The Black Hills Champion from Deadwood, South Dakota • 1

1 Vol. 1. CENTRAL CITY, BLACK HILLS, D. SUNDAY, DEC. 30, 1877, cisirrreAfc, city Aivrrs.

DIVIDING DAKOTA. CJEAC)WI) DIUECTOItY. tfBKGSCIlAXTf MUCH A CoBBiiectictit WoraBaoi JUDGING OUR JUDGE. It has been the misfortune of this region, and we might say, territory, to have men appointed to positions of emolument or trust whose names or reputations have been tainted by private or official misconduct. Judge H.

J. Campbell has been appointed United States District Attorney to take the place of the late Col. Pound. The Judgehas been charged with defrauding an Iowa county out of $2,000 while acting as its county treas- urer. While passing through Sioux City, Iowa, last week, on his way to David Jones to JB Williams and Gay Durkee, one hundred undivided feet in a lode situated on Saw-vpit gulch 125.

David Rollins to David Ogden, an undivided one-half interest in the Orpha Ogden lode $G0'1. Wm. Quinn, Swayne and Jacob Kelser to Ellen McLaughlin, tract of land near Centennial toll road $500. Pat McHugh and James Vandani-ker to Miller MtiPherson, the hotel or building known as the I together with the lot on which it stands Central City, $1,400. Vandaniker and McHugh ta Miller McPherson, the building known as the Central City Opera House, together with the lease of the lot on which the same is erected $1,100, A Bartean to Samuel Swarzhold and Henry Beaman, lot 12, block 1, South Deadwood $125.

Great RepubMc, one-fourth interest in the Northern, and seven hundred and fifty feet in the Elephant lode J. Fruits and Confectionary, crXTiCXllALL, T'-mit Store. Cigars, To-btificy Fresh OyRtere.Confcctionary, Main street. iJUNTKH LILI12NTHAL, Clothing and K'urniHhlntf Goods, Main streut. WYK Pioneer Hardware Store of the Jills.

A full stock always on hand. Main-M. ItlN'KMAN Storage and Commission merchants, imported I iqnors and Cigars, htreet, three doort above Postofllce. F.OATSf, Watchmaker and Kepalrer, Main street. All work Warranted.

TJTHOOOiiK HOCHE, Ouu and Lock Smith, Lower Main Street. PIHHOJ A JOHNSON, Wholesale. Liquor I'll iv liquors in the market. CUMtl.EH BOIKMIKUS' Cusino S.loon. Wmes, Limiora and Cigars, coruer of Lea and Sherman Hfreuts.

Ml NEKS' 11RI0WKRY, Bent lieer, Liquors, Wi "On and Ci- trs. Kosonbaum Jb Decker, Proprietors. Sherman Street. D. HOLZMAN, Clothing and Furnishing (J.oadi.

Main Street. QAFFY: FUASEll, Attorneys at Law, over PoMtofiloe, D. T. Will practice in all the Courts in he Territory. E) 11 EARLY BURNS, Will practice in the Courts of this Territory, at Washington.

Ollice on Main street, Deadwood. D. JOHN V. NOW 1)1 I-'irst Door West of Paeflc House. CENTRAL CITY, T).

I A AVIS7 Formerly Mclter raid Refiner U. S. Mint at: Denver. and late Asayer Consolidated Virginia, and California Mining Company at Virginia City, Nevada. Otiiee, Head of Main-St, Deadwood, I).

T. ZIlI, Sign of ihe Ile.l Boot, Manufacturer of Ladies a ad (joins' Pme Work Specialty. Bed Rock Store, Main BLreetJ leadwood, D. T. ISOS'IIT AXI HOIil.

OOK OUT FOR BARGAINS! Inside the ark at Stehhin, Wood Post's new building, on Sherman street. Ioilit Clothinw, Milling Tools, Great Bargains for Cns Also on hand a large stock of SS S3 A. of all kinds which I must sell at cost wit hin a few dsvyn. Call and see Sam Soyster, Pro. I IBvS ANNE DUNNE, I Alv'D- JDUnSS MAKING ESTABLISHMENT.

