Daily press and Dakotaian. [volume] (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1875-1880, 1878-04-05
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Friday Evening. April 5, 1873
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LOCAL LACoNICs.
Wheat sells today At eighty.Ave cents
per bushel. Receipts two thousand bushels,
The ferry boa. has brought over seven
hundred bushels Of Nebraska wheat to. day.
The first installment of the cheap ferry
contribution was collected to-day and all the
subscribers heartily responded.
A polar wave. bad O. early vegetables
and msu Who have beea able to purchase
spring clothes. struck q this afternoon.
Yanktou 10 threatened With . visitation
Of the Unioa Scouts. which, BY the way, is
little drama. full Of soldiers and burning
gun-powder.
Cheap ferriaEe is bringing the people of
Nebraska 70 Yankton II such numbers
that the ferry boat has scarcely time to
take q long breath.
The newly elected city somcen will DO
installed next Monday. TIE mayors in.
augural will not occur until The succeeding
meeting 0 the council.
Vaughn B. Decker are putting q new
mont in their Cedar street building and q
new rear aad new inwards. It will be
mostly made over when they finish improv
ing.
Sheriff Baker arrested. to-day, Louis and
Ole Oleson IN charge Of setting = prairie
fire which created damage. They waived
examination and gave bonds for their APP
pearance.
The H. /. Brown who sells lettuce, rad
ishes, house plants, ETC., is not the. George
Brown who ~dispenses ale and beer. Both
are good fellows, though they are engaged
in a different line of business.
The Dakota Southern train last night was
sgain crowded with passengers, most Of
them being homestead searchers. Immi.
grafton is rapidly spreading up the Jim
and through Boz Homme county from this
center.
James Foster is putting up q wooden
Office building on Katz's lot on Third street
for immigration purposes. Mr.. Foster ex-
poets twenty or thirty capitalists here from
the east to buy land and is getting ready to
receive them.
Boughton has a habit Of talking to him
self. His explanation Of this eccentricity
is that be likes to hear a sensible man talk
and likes TO talk to a sensible man. While
this is not purely original it is intensely
Boughtonish.
A young man named Gardner, who owned
a claim near Finlay, lived three days after
taking a gun by the nuzzle and attempting
to pull it out of his wagon. He was recent
ly from Wisconsin, and is said to have been
an industrious and worthy young man.
Elizabeth Cady Stanton is one of the few
public women who makes warm friends of
every member Of her audience. She carries
in her face the goodness of her heart. Her
u%ttersnces come from the purity Of a noble,
unsel6sh mind. She will talk to the people
of Yankton next Tuesday evening.
The Indications of the weather for the
upper Mississippi valley are: Clear
Oh partly cloudy weather, north
westerly winds, rising barometer, followed
by stationary Or falling barometer
and winds shifting to warmer southerly.
Missouri valley clear or partly cloudy
weather, cold northwest, backing to warmer
south winds and falling barometer.
A meeting of the Yankton bar was held
this forenoon to make preliminary arrange
ments for choosing a list of Law books under
the recent congressional appropriation Of
$500. Correspondence with the lawyers
of the territory will follow, soliciting their
views upon the subject, and a list Of books
will be made out which will meet the wants
of all the lawyers of Dakota.
Sioux Falls has had another sensation.
Wednesday afternoon a young fellow named
Simons, who has been on the down grade,
morally considered, for some time, sought
to reform by placing . pistol behind his
right ear and pulling the trigger. The de-
sign was good, but the execution imperfect
The ball penetrated the scalp, and passed
nearly around his head between the skull
and scalp, without accomplishing the de-
sign of the owne of the head. He will re-
cover, aud probably adopt some less painful
method Of departing from the error Of his
ways.
LADIES.
Don't fail to visit Burnham's Millinery