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Show TRYING TO SOLVE THE PROBLEM. Judge H. N. Muguire has been quietly but assiduously at work try-iog try-iog to Bolve the problem or mystery involved in the first discovery ol gold in the Black Hills by white men, for some months. Since the publication ot itis "Black Hills and American Wonderland," in tne Lakeside Library, he has been engaged in trying try-ing to unravel the mystery, aud be-iievea be-iievea he ia now on tne right track, and will soon be able to give names aud family connections ot those who first mined for gold in the Black Hd!a. That they weru all dUugh-tered, dUugh-tered, nut a eintile one tscjiping, ia as oertain as that mining was carried on here years before Custer entered the country; and this latter fact ia poai- tivnlw lipnimiKlriUPll bv the findiuC Of old Bluue boxes; a grindstone aeveral feet under ground, and other equally conclusive evidences. The judge says the victims were a party of twenty-one, twenty-one, mostly from Michigan and Ohio, who detached themselves from an overland expedition to California, at Fort Laramie, in the spring of There were thirty in the party who entered the Hills, eight ol whom returned and overtook the main party at the Humboldt river to iuforni them of the prospecting expedition here. The Judian3 being very troubleBOtno at the time, and the mining districts of Cahlornia being so nearly reached, they concluded to go on to California together. Tho party of twenty-one who remained behind were never heard of afterwards. after-wards. These were undoubtedly the men who opened the first mines in the Black Hills, twenty-five yoara n-o. and tbev were all slaughtered by treuchcrous Indiana. Names and liome localities will shortly be given, I . B II. Pioneer. I |