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NOTES AND
The Houle hls t^fore it a pro.
all navy yard* excepting these at
and Usre Island.
more on sub­
in
addition
to
the
Tbfr grasshopper» hfcve invadid«
a—Murray, Jackson, Cottonwood
ties are especially-threatened. ,..,....
:ts
Pap&r,
to a New and Correct Pocket Map «f Mcqta?alti
the Black Hills, showing the
civil and military survegp. and recegt explpratioEs.
Copies oft'tke m*o'*e«t&*ny *d4ra» fcipeipt *t
fifty cents'.] A«a5w*-
Speaker Kerr is convalescing.
Duluth harbor is blocked with ice.
The Delaware delegation will vote «oftcrT
President Graptflndf4*necessary to uasspectacles.
ro5tmasterJew'aU:dgHes
Mrs. Elizabeth Cady'gtantoa recently^Iectu^ed hi
St. Paul-,
The Countess of Mtbneaburg. d|ed^ Hi rjnbdbn on
the 17th. i*
Congress will probably continae in session until
Aug. 12th. ^v
Joaquin Miller has inflicted his- presence on the
Centennial city.
San Franci»co is catching it hot on the crooked
whisky question.,..
:-:ii
The nation breatfcMOnce more. Beer, at the Cen­
tennial. has been reduced from ten to flve^cents a
class. But, the glfcom/ thought obtrudes Itself on
bur mind—are the glasses rtduced too?
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woo
j.. 1I—
The Khedive of Egypt owes $25,000,000 and pays
10 per cent. toteMil.'
Kentucky lUpubirckhs pNsent Bristow as the
would-be saviour of-his country.
Preddcnt Grant, tttoa tb« 'his term
of office, proposesta^ke fc©gti^o| th^q»M*
The slaughter of colored p«6ni W£o*lMana is to
be the subject of inquiry by a Senate Committee.
S. S. Burdett, owing'to poor heilth, has' resigned
his position of Coromisrioaar of the Gaaaral Land
Office.
ivfc
The New York Ifer aid' exgrtsses U»n"tor the
safety of Its correspondent Bs&ry M. 8tanl«y in
Africa.
v'-m"
One hundred and thirty-eight members otP*rUa
menthave petitioned the Queen to pardon the Fiwian
COllVfctS. J. 4,r :v ..^
Irrellglo^sy'oung-'^W^iiB lb iJw Ttfrfcwjrtjn the
vestibules of the churches while organ plays ComS,
ye disconsolate."
COttB*
Washington sent 2000 deadheads to thfc£totet»rial
and Col.Tom Scott carried them free, but he doa't
surrender his subsidy claim, ph no.
The Greenback Convention nominated Peter
Cooper for President «nd Senator Booth for Vice
President. Both decline the honor.
Sam Cox asked tha gtiard before the Corliss en
eine at the Centennial show what horse-power the
Km£S.
**Wb|f, jrou d-d»ol.»^ldth«sMrd
»i'th a with
trio, «preuio»,"it tout run by bono
they use steam."
John B. Colby, of the post trader^ store at Fort
Pembina, was killed by a drunken soldier named
White a few days ago. White stepped up behind
him and crushed his skull by a blow from a stick of
cord wood, because Colby had ordered him off the
premises an hour or two before.
The Supreme Court of Indiana has been detected
in buying walnut bedsteads and spring beds, oil
cloth, marble top bureaus, wardrobes, and having
washing done at the expense of the State. The
worst of it is, that the entire bench of four justices
are of the unterrified stripe.
A Washington correspondent is authority for the
statement that John Chamberlain, the gambler, won
#140 000 at a quiet game of draw, which lasted thirty­
's hours. The participants, besides Chamberlain,
were two "politicians of national reputation," and a
member of a great banking house la London.
things are going from bad to worse in Constanti­
nople. Turks and Christians are laying In a stock
of revolvers and knives and there is a bloody out­
look ahead. The Sultan and his officers profess their
inability to quell the tumult. Several French and
American war vessels have arrived in the Bosphorus
in anticipation of trouble.
