Deadwood Free Press Vol.

2 Issue 13 April 10, 1878

Vol. 2 Issue 13 April 10, 1878

Graveside Services Planned for

Deputy Mayor Shippe
Funeral services are planned for 2 p.m.
Saturday for one of the town’s leading
citizens, Starbuck Shippe, who died at vil-
lainous hands two weeks ago.
Numerous citizens say the death of the
Deputy Mayor and a Justice of the Peace
took the wind from their sails and left
many mourners.
“Starbuck was a man with an incredible
sence of community and duty,” said Mayor
Clay Kungler. “Starbuck worked to right
the wrongs he saw in this life and do what-
ever he could to make Deadwood a better
place. He always stepped up and acted even
when not asked of him. A true citizen,
businnessman, father and husband. He
will be greatly missed.”
Others agreed.
In fact, all agreed.
“In my estimation, this town is gonna
miss ol’ Starbuck in a significant way...
Hell, it feels the loss o’ any feller what ain’t
a complete feckless, slack-jawed puke,” said
leading citizen and businesswoman Mrs.
Diogenes Kuhr. “But the collective disap-
pointment ain’t but nothin’ compared t’
that which some various an’ sundry indi-
viduals is doubtlessly goin’ through. The
sore reality of it is that they’s a number o’
folks whose lives was positively changed in
a permanent sense for havin’ knowed the
gentleman, an their feelin’ o loss must be efforts, to make Deadwood a better place “I thought of coffee because
downright heart-rendin’.” for all.” Starbuck was such a sober man. I
Another citizen who served on the Town The investigation into Shippe’s death is don’t believe I ever saw him under
Council with Shippe, fellow Justice Rod ongoing. He died near the bridge between the influence of spirits,” said Mayor
Eun, said, the church and cemetery, and Sheriff Bram Emeritus Neil Streeter, a partner in
“As a pillar of the community, Star- was seen climbing under the bridge at great the store.
buck Shippe brought so many things, to risk for himself in search of clues. Streeter said he thought Starbuck
so many people. As a family man, he was The Black Hills General Store is pleased was such a good name for a coffee
a loving father and caring husband. As to announce a limited issue of fine roasted that he thought about trademarking
a Councilman, he was a member of the coffee from San Francisco named Star- it, “but I decided not to out of Star-
Town Council and provided leadership for buck’s Coffee. buck’s memory and because we’re
his fellow public servants and town’s folk. The coffee will only be available until it not in the coffee business. There’s
“No mere words can describe what Mr. is gone, and proceeds will be donated to no real money in it. But we hope a
Shippe meant to this town, we should the family of the deceased Deputy Mayor few dollars are raised to help Deputy
all honor his memory, by continuing his Starbuck Shippe. Mayor Shippe’s family.”

