The Black Hills Weekly Pioneer from Deadwood, South Dakota • 20

on Heart River, so says Col. Sweet of llismari k. KOAI) (' ted lime till the wagon earn along, BUS IIOI5X XMVS (iOI.I) AC1IK l)IS OVKnKJ) I and then put the bullion in on the 7th of June a plr uom' ii-At frequent intervals ever since I ami went in the direction violent hailstorm occurred at treasure was beginning to he car- l-'ort Kelterman. Detective nR. of the Big Horn river.

i'd from the Hills to the cast, Noah Siever them near Sheridan who reached there luad agents have inlerrupted that point and they reached Kaw-jthe following, was told that coaches going out by the Chcy- hide yesterday in custody. I some of the hailstones were larger enne route and not only rubbed When the party in the wagon than mail's fj.st. mid this asser-the treasure-safe, but rilled the was corralled bv Cook and Ward jinpcar improbable pockets ot passengers and violat- i and were compelled to leave their eil the U. S. maiia, taking from I wagon they also left the bullion, them all packages of value.

as it was too heavy to carry on The i iiioiiMov i horseback, and though it was view of the damage done. There are between seven ami eight hundred lodges of the Crow Indians at that point, and their herds numbered over a thousand pomes i date 1W2. It was a coltonwood itree. and its appearance indicated 'a growth of about that length jof lime. The name was so overflown Willi the bark that but a few of lis letters weri' traceable.

The large figures however weie distinctly outlined, bearing the date That i ti'in of the country is thickly inhabited wi'h beaveis. and heaver dams are vciv plentitul. It is supposed that the carving on the tree must have been the work of some old hunter, and that lie was probably at work trapping beavers. MM l. IT K.MS The bail that fell on Monday last was two leet deep ill drills ill ditto! ent poi Hons of the I hils.

lleooi comes trotn the I'll vine Tut tier party, who left on the of June, for the Hig Horn. They have just left for Foil Keno. Came and both si a ice. hurled near the wagon and hard- i fact 1 hat whatever was done bv the highwavmen must he done covered with earth, the hundred ponies were killed by )Uiekly on account of the frequent hauled the wagon away and tm. The shower of missies passage of coaches or freight "ovev discovered the gold, was too much for them.

ami. after trains over the route, making it, Tle party continued to Pierre being knocked down, they were and one of them, supposed to pelted to death. In the stoi the leader, crossed to Kort Thomp- herds stampeded to the rivei son and was captund by half- hank. ami one-hundred more were breeds. The men who weie bring- crowded into the turbulent cirictit ilig this prisoner, whose name and drowned, being too lunch is Cough, visited the camp where stunned to keep tie (r the wagon was lett and found Meais above water, the Indians there one liar and one large te-'were bewailing their loss bitterly A Mr.

Sprague was robbed at Crook on the night of July 1th and received a severe wound on the head from a revolver. no per day to the hand has been taken out on claim No. I. at the mouth of Deadwood gulch, owned by ('apt. Foster.

Mr. Trudell, wife and family started yesterday from this city en-route for the Ilig Horn. They went by private conveyance. TIIK Ml llKKIX(i CIIKYEXXKS The wild Cheyenne Indians who have been murdering settlers and devastating the country along the line of their march from the Indian Territory have crossed the Union Pacific lailroad and ait striking for Sitting Bull's camp, if they are not stopped they wiil sweep up over our northern border, crossing the Pierre and Dismal ck routes, and no doubt will take in tiams and many ranches in their way. They spare the life of no one.

and steal every hoof stock they find, thus providing a winter's gmb stake. It would be a very judicious thing on the part of our freighters to send a rouiier the unites of the above mentioned mads to warn traveler, and fieiglit. lo be on the tor the marauder and ke. u. huge fades while eliroute.

impossible for them to "lay siege' to any stag, which could not be taken in a few hours built an iron-clad treasure coach and placed in it armed messengers, hoping thus to the sab passage of the golden products of the Hills to their eastern markets to meet the necessities of trade and the demands of luxury. But this precaution was of avail only for a little time, and a few days since, a long series of daung rob-beiies of so frequent occurrence us to excite comment onlv for a Loin ifiicers who bav Army stationed tort both valued at They hove hastily to Kapid. which place thev rear bed vestonlav mot nine in that region foi ars told Col. Sfici i wiil probably to Deadwood and the gold brought back night. Thus by degrees is this desperate band of lawless men being few davs.

culminated in the ran- A load of honey was In ought from Cislie eieek today and sold in Deadwood at twenty cents a pound. It was ga'hciod from a huge bee ttee in that vicinity. lb thought it was tun. to go bed so he took down the cloth sign of tne a Vat Theal r. and vcappmg it aioi.nd him ueiit to sleep ill the gutl' i that they had never befoie seen at this season of the year, so much snow on ine Ilig Horn mountains.