The Washington correspondent of the Boston
Herald says that the nest President, if he be chosen
from among the candidates now prominent, is not
lively to be ft poor mail. On the Republican side
Mr Blaine is the richest. Secretary Bristow and his
wife are worth a quarter of a million. Gov. Hayes
is still better off. Senator Conkling is believed to
nossess over $100,000, while Senator Morton and Mr
Wheeler have a smaller fortune. G*v. Tilden, on
the Democratic side, is the wealthiest, he being put
down at $4,000,000 or $5,000,000. Judge Davis
owns more than $1,000,000, and Senator Thurman
has a large fortune. Senator Bayard Is well-to-do,
while Gea. Hancock is in comfortable circumstances.
A few objects, supposed to be Indians,
were noted on the buttes near Ft. Lin­
coln on Tuesday last, and straightway
a story was circulated that the bluffs
near the Fert were swarming with In­
dians. Then it was reported that they
had made their appearance on Apple
Creek and had run in the herd near the
city, creating considerable uneasiness.
Accordingly a company of volunteers
was organized, and. Capt Harmon, th©
new post trader at Fort Lincoln, turned
over to a committee of citizens, arms
and ammunition to equip them, and the
Secretary of Wiar was telegraphed to
for arms to equip another company,
lie replied as follows:
WASHINGTON, D. C., May 26. John
A. McLean, Mayor, Bismarck: Mr. Kid­
der has brought me your message of
May 25th. See immediately command­
ing officer Ft. Lincoln, who will take all
droper measures for protection of citi­
zens ana will riaalw requisition for what
ever farther may be reared for that
purpose.
ALO#O TAFT,
Sec'y ar.
In a day or two the excitement,which
was not generaljjbsided, and now all
is quiet on the MiMom*1,
It is stated'tba^'the New ^Tri­
bune will toon pass wtotbe ^sndsof
the Republicans and will support the
nominee of the Cincinnati 0on*«ntion.
DEAD WOOD.
tellable Advlc^s^firom tbe Black
qnejpitly TfieJd^O^ie (Hnndwd to
Polj
itable Witnesses«Bead tbe Tes­
timony*
Letters from Belmont Clark, T. G.
_a^n
HWB*
Spu l|S*:Mt?-Rglshall,Thos.
and
VtherlB»tsmarcls
people now
statements
qaade fa. the follMrin^^tracts from
YanktSnan^'braaha papers
tod mines which are within two han
o{ £&k&ck*ovier one of the
best prairieroadsold teamsters say they
£ver *afr.
Tlie Sioux City Journal of' May 20
saJWK. •,
^'YesteVdiy Chas. Holland, formerly
proprietor of the Christiana House in
this cifiy, returned directly from the
northern Hills. He went out from here
with two Jeams of „his own about the
middledfMarch, taking several passen­
gers and their outfits. He arrived in
Custer City on^ the 4th of April,remained
there one day, apd then with a party of
abojut iWtty jfreip proceeded to Spring
X?reekT ilftliflhVm,0e3 north of Custer.
After prospecting there two weeks with
no very good show of success, the party
went on still further north to Oeadwood,
eighty-five milea. north of Custer. In
the party who aceompanied Mr. Holland
Ueaowood were Tom Phillips and
$0)bn Scollard, of this city. Immediate*
l^ upon the arrival ti^e lattar ^point
$hey ^itttered and xbmmeiiced mining.
Mr. H#lj^nd formed a company composed
of himself. Con Green, Vincent P. Kelse,
(^rge.Rowe, a Mr. 3pe^c#r and taan
^Major.' They tlw® AraM a
jBC^IMMiy ip order to better hold their
lewinUt in case either of the party desired
to absent himselMor .a, length pit time.
