Daily press and Dakotaian. [volume] (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1875-1880, 1878-06-28
I'M RIVER RACKET.

Our Correspondent Worried About ehe
Absent Semior-The Olivct COurt-Thc
stage Line-Crop Prospects FIGURING
Mills in tho Valley, &c.
The "wee editor" promised to relieve
your special correspondent (when en- route
for the head waters of the Jim) from his
"weekly task of noting the tidings Of the
times" but as not any material like his ap-
pears in your columns, now attempt to fill
M the breach occasioned by his neglect
But it may not be his fault. poor fellow; he
NAV have fallen into the muzzle of that dan
eerous weapon he had so carefully wrapped
| up in old numbers Of the weekly Press, and
like Jonah, will not be belched forth until
the proper time and as he is hard to digest
we may not look for him for few days yet.
II fortnight does not reveal the mystery,
1 will send runner to the Dirt Lodges, and
put bate ish-net across the Jim in the
neghborhood of Mother Belcher's. He is a
second Stanley when he gets started, and
there is no telling where you might find him
living or dead. What pity If that IS
inch gun of his should be lost!
A whole week was consumed by the court
at Olivet in trying cases from Dawson coun-
ty, which makes the lower county inhabit-
ants growl about the expenses. The princi-
pal case was the Territory vs.. H. G. Greene,
James Lowell, Luke Lowell and John Low
ell, charged with wrongfully retaining pos
session of six head of horses and mules be-
longing to G. 7. Campbell, of the Dakota
Central Stage company. The jury, after
being out about twenty-six hours, could not
agree, and the case remains upon the docket
for another trial next June. This was the
only jury trial. From the number of bills
presented by the grand jury, we expect a
lively criminal calendar next term.
+ Brinkerhof has been up the valley fixing
stations for his new stage line, and seems to
be alive to the wants Of the people Of the
valley. in furnishing them with great con-
venience-that is, good and reliable stage
line, and he may rest assured that he will
be properly remunerated for his liberality.
Three million bushels of wheat will pour
into your elevators from the Jim river val
ley alone. Quimby and Ike Williams
went up the valley yesterday, looking at the
crops. Quimby says there is one-half mil
lion bushels between Yankton and Scotland,
on the west side of the Jim. The crop this
year Cf everything continues favorable,) Of
every product, will surpass any ether, in this
or any other country known, so far as my
memory "runneth back"
The machinery for the mill at Rockport
has gone up the valley, and Kaucher is
likely to make his word good that he would
have her running in ninety days fre I'M the
time he commenced.
Another mill is about being erected on
Emanuel creek, two and half miles west Of
Springfield. A steam mill is talked Of at
Scotland. straw and hay Coarse hsy) to be
used az fuel. 1t is said to be the cheapest
fuel that can he found at 81 per ton, one ton
teing equal 10 one cord of cottonwood. There
is mill in Minneso of this kind that runs
four pair Of burrs, costing Sc for fuel per
day. The hay is cut ne.r it on large
marsh in the winter, where it is frozen hard
enough to carry horses and machinery used
in the cutting and hauling.