Daily press and Dakotaian. [volume] (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1875-1880, 1878-03-08
A BAD FIX.
The Diversions our Mayor INDUCES m
when He ia Away from Home.
Dakota Paragraph,

Dakota Pantagfaph,
F. NJ. Ziebach the popular mayor OF the
,ity of Yaukton, at present travelling CORES !,
nondent of the Daily Press and Dakotaian Il
taken his departure from this village Il
under circumstances which render 1t neces- "
sarv for us to make an effort st Cancellation. v
Zsbe as he is Familiarity called is an "old :
timer" He has been in this country - v
wears, could have bought the entire site Of !
the present city of Yankton at one time and ]
had money left. Zebe is also the pioneer c
editor of Sioux City and of Dakota. He
started the first paper ever printed at Sioux
CITY and the first one printed at 4ankton
used to run e. a1ti-war paper IN Dubuque;
Iona, in the eariy days OF the rebellion, and
has fought it out on that line
ever since. Strange as 1t may seem
this was Zebes fl st visir to Sioux Falls.
Harry, the genial and popular host OF the
Cataract House, has a tender regard for all
editors. 1t is very seldom that he takes a
cent from an editor for board (Which per
haps accounts for the boosted net income OF
the missing ling that yields the editorial
| scissors and reads the proof Of original art
icles for The independently and if there is
ANYTHING in this world that Harry has sn
intellectual weakness for, It Is Simon-pure,
cid line democrat. Combine in one guest,
democrat and editor, aud of coursa, Harry's
heart is big with hospitality. The best
apartments in the house, those adjoining the
ladies p.rlor, were given to Mayor Z!ebach.
Delighted with the hustle and stir Of our
growing town, enchanted with the beauty
of the falls, eXuberant over his good luck
in throwing the Sioux City Journal man OH
his track, so as to have the town ell TO aim
self, and tiattered by the marked attention
e - -. uOlo p,nr IN a nr n . q NJ and
profitable visit. His days were spent in
taking orders, and in noting down beauties
and improvements for editorial correspen.
dence, and each evening his establishment
was increased by the arrival of the four
horse stage and two extras all loaded
with immigrants.
But alas Zebe was out among the boys
one night, and sought his comfortable apart
ments a little late. Still, before retiring,
he wrote up a glowing description of the
s new Cataract building, excavations for which
, had been under way that day. The next
morning his slumbers were long and deep.
Now Zebe's apartments, sometimes called
e the bridal chamber, which as we said before
opened out of the sitting room, were
:, in a small addition to the main building
y that stood in the way of the new building
and Harry had given orders to the workmer
e to move it to the rear to get ii out of The
way. Arrangements having been perfected
the previous day, at sunrise while Zebe an(
u his host still slumbered, the carpenters, al
unconscious of its occupancy, quietly lowered
this addition on to rollers and started it t
l. the main building.
The door to Zebe's room had got Just op
posite the door to the kitchen, a space {
, about four feet intervening, when the sha
king and the noise aweke him. The lat
g earthquake shock being fresh in his memo
20 ry, he sprang at once from his couch, an
robed in nothing but a short night shir
y leaped into the kitchen into the very mid'
IN of a half dozen cooks and waiter girls.
Such screaming! Such rushing for doors
er Such lifting up of aprons! One poor giI
ts in her fright forgetting that a new cister
: had Just been dug close to the back doc
% rushed out and fell headlong into it, fallin
a distance of thirteen feet. Fortunately tt
he soft earth in the bottom saved her from 5
il rious injury.
We The curtain falls for a few moments, ar
n then as the worthy mayor, carpetbag
he is heard to remark: Gentlemen,
re. have roughed it in the west ~twenty-tv
years and | must say that | enjoy seeil
g new W spring up, but when improy
- ments are rushed SO fast that a MAJ VI
goes to bed in the parlor bed room at mig
ey awakes in the morning to find himself in
pt. wash room to the kitchen, the growth is
~. together to rapid to suit me-"
y" Milwaukee peer on draught at Browns
five cents a glass.
~ WE STILL LIVE.
to-
's sa Fresh oysters at Jenkinson's every e'
NO ming this week.
an DR.. Il. D. Dodge, dentist, Dewitt's bio
Yankton.
DIR. Daniel has removed his residence
Mrs. Dawson's on Third street.
lew The largest assortment OF pocket cutie
west of Chicago, at Mills & Purdy's.
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