Daily press and Dakotaian. [volume] (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1875-1880, 1878-08-14
LOCAL LAcoNIcs.

Candidates for county officers are Begin
ming TO shake hands.
A school is to be opened in Yankton by
Catholic sisters of mercy.
A large gang Of brick layers are at work
on Dewey & Powers brick block on Third
street.
The city council will 10 sit rs
a board of equalization at 10 o'clock next
Monday morning.
The members of the reform club are ma
king extensive preparations for their Fri
day night festival at the pavilion.
The republican caucuses for the election
of delegates to the Yankton county conven-
ton will be held tomorrow afternoon.
Cornfelds near St. James, Nebraska, were
visited by grasshoppers on Tuesday, and a
few Of the nuisances are still hanging
around.
The dense forest of weeds north of Stones
block i, being chopped down. Some Of the
weeds. are large enough to max into corde
wood.
The law for the protection of game will
permit sportsmen to begin operations in
Dakota tomorrow. As the chicken crop
is large we may look for good results.
There will be a sociable and entertain
ment at Mrs. Clarence H. Van Tassel's this
evening, for the benefit of the Universalist
church. All are cordially invited to attend.
Capt. A. w. Lavender was to-day award
ed the contract for supplying Capt. ]. Whit
ney with twenty-eight head of working
steers, for army use, his bid being the low
est.
A deck hand on the steamer Western,
whose name is unknown to the officers of
the boat, fell overheard near Cheyenne
agency, and was drowned, and the body lost.
He was an Englishman, and was on his Sec
ond trip on the Western.
The indications of the weather for the up
per lake region, upper Mississippi and low
er Missouri valleys, are partly cloudy
weather, with occasional rain, warm south
west veering to colder northwest winds, sta
or rising, preceded in the east por-
by falling barometer.
o. H. Quimby several days ago made a
trip through the wheat region of the Jim
counties for the purpose of inspecting
The crop. He brought in some fair samples
fields fifteen or twenty miles away
from the Missouri river, but found nothing
which would grade number one.
Diptherla and bowel troubles prevail to q
considerable extent among young children
Cedar county, frequently with fatal re-
suits. DR.. H. E.. Mckenzie, of St. James,
'ays some fifty cases of diptheria have been
reported from the Bow creek country. Fee
yer and ague also prevail on the bottom
|ands.
Serious Complaints are made at Fl. Pierre
bout the delay in receiving the mail from
.ankton and intermediate points. And the
complaints are we'll founded. Since the clio.
ing of the postof6ce At Fort Thompson,
was a distributing Office, the mail
.oes on t Fort sully bafore it is opened,
the Pierre mail is delivered upon the
eturn trip from Sully. Under this arrange
nent it takes from eight to ten days for the
nail from Yankton to reach Pierre, when it
hould be delivered inside Of four days. I'll
re wish to make the mail route via Pierre
0 The Hills, = success, this trouble must be
emedied ; and a. step in the right direc-
ion, we suggest that the mail for Pierre and
he Black Hills be put in aRparate bag II
he Yankton Office. which can be left at
Pierre on the up trip, and thus ave two or
hree days. This is an important matter,
md our postmaster should promptly do
What lies in his power to facilitate the deliy-
Of the mail at Fort Pierre.
d.. b.. D. Dodge. oenus,, Dewitt's block
Hankton.