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Daily press and Dakotaian. [volume] (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1875-1880, 1878-05-11
ANIMAL LIFE IN THE COLORADO DESERT
Yuma Sentinel.

Yuma Sentinel.
The desert Is not a solitude life abounds
in it; beasts, birds, reptiles and insects oc-
cur in quantity surprising to one who knows
the scarcity of surface water. Rabbits,
hares and coyotes seem to be the largest
animals, but chipmunks gophers and moles
appear to be most abundant; the ground is
.honey.comed with their homes. All of
them are found as far as twenty or more
miles from. any known water In other
parts nf Ca'ifo-r!". 'hc pr'scnc" nf qn.ils
indicates proximity %. wai-r; this is rot so
on the desert, where large tipcks are i.iad
very far from wafer. The buzzngot honey
gathering flies or bees lulls to sleep him who
reposes under the paloverde or iron wood.
Mocking birds and other songsters enliven
the vicinity Of water, and ruby -throated
humming birds suck its flowers. Most of
these desert denizens are Of nocturnal habits :;
the hot sun drives them to shade by day
Ravens and crows seem to live on lizz.rds,
which In turn live ON flies aud aunts that
are abroad only by daylight. But on moor.
light nights the others turn out in vast
numbers. Reptiles are numerous, hut We
nave never heard of any one being hurt BY
them. A tortoise is common here. which
grows among rocks and sand TO weight of
twenty-five pounds, and Is eaten Ly some
Indians.
Daily press and Dakotaian. [volume] (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1875-1880, 1878-05-11
oBsrRuc1,ne THE UNITED STATES ARMY
Bon Homme Citizen.

Bon Homme Citizen.
Corporal Lane and escort, when coming
from Yankton last Tuesday, we're over
hauled by Mr.. Emery when they came to
the three mile ravine east of town. One of
the soldiers informed US thatwhen they were
about to croes the ravine, they discovered
that there were some deep bitches dug across
it for the purpose of stopping travel on the
road. The corporal and his men were in
the act Of finding another crossing, when
they saw Mr.. Emery's boys laughing over
the matter. The corporal then ordered his
men to take their shovels and fill the ditch
es. When Mr.. Emery say this, he came
towards them with an uplifted adj, or tool
of similar shape, and swore that "By Judas
Priest" he would brain their mules if they
attempted to go farther on that road. Mat
ters began to look cloudy, but were soon set
tied when the officer ordered his men to load
their guns and protect Uncle SANS prop
erty. Mr.. En- cry and his boys weakened,
and 1t is to be hoped that this country gen
tleman will not again attempt to stop the
travel on a public highway. This road has
been in use for more than score of years.
Mr.. Emery is not only making enemies for
himself, but is also laying himself liable to
prosecution. Should wagon get broken
BY running into one of these bitches after
dark, he would have to pay for it dearly.
These bitches may be the death of some one
yet.
Daily press and Dakotaian. [volume] (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1875-1880, 1878-05-11

The Deadwood Times notes the receipt,
by prominent citizen of Deadwood. of a
letter from Col Moody, chairman of the re-
publican territorial committee. in which
that gentleman promises that The Black
Hills counties shall have full proportionate
representation in the coming convention,
and suggests that the Hills republicans have
representative ON the committee. The
Times in commenting upon this communi-
cation, says:
The spirit and tone of the letter through.
out is courteous, considerate and friendly
towards this section, and it should be met
in the same spirit. While most of US had
wished that We would have an opportunity
Of elccting delegate to congress this fall,
chosen from the Black Hills counties, we
should now accept in m snly spirit the inev-
table, and do the next best, and in fact the
only proper thing for US to do, unite with
the balance of the territory in electing the
bsst nan We can find and send him to Wash
ingt9p % the representative of the whole ter
ritory, and not for a fraction or section.
The remarks Of the Times give evidence
Of the dawn of an era of good sense in the
party history of our whole territory. The
jealousies and prejudices of the past are
giving way, and reason is asserting its right
to dictate counsels for political success.
United republicanism will not fail to bring
Us a grand victory in next falls contest,
while division and distrust within the party
would prove most disastrous to its interests.
Daily press and Dakotaian. [volume] (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1875-1880, 1878-05-11
YANkToN, DAKOTA.
The Daily Press and Dakotaian
The bill for the reduction of territorial
legislatures, provides that each territory
<hall be re-districted by its governor.

