St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-06-23
ABERDEERS DELEGATION
70 the Grand Lodge in the Black Hills
Delighted With Their Treatment.
THEY CALL IT WONDERLAND.
Day Leads Some of Them Into Golden
Ways, and a Good Story Is
Told on Deadw0od.
Special to the Globe.

Special to the Globe.
ABERDEEN, June pa number of
the Masonic delegation to Deadwood re-
turned from their trip this evening.
Among the number who came in were
Grand Master j. @. A. Braden, S. FL.
Jumper, ex-Mayor Mills and NJ. c. Allen,
OF Groton. After attending the sessions
of the grand lodge at Deadwood and
seeing the mining metropolis in it's en-
tirety, the party visited the Homestake
mine, Sturgis, Fort Mead and Rapid
City. A diversion was made to Hot
Springs by stage from the latter town
AT this bubbling sanitarium the party re-
NAMED long enOug to effectually boil out
all traces of the efferyeseent hospitality
OF the Hills (Mumm's and Monopole)
which met them on all hands. Return
inc, to Rapid City the knightly pilgrims
TOOK their way to Aberdeen. c. T. Nc
Coy. John A. HOulahan, Ed Lowe and
the party, deserted the ranks at Dead
wood to engage in prospecting tour in
the Hills under the
LEADERSHIP OF NJ. H. DAY,
who is said to understand the dip of
gold and silver bearing strata better
than the working of the sinuous lodes
of territorial politics.
Having secured an extension of their
tickets and bought picks and other pros
pectlng tools, the party plunged boldly
into the bypathS which lead out to the
unknown wealth of this somber Col
conda. Should their geological re-
searches prove successful. there's no
telling how soon Black Hills stam-
pede will strike those men of the 40
metal, at present quietly grazing and
getting fat on the rich agricultural re-
glon of the James valley. One of the
returning tourists
TELLS GOOD STORY
at the expense of the hospitable city of
Deadwood. The Mecca of miners has
never made strong pretensions to exact
ing morality, and the incident, if true.
serves to Illustrate the fact.
I'VE attended the grand ball rendered
the visiting knights" said the pilgrim.
ut was really splendid affair, and the
beauty OF the ladies and elegance of
their toilets particularly impressed me.
Turning to my friend, who is one of the
best known men in the city of deceased
timber, remarked: This is very
swell affair: | hardly looked for so
much taste and elegance in dress and so
many charming ladies as | see'"
Yes, It's all very grand" said he,
many of our best people are here, and
some of the most chaste and beautiful
women i'll the territory are upon the
floor, but will you believe it? There's
at least score Of the demi monde of
Deadwood here tonight"
The statement staggered me- con-
tinued the GLOBE informant, but con-
Guiding that it was a phase of Dead
woods public gatherings, and finding
nothing that the most puritanical of men
could object to in the surrounding.
waltzed in and enjoyed myself greatly.
needn't tell you, that so far as l could
see, it was impossible to determine a
lady's exact social standing from her APP
pearance III the ballroom" Such are
the incidents, the free and untrammeled
manners of life in the Hills, and no one
of Aberdeen's representation had ought
but praise for their reception and admi-
ration of the region to express on their
arrival from the true wonderland of the
West