Sole Survivor Reveals Bear Lodge Massacre Tale
A veteran miner recounts the 1866 Bear Lodge massacre in the Bear Lodge range near Deadwood. He details six companions slain by a Sioux party after gold strikes, their cabin besieged, and his escape with scars and a buried fortune. He travels claiming the tale and seeking kin for the fallen.
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Bear Lodge Mountains
Deadwood
New West Mountain
Bear Lodge
Aeeporter
Bear Lodge Range
Omaha
Henry Ganson
Pennsylvania
Albert Royer
Kentucky
Jerry Dettich
Michigan
Michael Powers
New Hampshire
John Farrell
Maryland
James McIntosh
Missouri
Powers
Detrich
California
North Platte River
Fort Laramie
McIntosh
Beaver Creek
Farrell
Fraud claim taints Deadwood Wolf Mountain stampede tale
Dr R D Porter reports from the Black Hills that the recent Wolf Mountains gold rush was a hoax. About twelve hundred stampeders outfitted at great cost, found little gold and blamed speculators who left with the dust. They returned to Deadwood disillusioned and ready for a new stampede.
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R. D. Porter
Louisville Courier-Journal
Black Hills
Deadwood
Wolf Mountain
Bald Butte
Wolf Mountains
Partner
Big Horn Range
Beaver Creek
Inyan Kara
Fort Reno
Ile
Fragmentary notice yields scattered phrases and names
The text presents a fragmentary, garbled excerpt with stray letters and incomplete names. It references a religious group, a congregation, a school, and a political party, but lacks coherent events or dates to establish a clear news item.
Correspondents urged to sign letters for publication
The notice requires writers to include their names on all communications intended for publication and warns that unsigned items or those written on both sides of the paper will be discarded. This policy aims to guarantee good faith and accountability in the newspaper’s letters section.
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Mackie
White Sewing Machin Co
Luciid Avenue
Foems
Cleveland
Sewing Machine CO
New York
Chicago
Tess
District Court Proceedings Farce of December Day
District Court adjourned after a verdict for the plaintiff in Upton vs McLaughlin totaling 1008 dollars. The People vs Walter Parks for shooting Officer Talbot began with sanity and delirium tremens questions. court adjourned to Saturday then Monday for arguments amid crowds. Two Texas youths pursued two horse thieves for two days and recovered loot in exchange for relief. local paper praises their vigilance.
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District Court
C. W. Upton
D. McLaughlin
Walter Parks
Policeman Talbot
Talbot
Parks
Ore Shipments from Montana Reach $150000 Value
Montana copper and silver ore shipments for the season total about 1.3 million pounds of copper ore at 41 percent grade valued near $55,000 at Salt Lake prices and 700,000 pounds of silver ore worth about $100,000 sent east. Total tonnage around a thousand and freight paid to rail carriers about $35,000.
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Montana
Butte City
Salt Lake
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Wyoming
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Joslin & Park’s Jewelry Store
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