Press and daily Dakotaian. (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1880-1889, 1884-06-20
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THE BLACK HILLS.

THE BLACK HILLS.
Spearfish is very proud Of it's brass
baud.
Deadwood has Blaine club with l57
members.
Some Sturgis shootists have organized
a gun club. ~.
There are numerous prospective tin
mines in Pine gulch.
Judge II. @. Ash has laid out an addi.
tion to the town: of Sturgis.
Lead City is having trouble with
thieves and house breakers.
The Major house at Lead City was sold
at administrators sale the 10th.
Cattle are fattening and growing
wonderfully on the Hills ranges.
Deadwood is making elaborate pre-
parations for its Fourth Of July ceiebra-
tion. f
A practical miller of long experience
proposes to erect custom mill in Dead
wood.
A celebration of the Fourth will be
held at Speartish A good time is antici.
pated.
Placer mining is being carried on
brlskly between Lead City and Dead
wood.
If the citizens of Speartish will pur-
chase the material for city flag, the
ladies will make it.
The miners unions of Central and
Lead cities, will celebrats the Fourth
together at Lead City.
Twin daughters put in an appearance
at the home of A. q McSham and wife,
at Rapid City, recently.
The Record says Stnrgis will have the
most attractive Fourth OF July celebra.
ton Of any town iu the Aills.
The ladies of Sturgis raised seventy
dollars for park which they have finally
decided to turn into the jail fund.
Several mining experts and magnates
are reported to be in the vicinity of
Harney's Peak looking for tin property.
A heavy cargo of freight was received
at Deadwood from Medora the other
day. The trip was made in fourteen
days.
A pool has zen formed by the Touring
mill association of Lawrence county, land
the price of flour raised fifty cents per
100 pounds.
The Eta tin mine, which has recently
passed into possession OF the American
tin mining company, is said to contain
fifty per cent. tin.
The name Of the Black Hills in the
Indian language is "Pah-Sappa," pah
meaning "hill," and sappa "black," says
the Black Hills Times.
A little child in the family of Mr..
Frank Myers, near Stargis, was attacked
by drove of hogs, while at play in the
door yard, and seriously, If not fatally
injured.
Word was received in Deadwood, one
evening last week, that man was seen
banging to limb of tree near Rapid
City. Il was thought by some to be only
rag man.
A Brownsville wood chopper named
Gottlieb Yolsky, was found dead in his
bed at Frank Abt's lodging house in
Lead City recently, having died from
heart disease.
Cattle in the neighboring valleys to
the Hills are demolishing fences, tramp.
ling grain and running crops. The farm
ers are thinking of taking the law into
their own hands.
At Bear Gulch, in the Black Hills, A.
E. Van Valkenburg recently fell down a
steep hill and into pool OF water, where
he was drowned. The water was shal.
low, but he was probably stunned by the
fall.
Sturgis is one of the iveliest towns In
the Hills and expects to be the first t.
get railroad from the east. The peo
pie are prepared to donate to the first
railroad that gets there, 160 acres of lane
and fifty town lots.
VIM. Mckay, one of the fist white
men to penetrate the Hills, and one o.
the first to establish the presence of geld
in that locality. died. at the county hos
pital the 9th, of cancer of the stomach
aged tifty.fve years.
Deadwood experienced the heaviest
rainfall last Wednesday night that hat
ever visited that section since the me.
mortal flood of year ago. The resi-.
dence of G. B. Sco6eld, which was stu.
ated on the hillside against the bank
was completely demolished.