STUEET one door from corner of SHERMAN STREET. eateet stock of Laeios' lXats, Plumes ArliOcial Flowers, Ribbons and Ladies' Furnishing Goods in the Blcte Hills. DrespeRcut to fit, and made up promptly and saueratorily. HAW EC: JflRST CENTRAL BANK. Interest Paid on Deposits." Collections on Deadwood and all points in the Hills promptly made and remitted liuy and eell Drafts on all partn of the Unied States and LCurope.

Transfer money D5' telegraph, liuy and Bell' Qold Dutit and ehlp Retorts on commission. DORK IIEFFLKMAtf Manager. 1SLACKHMIT1IH. QONMERILII CIIARBONO, ISIiicksmiflis aiul maBiurnctaircrs of of Tron Work. Horse Shoeing and Wagon Work, Sharpening Picks and Drills a Specialty.

Lower Mam-St, Central City. EADWOOI) CENTRAL. Allen Co. run a lino ofjfi'-st-clasp Conveyances betweo and Central City ftSnkiii! Trips FiVpry Half Hour. Packages carried and flpllvercd promptly at any point along the roite.

We liave a first-cfass -livery stable In Central ty. R. O. B. THOMPSON, Oflice up stairs, two doors north of Postoffice, Deadwood, Black Hills.

D.T. R. OVERMAN, 1 OFriCE AND DRUG STORE, One door east of Red Flag Store. Main Street. CENTRAL, CITY, D.

T. ATTO kx kyh. II A MILTON A IIUKLBUT, 1, onioo head of Sherman street. T. Will Practice in all the Courts of Dakota.

ALLEN. Wliolcsalc aarZ ICeiail rocci. And Dealers in Miner's -Supplies: i Gilbert's Block. Central City, D. T.

S. li. (Jilbert. F. M.

Allen. irAieiiYAiti: axd stovhs. JACK BOWMAN, '-i Dealer in Stoves 9' I nwa and Hardware, All kinds of riN AND -SHEET IRON WARE Manufactured and Repaired. Opposite Ifefflemn's Bank, Main Street, HAlIiltOA IN. I LLINOIS CENTRAL RAIL ROAD Shortest and best Route frum the North and Northeast TO CHIC J1G Through Trains Run from Sioux City to Chicago, Connecting with Leading Lines from Chicago to all points in the EAST AND SOUTH Central and continuous line of Railroad from Sioux City to New Orleans.

THE ILLINOIS CENTRAL le the safest and best managed line in the United States, FARE, ALWAYS AS LOW AS THE LOWEST Ticket1 for sale at ail the principal? offices In the United States, Gen. Pass. Ag't. Chicago. General Sup't Chicago.

A Wexv Facts from an OlcSL ESesfi" dcsitOne wlio knows he is Talkins; Aboeit, Correspondence Chicago Tribune. Yankton, D. Bee. 10. Your orrepondent writing from he Black Hills, Is mistaken in some statements made in a letter printed your issueof the 6th but ouches a subject of areneral interest.

Referring to the proposed erection of a new territory under thes name of Lincoln, to include that region, he repeats a statement locally made to him, based upon prejudice and igno- ance, which inquiry would have re- ected. He reflects upon the laws of Dakota there inapplicable, sas they were passed by the 4Cow" counties, meaning tne agricuitutal districts ofa this region, and says they had 'no of the needs of a district like the Hills. The state, of Califofnia i undoubt edly the most enlightened, advanced, and well-governed mining region in Amencs, and has had more expe rience with the needs of both capital and labor so employed than any other tate or territory." It has a high ame for ciilurhtened lawl, and its courts have been celebrated for learn- ng ana aoiuty since tne aay tne siaie was organized. CertainlyL too, that stito is as nearly like the Black Hills topography and other characterises of the iniug interests as any )art of the United States, i Our laws are copied from those of California very largely. Our last legislative as sembly enacted our "Revised Codes," which had been prepared with great labor by a commission previously appointed.

There are strictly but rive codes, though they may be sev en, political, civil, penal, criminal procedure, civil procedure probate and justices, the latter three being all civil procedure. Of these seven codes all but the. first are the Califor nia law, and that relates to officers. counties, municipalities generally, and local administration which are much the same, in all northwestern tates. In the preparation of these codes careful regard was had to the latest amendments by the California legislature and the decisions of their supreme court, in course these codes are similar to those of New York, Wisconsin, and other states based upon the same system.

