Daily press and Dakotaian. [volume] (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1875-1880, 1877-09-21
Che asils 9ress aud 9akutaian
YANkToN, DAKOTA
Friday Evening, September q, 1877
LOCAL LAcoN,,s.

Aue hieacilOly uavS have come,
The dustiest of the year
When sand and gravel stones do hum
Right by a fellers ear.
Remember the dance to NIGHT IN Cedar
street.
Dry weather has given us crop of small
potatoes this fall.
A new and neat looking white fence sur.
rounds the Catholic church.
Arransements are being made for ball
on the evening of the isy of the soldiers
reunion.
Fully one-half the advertising in the
Cedar County (Neb) Bulletin is from Yank-
ton houses
The sun crossed the line today, and the
circumstance has created au unpleasant
commotion of the elements.
A prairie fire on the Sphinx plantation
last night came near destroying the hay
stacks of that distinguished granger.
The farmers and stock growers of Bon
Homme, Hutchinson, Armstrong and Han
con counties are all coming to the territorial
fair.
Mass will be celebrated at Tabor, Bo
hemian settlement, on Sunday next, by Rev.
Father Joseph Kryzek, the settled pastor
at that place.
wheat went up to eighty cents. this
morning. but advices from the east run the
price down to seventy eigh, cents. Re.
ceipts. 5000 bushels.
The Burdick & Corlis stock ranch on the
Jim is in possession of Mennonite colony,
OF one hundred persons, who are building
an adobe house on the bank of the river.
The Russians belonging to what is known
as the Jassman neighborheod, have all
threshed their grain, and have procured a
yield big enough to tickle Sioux Indian.
The imprisonment Of McAIabon in the
county JAIL on charge of horse stealing,
places him in the company of Conrad, the
man who shot him last Christmas, at the
st. Charles hotel.
Woolley has established hoggery on his
farm few miles west Of town. He has
seventy or eighty young porkers which will
some day be laid in brine for the benefit Of
the human race.
Wild geese are beginning to come down
from the hyperborean regions and men like
Lavender, Brooks. Wynn and Ole Baker
are sharpening up thir breech leaders and
getting their dogs noses In order.
Complaint was made last night against
Capt. Dugan, of the steamer Victory, for
assaulting one of his men, but the Victory
sailed early this morning and took the of.
Tending captain beyond the reach of Dako.
Ia law.
There will be thanksgiving high Mass
at the Catholic church in this city. on Sat
urday morning at II o'clock, to return
thanks to Almighty God for the bountiful
harvest this year. A cordial invitation is
extended to all.
There is chance for spec" for some
one, to erect a covered stand with seats in
tiers, opposite the judges stand by the trot.
ting track. These could be let during the
races and filled at fair price. We under.
stand the committee would sell such priv
ilege either at stated sum or at a fair per
cent. on receipts.
If the temporary sojourner imagines that
to-day is sample of Dakota weather, he is
off wrong. There are mild, calm days when
gravel stones refuse to sail through the air
and dust reposes in the lap of mother earth
as though it we're part thereof This oc.
casion is freak of nature.
In the case of the territory of Dakota
against Frank Childs charged with the rob-
berry Of Paul's drug store at Gayville, pre-.
liminary examination was held before JUS
tice White yesterday, and the defendant
was committed IN default of 800 bail to
await the action of the grand jury. S. A.
Boyles and r. J. Gamble appeared for the
defendant, P. x. Faulk. for the territory.
The committee to arrange the grounds for
the fair are ready to act, and desire to let
all the building contracts forthwith. The
money is in hand to pay for the work; and
the plan is to so build that the lumber will
remain the property of the contractor after
the fair closes. All who wish to contract
will call at once upon Mr.. Powers, at bis
livery Office. The work must be completed
next week. The entire arrangements must
be perfected before the fair. Besides this,
the secretary, Mr.. West, has authority to
erect an Office near the main gate.
The course of the Russian as he comes
to town with his load of wheat is marked
BY The watermelon rinds which strew the
prairie over which lie has passed. This is
the season of the year when these people
most thank their maker for being permitted
to occupy gardenpatch upon the foetstool
the season when their systems daily alb
sorb about one-half their weight of the
aqueous product of the creeping vine. With
loaf Of bread in one hand and load of
watermelons in the other the average Rus
sian can manage to keep the wolf from the
door and not half try.