1t is claimed that the promise of great
wealth in the De Smet mine is brighter
to-day than ever.
The Spearfish Register arraigns public
sentiment in the Black Hills for treating
crime too leniently. j
The Gustin mine is saidGto be an ex-
oellent property, having produced S.
100000 worth of bullion. @
1t is expected that daily mail service
will soon be put on between Speartish
and some point on the Northern Pacific.
It is believed by many that the Black
Hills country is the richest gold field in
the world. and its development has but
Just begun.
Brave Bull was sentenced by the court
at Deadwood the 23d, to two years and
one month imprisonment in the terri
torial penitentiary.
The business men of Deadwood have
held meeting and resolved that Law.
renee county should promptly pay ito
ten per cent indebtedness.
Neil Mclaughlin sustained fatal in.
juries in tho Homeatake mine on the
Goth, b. the premature explosion of a
blast. He was an old employee.
The Times believes there is less danger
in going to the Hills. from any bad effect
the change Of climate may have upon
the constitution, than to any other
locality in tho United States.
The Lead City Tribune says: The
Rapid school building, structure that
in appearance is credit to any place,
is said to be unsafe and the school has
been dismissed on that account.
Lumber is being delivered on the line
between Dickinson and the Black Hills
for the erection Of stage stations, and be.
fore long the Dickinson and Black Hills
stages will be making regular trips.
The .Deadwood Times says that
ore in the Gustin belt which is
located in an old river bed, must be OF
gigantic proportions, and will not be
thoroughly understood for years to come.
Ella Andrews, living with her mothe.
near Rapid City, fred three shots ..
James Connell, intiicting serious
wound. Connell alleges that the girl
and her mother desired his death to &c.
cure his property.
Harry Tuttle, the cowboy, who wa.
wounded and captured near Spsartish
BY the officers who had Jesse Pruden.
the horse thief, in charge. was taker
from the hospital by masked men thu
other night and hanged.
There is great deal of enthusiasm ii
the Black Hills over the probable open
ing of the Sioux reservation and the con
struction of railroad connecting then
with the outer world. They are now Is
miles from railroad connection.
Speartish Register: The compan.
which crowded the church on Tuesda
afternoon to pay the last honors to th
remains of their brave fellow citize,
was a fitting tribute to the memory {
John O'Hara. No funeral occasion ha
ever called out SO many mournin
friends. Two hundred and fifty person
we're present, large number comm
, down from the Hills. A good propo
!. tion of those who were at the churc
followed the hearse in procession to tt
cemetery. No death has probably ev'
60 generally affected the community.