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It costs •10,000 a d«jr to rail thfe Centennial show.
-OlJr® Iog4n's Wirt fAkes goes to Cardiff, Wales,
as,.Consul.-j
Out o/'tbe 117, ladies in 'Michigan University., only
fonr bare taken io law. The rest bare taken chiefly
todress. ,lVtt
(tertudeiforehoju* ofPortfand, Mich, is the
fir* j*oaoan lawyar fas' thai State'who baa received a
uommission as notary ^nbljc.
lady riding in the can
be kissed
tnnnel, gets ready
to be 1
Tbe last in* thing la an adjaatable bustle that
can
TJ* New York correspondents of Baropeairbank
c^jwgrew the belief generalwfr eann©t be
The Mtmne^ dnsUr for gebtrtaitn wHlhave ablrdi
,?he ivw 6olt*a of^*«yhakal»i»*d the
je^g-
matter of history.
The railroad war
of^frMirflbipBrS
?S
*&**&&&&
OntbHai
JfiSK
kblijhta
iWSfctaf ifcft lor below on Frt-
H. Tbonpeon, son of Col. Wm. ffhompwn,
a paii'or Capt. Harmon'? force at Fort
Yodng Thnmpson'is well adaptedtd his
n, and will make hosts of frlendp for the ei*
ibOjUnent.
Wa. Parschall and Hellen Casey, who came In
from the Black Hills with Don Stevenson, were, mar*
tfed last week John' GfcnnOn and Xffa Forgter were
married last Thursday. Both parties were married
by father Genih.
Geo. A. Joy seems to have struck a bonanza be­
fore he left for the Black Hills. Three or four days
after he left Mrs. Joy gave birth to twins—both girls.
The first twins born in the county.
Charles Cupid's mail team got freightened by the
Indians who came whooping over the hills near them
when he was watering^' The team started, knocked
him down, bruising his face badly, and left for Bis­
marck by a short cut. Pieces or the wagon were
foand and the team late in the afternoon.
Thirty Thousand Acre Farm.
Oo the writers recent visit to St. Paul
he had the pleasure of meeting Oliver
Dalrymple, Northern Dakota's great
farmer. Much has been written of Mr.
Dalrymple, who has cleared two or three
hundred thousand dollars in growing
wheat on a two thousand five hundred
acre farm in Washington county, Min­
nesota. This spring Mr. Dalrymple be­
came interested with General Cass and
other eastern capitalist in a thirty thou­
sand acre farm, about fifteen miles west
of Fargo, Dakota. lie putin this spring
one thousand and two hundred acres of
wheat on ground broken last season,
and now has one hundred plows in
operation, intending to break six thou­
sand acres of prairie, to be sown in
wheat next year. He has a large force
of men at work erecting stables, barns,
dwellings for tenants, and so forth, and
other necessary improvements. The
land selected by Mr. Dalrymple is situ
ated in one of the finest and most pro
ductive valleys in the world aB it is
more accessible to market than any
lands in Iowa or Southern Dakota, or
Minnesota, he has abundant promise
of millions. Other large farms are be*
ing opened in the vicinity, and new
buildings may be seen on every hand.
The one thousand and two hundred
acres of wheat sown by Mr. Dalrymple
this spring on his Northern Dakota
farm at this writing (June 10) looks
splendidly, and promises to yield twen­
ty to thirty bushelstotheacre.
W. S. Ressegieu arrived on the $elliq
Peck, bringing Bismarck Tribune Spe­
cials from the Big Horn expedition,
several days in ad*anee of the maH&
He came down the Yellowstone from
the mouth of Glendine in a mockinac
and from thehce on the Nellie Peek*
Just as they were starting, th4 boat
capized, and Sergeant Fox,'C6.D8th
Infantry, was drowned. There were
three in the beat.beside Sergeant Fox.
Two were rescued by the crew of the
Far West, tad tod third,W. S. Resae
gieu, being a good swimmer, itihick eut
fo? the »bore,vWbich hereached* though
for atimethe chances wereagainat him.
The"accident occurred in acurrentrup*
ing at theTsteofeightmilesan boar
and partially under the Far Weat. and
the wondervis^tbat any escaped.
nH «H! ?0
Reliable ieporta ftsniKtliabkflen.
hi?* pletftyi^ sp^rid. 'iine'
VOL. 3. BISMARCK, D: T„ WEDNESDAY, JUNE 21,1876.
DEADWOOD!
smmmw Stl«IT
mmiTumR
iiy, ifi'j
Tfffim-rpiIESWlBfi MLL1RS
AlAVWOilllW TEJffElf.
