Daily press and Dakotaian. [volume] (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1875-1880, 1878-03-16
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Saturday Evening, March 16, 1879
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81. AtIlCh . LAY tO-MOIEOW.
A petition is in circulation asking for the
pardon of Phil Steimel.
Temperance meeting at Congregational
churck tomorrow night.
Wheat sells to-day at eighty cents per
bushels for Dakota hard.
Tickets for the concert tonight. Re-
served seats 81; admission IS cts.
Two thousand car loads of government
freight will be delivered at Yankton, this
season.
There will be a union temperance meeting
at the Congregational church tomorrow
evening.
A regular meeting Of the city council will
be held at the clerks Office, on Monday eve
nlng next
Liberal church services at the court house
Tomorrow morning and evening. Eye
ming discourse. Secret Place of the Most
High"
Felix LIE Blanc will run a freight train
between Pierre and the Hills this summer.
He will also establish a blacksmith shop at
Pierre.
In the Liberal church card, published yes
terday by the ladies Of that society, read
"misunderstand" for understand" and you
will have it the way it was written.
Mr.. Peterson, the Illinois Central r. r.
Co.'S Dakota immigration agent, will leave
Chicago about the 1st of next month with
thirty immigrants. He is doing good work
for Dakota.
Remember the Mendelssohn Quintette
club concert at the Congregational church
this evening. There are plenty Of good
seats left, and all who attend will b. we'll
provided for.
Al new regulation has been inaugurated
by the Judge of our district court. Hereaf'
ter full christian names instead of initials,
must be used when persons are referred to
in court documents. For instance, it wont
do to mention John Smith as j. Smith.
A call for a republican convention to
nominate candidates for city officers appears
in to.day's paper. This will doubtless beget
alike movement on the part of the democ'
racy, and an attempt at drawing party lines
will be made at the approaching election.
Street Commissioner Delamater is putting
down a good cross-walk at the intersection
of Third and Cedar streets. Another will
be put down at the intersection Of Thiro
and Walnut. These Improvements have
been much needed, and will be properly ap
preciated by pedestrians.
A private letter from Congressman Viii
liams, of Wisconsin, says that the bill TO
the division OF the territory Of Dakota doe
not stand a ghost Of a show for passage tbi
session. MI. Williams is a leading mem
Der Of the house, and keeps himself vel
posted On all measures pending before con
gress. His opinion is therefore entitled t
consideration.
The indications of the weather for tn
upper Mississippi and lower Missouri
valleys are rising barometer, brisk mort
winds, colder. partly cloudy weather in tn
first section; rain areas, partly turning int
snow in the northern portion, and FOLLOWED
in the last district by falling barometer. an
winds shifting to easterly.
A warrant was issued this morning b,
Judge Beadle for the arrest of Louis Mi
chael, of Lakeport, on the charge of settin
the prairie on fire. The complaint wa
made by Jonas Gleich. The case va
heard this afternoon, and the evidenc
showed MI. Michael to be entirely limo
cent. He was accordingly discharged, AM
the costs taxed to and paid by the prosecu
ting witness.
Mrs. Sarah Kemp, better known as eth
woman in black" is once more making her
self conspicuous in police circles. She re
turned to Yankton some six weeks ago, bu
had not INDUCED in any of her peculiar
freaks until this morning, when the spirit
moved her to heave an ice pick through one
of the front windows of Kadish'sd drug store
A large light of glass was ruined and nu'
merous show cases inside had a narrow es
cape. Mrs. Kemp was taken to the cooler
to sober of. 1t is probable that this was
her object, as che is penniless and has nc
place to stay.
Chicago Times, 18th Several Indian
chiefs, located at the various agencies in
the Indian territory and other parts of the
southwest. have petitioned Gen. Sheridan
and President Hayes for a larger allowance
Of %rations. They represent that the issue of
meat, particularly, is insufficient, while the
other rations might, they think, be increased
without danger to their spelling. These
chiefs do not charge that they are cheated
ous of their r%ations, but simply represent
that the allowance is too small to satisfy
their hunger. The petition has been for
wirded to the president.
MILLINERY.