The Bon Homme Citizen is the latest can:
didate for notoriety, which it seeks through
the channel Of defamation of the character
Of Gov. Howard. But for the fact that
newspaper sensationalism Of this nature has
reached p ,int which renders it the imper..
alive duty of the honest press to combat, ii
would not seem good taste to give any at
tention to this effort on the part Of the Cit
izen. We feel that there has already been
enough done in the line of slanderous at.
tacks for personal or partizan ends, and that
the whole system of character defamation
should be expurgated from the journalistic
code of Dakota territory.
Daily press and Dakotaian. [volume] (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1875-1880, 1878-05-11

been found dead with bullet holes through
their heads. A neighbor med Hargraves,
who had threatened them, ia saspected.
for the murder Of Charlie Phillips near Big
Srings. has created much comment In Sid.
ney that is not very complimentary to the
court. In the mind of every honest person
Duboise is believed to be the guilty assassin.
Since the trial events have occurred which
greatly aggravated the public mind.
The red ribbon folks Of Lincoln are max.
ing large arrangements for the temperance
convention which i. to meet in that city on
May 18th. The Journal also says that
sented his petition and also rendered $500
to the council. for a license to sell liquor in
this city, Yesterday applied to the supreme
court for mandamus on the city council to
compel them to issue to him . license for
the amount offered-his theory being that
the present 81 900 ordinance is illegal.'
GENERAL.
The troops at Fort Leavenworth are be-.
ing mounted as cavalry, and are making
rapid progress.
A Washington territory paper says that .
four company post will be built this summer
at COur d Alene Lake.
During the freight panic Denver got
merchandise from Chicago at the rate of
$40 per car load, and Cheyenne got still
lower rate.
Gen. JEFF. G. Davis is yet absent in
Mexico. He has been granted fifteen days
extension to his leave of absence from duty
at Fort Leavenworth.
The new process for the reduction of re-
bellious ores, which was recently tried at
Reno, Nevada, and which promised go
favorably At frat, has resulted in a failure.
The senate has passed a bill authorizing
all bona fide residents of Nevada, Colorado,
Utah, New Mexico, Arizona, Wyoming,
Dakota, Montana or Idaho, aud all other
mineral districts of the United States, to fell
aud remove for building, agricultural, min
ing or other domestic purposes any timber
growing on mineral lands which are not
subject to entry except under the United
States mining laws.
General Mcdowell has been instructed to
institute vigilant watchfulness along the
southern border Of Arizona and southern
CALIFORNIA, to prevent violation Of the neu.
trality laws by the Dedro revolutionists, and
to arrest any and all parties who are eus-
pected of congrega.ing on the border for
that purpose. General Ord has notified the
war department that he has made such 3
distribution of the force under his command
as will in his judgment, with the co-opera-
tion of other federal officials and state Off
cials, prevent any serious violation of the
neutrality laws. He has directed the prompt
arrest Of all suspected persons who may
attempt to cross from the United States into
Mexico. His activity has been approved at
the headquarters in this city.
Daily press and Dakotaian. [volume] (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1875-1880, 1878-05-11
REDUCED TO FIGURES.
Bon Homme Citizen.