TpgetheJ they own three claims, all of
which are being worked. In and around
Deadwood bed rock is struck at a depth
of from two to five feet, and the average
taking out to the man in the company's
genes is from $7 to^l^ apd the. oilier
mines in that locality rfre"paying equal­
ly as well. Mr. Holland says he has
heard of as high as $800 being pinned
out by one man in a single day, though
he did not see it done and therefore
would not vouch for the truthfulness of
the Report. Mr. Holland asserts that
Jthe paying claims in the Deadwood re­
gion, so far as already prospected, cover
an area of about twenty miles, and the
ifurther the miners
{work .northwest to­
ward the Big Horn the richer the claims
appear to be. ..
4kMr.
Holiand brought to this city
with bim in the neighborhood of $600
in gold dust, all of which was taken
from the three claims belonging\to his
party, and a portion of which lie took
out with his own hands. He has hot
cotoe ,to stay, but in tends ..to return by
the first boat out from Yankton to Fort
Pierre, where he left his teams. He
came in after a stock of provisions, three
other men accompanying him from the
Hills. Provisions in the Deadwood
seetion became so scarce that the miners
were compelled to take some steps look­
ing to the replenishing of their stock or
leave the Hills. Mr. Holland says there
would have been no necessity for this
step were it not for the discouraging
reports the 'pilgrims' have circulated
regarding the Hiljs, by which means
people w^re dissuaded from carrying or
sending in supplies, taking it for granted
that the miners were all disgusted and
leaving the hills as fast as possible. Mr.
Holland affirms that a large majority of
these 'pilgrims,' as he styles them, re­
turned
from that country without ever
striking a pick into the ground, taking
thewor4 of others for their, ilk that
there was no gold in the country. How­
ever, he has purchased a part of his
stock of provisions already and will re­
turn to the Hills to join his party as
soon as possible and continue to wash
out the shiny stuff, leaving those to
howl over and berate the country who
desire to.
'The gentlemen who came out of the
Hills with Mr. Holland broaght even
more gold dast than be did. He says
there was altogether about $3,000 in the
party, in which purhaps thirty, miners
share equally."
Capt. Braithwaite, of BismarcK, met
Mr. Holland on his arrival at Sidux City
and examined hisi gold and was inform­
ed by him Substantially as above. Mr.
Holland stated to him that thCTe was at
least a bushel of gold dust in the bands
of miners in the Deadwood region.
That the Hills are rich beyond a ques­
tion, Mr. Holland purposes returning
to the Hills at once with provisions.
-i John Owens of Bon Homme, County,
Dakota, writes to Joe Cartrand, of "Tank
ton, under date of Crook City Black
Hills, May 4, as foliows*v ^'Deadwood
City Is the centre of the -fcest raining
region ip-the Hills. There i$ plenty of
money here, and the miners are taking
out plenty.' 'Some mefi*lieVe have taken
put'one hundred and fifty doflars i^j4ay
watch Indjans half the time. Iit 'is
certainly a^rich r.ounfcry^and *T you wish
me tobttild you a bottse, let me know
immediately. I intend ttf^bulldf -3o'
Deadwood and shall then..come home
after my folks. .j
4,This
the
country suits me. I see plenty
ttf'gold atid plehty more coming out of
the ground. Gold is
plentj^and
rio way
to Spendri Griifc la scarse. Yater
day a man offered $^00 in dust for a
sack of flour, and did npt jet it."
The Yankton Press and ijakotian pro­
nounces this information reliable.
A Columbus, Neb., letter to the Omaha
Herald dated May 17th, sayS:
.."News lately received froia |the Gol
titobus party in theBlack Hills we Yefy
encouriglAg. "now in
the vicinity of the Deadwood mines,
and .Capt. A!. Arnold, who is an old exr
perienced minerf Writes, ibis is the rich­
est gold*t»earing countfy hci ..ever saw,
but that all the claims are taken up so
far as has been (.discovered* Thos. D.