Leftovers
The pies were stacked for cooling in
the town icehouse, though not fresh from
the oven. As the mystery meat in Mrs.
Streeter’s pies was discovered, citizens of
Deadwood lamented over what to do with
the leftovers.
Many brought their pies back to icehouse
where Mrs. Streeter selected her main
ingredients.
Citizens of Deadwood reacted differ-
ently as some learned what they had con-
sumed.
Mr. Bernard Hellershanks of the
Pinkertons seemed wholly unconcerned
after eating three pieces and was reported
Deputy Mayor Shippe’s widow seen with close friend Mr. Capalini, no doubt offering comfort, right after the as saying “Not bad at all..... though I hope
body was found. this isn’t custom here all the same.”
Miss Paxan Freck, lady’s maid to
Charleston Capra, prayed over the six pies
delivered to the Simply Fine Things shop.
She told this reporter, “Although this is a
terrible tragedy, I take solace in the fact
that I never ate any of the pies and that
only the Lord Jesus’ body has ever been
in my mouth...”
Others called for justice, like Mrs. Traci
Munster of the No. 10 Saloon who was
seen openly carrying a gun on Main Street
saying, “I want to make [Mrs. Streeter]
into a pie and feed her to her husband. That
would be justice.”
The reactions were certainly mixed to
the minced meat. One thing is for certain,
the meal has been made, and after any
meal there is a lot to clean up.
By Adam Kelly
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Deadwood Free Press Vol. 2 Issue 13
Letters to the Editor
Editor,
I was dismayed this week to witness
several children betwixt the ages of five
and sixteen wandering about town with
naught to do but cause mischief. I of course
admonished them to get to school with
haste; how shocked I was to learn that
there was no school
in session!
Criticism is useless unless one is willing
to put forth a solution. Being unrecruited,
I will put myself forward as a renegade
until a permanent solution can be found.
Before my marriage I in fact taught school
myself, and am eminently qualified having
raised four children on top of that. I am
willing to help out the children of this town
as a volunteer.
Though I am a widow, I am a busy
person so I would hope others would also
step forward and assist these poor inno-
cents lest they grow up in an ignorant and
neglected state.
While a regular teacher would be ideal,
surely a few dedicated philanthropists can
fill the void rather than let the urchins run
through all kinds of mischief and foolish-
ness for want of real education.
Unless someone puts up a barricade, I
shall hold the first session this Wednesday
Night, promptly at 5pm.
Mrs. Adrianna Westland
(widow of Mr. Major Matthew West-
land, dec.)
Deadwood
Editor and Publisher
Neil Streeter
Associate Publisher
Lola Kanto
Reporters
Addison Leigh
Contributing Writer
Adam Kelly
D.A. Kuhr
Typesetter
S. Morigi
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Editor,
It’s been something like two months
since the Town Council was presented with
a draft of laws for the community to give
our lawmen and judges something to work
from. Right now, our laws are patchwork
and open to challenge by any lawyer with
a shred of backroom sense.
The question here is, does the Town
Council have their heads up their asses?
Do they just not want to work?
Or have they grabbed their ankles for
the unsavory element such as a certain
gunsmith who would not want law? If
they’ve grabbed their ankles for him, how
far in does he have them?
We need laws like any real community
has. Get to work, please.
Worried Miner
Deadwood
Editorial
Choose your words with
new folks in mind
It is tempting to condemn one for the
overseasoning of food.
This has become quite the issue in Dead-
wood, where we had a sensational case of
a fine person who severely overseasoned
their meat pies.
Clearly, the person who did this was not
right in the head. I thus encourage all of
you to be charitable to her. You can tell
from that she is not well in the head, and
thus prone without awareness to overdo the
salt and peppers.
It is not thus her fault that she oversea-
soned the food. She lacks the will to reason
between right and wrong.
However, I surely understand how pas-
sion can lead us to anger even against the
simple and mad. Anyone whose tongue
tasted the salt and pepper and other, more
exotic spices, would naturally still feel the
burn upon their tongue and be quick to
anger.
What concerns me more however, is
the strange colloqualism that seems to
be developing. I have often heard others
describing the state of being overseasoned
as ‘cannibalism’ or “the serving of human
flesh.”
Friends, I am horrified that such an
expression for overseasoning has entered
our language in Deadwood.
Let’s remember for a second that no
Obituary
Deputy Mayor Starbuck Shippe
Died, Sunday, March 29, 1878, aged 31 years.
Starbuck William Penn Shippe was born
in Bucks County Pennsylvania, Sept. 17,
1846 He had a birthright in the Quaker
Church. He arrived in Deadwood in 1876
and was co-proprietor of the Flame The-
ater and the Phoenix Hotel. In 1877, Shippe
was elected to a seat on the Town Council
and proudly served as Justice of the Peace
until time of death.
Councilman Shippe is preceeded in death
April 10, 1878
Easterner or San Franciscan is going to
invest capital or move here if they think
this is a place where human flesh in con-
sumed.
Let’s remember that if these people do
not invest in Deadwood, many of us will
lose our shirts as the town disappears
around us.
So I beg of you - be honest and simply
say when food is overseasoned. Do not
indulge in the colorful and fun, and yet
highly inaccurate, expression of “serving
human remains in meat pies.” It is wrong,
or should be.
I can only invoke the memory of our
dear departed Deputy Mayor Starbuck
Shippe, We are all marched to God, but
his stay on this world was too brief for as
fine a businessman and leader as he was.
Deputy Mayor Shippe could be trusted to
tell the truth, and yet he also helped build
two fine businesses including the present
Phoenix Hotel.
Would Justice Shippe want the Phoenix
to dry up? To have his widow and child
run out of business by lack of business? If
you want that, then by all means, use the
expression “human remains were served”
and watch the hotel go out of business.
Or stay with the truth - simply say the
food was overseasoned if it was oversea-
soned.
by his parents, Mr. and Mrs. George Fox
Shippe. He has left behind his wife, Cyn-
thia Shippe, and son, Damien. He is also
survived by his sister, Astolat Dufaux.
Funeral arrangements to be made
through the Deadwood Funeral Home.
Shippe’s body will be laid to rest at the
Mount Moriah Cemetary on Saturday,
April 4, 1878.
Deadwood Free Press Vol. 2 Issue 13 April 10, 1878