A Goutry«nniNli ^e Mvch Can-
Below will be found extracts from .let­
ters to Omaha parties from Harry
Creighto'n^ Hollins, both
are vouched for
well knownmen" who
0 S
& &
M»'6W it WIN )fi&t. Mnlk I
oa^t j^'^e ^iid^ry fm -bttUdlp^
a blrl^tiiBei aiid wiH a$ye it finished
A moifth. It Wiircost l^^^ $600 an
though I have been kt wdi'k but teii days
I could pay for it ^-molTOW, so you see
how well I «m doing. This is milch bet­
ter than piloting on the Missouri river.
fan get ffVer dollars per day for ahy
kind of work, and I think times will be
#bout two mdnths.
wiii be ppeiied as soon
itincb bet^r in
lfafay newel aims
aS:lumber can be obtained. I will not
advise any to come, bec&uee if they do
not do well they would blame me, but 1
would not be found on the Missouri
river piloting or in any other situation
there for four times What you get per
month. Had you come With me last
spring you ceuld by this time have laid
up more than your wages of two or
three hundred per month as a pilot, will
amount to by fall. I have written to
your brother, (John Massie, Captain of
the Yellowstone), and think he is a big
fool if he remains on the river. With
his means he could do a big thiog here."
Capt Coonce is an old miner and well
known river man, and his letter is like­
ly to create a panic among them.
Capt Spaids, a well-known gentleman
and kn old miner, writes to Capt. Mas­
sie as follows:
"This is a good country and has
other wealth amounting to more than
HABBY CBKIGHTON's LBTTEU:
DEADWOOD, May 22, 1876.
COBIN JOHN Last Friday evening,
foot-sore, weary and travel-stained I
reached this place. I came up from Cus­
ter City with a heavily loaded freight
train, consisting of about twenty wagons
and a hundred men. I preferred this
method of traveling as a precautionary
measure against danger of attacks from
Indians. We encountered none, lor
which I am profoundly thankful. From
my recent experience in Red Cannon, I
am not all anxious to meet any. of the
noble red men.
MAKING CALLS.
1 bate spent days in going around
among the different mining camps, vis
itidg'GayCUy, Deadwood City and
Elizabethtown. The two latter may be
•fid. to be one They are located in a
deep.Cannon in tbe1centre of the mines,
six miles from the summit, and about
nine milesfrom
the foot of the Hills.
DeadwOafr gulch Empties into White
woOd
^this point The two gulches
areabOnt'fifteenmilte-in lengtn. At
tbe 'mouth of ffpitewood^. in a small
valley
Jlear tbe foot of tbe Hills, Crook
Oitj^ii' located. This point is destined
to be tbe sappy point for-the mines.
A Bimiii lin?.
AT* the minea rfeb pennanen in
the Black Hilla I anfcWOr, )«g. JOlaim
owners ara very much excited, and are
not aafe and entirely reliable in-imports
gold. Good Quartz is pier.ty. Dust is gently rolling hills clothed with pine
plenty in this (Deadwood) gulch. It the rich green turf of parK-like open
looks old fashioned. Coonce is here ings the lively, laughing rivulets run
Mid doing well."
of the richness of the miffes. Many say
.they are as good as Alder Gulch, and
will give
well
1
*baoJ»^e|y xrfiable.
Their statements in TeMtion" to the
Detdwood min** entitled4, to full
$L. vM\ topirto1 to ilir iMisaonri
rDver inen^fiom ^iidwood,- Hay ^$d,
rewarded labor for 10,000
men for twenty years. The present
state of development of the nines doh^t
warrant this statement. True, the
whole fifteen miles all prospect well,,
but as near as
1 have had ^n opportuni-,
ty of judging, the jtfound Is Shallow,
ranging from three feet, to fifteen, all
easily opened and Work.e^j jrtlh but few
boulders. Iii 66^iipany #it$ Sbonp/one
of y6ur did foremen on tjie TJriion Paci­
fic, I visited all tiie diims on 0eadw'olod
to-day. This creek is fi*om four to five
miles in
len£th.