Delong, another one of the party and an
old Californian, writes that parties
who
have their claims open in proper shape
are making $109 per day fo the man,
and that be thinks it will take years to
work out themiries. Both of these men
are very reliable, and there is bo longer
any doubt in tbe minds of people in this
vicinity :of the existence of gold in pay
ingquantities."
Mike McMadon of Brainerd, Minn.,
riting to his brother at Brairierd advis­
es his brother to come and says:
A German named Weller, mv partner
last winter, sold two ounces of gold yes­
terday for $43.00, the result of two days'
sluicing, seven miles from here up the
creek. The Indians are very trouble
Some, and a'great many tender f$et are
leaving the ills on tb at accoan t. There
mp Ictllfed- h**e tifott^very 'day by
jthe Indians, but it is to a great extent
their own fault—being too bull-headed.•
The Indians ar^ all well armed-—as well
or better than the whites, and will fight
even handed, and ha*re the advantage.
A great many whites are taken in by
being too brave and venturesome. Flour
is worth $50.00 a sack at Deadwood,
and 1,500 sacks could be sold there at
that. Things will be cheaper after a
little. Rapid City is going to be the
Denver of the Hills. There are about
75 houses here now and building right
along. When you come, come here and
I will have a house for you when you ar­
rive. There is?gold in the Hills every­
where, but owing to the Indians, men
have to go in large parties, and the
country is not half tested. Some peo­
ple come here and look around a little,
and because they cannot find gold by
the bushel, damn the country, and go
back. Such is the case in all countries.
Bring all the provisions with you you
can. Do not delay, but come as soon as
you can. Lumber is $80 per taousand
wages $5 to $6 per day, and teames are
worth $8 per day. While I have been
writing, **ne fellow has sold $1,000 in
dust here. The stories you hear about
there being no gold in the Hills, are false
Heed the not. This is reliable. Come.'
L. C. Palmer, of Springfield, Dakota,
reports a $32 nugget and many smaller
ones running from $2 to $18 each.
A Fort Laramie dispatch of the 20th
announces the abandonment of Dear's
train on the Sidney route to the Black
Hills every hoof of stock having been
captured by the Indians.
The Yankton Press and Dakotian of
a recent date says:
"Charles Holland brought into Yank­
ton $1000 worth of Black Hills gold
night before last. F. D. Wyman $400
worth, and George Smith $150 worth.
It is of the finest quality and is mostly
coarse."
"There Philip, the baby's
awake," remarket! Mrs Sheridan,
the other night "won't you get up
and walk with her awhile?" The
hero
of
step*
Five Forks and the Shenan­
doah singing. "Rock a bye baby,"
and
pacing
a.tn.
with
the bedroom floor at two
regular twenty-eiglit-iueh
head up, and ten pounds of
infant in his noldierly embrace, is a
spectacle calculated to give a tone
tothe service, ami *eiid Susan 1
Anthony
into hysterics of deiisfht.
N. Y. Commercial Advertiser.
DEATH OF J. C. DODGE.
Anatker Victim.«( the Noble Bed
]Jlaa-*One.of Bismarck's best Cit­
izens "Bidctled with Bullcts--Tlic
Tramp to tfcc Hills.—A Tedious
biit Succcssful trip-Its Sad End.
Abont tho first of April 3. C. Docile,
Tfm. McCorry, Belmont Clark, John
X*easur$, Charley Anderson, Ed McDon­
ald, and others, nuinberins in all 2S
with ten or twelve teams loaded with
supplies, 4c.,_ left Bismarck for the
Black Hills.f They crossed the'Missouri
just a8 it was breaking up and found
themselves water-bound on numerous
oscasions. The roads were simply fear­
ful but .tHe party pushed on ever on their
guard, however, for there were but eigh
"teeh 'guns in the party,' reaching the
HiAs 6n the4th of May. On the way
they saw Indians several .times but as
t£ey were constantly on the alert and
never caniped at night without throwing
up rifle pits, they had not been molested.