Indoor Plumbing Comes to More on

Libations
31 Wall Street This is the second in a series by D. A.
Kuhr on how to drink better ... can there be
any more valuable news in this paper?

A reasonable portion of the elbow-bend-

What Will They Think of Next?
About 40 years ago, President Jackson
was the first to enjoy indoor plumbing at
1600 Pennsylvania Avenue. Now, some
private citizens of Deadwood are enjoy-
ing the same.
Charleston Capra, proprietor of Simply
Fine Things on 31 Wall Street, is just the
latest, “This little civility is something I
have always wanted.”
Many a passersby noted the scaffold-
ing winding its way up adjacent buildings
to the roof of 31 Wall where construction
commenced to erect a water reservoir.
One miner commented, “Waste. Waste
of wood, waste of copper. Rich folk and
their waste.”
Mr. Abraham Byron worked off the Charleston
his pipe to impressive effect.
designs of Mr. Lockmort Mortlock to
complete the intake and outtake water to provide hot water for the bath. Con-
system which is fed through gravity. One struction should be completed within the
of the pipes passes through a small stove week.
installed in the newly built water closet
ing public remains committed to the idea
that their favorite potable is savored best
in its pure form: straight out of the bottle,
unencumbered by anything that might
dilute or distract from the experience of
alcoholic consumption.
Many of those so inclined have their
particular favorite brands, which offer a
distinctive taste and character for which
their dedicated customers have formed a
deep and abiding appreciation.
These popular brands in the American
West of our day include such names as
Old Crow, Thistle Dew, Old Forester, Her-
mitage, Old Kentucky, and Old Overholt
from domestic producers, and names such
as Jameson’s Irish whiskey and Dewar’s
Scotch among the exports.
Nonetheless, there are those who increas-
Capra observes Mr. Abraham Byron work
ingly insist upon experimenting with a
more creative path to inebriation. For
those brave souls we continue our presen-
tation of cocktail recipes:
“Stone Fence”
By Adam Kelly Fill a glass most of the way with cider,
then add one jigger of whiskey and two or
three lumps of crushed ice. Stir and serve
(in some locales i is customary to just put t

Court Blotter he cider and ice in the glass, and set that in
front of the customer along with an open
bottle of whiskey and permit him to add
the alcohol to suit his own taste).
Suspicious Death, Pie. The proprietor, wife of our former Adoption Scheduled
mayor, Susan Streeter, was arrested and “Whiskey Punch”
Starbuck Shippe confined under suspicion of lunacy and The Court of Deadwood has received a Put the juice of one-half lemon, 2 ounces
mishandling of a corpse for obtaining petition from Mrs. Diogenes Kuhr request- of whiskey, one teaspoon of sugar, and
Deadwood Justice of the Peace and the ingredients, baking them, and feed- ing she be permitted to adopt local orphan a dash of brandy into a glass. Shake all
Council Member found dead on bridge. ing them to multiple citizens under false Carrie Anne Debrovna. The petition will the ingredients together, then strain into
Investigation is under way. pretense. Residents are urged to collect be heard at the next court date, any objec- a goblet filled with crushed ice. Garnish
Sheriff and Deputies are pursuing the any remains in their posession and return tions to the petition must be filed by that with fruit slices of some kind or other.
case as a homicide. As of this writing, them to the ice house, christain burial will date.
they are not prepared to make a statement. be arranged. By D. A. Kuhr
Though the autopsy states a single gun shot
wound to the head was the cause of death,
trackers have found no evidence of leading
up to or away from the body that points
Man Arrested
them towards a suspect. Deputies request Deadwood newcomer, Randall Carlfield,
anyone with information to step forward. was arrested this past week for intoxica-
tion, illegal discharge of a weapon and
attempted murder. Mr. Carlfield was in
Investigation of the Bella Union when he started a drunken
argument. Upon being shown the door, he
Cannibalism became angry and unreasonalbly began
shooting up the saloon with inhabitants
Authorities urge calm in the wake of inside. Mr. Carfield was pursued by mul-
this weeks bakery incident. Deputies have tiple residents before being disabled by a
confirmed that human flesh was obtained gun shot wound to the arm and the head
from the ice house by a local proprietor and which sacrificed a large section of his ear.
baked into several confections, including an An innocent bystander, paper boy Ulysses
award winning recipe normally referred to Jones, sustained the worst injuries but is
as Woodland Mushroom and Sage Pork expected to recover.
Susan Streeter was confined at the jail after issues
related to her cooking.

