Daily press and Dakotaian. [volume] (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1875-1880, 1877-08-10
LOCAL LAcoNIcs.
Mercury o5 above zero to day.

II looks as though we would have a far.
ritofisl fair.
I. freight car was showed off the track
last night near the shops. delaying the pas.
seneer train . few minutes
7. Woolley, secretary of the territorial
ta'r organization has called a meeting Of II.
executive committee. and it is probable that
We shall have = fair. The committee meets
Z Friday. =
hislser and Graves have opened . watch
and clock repairing establishment on Third
s'reet, IN Kleisers building. Mr.. Kleiser
= vel knowna % . competent workman. He
will give personal attention to The bn.;ne~
lhaf 'eminsnt agriculturalist" secreta-
y Hand, has about made up his mind to
quit being . granger. For five consecutive
yesss he has constructed fences around his
country seatitwo miles out) and for five con-
secunve years his brother grangers have
carried off the last splinter Of his improve.
ments. He says the country can 90 to thun.
der now. fit wants any oats it can rai.e
them itself. How can q fellow keen the
g~rasahoppers out without q fence.
A party Of our sportsmen went down IN
me Gayville marshes yesterday and killed
si4ty.eieht ducks. mostly young teal. The
nired girl who fixed up . mess of them has
been interviewed by a representative Of the
freas and Dakotaian, and she saya abe ram,
Tor the life Of her see how those duck.
manage 70 swim, with feathers all the w.v
down their legs, and nothing between their
toes to push against the water with.
The death of Mrs. Anna Branch. vh;ch
occurred at half past eleven o'clock last
night At the residence of her husband. Jacob
ofauch, was u of those sudden events
which brings . startling realisation Of The
unceftainty q our hold upon Life. She "a,
stricken with apoplexy a couple of day, 400
n never rallied from the attack. Mrs
Branch was n Of the pioneers Of D.Iot,
having resided here some fourteen wears
Atthe last term Of the district coprt az
made an Intellectual attempt to procure .
divorce, but failing, returned to he, hus-
bands house and was there at the time #
her death.
Gea. Hammond has received instructions
rom the Indian department to cease prena.
ratons for the erection of agency buildings
at MILESTONE creek, a the spotted Tail band
Is to b located at the old Ponca agency in.
stead Of At the former place. This change
Is made in accordance with the earnest re-
quest Of the Spotted Tail Indians and Gen.
Hammond and Bishop Hare. The Whet-
stone agency was formerly occupied by these
Indians and was found to be unhealthy. The
building contract with Mr.. Thornton for
the MILESTONE agency will be transferred to
fonca agency. This change brings Spotted
Tail within forty miles o. Yankton.
Addison Brooks, son Of Capt Brooks, has
done remarkable we'll this year for an ana
teur farmer. As he has thrashed his grain
We are able togive the figures. From twenty.
two bushels of seed, sown on twentv-one
acres Of land he has put away 455 bushels Of
wheat. His t~wenty-one acres of o.t, h.s
yielded ffty-6ve bushels to the acre. . total
OF ll55 bushels. he figures it that his four
months work will net him $500, and in adj
q ION he has broken twenty-five acres of
ground for next years use. All this young
Brooks has accomplished by following up
q desire TO employ his time instead of
sqasndering it. His father gave him the
use Of b land and he has shown the public
what can be go: out of Dakota soil.