From all accounts there had been no perceptible dimunilion of the last winter's snow and this had been steadily added to bv falls during May ami early June. A party ot miners who have tur" of the treasure-coach bv 1 up and as 'ook and Burns till out on the search it oi.m are hoped that we may soon hear of tile capture of the last of this notorious gang. been prospecting in the limn country found, on entering at the headwaters of the Win rivei a name carved in a tree with the I. lent. Chance vcislic! out fine hn 1'iieiis of in the 1 hg I loi in on leious and successful suc-'f ssful except in that one of th" lingands was wounded, a lac; 1 1 was to play an important Jan in the captuie of the thievts.

Tins happening amused the people of the Hills action and a boily of well armed men out fully determined to scour It whole wide legion b. tweeii the 5 hits and the sta'es till eeilain li HAND TOOLED I'd I.I. IX, A CHINA SHOP Yesterday an inquisitive bull unable to enter the door of one of the China shops in the celestial city, at the lower end of Main street, that desired to investigate the in-lerior of one of those delectable habitations, concluded to make the riftle anyhow, started at once lor tiie root, through which his fore-1 legs went, much to the surprise ot pig'. died gentry within, who at once coiici -veil the blight idea tilat some unknown person of a generous desposi ion laid seat me U-esh meat to tempt the delicate of the Imigh's of ei.op Cal.s. e.

I to I V. 11: KtilYc i the o- iai if the baud was not all l-iken be at least broken. Hi the party v. eat to the scone the and violence and iit.i cnstihiy some a -id me innocent pen-ors and some though apparently innocent crime, comessed lo being 'he how the band I lit WE I wing 1 1 I i I i i iiow l.i'.u-iit mn, town pti- of ion how iltletiler loir for lllik'S v.aon containing the wounded-bandit and a com how ,1 i) u.oins The work of the vouna lur ks rider getting them ulnms: into onso.lv thev escaped in the ni'jh: ftoin Clou. I who are LEATHER GOODS PURSES BILLFOLDS 0 BELTS CUSTOM MADE Authentic Styling of the Old West leaving their all these 'Vcr the praiiies norih- i'eels need only be refened to heiv ul Hllls- is ginning to to make the 'sequel plain.

milling on Discoveries ie. entlv made show! 1 aiu his' stock along the Pierre at two days aft-r the affair al11 doubt as soon as the robbers known as assured ot forming a and Afehy M.d.mtghlin with the Chcvenncs. tie cniiipcl 'and a hair attention to Hie ll iv hhle. They 'moved twi. an.

1 s' ililh -eai time dug a hole in the ground i 'tnder thei. ten! which it is1 Mi. K. II. look out a bai.l th.

bin the "old each nugget last week from Ills alio sa ii on it Tluy May- l.t!ii. -No I'. gulch. WILD BILL'S GUNS ARE SILENT NOW 1 JUEOD's 1 23 Lee Street Deadwood j) (Q (Q i i 1 -ft 1852 1952 STUDEBAKER'S CENTENNIAL YEAR 4 Salei and ODOU MOTOR COMPANY Phone 177 Deadwood Shot to death by the assassin Jack McCall, Jame3 Butler (Wild Bill) Hickok now lies under the tombstone in Mt. Moriaii cemetery, after a long, colorful career as a marshal in some nf the most lawless frontier towns.

The inscription on the i plank reads, "Wild Bill, J. B. Hickok. Killed by the assassin Jack McCall in Deadwood, Black Hills, August 2, 187H. Pard, in dto we will meet again in the happy nunting ground to part no more.

Goodbye. Colorado Charlie, A. Utter." Utter came here with Wild Bill but has already departed for parts unknown..