Lunatic Briefly Escapes

Deadwo o d Residents were upset
Wednesday Night to see recently incar-
cerated Mad Baker, Susan Streeter, loose
on Main Street. Deputies believe she was
set free in the course of another escape by
another prisoner who unwittingly set her
free to wander. Though still clad in chains,
Mrs. Streeter poses a significant threat,
especially to children. She was recaptured
and will be held at the Deadwood jail till
her lunacy hearing later this month.

Citizens found a grisly scene of blood and bugs inside the bakery.

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Deadwood Free Press Vol. 2 Issue 13
Scenes from Around Town
Miss Charleston Capra hosted a popular
and well-attended tea party for her new shop
on Wall, Simply Fine Things. The story sells
jewelry and other fine items; this newspaper
apologizes for any suggestions that the store
sold anything else.
Advertisements
Easter Egg Hunt on
Saturday
The Sheriff’s Dept. is proud to introduce
The Deadwood Easter Egg Hunt 1878!
Sheriff Bram Ansar will scatter Easter
Eggs about the town beginning early Sat-
urday Morning.
From 9 a.m. Saturday until 5 p.m., he
invites all Deadwood Citizens to search for
these special Eggs!
Perhaps there will be a prize for the
winner. Baskets available for collection at
the Town Jail.
Good Luck, and Happy Easter!
The Black Hills
General Store
is pleased to serve Deadwood for all its
household needs.
New in Stock, Plain and Fancy Frontier
Dress. A versatile day dress that doubles
as a work dress available in Pink, Red,
Green and blue. Pastel Shades are perfect
for Easter celebrations, afterwards, roll
up the sleeves and put on the apron, and
you’re ready for work. (( 250L ))
Easter Dance
Kick up your heels this Easter Sunday
at 3 p.m.
The union is throwing a dance at the
Deadwood Miners Union Hall.
Put on your Easter best and stop over
for Faro, Food, Fiddling and Fun. Come
celebrate the Resurrection by supporting
your local miners. All are welcome, pro-
ceeds to benefit the Miner’s Aid Fund.
Capalini Gunsmith
is pleased to announce new inventory
with the sale of the New Smith and Wesson
Schofield Gun.
This weapon, featuring six bullets
standard, will reload faster with manual
reloading and shoot with high velocity.
We are offering a 50% coupon with the
schofield that will allow 50% of any next
purchase. Stop by and take alook at what
we have to offer.
April 10, 1878
Demo cracy can be painful;
merchant Cameo Capalini is seen
here after lively discussions with
Sheriff Ansar over matters of public
policy.
All work and no play
will make you dull!
There is pleasure to be had in Deadwood!
Socialize frequently and support your local businesses.
There is no reason to stay at home pining for company.
Stop at the Grand or Phoenix for a tasty meal
finished off with a confection
from Justice Dusty’s new ice cream shop on Lee Street.
Come by the
Bella Union for Faro on Thursday Nights,
The Gem for Boxing on Friday Nights,
or the Whitewood Saloon
anytime you need to taste
some of the best whisky in town.
The Red Bird, the Number 10,
the Pub, the California...
The possibilities are endless!