Let us suppose there are two hundred
farmers in this county who haul, each, every
year, six loads of grain to Yankton, each
trip requiring two days. Here are twelve
hundred days, worth twenty four hundred
dollars. But the interest and principal on
railroad debt would be, for the first year,
forty thousand dollars besides, the farmers
would still haul their grain to market or
pay at the rate Of FIVE cents per bushel to
have it freighted on the road. What would
the farmers gain? Would the railroad in.
crease the value Of the farmers property
from an aggregate of five hundred thousand
dollars to two million dollars in one year?
Or would it make the value of property, in
amount. thirty million dollars within twenty
years? If not. then q railroad will not
prove profitable enterprise for the people
to push.
Daily press and Dakotaian. [volume] (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1875-1880, 1878-05-11
ONE OF THE LARGE STEALS.

The determination to again move the
Spotted Tail and Red Cloud Indians, and
get them away from the Missouri river, and
back within reach Of the Union Pacific rail-
road, still holds good. Though the order
has not yet been issued for this transfer, it
probably will be. In this contemplated
change lies larger field for investiga-
tion than has yet been brought to the notice
of the public, but as investigation runs in
certain fixed channels, We do not suppose it
will be directed to reach this particular case,
While Gen. Hammond has been devoting
his time to detective work among the ir.
responsible 'squaw men and renegade whites
who infest the upper country, for the pur.
pose of accumulating valuless testimony
against officials who have committed no
wrong. this scheme has been permitted to
ripen undisturbed. While possible little
peculations have been pursued with all the
ardor which mistaken enthusiasm could
inspire, this greater fraud upon the govern.
ment has not been merely winked at, but
has been aided and abetted by those whose
duty it is to protect the tax payers of the
nation against useless extrayagance in the
administration of Indian affairs. We can
conceive how q great steal might
be covered up by apparent
interest in scheme tor regulating minor
matters. Is this, then. Gen. Hammonds
object In inst ituting and carrying On a war
fare against agents and traders who will
come out of legal investigation with clean
hands proven? Is he seeking to prejudice
the Indian department against the Missouri
river rs q locality; that the two leading
bands may he permitted to depart from q
neigbborhood tainted with seeming fraud !?
Is he endeavoring to monopolize public at.
tention with little mistaken grievances
that II may not have time to detect the con.
struction of q larger and real one against
its interests? These are rather important
questions just now and well worth
the attention of that investigating body,
known as the lower house of the congress Of
the United States. The removal of the Red
Cloud and Spotted Tail Indians is to be
iuduc, VIC arc IOAu. Aucy are ~ SO 70 Il
point just far enough away from the Missou-
ri river to secure the transportation Of their
supplies over the Union Pacific railroad.
The freight for these two agencies
aggregated abou. nine hundred car loads
per year. This is a trade worth striving for,
and the managers of the Union Pacific road
have not striven in vain. They are about
to secure it, At what cost they themselves
best know. Then c,mes hundred miles
or more Of land transportation. for which
the government must pay large proportion
of the value Of the articles trans
ported. The difference between the
cost Of landing goods from steamers
into an Indian camp. aud the cost of carrying
them over a long line OF railroad and long
line of wagon road can bc readily conceived,
and the odds are all against economy and in
favor Of speculative freishters. This il a
subject We have frequently shown up, but
ve now desire to present il in its new light
Daily press and Dakotaian. [volume] (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1875-1880, 1878-05-11

Gen. Hammond has always insisted that he
was endeavoring to keep the Red Cloud and
Spotted Tail Indians on the Missouri river.
Our information on the subject leads us TO
believe that he has misled the people Of
southern Dakota, and that he has been a,l
the time working for the interest Of the
Union Pacific railroad.
Daily press and Dakotaian. [volume] (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1875-1880, 1878-05-11

PP san make money faster at work for us than
at anything else Capital not required : We
- will start yOu. sl1 nj home made by the
industrious. Men, women, boys and Kitls
wanted every where to work for ,is. Now IL the
time. Costly outAt and teEms free. Address
TRu1 4 Co.. Augusta Nzine.
Daily press and Dakotaian. [volume] (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1875-1880, 1878-05-11
THE GREAT WEST.
MONTANA

Press Gleanlnss from Various Point. In
Uncle Sans Domain.
The Waco daily examiner. [volume] (Waco, Tex.) 187?-1888, 1878-10-12
Texas Items.