In regard to mining laws and 'in terests specially, the codes are the same as California law, except the statute governing the location and iz.t-f ofV lodes and mining claims, which was taken from the latest stat ute of Colorado and amended slight ly, but only ai the request and sug gestion of representatives from the Black Hills in attendance upon our legislature. The law of corporatians, including mining and manufacturing, tunnels, ditches, and flumes, and' wagon or toll roads, and all part nership and commercial law, is iden tical with California. Our law is se vere in penalties. It does not permit lawlessness or the forcible occupation and dispossession of mines, as at tempted of the Keets mine, and de scribed by your correspondent. It forbids gambling and gambling houses, bawdy houses, and similar institutions, and does n-ot authorize their license for revenue.

It insists upon regular process of law for the enforcement of rights or the redress of wrongs, and disavows mobs in any form an.d for any purpose. There are two or three points wherein our laws do not best suit These are the time required to begin and firing, to trial civil actions in the higher courts, though this is not extraordinary in older localities, and our very large exemp tions. In all other respects their ob jections are not well taken, and spring trom ignoranct or prejudice. The riier is 'Ut opined to the new but let it be created on! the basis of truth. Congress must look at two or three plain facts, however, If that territory be organized, what will be done with the proposed ter ritory of Huron out of the northern part of Dakota? and if both be cut off: will it hot limit the size of Dako ta for a future state? In brief, would it not be far I etter for Huron to be separate I and the remaining or south half of Dakota, including the Black IIill3 be erected into a state in the best permanent interests of all the sections.

The proposed state would not be so long east and west as Nebraska, and its length would be with the natural and artificial routes by river and rail. It is this looking forward to statehood which causes all the opposition there is here to Lincoln territory. The Black Hills are now a great expense and inconvenience to our territorial affairs, while they pay no territorial tax. Their criminals cost the tern torv heavily, and cause the onlv debt the territory now owes, ye one of their arguments in favor of senara tioq is Chat the territory owes 000,000, It does not owe $10,000 in all. W.

H. II. Beadle. Some of the heaviest taxpayers of Central are disposed to resist the payment of the taxes levied, upon the ground that the valuation was ex horbitant, extravagant and illegal. The payment of taxes at this time will prove a hardship, and yet in the face of this.

Whitehead and Walker ask onr people to send them money with which to treat Congress men to induce therm to allow us the privilege to burdera oorselves with the additional expense of a territorial government. Mourns the ILoss of Seveon Husbands. The New York Times has a special from Hartford, which says the town of Coventry has brought suit against the town of Manchester for the support of an alleged pauper naoxed Patti Pameiia Anthony, and the woman herself ha9 made a depo-osition which shows a remarkable career of married life. The case is before Judge Carpenter, of Hartford, as arbitrator. According to her story, she was married July 5, 1835, to Wm, Bly.

of Springfield, who left her three days cf'ter. Six weeks later she heard he was dead, and on Feb. 4 of the next year, she married David L. Rogers, of Hadlyme, Conn. She lived with Rogers six months, wheti-Bly, the dead man.

apoearecrrHut was bbuerht up and gave aquit-elai to Rogers or a siiverwaTcn ana Abautfwo years after Rogers went to sea, and six months following his departure, Mrs. Rogers heard he had been hanged as a pirate. Finding single life hanging heavily on her hands, she married, in March, 1841, Frederick A. Wheeler, who now lives in Manchester, Conn. Six months after this marriage.

Rogers, the hanged pirate, came back, ousted heeler, and lived with Pameiia till October 1849, when he died. In. March ''1 50. she married TfAnrv Mjters, of Williamsburg, N. and gota divorce in March, 18o7, and in the samayear married James Davis andamovfed to Wisconsin.

She lived with hit several years, and got di- vorcea. hhe then married Richard Mar-hafl somewhere in Ohio, lived with him seven years, and got another di vorce, then coming back to Connecti cut, she married Emanuel Anthony, of Hartford, and lived with him six months, when he ran away. This record shaws she had seven husbands in all. She was first mar ried when 14 years of aue. She says she is now 50 years old.

