Daily press and Dakotaian. [volume] (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1875-1880, 1878-07-26

The ala from Sioux Falls to Sioux City
hy way of the P%ortlnndville stage and the
Pembina railroad is. S. 80.
The Bon Homme Citixenssays that u coI-
pie Of Russians at Scotland quarrc'ed about
a claim last Monday and, that one sho, the,
other. =
1t is expected that the Minnchala county
officers will be able 10 occupy their new
quarters in the court house soon after the
first of August.
Prof. Culver has been hired us PRINCIPAL.
Of the Vermlllion public schools for anoth-
er year. commencing Sept. 10th, at q salary
Of one thousand dollars. 4
Sioux City Journal: We were informed
yesterday that the saw mill of Geo. G.
Granger, which is situated in what is known
as the Big Timber, over in Dakota county,
Neb, about, fifteen miles from this city,
was entirely DESTROYED by fire ON the night
of the Goth.
Mr.. Treat, from Whitewater, Wisconsin,
with other enterprising gentlhmen, are or
ganizing a new town, just below Finlay,
on the Vermillion river. They are erecting
a large store building, FIGURING mill. and
will put in a bridge over the river. They
expect to be on the line of travel between
Sioux Falls and Yankton.
Vermillion Republican: Judge Kidder
was raincd TO hear, last evening, of the
death of his eldest brother, Gen. Lyman
Kidder, of Star Prairie, Wis, at the age of
"a years. Gen. Kiddcr was one of the
pioneers Of Wisconsin a man in every sense
of the term and had held many public
offices in the gift of the people.
Fl. II. Rudd, of Lodi, was married to Miss
Dollie Curtis, of Elk Point, July 10th, and
the Vermillion Republican says: "Now
lot the hymenial altar bloom with radiance
and the golden hair Of Aurora tangle among
tho why groves and walnut shades of classic
Lodi. The evanescent shall mingle with
the roar Of the irrepresible mill-dam. and
love gyrate amidst the %stentoran effcrves.
cence of a laryngeal development of a boss
and equine empire on the romancing banks
of the sylvan shaded Vcrmillion. The
roaring, ranting, refractory. radical, rollick-
ing ripling, rousing Rudd has gone and
done it," Just give Rudd time to get his
second wind and be will go back on the
Republican with interest.
Harper's Weekly's artist has been sketch
ing Sioux Falls. tz.' r .
Dan Rice's circus was unable TO show in
Swan Lake on account of bad weather.
The republicans of Clay county will meet
in convention at Vermillion, August 10th,
to elect delegates to the territorial conven-
ton.
The railroad was prevented by the wealth
er from reaching Sioux Falls last Saturday
night, and the rain since then has also pre-
vented work.
F. f Everett, formerly publisher of the
Sioux Falls Independent, has taken up a
permanent residence upon his farm, eight
miles from town.
Charlie Weber has sold his interest in
the Sioux Falls mills to Jessie b. Watson Of
Vermillion fer $4,000, possession TO be
given September !.
Sioux Falls Paragraph: The grain in
this section is now nearly all ready for the
sickle, and as soon as the weather settles, it
will be cut. The yield everywhere will be
enormous, and the quality surprising that
Of any other region.
On Sunday, a daughter of Mr.. Anderson,
eighteen years old, living on Star Prairie,
Clay county, was thrown from a horse and
seriously injured. On the same day, a
daughter Of Mr.. Hendricks, living only half
a mile from Mr.. Anderson's, was severely
injured by a fall.
Grigsby, Of Sioux Falls, has a blooded
pointer, one Of those high priced CANNES.
He went out on the prairie the other day to
train the brute. The Paragraph tells the
balance of the story: At the first shot, the
dog rushed under thetbuggy, at the second
he sprang into a dense clump of grass, and
at the next he stuck his legs between his tail
and started bowling across the prairie, and
hasn't been seen since.
Vermillion Republican: The crop in
this section is simply immense. The wheat
and oats are all ready to cut. Oats are bad
ly lodged, and many fields can only be saved
by cut ing with the scythe or mower. Field,
that. can all be saved will go from 60 to loo
bushels to the acre. Wheat is remarkably
good, and but little injured by the heat
blight or rust. 1t is thought it will average
twenty bushels to the acre, where it can al,
be harvested.
The Paragraph says the rush of immi.
gratisn into Minnehaha county has recon-.
menced. 1t subsidized for a time, on account
Of many Of the people who intend to com
being engaged at harvest at their old places
of residence. The booming times we had
during the spring and early summer will be