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Show A Deadwood correspondent alter being in the Hills several months, writes: That it is his deliberate opinion, alter careful consideration, that this whole Black Hills question is a diabolical fraud. . Thero have boon not less than 50,000 ' 'pilgrims" in hero and cut again this year. They come hore through the misrepresentations misrepresen-tations of interested parties and not fiudine it as represented they go away cursing the country. Thero are 10,000 men in the vicinity of Dead-wood Dead-wood who arc without employment and would bo glad to v.ork for their board, or for sutlicient money to pay their way out of tho Hills. Last week a man committed suicide from sheer starvation, and there have been two other suicides from similar causes. |