The Calvert Greenback conven,
Ition has nominated Jno. Mitchell OF
Fort Bend for Congress.
The Houston Telegram contains
s 1-2 columns solid nonpareil, city
tax sales, fN ssas
While Parson Miller of Cold
Springs, San dacinto county, was
preaching to the wicked at Camilla,
a thief broke into his house and went
off with a trunk and $50 in gold.
In the-district court OF Williamson
county, Drew Hunt was found guilty
of murder in the first degree. He
killed Carter near Round Rock some
twelve months ago.
All the lemons trees in Galveston
have borne this season most plenti-
full crop. The lemons are larger
than those imported. .
The East Line Railroad, says the
Marshall Herald, has been complet-
ed distance of seventy miles and
will soon be running to Winnsboro,
twenty miles beyond Pittsburg. The
entire road has been built by a few
enterprising men without help out
side of the line.
Our readers will remember an ac-
count of Rev. Mr.. Gossweiler, n
Lutheran minister of San Antonio,
who seduced the daughter of a par
ishioner and ran away. His family
followed him and now himself wife
and four or five children are all dead
in the yellow fever district.
The Waco daily examiner. [volume] (Waco, Tex.) 187?-1888, 1878-10-12

Fredericstadt, in Santa Cruz has
been reduced to ashes and several
planters murdered. The govern
ment officer has arrived from st.
Thomas, but with only fifty troops.
In one engagement the negroes have
been routed with 2002. killed. The
town of Bassen is thrcated but safe.
English and French frigates hourly
expected. Our consul in that consul
late is V. v. Smith. Our govern
ment has been officially notified of
the instruction. The United States
ship Plymouth, has sailed for Santa
Cruz TO protect American citizens.
The Waco daily examiner. [volume] (Waco, Tex.) 187?-1888, 1878-10-12
All the World Around.


Five Methodist missionaries MUIR
dered by natives in New Zealand.
1000 wagons loaded with christians
are following the Russian troops on
their march homewards from Adri-
anople.
Mrs. Bella French of Austin is
married.
Another murder and mortalwound
ing in San Saba county, growing out
of the local option trials.
Missouri radicals declare for hard
money and applaud Gen. Grant.
Yellow fever raging with renewed
vigor. " FL Lso ~ @H 4
A public meeting is called in New
Yord, to raise funds to start the re-
leased Fenians Condor. and Melody
in business. II
Robbery of the dead and wounded
of the Massachusetts railroad disas-
ter by roughs.
The Waco daily examiner. [volume] (Waco, Tex.) 187?-1888, 1878-10-12

Mr.. Edison is engaged upon and
has he think succeeded in inventing
a method of distributing the electri-
cal light. If so it is an invention
which win be worth millions Of dol
lars TO the world. 1t is well known
that an electric light may be formed
of great brilliancy, and at very
small cost. The trouble is to pro
ducc 1t at different parts of city
without multiplying the poles, and
which produce the light. If Edison
has succeeded, gas is displaced for.
ever.
The Waco daily examiner. [volume] (Waco, Tex.) 187?-1888, 1878-10-12


The marriage of their Royal High
nesses the Duke of Connanght and
Princess Louisa Margaretha, of
Prussia, will be celebrated at st.
Georges Chapel, Windsor, in Feb
ruary.-Er.
February, let's see, Congress meets
in December. II viii take four
weeks TO get through with the report
of the Potter Committee, two weeks
to try the committee, two more weeks
to try Acklen, and the Greenback-
Democratic-Republican menagerie
viii begin TO howl, and we shall be
busy. That brings ii TO February,
II win break our hearts, but we
can't go.
The Waco daily examiner. [volume] (Waco, Tex.) 187?-1888, 1878-10-12

A decision of much importance to
the public, has recently been made
by Judge Dillon in the United States
Court at st. Louis. 1t is that money
received by bank after the failure,
does not belong among its assets, but
is trust fund for the benefit of the
one making the deposit, and should
be repaid to him In full.
The Waco daily examiner. [volume] (Waco, Tex.) 187?-1888, 1878-10-12

