Daily press and Dakotaian. [volume] (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1875-1880, 1878-04-05
n~e.eHsoRHoou NEWS.
Burglars are operating in Vermillion.

NelGhB0RR000 NEWS.
Burglars are operating in Vermillion.
Tne Sioux Falls Independent is 70 be en-
larged.
Dakota City wishes ii wasn't (but isl
going to have q brass band.
Duel county is being organized. Immi.
grafton is coming in lively.
A dozen SiouA City school boys are hunt.
ing and camping iu Dakota.
A new pos,ofice, called Sherman. has
been established in Brookings county.
The Sioux Falls village board has signed
the bonds voted 10 the incoming railroad.
Sioux Fall Is TO build another bridge
across the Big Sioux at q cost Of $500.
Two hundred dollars per year is the sum
charged for selling liquor in Sioux Falls.
Lincoln county farmers have finished
seeding aud their fields are becoming green.
A new p~ostof1ce, called WEIGH. has been
established 90 the Niobrara, in Knox coun
ty.
AT the late Vermillion election it appears
that q few temperance men were elected on
the whisky ticket.
Immigrants ere rapidly taking up land in
the n%eiehborbood Of Creighton, Bszile
Mills and Reidsville, Nebraska.
Fred Lerch has opened a new saloon al
Sioux Falls. There was q free lunch con.
nected with the commencement night.
One hundred aud eighty claims were tax.
en- In McCook county in ten days. ACaua.
dian colony is about to locate in that coun.
ty.
The Canton Advocate says Mr.. Nor.
row has folded his tent and gone t, the ru-
raj retreat Of Swan Lake u leave memen.
toes of his handicraft.
The Advocate tells Of q citizen of Lincoln
county who was 80 anxious to complete bis
seeding that during the snow squall of las,
week he ran his seeder on a sled.
The Nlobrsra Pioneer Gays the Spotted
Tail Indians are talking quite seriously Of
gathering up their tepees and following the
sun to the west at an early date.
Officers of the st. Paul & Sioux City
railroad want TO build an extension to Can.
ton and are about to visit that place to con.
fer With the people on the subject.
Henry Storm. of Niobrars, has construct
ed three large boats which he proposes to
tie together and run down the rive,
with grain and take them back on a wagon
A lecture delivered at Dell Rapids by q
clerical speaker, upon the subject Of "The
Men that We Meet" was attended by all the
yaung ladies in the ~neighborhood. They
had got the impression that the lecturer had
been hiding behind the fence.
The Sioux City Journal SAYS that Mrs
N. L. Witcher received a telegram at Sidney
last Sunday that her husband, who is sick
at Deadwood, is better. She t~elegraphed
the good news to her daughter, Mrs. Daw.
ley, 10 Sioux City, and with her eldes,
daughter pushed on from Sidney 10 Dead.
wood.
The Sioux Fails Paragraph says: G. L
& l.. s. Deming of the Yankton and Sioux
Falls stage line have completed arrange.
ments for stocking the route for running
four.horse coaches. An Office will also be
established here, with the junior member
of the firm in charge, and all who know
Larry will congratulate Sioux Falls upon
her acquisition.
At the annual city election at Elk Point
on Monday the following officers were elect
ed almost unanimously: ]. NJ. Talcott,
mayor. Aldermen; George B. Steckmap,
Michael Hoffman, Thomas Wilson; police
justice, j. A. Wallace; treasurer, ]. 8. Tai.
colt; marshall, o. N. Waltars; street CON
missioner. P. Dyer. The ticket is cons,d
cred one Of the best they have ever elected.
A Medary correspondent of the Sioux
Falls. Independent says: The new mill
~rroject Of Moody county, If q final success,
is something that will be of great advantage
to the people h%ereaboute. The amount Of
lumber they have on hand at Luverne in
dicates that they mean business. Sever,l
mills might be erected along the upper
Sioux and then not be able to keep pace
With the tide of immigration.
A special telegram 70 tho Sioux City
Journal briefly announces the drowning Of
A. F. Coleman Of the Newell Mirror, which
took place on Tuesday 10 Storm Lake, while
attempting to cross the lake In Q sail boa,
In conpany with E c. Cameron, . drussiss
Of Storm Lake. Mr.. Csmesos IVES saved
in . very exhausted state. The boa. was
cspsizsd By . squsll md the W. men were
struggling with the Taves sonc two hours
before ,hry were Uncovered By ciiixens on
the shore,
The largest sssor,mesi Of trtaosd and
ustimmed hsts opposed 10 Yssksos b sou
~ display 81 Bunhsoss