Coventry sues Manchester for her support, claiming her settlement is in Man chester, where her husband, Wheejety now lives. There Rogers' marriage is claimed to be void, as Bly was still living, but as Bly died before Wheeler's marriage, the latter was legal. Manchester says the lily she married is not Bly, who is said to be dead, but another man: that the married Bly was alive when Wheeler's mar riage took place, which makes that void. It is also held that Wheeler's marriage is of no effect, under the Connecticut laws, from the fact that at tlie time Wheeler married her, his father was married to her sister So he was not only marrying his mother-in-law's sister, but also his. father's step-sister, aad so on.

It is a very peculiar case. flinin and Ktoal Estate Transfers lu JLuwrciic D.T. John B. Pearson t(i A. Pearson, a parcel of land situated on bar claim number 3 $1,000.

A McClurg to Louis Caron, lot 144, block 17, Lead Shelton Morris to Louis Caron, lot 130, block 18, Lead City $200. Jacob Runyan to P. Gallagher, lot of land near the Whitewood toll road $300. E. C.

Peters to F. T. Evans, lot? 136, 127, 122, 125, Sherman street. South Deadwood $1. II Waggerman to Frederick Evans, an undivided one-sixth interest in the Fairview No.

2 lode $1,000. Frederick Evans to Jennings, a two-ninths interest in the Stiawberry, Keystone and Quaker City lodes, Bear Butte district $250.. Farr to Peters, lota 136, 137, 122 and 124, Sherman street, South Deadwood $325, Young to Evan, discovery claim on the Merritt No. 1 lode, Bcar Butte district $1,000. George Newton to Joseph Mishler an undivided one-fourth of the Cheyenne lode $1,650.

Robinson Ross to Ira Ford, an undivided one-third interest in the Erin lode, on the divide between Deadwood and Savvpit gulches $48. E. Ayers to Martin McDonough mill and mill site known as Hie An chor City quartz nill, together wit the blacksmith shop and lot No, 9 i Anchor S. C. Lee to E.

Dayers, lot 9, Anchor City $40. I General Samuel Fields to Max Flshel, two lots of land on William street $30. Daniel Rollins to I. A. Bjshop9 an undivided one-eighth interest in the Badger quartz mill, consideration an undivided one third interest in the Adams lode.

Bear Butte. M. Meagher to Chasten Donovan, an undivided one-fourth of tha Yankton, he was interviewed by a reporter of ihe Journal who thus relates what transpired. The Journal "Learning that Judge H. J.

Campbell1, the new appointed United States district attorney for Dakota, was on his vvay to take up the duties of his office, reporter the Journal called upon him yesterday during the hours of his sojourn in this city, for the purpose of an interview in regard to the derogatory reports circulated concerning him. Reporter Judge, have you s.r-i this item going the rounds of the papers of Iowa and- Dakota, credited to the Duiiuque 2yimes of November, 27? "The senate has; confirmed II. Campbell as district, attorney for Da-. kotaj. Tb'e De3 Moines Register says he fised to live in Muscatine, where he has an odious record, saying that he was county treasurer before the war and defaulted in $2,000.

But hik appointment: is a pat illustration the President's civil service none-sense. Suggestions of congressional! opinion about appointments the President regards as an unwarranted and corrupting interfe- rence executive prerogatives, Iience he will have noneT of it. If he had allowed or other prominent men to have tendered suggestions as to the appointment, this scandal wouid not have comet upon him." Judge Campbell. No sir. I knew therejwas some, such item afloat, but this is the first time I have seen it I knew -it -because i saw in the Mus-catine Journal an allusion to and com-? plete refiUat ion of it.

I supposed it had been squelched by that refutation. R. of that kind are rarely overtaken. Is there any shadow of truth in the statement eoncern-1 iug your treasurership of Muscatine county, Weil, I'll teli you. -the exact state of the case, and the light in which 1 put it will he.

vouched for ca, correct by Hon. Henry O'Connor and DeWitt Richman of Muscatine, Judge -Scott Richman of Davenport, and iy Senators1 Allison and -Kirk-wood; all of whom are thorough iy acquainted wi the circumstances. You will see that there is no, foundation whatever for the charge that I defaulted for $,000 or any otier amount. IV The reference ought to satisfy anybody. C.