A newspaper has been started al
ready in Cyprus. 1t is a weekly
Journal of Agriculture and Com
merce of 16 columns, one-half Eng
fish and one-half Romaic, and pub
lished at Larnaca.
The Waco daily examiner. [volume] (Waco, Tex.) 187?-1888, 1878-10-12

Total insurance ON buildings de-
stroyed at Palestine, $S3.O00. Loss
to insurance companies $5i 200. Loss
not covered by insurance, $50, 900.
Adjustment has been made.
The Waco daily examiner. [volume] (Waco, Tex.) 187?-1888, 1878-10-12

lose no time in securing the benefit
of such a journal, for you are GER
tainly losing every year far more
than the cost, and sooner or later you
will find this out.
The Waco daily examiner. [volume] (Waco, Tex.) 187?-1888, 1878-10-12

Rabbi Adler has stirred up a tenn
pest in Hebrew circles, in New York,
by marrying couple Zone his own
daughter)during the penitential days.
The Waco daily examiner. [volume] (Waco, Tex.) 187?-1888, 1878-10-12

The metaphone, megaphone, aura
phone, are Edison's latest. Good
Mr.. Edison invent swearaphone for
the Greenbackers, before the 9TH of
November.
The Waco daily examiner. [volume] (Waco, Tex.) 187?-1888, 1878-10-12

Jesuit missionaries have started
to establish missions in the heart of
the African wilderness, opened up
by Livingstone & Stanley.
The Waco daily examiner. [volume] (Waco, Tex.) 187?-1888, 1878-10-12

The center catholics protest against
the socialist bill in the German
Reichstag through their spokesman,
Mr.. Frankenstein.
The Waco daily examiner. [volume] (Waco, Tex.) 187?-1888, 1878-10-12

English tables carefully prepared,
place the number of persons killed
in railway travel in 1877, at in A.
377, 727 passengers carried, in 1876
at in 3,872,57O.
The Waco daily examiner. [volume] (Waco, Tex.) 187?-1888, 1878-10-12

The electric light is going to dis
place gas sure, certain, without
whereases or whercfores. 10
The Waco daily examiner. [volume] (Waco, Tex.) 187?-1888, 1878-10-12

New Orleans, it is estimated, has
lost 5000 lives and 500, 100000, by
the present scourge.
The Waco daily examiner. [volume] (Waco, Tex.) 187?-1888, 1878-10-12
Finest Assortment

Finest Assorfment
or paper and envelopes. Box pa
pers and all the latest novelties; also
a new supply of violons, guitars, ac-
cordeons and strings, at w. ii. Wat
kins' book store, Austin street, cor
ner Fourth. sepl4dwtc
The Waco daily examiner. [volume] (Waco, Tex.) 187?-1888, 1878-10-12
Just Received

Just Received
A full and complete assortment OF
the celebrated New Braunfels cassi-
meres, of the latest styles and to be
sold at manufac u-ef's pcices at Les
sing, Lyons, Solom on & Co.
The Waco daily examiner. [volume] (Waco, Tex.) 187?-1888, 1878-10-12

Tony Faust's saloon, st. Louis. is
illuminated with the new electric
lipht.
The Waco daily examiner. [volume] (Waco, Tex.) 187?-1888, 1878-10-12

The logical Dallas Commercial as
signs three causes for the defeat in
Ohio.
The unpopularity of Governor
Bishop.
Dissatisfaction with the Congress-
ional district reapportionment.
Distrust of soft money vagaries.
The Waco daily examiner. [volume] (Waco, Tex.) 187?-1888, 1878-10-12
SATURDAY, OCTOBER 70, 1873.
o. M. Roberts.