On-the night of the 3d of May Dodge
and one other left the train and went
into Rapid City returning to ,the train
that night about two o'clock. Tthey saw
a few Indians in the vicinity and that
day picked up four Indian ponies but
did not anticipate any danger. Next
morning Dodge missed a call .and went
back to find it. He was urged to take
his gun but said he would not need it
as he would be gone but a few minutes.
He was gone longer than he ought to
have been and John Leasure under­
took to follow him, but was driven back
by the Indians. Returning, a party of
six went.Oiitj but they likewise returned
with ho tidings of Dodge. They went
on to Rapid City when a party of six­
teen went out, and on scouring the
country thoroughly they found his life­
less remains in the immediate vicinity
of the point where Dodge reported Indi­
ans the night before. He was shot
through both hips, through the chest
and arm. once through the head and the
top of his skull laid open by another
shot. &e was not scalped, nor was his
body otherwise mutilated. The Indians
took his revolver and belt and his mon­
ey, but nothing more. The body was
cfcrried to Rapid City and On the sixth
of May was buried with Masonic honors.
Mr. Dodge was a member of the Board
of County Commissioners of this county
and a mat? of considerable property.
He was a n^ember of the Bismarck Ma­
sonic Lodge, and was esteemed by all
who knew him. He was brave, gener­
ous and true to friends, and to the right
under all circumstances. He leaves a
wife, whom he married in Minnesota,
about a year ago, and scores of friends
to mourn his loss.
Mr. Langscine, of Escanaba, Mich.,
who went to the Hills with Dodge and
who was one of the party who discover­
ed his remains, speaks in the highest
terms of Dodge. He says he was ever
on the alert for the welfare of others,
always cautioning others of danger but
ever ready to take great chances himself,
and frequently went back alone several
miles from camp for stock—at one
time twelve miles.
Dodge, it will be remembered, was the
leader of the party of Bismarck men
who went to the Hills in December last
arriving there on New Year's Day, who
returned after two weeiss spent in pros­
pecting, bringing specimens of gold and
a report which resulted in taking at
least half of the male adults from this
vicinity, and thousands from elsewhere
to the hills. Our people placed implicit
confidence in him and in his statements,
and not one of those who went from here
because of his report are dissatisfied.
They found everything as he represent­
ed. He determined to return to the
Hill3. as he said to the writer, to spend
his days there, and did return with the
result stated.
Mr. Dodge took four thousand pounds
of supplies for himself to the hills and
a like amount forjudge Ford of Bis­
marck, of which he and his partner,
Win McCorry, bad full charge. Theirs
was the first train loaded with supplies
to reach the hills after the severe storms
in March, and had Dodge not lost his
life he would undoubtedly have done
well.
Of course Mr. McCorry took charge
of the property and at last advices was
disposing of it to advantage. Judge
Ford,
however, will leave for the hills
this week to look after his interests.
Dodge also took a lot of cows to the Bills.
Some of the party win* went with Dodge
to the hills write back the most encour­
aging 'letters in relation to the country
and to the prospects there, while Mr.
Langscine, whose return is noted, hts
little faith in the mineral resources of
the hills or in the country, but he did
not visit the Deadwood country from
whi*nee came the golden
reports
men­
tioned elsewhere.
Tht greatest drawback, however, Mr
Laiit^cine thinkv, is the Indians who
nre constantly stealing stock and occa­
sionally atk?Fig scxlps. Fie thinks there
is little or no danger in going to the
hills but regards the danger to those
working or prospecting in the hills
great. At any rate be is sufficiently
amused and prefers to diar for his gold
in a civilized country.
SIJAVE.
How tbe XqUe Bed man Fell—Tbe
Kind of "Papers'? be presented.-*
Tbe Story as told .by Jim Jenks.