After my return to Muscatiuo Wni ttfirvri! i ii tlu- TTirwl TuiV vol. uiHeer iufanlry, in which I was wotXjed, I was elected couuiy treasurer, i which position I remained for eighteen months. Before, term of oflice was ended I went the army again th- Eighteenth I wa i i 1 raised a co pa and was speedily orden-cJ to duty in my regiment Uiat 1 didnot -havo opportunity to straighteil up the affairs if the treasurer's office. During my absence I learned that it was reported that there was due from mo td the county' -something like $1,000 or $1,200. Property to much over that amount was imimdiately placed by me in the hands of my bondstue.i with instructions to investigate ihe matter legally R.

What was the resalt? When judgmei(Jt was giver, it wa found that there was only $00Q, due from me, and this was immediately paid. There was no idea that there had veen anything the lat particle and it was merely my settlement to the county. R. Were you ever before thi-s called upon to meet 'this Yes. It was trumped against me in Louisiana during political career there.

R. Whe'n did you iro to up my ew Orleans? In 1865 I commenced there the practice of the law, and afterwards served as State Senator and as judge of the Fourth district court. During my candidacy 1 was charged wi the same thing that this item el the Des Moines Register alleges but it was successfully met then as it is now. During further conversation with Judge Campbell, th train started, and we bade him good day and good lu in his new position as the Successor of Col. Wm.

Pound, one of he most popular aiid highly respected officials the Territory ever had. i i Sensational sermons on seeuhir subjects are still the rage and draw large crowds. The National Exchange Bank at Troy, N. goes into liquidation in 30 days. Francis Copiutt, a wealthy New York importer, was found dead, with his head in a pan of chloroform, his rooms, Thursday.

$1,000. John Cheatham and Edward Kel-ley to Hattie J. Simpson, lot 66, Main street, Central City $150, R. A. Pratt to Chatles Pointer, lot 1 If block 9, Galena, Bear Butte $50.

C. M. Jones to Wm. Porth, lot 44, Main street, Lml CUv $175? Charles Meyer to Wm. Porte, east half of lot 42, block 6, Main street, Lead City $125.

i New Locations. Ridgeway hide, Idy Gray district, district, by F. C. Graham and others, Mill site, Nevada gulch, by Andrew Hunson and others. Hidden Treasure-No, 2 lo'de, by E.

'McLaughlin and others. Commonwealth lode, situated on Middle Box Elder Creek, by Liu. Mathews and others. New York lode, by James Maggy. Cedar lode, Butte, by Matthew Brown and others.

Pacific lode, by Joseph E. Madcr. Snow Flake, Grand View district, by II. Hunter and others. Water right, Ida Gray district, by John F.

Moore Co. Frankie Skidmore lode, Spruce gulch, by J. V. Skidmore. St.

Louis lode, by Henry Hill others. Inter prise lode, Grand View trict by Hu'iter and others, Snowbird lode, Grand View and dis- dh trict, by H. Hunter and others. Hidden Prospect lode, Grand View district, by H. Hunter aud others.

John C. Ned to CoJnelius Murphy, lot 5 of the east north division, Golden Gate 200 VonBodengen to Lydia A. Sawyer, lot 2, block 1, Pennington City $100. Christopher and Jas. F.

hi to C. B. Stocking, all right title and interact, in the Jose'phnalode, I-da Gray district $1, i Some days ago Gov. Pennington wrote to Gen. Sheridan, urging, if practicable, the establishment of a millitary post' in the Black Hills, for the protection ot citizens against raids of roving bands of Indians.

To this appeal an answer has jus. been received, in which Gen. Sheridan says, speaking of the Red Clould and Spotted Tail tribes; "About one hundred lodges have broken off. me went north the balance to Powder river. Gen.

Crook has sent three companies of cavalry to the Black Hills. Gen. Terry has sent a force there also. I hear of no trouble in theBlaci Hills, and will do the best I can if anv should cum J7 Yankton Press, 19. Tlie New Territory.

The Washington correspondent the St. Paul Pioneer Press, under data of Dec. 11, writes as follows ot proposed new territory. This correspondent is well posted, has good facilities of information and is in position to be Informed of the prob able action on such a measure 'A delegation from the Black Hil Is had a hearing before the committee on Territories of the house the other day, and presented arguments imf favor of organizing a new Territory, to be called Lincoln. They were opposed before the committee by Judge Kidder and Dr.

Burleigh, the former delegate fram Dakota, aud it is probable the committee will report adversely a majority of the members not appearing, to favor the organizatiou of a new territory at this time." I)MABWOOD.