Daily press and Dakotaian. [volume] (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1875-1880, 1878-02-08
LOCAL LACONICs.

Ice on the river is improving to-day.
Mercury twenty-seven above zero to-day.
Purdy's barometer Gays there isesgoing to
be a storm.
Two yoke of cattle were drowned in the
Missouri at Choteau creek on Wednesday,
while endeavoring to cross on the ice.
Our statement that Mark Farmer was
clerking for his father was amistake. He
is busy with bankruptcy matters.
The commissioners of Turner county
meet in special session next Monday to in
quire into the financial standing of the
county.
Proceedings in bankruptcy against Mark
NJ. Farmer have been fully inaugurated.
s. L. Sphinx and Gamble Brothers are the
creditors attorneys.
A new postofice called Thielman, has
been established in Turner county. on section
"a township 80 range So, with John AL
BRIGHT, as postmaster.
r. P. Cooper was before Justice Beadle
yesterday, charged with obtaining property
from Sievert Helgeson under false pretenses.
His examination was continued to Tues.
day.
J.J. Powers, boarder at the county Jail
and wood sawyer for the county, now wears
atwenty-fve pound ball and chain to remind
him of how he went astray yesterday while
the %jailor's back was turned.
Our loyal friend Sheriff Baker has gone
into the butter-nut trade, and received the
first shipment of goods a day or two ago.
The samples left at our Office are pronounced
to be of good quality. The sheriff will
answer all inquiries for seed and ornamen-
tai designs.
The difference in time between Rome and
Yankton is about six hours and forty-four
minutes. Thus, when it is II o'clock M. in
Rome, it is SIG O'Clock a. m. in Yankton.
We give this information to settle some dis
putes which arose in regard to the reception
OF the news of the pope's death yesterday.
The indications of the weather for the
upper Mississippi and lower Missouri val
legs are, cloudy weather with rain or snow,
followed by partly cloudy or clearing wealth
er, colder northeast to northwest winds,
rising, preceded at the southeast stations by
falling, barometer.
The latest rumor from Red Cloud agency
is that the Indians determined, on or about
the 18th ult, that they would draw two more
rations and then leave. The first ration
they will eat where theynow are, and the
second they will use to subsist them on
their journey. Rations are issned every
ten days, and if the Indians adAere to their
determination they will pull up stakes about
the 18th inst.
A warrant was last night issued from Jus
tice Beadle's court, on the complaint of H.
w. White, against Edward Baker, charging
him with the revolving crime of incest.
Baker was arrested and placed under two
hundred dollar bonds for his appearance
next Wednesday before Justice Beadle. As
the wife of the complainant, from whom he
seeks a divorce, is an important character
in this case, an acquittal or conviction is
likely to involve other questions of interest
~ - laAtiSS. AuIS Is one Vi tuOse dIltIES
where newspaper comment is out of place,
and we drop the subject for the present and
hope we may not have occasion to say more
about it.
John Cunningham this morning mad. a
complaint before Justice Roberts, charging
Daniel Gearing with having disposed of
mortgaged property while the mortgage
was unsatisfied. This afternoon, upon an
of the witnesses before pro.
to trial, the district attorney dis
missed the prosecution 1t appeared that
had m%ortgaged a COW for the ber-
eft Of one Thomas Albrecht and had turned
the COW TO Albrccht with Instructions
10 Albrecht 10 turn the cow over TO Ole
Sampson on the mortgage. Aibrecht in
stead of dol ,g this put another mortgage on
The COW TO secure a debt of 1890 he owed
John Cunningham. Sampson ioreclosed
The mortgage q few diys ago. Under these
circumstances Albrecht now is In jail upon
felenous charge, was The guiityy patty, and
entirely innocent of any criminal
offence.
PERSONAL.
John II. Charles arrived from Sioux City