Press and daily Dakotaian. (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1880-1889, 1884-03-27
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THE BLACK H1IIs.
D.T. Bramble was in Deadwood 10.
Gently. ~ 4 s',-
The Free Masons at Harold have or.
ganized.
Hay is becoming scarce article in
Rapid City.
Another school building Is to be erect
ed Mt SturRis.
The ahait on the Old Abe mine at Lead
is down 600 feet.
Ninety.four boys and girls attend
school at Sturgis.
The Brookings grist mill will be ready
for the next crop.
Nngsbury county cast 1904 votes at
its recent election
The Homestake company is crushing
1000 tons of ore per diem.
Star & Bullock have opened a mica
purchasing house in Custer.
Rich silver indications have been un-
earthed on the upper Rapid.
Madison has its national bank and
Flandrau has its coal famine.
A republican organization has been
perfected in Roberts county.
A fine quality of sand stone has been
discovered near Sioux Falls.
The Homestake mills consume nearly
$4,000 cords Of wood per annum.
Sphinx county will probably engage in
o county seat struggle this season.
The Fenstermaker rancho near Rapid
LEO acres-has been sold for $4,000.
The old Converse house at Dell Rap.
ids is now o heap of ashes. Loss 81 600.
Milbank proposes to expend $40. 900 IN
getting artesian protection against fire.
Campbell county prairie has been Sc.
lected as tho location OF a large Canadian
colony.
The postofiice at Hillsdale, Moody
county. has been discontinued, mail to be
sent TO Egan.
The counties of Ransom, Custer, Sar.
gent and Faulk, each have lady county
superintendents.
Dead wood is distant from Dickinson
$50 miles; from Pierre 220 miles; from
Sidney 267 miles.
Sand creek and Bear gulcb are theatres
of unusual interest Just now, owing to
the discovery of tin.
Major Snidcr, prominent journalist
of Lawrence county, has gone east in the
interest of Spearfsh.
Sturgis City is the transfer ground for
freight destined for the mountainous dis
tricts and mining towns.
The Sturgis City grist mill project has
been resuscitated and its symptoms give
strong ground for hope.
Coal has been discovered twenty miles
northeast of Iroquois and company
organized to work the mine.
The Portland mine, in the Bald noun
tain district, is expected to do something
in financial way this year.
Brown county has eleven towns and
nine newspapers, and is the banner
county in point of railroad mileage.
1t is said that less than 100 quarter
lsectlons of government land remain tc
be taken in the Mitchellla district.
1. The new freight line from the North.
ern Pacific to Deadwood will leave the
railroad at Medora and not at Dickin
son.
The De Smet mine has produced
So 0O0,0 900 since it was opened, and itt
stock holders have received $4,000 ir
dividends.
John Hildebrand, one of the pioneers
of Deadwood and prominent stoct
. grower in later years, died at his rancl
on the Belle Fourche on the 14th.
Sixty.eight old settlers near Del
Rapids held reunion the other evening
ate big supper. organized a permanent
Old Settlers society and adopted con
stitution.
u Alexandria has societies of Masone
Odd Fellows, Ancient Order of United
Workmen, Good Templars, Grand Arm,
post and hut of the Oriental Order o
Humility.
Sioux Falls Leader: 1t is stated as
probability that through passenge
train will soon be running between Hu
ron and Worth,ngton by the way o
Sioux Falls.
al Letcher Blade: j. r. Gamble made
) pointed and forcible though brief argu
ment in the Ssnborn county case. I
was nearly eleven O'clock at night whe
2 he commenced.
An important invention, by which th
labor of framing IN mines is materiall
reduced, has been made in the improve
meat Of saw by mechanic on th
Homestake force.
The contested Sturgis City townsit
case has been decided by the officers G
the Deadwood land district in favor G
the Valentine scrip locators. The Sturgl
8 Record asserts that this decision vii
f stand.