Life is short,--so is the new rage
in walking dresses.
The Waco daily examiner. [volume] (Waco, Tex.) 187?-1888, 1878-10-12

The US. Supreme Court is fishing
at Lake Minnetonka. a
The Waco daily examiner. [volume] (Waco, Tex.) 187?-1888, 1878-10-12
w c. DODSON,
EoR SALE,
My Residence and Farm,

Waco, an the Dallas road Containing l25ncrrs,
All FERTILE land, ~ acres In cultivation ~
acres well tlmbered, The residence ooh,n nm.
SIN large finished rooms, also bath room l,a w..
Try aud four closets. The out buildinEs uon
sist OF large barn, with stables and shello,5,
corn crib, smoke house, kitchen and ser,hh'
house, cistern house aud u large gu nJ"rr
with cotton press and new gin. ON lho ~.
ten aud tank -.,.f
Also for sale, 90 head Of cattle, four head II
horses and mules, l2O head of sheep, 20 nv%'
81 goats, 5Ohead Of hogs, wagon, buggy o IA"
fodder, oats, plows, Ac Terms given on ~
plication. JOHN WtNsIIlf,
Agent for owne lin
Waco, Texas, Sept. %, 1915, u'"
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DREsCRIPTIoN FREE.

FOR THE SPEEDY CURE OF semlnA,
weakness, Lost Manhood, aud ali dsori re
SAQuEs AGO, 100 West Sixth 81, a,lncis
natl oh OF. mari0d&wiy
The Waco daily examiner. [volume] (Waco, Tex.) 187?-1888, 1878-10-12
HERRING, NISBET & co
Gen'I Commission Merchants

j. A. Nisbet. n RI
Having formed a co-partnershlp In the bnsl-
ness OF Receiving, storing, selling and Ship
ping Cotton, Hides, Grain, Corn aud other
produce, viii be ready by the first proximo 10
receive, store, make advances upon and sell
Cotton, Hides, ETC., on the Herring IIouso''
opposite the court house. The members Of the
firm, lthe senior by his son, W. ID. Herring)
VIII give their undl ldsd attention to The busi-
ness. MIR. J. a. Slsbet has had twenty years
experience In classifying and selling Cotton IA
Texas, and DIR. j. @. Nlsbet Is an old COM
mission Merchant and practical business man
Under no circumstances Will any cotton be
bought by the hrm. Cotton, Hides etc.
VIII be sold for the highest market price
upon reasonable commissioner and accurate
accompanied with a certificate Of deposIt o.
draft for the money.
HERRING, NIsBEr a 90.
WACO, TxxAs, August 10th, ISIS. 1T
dIw-wlm
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NEW ADVERTISEMENTS,

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The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1877-1885, 1878-02-21

unless II be printed II the community.
For this. and other reasons, We hoart-
ily wish success 10 all the local news
papers. We 20 - far - = say # 1t
~ absolutely impossibl. for YOU TO
take two papers, then patronlze your
county paper. But generally you can
club your home paper with the FARM
Err AND MECHANIC, and get both for
about one pC1Hy day Think Of il !,
Every now and then we read ~
persons being buried alive. Some o.
these stories are very vague, and twice
as doubtful and in quoting the fol-
lowing We take occasion TO say, If the
instance be true. II should awaken
wide interest in the land. In Europe
preventive measures are taken, such
a. having the corpse lie on slab in a
heuSe in the cemetery, with wires
fixed so that the least tremor of the
muscles will set of an alarm Here is
the iteR
a Nh Davis. Of Medford. Mass,
SllOIl tliilG 49, NIIlt SlIstN III lffi
backward upon the floor. and was pro-
nounced dead As he had expressed
fears that he might be buried alive,
the body was kept several days in the
house and carefully watched The re-
mains We're finally buried al Maiden.
After the funeral the widow and her
daughter who reside IN different
houses, on a certain night dreamed
that the deceased was buried alive and
was trying 20 release himself from the
grave They told their dreams to each
other, and finally caused the grave to
be opened. To the horror of ali, the
corpse was found lying on its side, and
the top of the casket broken, showing
that the man had made strenuous ef-
forts to escape death by sutfocation.'