The following clipped from the Grand
Forks Piaindeiler,, is an extract from a
letter from Jirit Jenks who' killed the
chief Slave, whose friends try to make
it appear ]va£ shot down by the whites
when he was approacliing their cajqp
'with a white!?^Tho'Whites,'it will
be seeii/tell a'different story, ahdtheirs,
no: doubt, is aitrue versibu of the affair:
When wo left Bismarck our train con­
sisted of seventy-five men,.forty teases,
and about.forty head of CQWS and young
stock. Oh the 1st of April the Indian's
made a raid on the stock, driving- off 18
head of stock, Holmes' pony and also
one of Budge's, this was about 11 o'clock
in the night. At dfiy light Tom Hall,
our captain, called for volunteers to fol­
low and retake the stock if possible.
Fourteen men stepped'out, Budge, Jim.
Williams and myself amongst the num­
ber. I had a pony furnished me, and
lisd Al. McKinley's Spencer rifle. We
could not travel very fast as the snow
was a foot deep, and our horses tired
out We had gone about twenty miles
from camp when we came on to them.
There were only four Indians, whom we
ran off and started the stock back, but
could not get the horses. We had trav­
eled about a mile when the Indians came
down upon us from all sides. We were
in a ravine at the time, while they were
on the hills. They numbered only fif­
teen or twenty, but they were behind
and on both sides of us, so the boys got
scared and ran. I had the best horse
in the party and was the last to leave
the stock, but when I saw the resti leav­
ing I started. I caught up with Budge,
his horse (the one he got from Traill)
having played out and could net run.
As I rode past him he told me not to
leave him as he. would be killed. 1
promised to stay with him, but that I
would overtake the rest and stop them
on the hill half a mile ahead. I was the
third man on the hill and stopped all
but two, Jim Williams being one of
them, but I could not stop him. I rais­
ed my gun to shoot another, or to scare
him, but he was badly excited and would
not stop. By this time the Indians were
within fortv rods of us, and the bulleta
were dropping around us like hail.
Budge had not got up yet, and there
was an Indian following fifty yards be­
hind firing at him every jump. Budge
finally turned and shot him, the Indian
falling off his horse and started to run,
but the next shot finished him. By
this time the Indians had surrounded
us on the ridge, and some were only
twenty rods from us, One Indian rode
up and fired at me but missed, as I saw
hiin just in time to jump off my horse
and saved myself, as the ball struct the
horse. About the same time one of our
boys fired at the Indian and he jumped
off his horse and ran behind the ridge.
He raised up to fire at me again but I
caught him this time both rifles cracked
together, his ball whizzed by ui^r ear
but my ball took him in the chest or
head, and he fell over the ridge, leaving
his horse, which I captured and have
yet, and I tell you he is a clipper. By
this time things were red-hot. One
man was shot in the knee on one side of
me, and the next instant another fell
dead—shot through the heart—about
ten feet from me. I tell you it was ter­
rible. I dropped on the ground flat and
was aiming at an Indian when a ball
struck the ground right under my face
and threw the dirt up into my eyes and
blinded me for a minute, but that Indian
never Knew whether he bit me or not,
for Collins, the wounded man, killed him
the minute he fired. By this time the
Indians drew off a little, and we dragged
four of our horses that had been killed
together and made breastworks of them.
Six of the Indians took after Jim. Will­
iams and shot him with an arrow in the
ihigb, breaking bis leg, and he fell into
a buffalo wallow and kept them off for
a while.
The Indians finally left us, when we
went to Jim, and helped him out.
We got back to camp about 10 o'clock
that night, and such a hand-shaking I
never got in my life, as the fellows who
ran away told "them we were all killed,
and that I was tbe first one to fall. I
tell you those three fellows caught hell
the rest of tbe trip.
"Alphonso," said Mrs Taft sternly,
wlieu her husband told her he was
going to be Secretary of
War,
is all right, but it won't be
"that
safe
any post trader to come fooling
around here!"'
for