Claims consist of 900
fee pretty much all ..opened, and some
of tbem paying exceedihgljr well. None
paying less 4han five dollars, and two
:Or three «s much as
TBBBB HUNDMD DOLLARS PBB it&Yy
to the min. No. 2,' below .discover
ow^ed bfByfcri ^'5? heeler, ofttoniana,
is flie cha&Ton so far. ^tnr^aiy,
woifkin^ eigbt m*,' tl^ojr, np
-|2,660V ^h6hn hashed ^o pani of dirt
of $1* t\i\*i, ipiino dol
XiH.
me. Mr.N Wheeler,s»id bi^dM give
me pan of di^i'fetit' 6f "wBicb I got
seven dollars 1rijght'
scale gold. This
s^rwlti»«W.eprb6f i\&^^xlsttnice of
InlW In iSVff Blick^fl'ti. ^Sbidfnn
PLEJOTY ^OF GROJWID
greenb*^.^**0'
bunk h^
in all probi^ility, accept. ^He Wishes
to be particularly remembered.
I Claim' oWbers ar^ so tliiicb excited
WiS/£^rc«. fV0 t&H>
el&rE ,'i(dt«d for Qliips,'
Ifeir^lliTSper ^ay. pbTicli-'
rpiy fine. Tttfc ^maj^ IMI^
ber ijf pedplehere \$ $$$,. ^b^dred
daylrritihg. T&Wn Utifrom
$100
of bosses bi^i,' }s^ to
•y®W» iVCUM VI UVM990 ill^Uj IV
WfyO {Mriniftth. Ail kinds of jo&iners**
*siipplies^irci very scarce. No meKMbts
bere yet. All stocks are ligbt. Beef
teitfiu at twenty-five cents. Tbere is
not oyer one hundred head in ^he Hills,
and they *re of poor quali^. Plenty
bf bealr, .elk And ^eer, all fc&cLtbe a«neJ
as beef.,'ft is riport^d that Bou^hton
is on the raad With 500 head ot beef
from Cheyenne.
THE FOOT BILLS
are the finest pasture lands in the
world. It would require a large force,
and then dangerous, to keep the Indians
frem making raids on stock. They
come within a few miles of this place.
No one lias been killed for a week. In­
dians troubles serious drawback to the
development of the country adjacent to
Deadwood. Men have to go in very
large parties. One hundred and forty
men left to-day for the Wolf Mountains,
one hundred and fifty mile west. They
will be fortunate if Sittting Bull don't
capture them. Two hundred men who
came through from Montana arrived to­
day saw no Indians prospected Big
Horn, but the prospects were not en­
couraging. The Indians permitting,
theJBig Horn will be thoroughly pros-
pected this summer and fall.
SIMPLY BEAUTIFUL.
The Hills are simply beautiful.
npf«tfin this summer and fall.
the opening flowers, all go to make a
picture rich, warm and glowing. I be­
lieve the country has a promising future
before it Tbe permanent wealth of the
country is in its rich, deep soil and its
pasture lands. These, with moderately
paying mines, are destjned, in my opin­
ion, to open up flourishing towns and
homes for tens of thousands. The aid
of the government is needed in this
grand work. Should its aid be with­
held and the mines continue to develop
in richness, the hardy pioneer will carve
out lor himself a young empire of no
mean dimensions.
to:
If
Yours, BABBY.
Omaha Herald of the Tth.
DBADWOOD, May 17.—Dr. Geo L.
Miller: I have just returned from Gold
Run to meet Capt. Dodson on his re
turn trip.
I can truly say that the developments
now made on White Tail, Split Tail,
Black Tail, Gold Run, Whitewood and
Deadwood* exceed our meat sanguine
expectations.
I have seen sluiced out in ten hours
run $700, ten men shoveling. I have*
also witeessed a clean up from a rocker
$275, ten men packing dirt from tbe
of tbe mountain. In fact 1 cannot say
too much in favor of the country—It is
here and the liveliest camp 1, have steu
since the days of California. My opin
ion is there will be a much greater yield
of gold than came from Montana.
IdonOtHeaiUte for you to use my,
first
1
ning through the valleys, together with point if any should attempt it. Major
name with friends or through the press,
as you cannot say too much. It it here.
The miners .are paying $5 per day for
hands, and few are to be had at any
price. Provision is scarce. Flour is
$2o bacon 6Q dried fruit 45 cents,
itifid fevery class of merchandise is in de
mnd.'
,. In the list thirty days npt less than
250 bouises have been built all along the
tariou'S gulches. It looks like a.string
Of towns for ten.miles.
I reiterate: Say what .you please in
piraise Of tbis country. Tor the mineral
wealth is here, and new campa of fabu
lous wealth being struck every day.
Yoursjtruly, WM. G.HOLLIKS.
BI6 HORN EXPElllTlOir.
Arrlyat' at Kanth of Powiler Bivicr
--jrt^nction 'with -^en* GUMmoI'b
:C«)nlii4^d^X'oMtljilef af iyUAns
--Pra'^VilHief
lof rthe
iflTarj .ilin-
ot TrocljNi &c.~]>eaih of-
Serj^eaiit' #'«jRk^The'Bad Xanl»-
Indilriitt^ersih^ii,
See.,
&c.
