Daily press and Dakotaian. [volume] (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1875-1880, 1877-10-15
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YANkToM, DAKOTA
Monday Evening, October rs, 1877
LOCAL LAcoN,cs.

1en. IL furnishing the Dakota
Indian Office in a tasty and handsome man.
ner.
The Iankton Ladies' Library Association,
ut its election Saturday afternoon, reelected
its former officers.
Frank Hefner is elevatingh his street scale.
today. They were to much down in the
mud to suit him.
Blank prommissory notes, in SO and 100
books for sale at the Press and Dakota;an
county room.
Twenty-six hundred sacks Of flour from
the Excelsior mill ara loaded on the Silver
Lake for Red Cloud agency.
The Lutherans of Yankton are RAISING
money with which TO build a church. A
subscription paper is being circulated.
The two boat loads which start to-niRh,
Tor Red Cloud clean up all the annuity
goods, flour and provisions billed tothat agen-
cy and comprises enough 10 keep the Indians
all winter.
Yesterdays rain has rendered the roads
so muddy that to days grain transactions
nave not amounted 10 much. Only about
400 bushels came in, which sold no higher
than II cents.
Collins, alleged Union Pacific express
robbsf, who was killed by the military after
oeln9 captured, was in Ysnkton about a
wear ago. He bought a suit of clothes at
Eiseman's and went from here TO the
Hills.
A negro minstrel company will exhibit
at Stones hall mex week, under the man
agement of Nelson Armstrong, aprofessional
Snowman. Beach and Gould, acrobatic
song and dance artists, are the stars Of the
troupe.
A number of stalls and bins are being
constructed under the entrance stairway of
Pennington's block, and adjoining the back
door of the postofice, for the wood and coal
belonging to the occupants of the block.
Soft thing for the postmaster.
One of those deplorable domestic occur
rences wherein wife number one returns
from abroad and finds (brevet) wife number
two occupying the mansion of her lord and
master is nov d~arkening the moral atmos'
phere Of this pure minded community.
Capt. Lavender was to day presented with
the diploma Of the agricultural society for
owning the longest tailed setter dog. The
diploma was clad in a ruatic frame made by
Box, from the remnants Of a dry goods box
and was unique in design and wonderfully
and f%earfully executed.
Love and poetry are as %inseperable as an
oyster and its shell. When a young mar
gets it bad his thoughts turn to rhyme and
the pressure of the divine afflatus is liable
to spoil his appetite and keep him awake
nights. A Yankton harnessmaker is hav.
ing az incurable spell. and the object of his
alteration sends US the following lines Just
received from him:
Oh! Darling Love
you as my life
an sure 1 love
no other
and i would have
you fore my wife
if you are willing to let me
be your pretty lover.
And the young man goes on industri-
nusly stitching collars and back straps in
the fond hope that he has touched her
heart. 1t is harder than Black Hills quartz
if it can resist all that.
P. McMahon, of Northern Dakota, who
for a few brief days last winter enjoyed the
distinction Of serving as sergeant-at-arms Of
the upper house of the Dakota legislature,
but was prevailed upon by his hackers to
resign to escape the ignomy of a dismissal
was in town last night. He came quietly
and ~unannounced, saw q man who owed
him ten dollars, got the money and departed
so mysterioualy that the whole police force
of the city and county have as yet been
unable to find his tracks. Sheriff Baker
wants him badly to answer some questions
regarding the theft of Maj. Evans pocket
book, and last night the whole town was
searched and every known avenue of escape
guarded, but Mcmahon is as completely
non est as though he had never existed
There would be more joy in the official
camp over the return of this one stray sim
ger than oyer ninety and nine who never
got away.