Daily press and Dakotaian. [volume] (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1875-1880, 1878-05-22

Yankton agency yesterday and did N
reach Yankton until about midnight
boil y Tripe," 10 the aggravating a
dress which one of Tripp & Boyles, ellen
places on the envelopes Of letters he sent
them
The Baptists are all ready to receive the
friends this evening, with strawberries an
cream, In the building opposite the pos
office.
1t Is reported that there are four or dv
detectives belonging to the Indian depar
ment prowling around town. The la,
against vagran,s should be enforced.
Two circuses and menageries are travel
ing Yanktonward. This announcement vii
doubtless produce considerable falling Of
in Sunday school collections.
Charles Eiseman has given his residence
several coats OF drab paint, put blinds OF
the windows and INDUCED in numerous i'm
provements for the betterment of his pro
rerty.
The money order business at the Yank
ton postoff1ce has been greater during the
past month than ever before. Howard. saws
there is steady increase in the business OF
all the departments of the postoffice.
The order to discontinue the issue of
sugar and coffee rations to Indians has not
yet been carried inte effect and probably
will not be, a. it is difficult to find an issue
clerk or an agent who wants his body rid
died by Indian bullets.
Capt Dougherty has ordered DR.. Livings-
ton tn leave the Iudian couctry within q
reasonable time He has received no in.
s'rnctions from the interior department and
n:' receipt, for government property taken
GU nf his possession by force.
The folio wing changes in army officers
belonging to up river regiments are noted
Fl st Lieutenant Thomas Sharp, first infan
try, to be first lieutenant seventeenth in
fantry; First Lieutenant James Humbert,
seventeenth infantry, TO be first lieutenant
first infantry.
upper Mississippi and lower Missouri valleys
are, falling barometer, increasing east to
south winds, stati onary to rising tempera-
ture, generally cloudy weather and frequent
rains accompanying thunder storms and
and heavy at places.
Gen. Hammond announces that he is
going to have the president declare that
portion of the Indian reservation east of the
Missouri opened to settlement. It is also
his intention, when he buys Yankton, to
have two rows of shade trees down the cen
ter of Broadway and two more along the
sidewalks. All this will happen "when
the pigs begin to fly"
There is yet room for the wings of reform
to spread. As Deputy Marshal Mershon
was conducting that contaminated dove, the
woman in black, to Jail this morning, she
remarked to him that there was no use in
her trying to be sober, and virtuous and re.
ligious while she was exposed to so many
-. demoralizing influences. A new style
Of ribbon should be inven:ed for the old
girl.
Rhoda Riding, who some time ago. bailed
the woman in black" out of Jail, last evening
sought out the district attorney, sheriff and
city marshal, and notified them that she
wanted to surrender the principal of her
bond. The fact was that the veteran glass
masher and whiskeys singer, Mrs. Kemp
vas on the rampage" again, as Mrs. Riding |
it, and hence is now locked up in
her old quarters in the county Jail.
A Washington special to the Chicago
Tribune gives as an item of important in.
Intelligence ferreted out by Hammond's
;rew. that E. E. Hudson's father-in.law,
L Grow Creek, intercepted an official
slegram sent to Gen. Hammond, and read
t. contents. 1t makes no difference to the
department that Mr.. Hudson's father in. law
,ever was at Grow Greek, that Mr.. Hudson
lever saw his father.in-law and wouldn't
lnow him il he should chance to meet him.
The old gentleman has been . resident Of
australia for the past twenty three years.
The delivery team belonging to Frederick
I Bakers bakery, corner of Second and Pine
treets, ran away about noon to-day. They
,ere attached to the delivery wagon, and
an from the bakery up to Third street,
own Third to the lower government ware
ouse, where they turned and ran up Second
rect to Capital, up Capital to Third, and
p Third to the front of Novotny's harness
hop, where the horses ran on opposite sides
+ sign post, and were brought to sudden
op, one Of the horses being thrown upon
lie sidewalk. The tongue Of the wagon was
roken, which was all the damage done BY
he protracted canter.
George Briggs, clerk in John ]. Dufick's
tore, received a letter last night informing
i'm that his brother John. was very serious
|, injured at the FIRE which dsstroyed the
ark Place hotel At st. Paul ON Saturday
eht last. He vas engaged With others in I
moving furniture from the second story [