Daily press and Dakotaian. [volume] (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1875-1880, 1878-04-03
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~vANkroN, DAKOTA
Wednesday Evsnans, Apri, 3, 1879 !
LOCAL. LAcoNIn

Wheat sold 10 day At s70ss cen,s per
bushel. Receipts about 1900 bushels.
City Clerk White is distributing new
licenses to the Ysnk.on saloon men to-day.
The Dakota Southern road pays Capt.
Marsh one cent per bushel for atl Nebraaka
wheat brought nero on his ferry hos, and
shipped east over that road.
1t was Nsss1Robsrs Buns and child and
not Mrs : Esperson and child who were
thrown ffom a buggy yesterday BY a run:
away horse. Neither was seriously in.
jared.
The cheap ferry. system is working ad.
mirably. About one thousand. bushels of
Nebraska wheat has passed into the hands
Of Yankton buyers to-day, and when intel.
ligence of the reduction reaches remote
points receipts will be largely increased.
The indications Of the weather for the
upper Mississippi and lower Missouri
valleys are: Clear or partly cloudy weather,
cold north winds, and in Missouri and
Iowa higher pressnre. followed in the north
and west portions by falling barometer and
warmer southeast winds.
Objection is made BY Mr., Fred. Donald
sons who resides In lower Yankton, that
parties are in the habit of dumping manure
and rubbish, hauled from various stables
anddht piles in town, in the public streets
near tae lower warehouse. The custom is
creating a se,inus nuts snce ind The city au-
thorities should prsvent it.
Capt. Lavender's dog is one of the kind
which scents his game afar off, but since
his yesterdays experience with a striped
denizens Of the Nebraska sloughs he can
himselfbe scented so far away that no game
wilIswait .or him to come up. Layende,
keeps him in the cellar Of his barn on q
diet of chloride of lime aud asafetida.
Matters at Grow creek agency remained
unchanged at our latest advices. The mill.
,ary still hold forcible possession. There
is a general expression Of indignation oyer
this arbitrary proceeding and of sympathy
for DR.. Livingston. The matter will prob
ably be settled up in a Dakota court, which
is a place where all men are equal before
the law, and where tha wrongs of the
wroDged are righted.
Postmaster Howard has authentic infor
nation to the effect that Gilman and Sails
bury will nut on a fully equipped stage line
between Pierre and Deadwood this spring
Immediate mail service will be insti
tlted and the department. is willing te
send semi weekly mail by steamers frou
fankton to Pierre1s a regular hee Of boat:
is established to perform the service.
Lemuel E. Carleu, engineer on tn,
steamer Pcninah, died at one o'clock thi!
afternoon while q: work upon his boat
He had just eaten his dinner and had begur
work for the afternoon in tue engine room
of the Peninah. Not feeling we'll be lsit
down beside the forge TO take a shor
rest. In this position he expired
almost without a struggle. 1t il
supposed that heart disease was TN
cause Of his death. Mr.. Carlen was abou
fifty years Of age. He had served as engi
neer on the upper Missouri some twelv
years and was last season on the Yellow
store. This year he had engaged as frs
engineer on the Peninah. He leaves . wifi
aud one child. residents Of this city, an,
two married daughters in St. Louis.