Daily press and Dakotaian. [volume] (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1875-1880, 1878-04-19
LOCAL
April showers make May flowers.

A"uAtou 1Aci0rM Club numbers 10
members.
There are arc NJ three card monte me,
in isnkton this spring.
The recent rains have moistened the soi
to a depth Of five feet
James S. Fosters real estate office O,
Third street is completed.
The new city police force had their trs
case yesterday common drunk.
ii. w. White is making extensive i'm,
provements on his Cedar street building.
Workmen have commenced laying III.
foundation for L. d. F. Poore's residence.
A large number of cattle are being pur.
chased in isnktou and vicinity by the new.
~ arrived Russians.
you don't can drink Elm, zwei lager.
nix COON arous, und 20 und thine de indem.
perance deformed MEMS"
All the business house of our Russian
citizens were closed to-day. These people
observe Good Friday As 4 sacred holiday.
The Central hotel in this city, Thomas
Griffin, proprietor, lost ten boarders this
morning BY the departure Of the Key West
Residents in the vicinity of the slaughter
houses outside Of the city limits, complain
of the stencil Arising from the accumulation
Of offal.
There was a meeting of the creditors of
L. NJ. Kee, bankrupt, yesterday afternoon,
at the Office Of Col. G. c. Moody, register in
bankruptcy.
Major Harry AacNamara has commenced
quo warranto proceedings against Frank j..
Washabaugh, to test the legality OF his
claim to the Office of city clerk.
The notice given by the city marshal that
the ordinance in regard 10 stock running at
large has had a good effect Bovine and
porcine subjects are no longer seen upon our
streets.
The indications OF the weather for the
upper Mississippi and lower Missouri val
leys are, south winds veering 10 cooler
west, partly cloudy weather and stationary
barometer.
Vermillion Republican Some Yankton
parties are opening up a fashionable watering
place at the mineral springs, two miles west
that city. We have drank of the waters
those springs, and We can vouch for their
being nasty enough for all practical pur-
poses.
Harry Wynn, in his inaugural, advocated
the planting Of trees as a means Of beautify.
ing the city. 4 tree dealer upon reading
the message, Immediately sought out his
honor and got an order for about a dozen
trees to lie set out in front of the mayors
residence on Cedar street.
To-day is the seventeenth anniversary Of
the attack upon the Sixth Massachusetts,
regiment in Baltimore. This regiment was
on its way to the front, and with The excep-
ton Of two companies, was unarned. In
the attack three we're killed and seven
wounded. OF the attacking force. seven
were killed and eight wounded.
Sam kaucher has taken the contract to
build a Touring mill at Rockport for the
Russian colony near that place. Kaucher
has secured the water power and will begin
operations at once. The mill is to be built
Of Rockport stone, will contain three run of
stone and all the modern Improvements in
machinery. Mr.. X. is a 6rst-class millright
and will give Rockport a good piece of
work,
In the district court yesterday, In the
case of the John NJ. Chambers %transporta.
ton company VS.. Joseph Kinney ct al, the
jury rendered . verdict for plaintiffs for
$3.50. Moody s. Smith were attorneys for
plaintiffs and Gamble Bros. and Bartlett
Trip for defendants. The original claim
in this case was $4,000. A melton for .
new trial has been entered and it is proba-
BILE that the case will 60 to the highest
court before q final decision is reached.
One OF the reasons why the Spotted Tail
Indians desire to leave their present loca-
ton is, that they are afraid of the spirits of
the Poncas, who formerly occupied the same
The S. rs hold converse with
the spirits Of the departed Poncas, and apol.
ogize for their presence, assuring their dis
embodied auditors that they are there but
in obedience to the commands of the gov
eminent, and that they will leave as sooa as
can get away. Hammond should go
over and exercise the restless spirits which
are disturbing the peace Of the timid Spot
ted Tails.
An elegant line of Dress Goods, just re-