Press and daily Dakotaian. (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1880-1889, 1885-06-04

noon session was taken up in the argu-
ing Of the council of both sides. The
court adjourned until this evening.
THE BLACK HILLS.

The Lawrence county court house is
settling down.
A good cornet band would fill long
felt want at Rapid City.
The Deadwood driving park associa-
ton will be incorporated.
Sturgis aims to be one OF the
supply points for the Black Hills.
Progressive euchre has struck Dead
wood and roller skating is nowhere.
The Black Hills are noted for gold,
silver, gypsum, tin, cattle and the enter
prise of Its people.
Rapid City continues to grow and 1t
also continues to grow iniquitous, &C.
cording to the Journal.
The Record cries out Indignantly be-
cause depravity occupies too much of the
principal street in Sturgis.
An ore called uranium used in decora-
tive painting on china and earthern
ware, has been found near Deadwood.
Five weddings will occur at Lead City
soon. Ten hearts will beat as five, the
Pioneer says, in announcing the above
tact.
Prize fighters object to Deadwood be-
ing selected as place for their sports
because they are not permitted to strike
below the belt.
A newspaper reporter of Deadwood
has discovered the existence of four
opium dens, running in full blast, right
in the heart Of the city.
The Desdwood hose company will
give an entertainment the 10th, for the
benefit OF the running team which will
attend the Sioux Falls tournament.
A pine tree has been discovered near
Rapid City that is ten feet around, and
contains $500 feet of lumber. It is the
largest tree in the territory Of Dakota.
Deadwood Times: A rambling hog
gained entrance to the Pioneer Office at
an early hour yesterday morning, and
before discovered, occasioned no little
damage to forms and property general.
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The work Of construction of the Dead.
wood & Redwater railroad will begin
soon and be pushed to its earliest com
pletlon. 1t will be narrow guage, cost
$50O,000 and have total length of fifty
miles.
A couple of respectable ladies O
Deadwood, who were out gathering
daises not long ago, disagreed abou
some botanical point, and actually cam,
to blows over the matter. The Pionee
is our authority.
As an incentive to the tin mines of tn
Hills, the intelligence is published tina
the United States has expended $3.50,
OO0,OOO for tins-foreign tin at that
daring the last twenty years. It nov
costs us about S30000,0OO year to til
ourselves, and $4,000 Americans are EN-
ployed making tin into quart cups, g
scant measure, gutter pipes, ear trum
pets and whistles.
A Mr.. Gantz, of Sturgis, while out O
the plains searching for lost animal
halted at small stream to permit th
horse he was riding to quench its th1rs
The animal had no sooner began drinl
ing than MIR. Gantz discovered he wa
slowly sinking, and in o very short tim
the poor beast was imprisoned in th
: treacherous quicksand and still slowl
8 sinking, finally disappeared-burie
: alive.
The Homestake milling company hi
0 paid to its stockholders the magni6cel
i, aggregate sum of S2,756,OOO. Its la
dividend was thirty cents share, :,
cents more than ordinarily. The
Smet also pays slightly increased di
> idend. The two mines are practical
r the property of the same individual
They have paid to their owners alreac
:. this year over quarter of q million
u dividends.