Daily press and Dakotaian. [volume] (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1875-1880, 1878-07-26
LOCAL LAcoNICs.

Showering this afternoon.
Yankton city contains $500 acres of land.
There will be another general temperance
meeting at the pavilion on Sunday evening.
A. w. Barber is preparing to issue a new
and improved edition Of his map of Da-
kota.
The Swan Lake Press remarks, "Hurrah
for Dewey" From which we draw infer
ences.
Persons interested in educational matters
are inquiring if there is to be a territorial
institute this year.
There is a m at Springfield that all
b'.t eighty lodges of the Red Cloud Indians
have left for parts unknown.
Ihe police court to-day decided that a
dead prairie chicken at this season of the
year is worth about twelve dollars.
The Indications of the weather for the I'M.
per lake region and upper Mississippi val.
ley, are partly cloudy weather and frequent
rains, followed by rising barometer and cold
er northwss ST winds.
w. E. Cation, Of Elk Point, has been COM
missioned to select and fix the starting point
on the Missouri river for Spotted Tail
agency. He left the agency Wednesday for
that purpose, accompanied by competent
guides.
Under the revised and improved law there
is a probability that in cases where the COM
misxlry department is not frst-class at
breech-loader practice, the army can be sup
piled with prairie chickens through the
quartermaster department.
Gen. Beadle, Of Yankton, and II. j. Aus
tin, of Vermillion, have been awarded sur
veying contracts. Their field is up the Jim,
as is alfo Van Antwerp's. Beardsley will
operate in the Northern Pacific counties,
and SCOTS work lies wholly in the Black
Hills.
Ted Kingsbury of the C unity republican
committee, hes drafted u map of the county
showing the boundaries of the various cleo
tion precincts, the voting places and the
school houses which, are to be made the scenes
of political gatherings during the coming
campaign.
Farmers on the higher ground are busy
down grain, but on the low lands the
ground is yet too soft to Hold up reapers.
Wheat and oats is all ripe, and some of it
has r;pened prcnaturely. But the bulk Of
crop IL yet in good shape, and with ia
yorable weather. will be secured in first
class condition.
Commits Toner IIayt reported on his re-
turn to Washington that he found the Spot
ted Tail and Red Cloud Indians in a "very
frame Of mind" The fact that
Spot had to keep his yoang men away from
the council through fear of bad results
don't seem TO rave made much impression
the mind Of the commissioner.
w. T.. Cation, territorial superintendent OF
instructions and Indian trader at Cheyenne
agency, was the successful bidder for the
contract to construct two warehouses for tie
reception and storage of supplies fer Spot
ted Falls Indians. Some of the other bid
Hers are disposed to kick about the award,
it is probable that ii is all straight.
Weare told by an officer who has exam
ned into the case that the suspicious against
Sam Mccormick, e%ngendered by his tempo.
AIRY arrest under a charge o. stealing money
rom a crazy man, are an i~njustice to one
was only endeavoring to do a kindness
0 a helpless fellow traveller. McCormick's
curse throughout, the officer says, was of a
AZURE which will admit of no adverse criti-
ism.
It may be interesting to some of our shoot
rs who have been casting longing glances,
.om the top of Judge Brisbine's fence, upon
,e temptations which exist on The other
ide Of the Missouri, to learn that the law
nown a. the Crawford game law, and