Daily press and Dakotaian. [volume] (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1875-1880, 1877-06-15
LOCAL LACONICS.

Twenty discharged soldiers from Randall
arrived yesterday afternoon.
The Baptist society will give a festival
and picnic in the chapel and grove a6jain-
ing ON the 4th of July.
Piles has become the possessor Of a pair
Of red foxes, which he intends shipping
east.
Three hundred dollars worth of furniture
from Sanborn's Yankton establishment.
will be shipped on the Durfee fer the Hills.
The lightning last night, it is said, by
boys who were up late, came deuced near
hitting something in this vicinity. We
await reports.
Another lively storm came upon US last
night, lighting up the heavens with a blaze
of electrical fire and drenching the ground
with flood of rain.
Adler q Gilman are preparing TO vacate
their present store and establish themselves
in Valentines block, in the store room for
merly occupied by Mr.. Wicker.
Deadwood retail prices: Bacon, 20 q
25c; Lams, 25c; sugar, 20 q 40c; flour,
per sack, $40 a SIS; corn per pound, Sc !;
miners picks. So; miners sheyels, 81.
Coates is waiting for brick to tie made
before he can rush the work on his new
block. Frequent. rains have seriously i'm
peded the operations of brick makers.
An individual wearing of the blue be-
came SO generally mixed up last evening
that it was impossible to determine wheth-
er he was on retired pay or merely a dis
charged private.
The street commissioner is making some
important repairs in the way of new cross.
walks and gravel top dressing for the road
way at the intersections of Third and Cap.
ital and Third and Douglas streets.
Last nights storm causel another slide
in the bluffs below the Big Sioux, by
which several rods of the Dakota Southern
track was buried. A transfer was made to
day and it is expected that the track will be
clear TO night.
a trial came oil before Justice Eldridgc
yesterday. Joseph Herrieh was tried, un
der a complaint charging him with the un
lawful and malicious killing of a six month.
old calf belonging to Washington Reed
After hearing the evidence, the court dis
charged defendant.
A squad of F1andreau Indians were il
town yesterday exhibiting a young elk
which they had brought all the way from
Flandreau under the impression that Yank
ton was a SUI 3rior market for wild animals
Tbav uyorfnl ar.,t 49, IL 49,. g. ), -.
elk and got bids ranging from fifty cents tx
ten dollars.
Mrs. X. w. Edkins, the mother Of Mrs
Col. Pound, while out calling yesterda,
afternoon had the misfortune to catch he,
foot in a croquet wicket, partly concealed
in the grass, and in falling had her left arm
broken. Under DR.. Miller's care she i
getting along as comfortably as possible
under the circumstances.
The accounts Of the destruction whicl
the elements are now accomplishing anon.
the grasshoppers of the west reminds us O
a like occurrence on a smaller scale durin,
the wet season OF TIVE years ago. Partie
crossing the reservation at that time re
ported that the ground was covered witt
dead grassheppers between the Keya Pah
aad White rivers. The rainfall in that re
gion, was continuous for weeks during tn
growing days of the young heppers an,
very few of them lived to leave their hatch
ing ground.
John w. Proctor, he of the long draw
out corpus" and for that reason familiarl
known as "Shang" Proctor, will be remem
bered by many of our citizens as a ferine
resident Of Yankton. Finding the atmos
phere uncongenial here, he went to Bis
marck some four or FIVE years ago, and h
has been one Of the contestants fer th
townsite there, Having given his time t
various Industrial pursuits of a question
able character, he was called upon at tn
recent session of the U. 8. court at Farg
to answer to two indictments for larceny q
government property and one for enticin
a soldier to desert. He was convicted OF
the two former and on the other the iur
failed to agree, standing out with eight 70
conviction. He was sentenced on on
charge to five years in the Detroit peziteu
tiary while sentence is suspended in b
second case to await his return to the lei
ritorY if that should occur.
Croquet from 1925 to $1,000 per set a
the P. O. Bookstore.