Special Correspondence Btamsrdk Tanraa:
CAMP ,OF TXBBT*S ETPIPI^IOI1, -NKAK
MotJT&o* IPOILNDEI RRVBA, June 12,1876.
—Sitice laist wrote" tfoti} two Weeks
B^EJ^AIISEF!. THEYLIIV^BEEII [spentf
Ir vrflfptesently show. Wereached
i'lo^bMi(xaVBB
Jtiiio '(Kb. MGk0t». T^irt took the Far
Weig««bdpr^e«dinj^iip,tlieTeiU^
85^ mtteS liiet ^en. Gibbon's command.
^nndtiBd jod^
fodliii# iNre ycypdirted.' '1*bo program
thefofthefutureisgivenbelow.
1 11
ohil/Oiittoif
%as hid ,uo jione^ai eWga|etoent with
tbeltidlttnis rat tb^ Iotfhnui Were un-?
ieOniforlibif^ noitr for somo ,timo «ind
j|M^~m«n-Widire killed iA liijght.OF camp
Tbfey* werel'iibott of sitp|iiies ilso i^or
flOniie says but Were relieved from Fort
Ellis.
:THE'TB00P8
ate so .thoroughly organized and so dis
pOsed that if the Indians can be fottoid
tb#y will be Uugbt ft lessen that Will be'
a lasting on^ to them. It is beliefed
they
INTBKO TO FIGHT,
but they are no match for the force Sent
against them. But ean best give the
record of our march in the shape of
NOTES FBOM MY DIABT,
which will be found below:
JUNE 10.—Gen. Terry, with two com­
panies of cavalry returned from a trip
to the mputh of Powder River at 10 p.
m. last night in a pelting rain. The
trip was very unpleasant.
Gen. Terry, who went up on the Far
West, found Gen. Gibbon and his troops
35 miles up the Yellowstone river from
the mouth of Powder river in camp, not
being able to cross on account of high
water. The Yellowstone is booming
high and has a current of 8 miles per
hour. The steamer was 83, hours mak­
ing the trip up and an hour and fifty
minutes coming down. The Powder
river is rising rapidly, and a route down
its valley is impracticable for the wagon
train, and the cavalry are out seeking a
route on the table land.
The programme fixed upon to-day is
TakiSg the supposition that if the
j* ,, ..
Indians have moved southward, that
Gen. Crook will meet and look after
The them Gen Gibbon's four companies of
cavalry were ordered tor and will arrive
at the inouth of tbe Rosebud to-night to
prevent the crossing of Indians at that
Reno, with a batttllion of cavalry, and
12 days rations, and one Gatling gun is
ordered to march up the Powder river
to its forkg, then to push across tbe
country to tbe head waters of the Mis
pah river, down that stream to its mouth,
thence across to a fork of the Tongue
river, down its course to the main stream
of that river, where he will meet Gen.
Terry and balance of the command, who
will move down the Border river to its
mouth and Oe conveyed from there by
steamer to and up the Tongue river un
til M»j. Reno is met when Gen. Custer
will outfit nine cavalry companies and
with pack mules for transportation, wj.11
rampage all over the country, taking in
the Rosebud and Big Horn rivers, val­
leys and ranges. Gen. Custer declined
to take command of the scout of which
?laj. Reno is now at the head of, not be­
lieving that any Indians would be met
with in that direction. His opinion is
that tbey are in bulk in the vicinity of
tbe Rosebud range.
By Odometer measurement tbe col­
umn bas marched a distance from Fort
A. Lincoln to where in struck tbe Pow­
der river, of 293$ miles.
JUNK 11.—Camp broke up at an early
boar this morning and marched until 6
p. m. over a rough routes a portion of
the way, on tbe
TSLLOWSTOlfB
river banks a short distance below the
month of the Powder river, and opposite
the month of Custer Creek. To day
C&arley Reynold* and ye«r eerraapona-
NO. 50.
ent have been ranging among tbe botte
formation, hunting some, and secured
large deer game Very scarce. There is
not much difficulty in moting around in
the
BAD LAND
country if mounted on an-active mule,
the deep canons oan all be beaded off
and the coteau ranges, and many of the
:buttes. can be, moved tn and down the
sides of but :in many instances it«iswell
enough to dismount in' descents. It
would he impossible to move wagons
oreri or across «och a formation.
