Daily press and Dakotaian. [volume] (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1875-1880, 1877-08-18
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Saturday eventas, As9sst 70, 1o7
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svsn Lake Ere, Aug. lGA. d.. Stephen
Olney. veil known TO ihs people Of Ternes
ceu.ty . On excsllrne physi0ss ~ Q man
Of The mos aerling character, hos concluded
70 ssek . vidse 6aA 81. ussfnlsss asd has
selected Sioux Fails ~ Ms future reaid<pce.
The name Of the Centen6ial' hotel hss
been changed to the Swan Lake hotel, .
cognomea in every way more significant asd
Appropriate. Although Il hss been but .
abort time since NJ. Allen has amunsd con
tsoa u this house, be haa secured : rod
patroaage, and the praise Of Tie tavsliag
Pubais.
While in Yanktoa last wssk ~ had he
pleasure Of meeting Capt. Jno. b. Raymond,
The new United States marAhall fs Dakota.
He b gentleman in the highest sense Of
the word, which, united With alasEs exper-
tencs - public Affairs, cannot but make him
. good officer, and We think, popular one
when the people Of Dakota come 70 know
him.
A question Of little importance 70 the
people Of Dakota i, whether or not the ter
ritorial agricultural society shall he reor.
ganized and o 9 more take its place among
The live Institutions Of our infant territory.
Last yeas, owing to . partial failure Of the
crops, which dampened the ardor Of the far.
mer and business man, the society vas a.
lowed 70 die . naturnsl death. But this
year, with all its abundance Of everything
ithat has s1teudsncy 70 make Life Z Atsasin9
and ell Glasses Of society happy, should not
be allowed 70 pan without . fitting display
Of the products Of the farm and the skop.
Bon Homme citizen, Aug. is.
The wheat crop Of this country is far
ahead Of the most sasEuins expecta.ions.
Wheat is averaging twenty bushels TO each
bushel Of seed sown.
Gust. Halb Of Vielhanr has several thous.
and plants Of the very best variety of To.
bacco. It'll now rips and ready 70 cut
He informs Us that it is all . bright yellow,
and he thinks he will have at least . ton fol
sale.
We are informed that . severe hail.storm
visited Choteau creek, lest Saturday. Hail
fell to the depth Of eight and ten inches
some Of the pieces Of ice being severaiinchel
in diameter. others equally ~ large in
the form of . cube, or angular, having
sharp corners. The hail Killed several
chickens belonging to Mr.. Trumbo who
while driving the chickens into shelter, had
bis hands cut in several places by the hail
The wind was very strong, it taking up Z
wagon loaded with hay and aetting it down
"tother ide UPS distance Of several feel
from the place It was taken from. Our in
formant says that the stock in that vicinity
was injured 70 q considerable extent.
lVermiIiion Republican, Aug. 10Th.
Capt. Miner is expected home the last o
this week.
The greater part of the grain in this coun
~ is stacked.
New threshing machines are going out O
town almost daily.
A good many horses have died here in the
last Rx montha. No one seems to know
what the disease ia.
Mr.. J. A. Pettgrev returned yesterday
from Minnesota and Wisconsin, after ten
days absence. He has 800. 600 feet of lum
Der on the way to Vermillion.
The fnt new wheat brought to this mar.
ket, was on last Friday, by Ole Olofson, liv
ing on Clay creek in this county. l
weighed sixty-two pounds in the dirt ane
was bought BY Thompson 4 Lewis for eight,
cents.
The Gunderson Touring mill and til,
Walsh saw mill have been put together AMI
erected near the residence Of Amund Han
sen The buildings are large and commodi
Gus, aud we'll arranged for bu. lines upde
the supervision of David MAYNARD, an ex
perienced miller.
The first paper issued from this Office wa
by T. Elwood Clark, in the fl Of 1860. l
was the same year that . paper was issued 4
Yankton. This was the year following tn,
treaty with the Sioux. by which Dakon M
opened for settlement.
Geo. G. Porter, 20 we'll known here, vh,
went to the Hills last spring, mel With ! *
we're injury some weeks ego on the Spearfah
1t seems that he was putting up hay An,
while drawing 4 load il fell over on him
He was taken up for dead, and was uncou
scious for some days. He has been an in
valid ever since, and will return Is soon q
he is able to stand the journey.
The c. B. H.&C. r. r. is being rapidl,
pushed forward. The road b being GRADE
- far west q acroas Lime creek. L hi
cross that stream about four miles south q
the fe~rry-landing, acroee the river The en
past and have decided that the road vii
pas through s.. James. II i, = yet unde
cided whether II will go through 81. Helen