Daily press and Dakotaian. [volume] (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1875-1880, 1878-05-04

worst case fOsltlVely 6Ol0 Oy all Drug
gists on the Western Continent. Sold by
Mills d Purdy.
THE GREAT WEST.
Press Gleanings from Various Points In
i Uncle Sam's Domain.
| lrs KANSAS. Lido
The senate committee on claims has
agreed to report favorably Senator ingalls,
bill to reimburse the state of Kansas for ex.
penses incurred in suppressing Indian hos
tilities.
Three companies of the twenty.third in.
ftntry, numbering forty six men each, have
been ordered to be in readiness at shor,
notice to leave Fort Leavenworth for south
ern Colorado for the purpose of removing
the Ute Indians to southern New Mexico
One of the best colonies that has ever en-
tlement is the "Keystone Colony" made uI
of some Of tho best citizens of CUNT berland
Valley, Pennsylvania, who recently arrived
at their destination in Russell county, on
the Kansas Pacific railway. near Bosland
station.
A board of army officers have, BY direc
1
reported favorably upon the teot invented
and patented BY Major j. Carey French, an
old and we'll known resident of Kansas
The value of this invention consists in the
fact that wagon tongue, fencerail, or al
most any stick. crooked or straight, will
answer for center-pole, and it is so or.
ranged that no space on the inside of the
tent lie occupied by it,
Several citizens of Belloille recently run
Eup horse thief BY the name of John Bank.
tins At the time of his elevation he had q
rope around his neck and it is probable that
he will never know how he got down.
COLORADO. .s
The house committee on public land have
agreed to report favorably bill donating to
the city of Denver, Colorado, . block in that
city to be used solely for common school
purposes.
The Longmont Post says: The expert.
ence of the last few days teaches that a
mans crop is In danger even before the
blades of grain show themselves out of the
ground. When the wind blows as it did on
Wednesday evening, the damage it does is
incalculable. Some of the farmers in this
vicinity have lost the labor of weeks expend-
ed upon forty and eighty acre tracts and
Au0 IuClUSCltC6 put " Gu0 ucCC6SNy VI 6O"s
Ing their wheat over again. And unless .
more Of serious injury will result Such .
dry season as we are experiencing is unfor.
tunate in many respects.
WYOMING.
Nearly half the telegraph poles between
Cheyenne and Fort Laramie were blown
down during recent storm.
The Laramie Sentinel goes for the China
men as fellows: The lecherous, pestilen
tial, country running Cinnamon is still! push
ing his way to the Black Hills God could
not more surely curse white mans coun-
try than by permitting it to be overrun with
this demorallzing and degenerate race of
vipers. The people of the Hills should take
time by the forelock, and the Chinese by
the queue, and save their country and it's
hard.worklng miners from inevitable ruin,
by flinging these nasty beats of the other
side of Jordan.
Cheyenne SUM- Messrs. Sparks & Toy.
lor have agreed to deliver to Messrs.
HANNA, Murphy & Keller. within two
months, six hundred head of young cattle,
which will be placed on the ranch of the
latter gentlemen The amount to be paid
for them is about $4,000.
Delegate Corlett has written to the edi
tor of the Laramie Sentinel in regard to the
timber legislation BY congress, which be
says indicates that pioneers will no longer
be pursued for taking timber from public
lands for use withiDg the territories, and he
thinks that although the pending bill has
not been fully agreed upon with the amend
ments, nevertheless all danger Of prosecu-
Ion 10 removed and timber cutters may
pursue their industries without being har. |
'assed by questionable proceedings or
branded as thieves.
Mr.. R. ]. Hardesty, of Sargent, Kansas,
vho is now in San Antonio, Texas, writes
9 follows concerning the outlook for the
attle drive THE season: "The principal
,art of the cattle have been started and in
cry good shape. The season has been fine
nd grass good. The drive will not exceed
60, 900 head at the outside, but some think
! will go more. There will be plenty of
attle at Dodge City by the 30th of Msy or
st of June. There has been a great deal
f trouble along the border from Mexican
aiders. Ten men who were furnishing me
'ith cattle were killed by the raiders, and
great many others have been killed and
Of cattle run of. have started
ne herd and am to receive another the 1st
+ May, and / tell you am anxious to get
ut of that country.
Companies Fl and L, Second cavalry,
ort Ellis, receiving marching orders, hAye
II, under command of Capt. Ball and
ieut. Schofeld, for the Lemhi Indian
Iency, Idaho. to establish summer camp
Iere. The command is composed Of about
ghty men.
A party Of engineers have started the pre-
ninary suvey for narrow Kuags railroad
DIM the terminus Of the Utah Southern ]
ID 70 Arizons, 300 n, lea, running through !
vesal rich silver and copper minisg 6is. !
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