1
The present eamp will be used as tbe
axpadition
SUPPLY DFPOT
ifor.a. while at least fbtbd
4m arrival
here,Oohj Moore, thejeomraander afFt.
Buford, with 8 odropanies of iitfatttry in
camp* £ha{Jbl0«Md:will rem*ia iw6Om
mandofthediepot when tbeusommaiider
of the *xpeditiooiinoveB ~$n-tthteli i%ill
make it exo^edinglyjagVeOabto forrlbose
Who rBH&ftm faelrtudf: for €ol.» Mo0f*-ls a
very frankv^krad, manly gentleaian,
Whom ^jrhrVboty' likes that: comos in
contact,withlhim.
Thervall*y «f 'th» Yellowstone 4Mre is
aboutthTeemites wide, but!little/timber
growing xm_: its rbsaks. ^Tho Mdliw is
lined OO either:aide^by rangef of l^ly
looking bntb» ofthOJb^laisd^fOriBtttlon.
Capt J- W. Smith haa maim a to^tita
claim here, Itehre largi itentfr eTicted.
and. therein:
atered Oigbt or ten'thOuMnd
dollars wortiiw0figoodSj Which tbe 'sol
diery are eap^r|yrpurohasing. It is an
amusing scene to see the hardy fellows
IhjgreatcrbWidS stwgftliftgfot'.apiace at
-tbe jmprottiw eOdnterl ^tjiO^in# #Hlch
ire s^ve^Al
f^vdplojres
deairng out with
ra^idit^ thA ttfaby wares, 4y
the imp^ep^purcbasers., yfp ^ayaliad
tet^ b^ityfim tails, of late! Wjhich lias
made maifsblng troubleso^imdea^^
delays^
1iit to-morrow the stesmer will
IMHTS us ind then we cut looie^sniiffly
frid(m dtilhsktibn $^d make war
{tQofifta
pieBou. Will be.siome time bei^rav I
WillbaVtf ah opportunity to reiidi.^e
T^iBi^is^atn but in tbe meantime I
wili Wep a faithful record of events apd
occut'retfceB.
Jmdi 12.—An unexpected experience
me to day 'in tbe shape a
stMinSbat trip ,down the Yellowstano
titer. The steamer wont down to bring
up tbe renrainder_of the supplies at tbe
Btodcade on the mouth of Glendive Creek
Capt. Marsh extended me a courteous in­
vitation to "go along" and I accepted
cheerfully. The run, eighty-six miles
in disdance, was made in exactly
three hours, an average of over 28 miles
per hour. That's no
,4tish
story," Col­
onel, but a fact, and I think this proves
the Far West a clipper to "go along."
This steamer has been very busy since
she came into the Yellowstone river,
having made a full trip from its mouth
to Tongue river, a distance of 400 miles,
thence down to Glendive Creek 116 miles
a run back to mouth of Powder river, 86
miles, and to day from the latter stream
to Glendive again, and will return to
depot to-morrow. The navigation of
the Yellowstone is vastly scpenor to
that of the Missouri river its banks do
not wash at all, and are gravel as well
as its bed. Thus no bars are formed,
and no change of channel occurs. Capt.
Marsh states that navigation is excellent
at a much lower stage than at present as
far up as "Pompey's Pillar," which is a
distance of 460 miles from the junction
with the Missouri, and 60 miles above
the mouth of the Big Horn. Tbe valley
of the Yellowstone is of level and slight­
ly rolling prairie formation with but
little timber, for a distance of about a
hundred miles above Glendive creek, be*
low which point, and above the distance
named, there is an abundance of timber*
chiefly Cottonwood, The grasses are of
luxuriant grdWth and quality. At an
occasional point along the stream the
bad land formation juts down to tbe
banks, and once in a while the formgtipn
reaches some miles as a bank JroJNfce
river, both on the Montana as Twl^'as
the Dakota sides. Were it not the
existence of a few cains of rapids tha£
occur, and which a small outlay of money
would soon remedy, there is no doubt
a steamer the size of the F^r^estcould
navigate withouthindra
of water usual to the str
we ran swiftly down,
ducks on the shores, an^
other small game
Stratas of lignite cr
in thin veins and ojf
climate seems ve
Bi&marck, somewh
Vegetations of
here thaik therei
future, linmay be
valley will be* peo
people who will
nothing more. f_am
gations for favttrr '&ndl
Capt. Grant Mar*h, atft
leigh, clerk of steamer.
growth
The early morning cf ^sy'llai Wis
a dark, gloomy, misty, thrvatenmg one,
yet tbe march art* rneved at A* hofcv
!«U8