Daily press and Dakotaian. [volume] (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1875-1880, 1878-06-10
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arrived last week.
A special meeting of the city council vii
be held this evening.
Court will convene at Olivet on the ISL
: inst, Judge Shannon presiding.
The front of the Herald office is being
treated to a fresh coat of paint.
About this time the careful gardener Ii
harvesting his share of the crop of the tricky
potato bug.
A t%en-pound reformer-a boy baby, glad
dens the household of A. L. Human to-day
All doing we'll.
The undertaken smiles complacently
Green cucumbers have made their appear
ance in market.
Three of the walls in the row of brick
blocks being put up on Third street, have
reached the height Of the first story.
Charley Putney has one of the best gar.
dens in town, on Maj. Stones lots, corner o,
Fourth and Pine streets. As a gardening
granger, he is a success.
E. T. Griffith has commenced the cree
ton of a dwelling house on Linn street be-
tween Fifth and Sixth. Geo. w. Smith has
the contract for the carpenter work.
Last years wheat crop is not exhausted.
Since the Improvement of the roads, there
is considerable being brought into town.
The price ranges from GS to 20 cents per
bushel.
An exchange says that a little boy Was
recently seen passing along the street with a
mess CT green c%ucumbers under one arm
and a bunch of green corn under the other,
singing "Nearer, my God, to thee"
The hides seized by the government as
the property of E. E. Hudson, will be sold
at auction by the United States marshal, in
this city on the 18th inst. The advertise
ment of the sale will be found in another
column.
The territorial board of equalization, con-
of the governor, auditor and %treasur-
er, met this afternoon for the purpose of
equalizing the assessment and levying the
territorial tax. The latter was fixed at three
mills on the dollar, the same as last year.
The indications of the weather for the up
Der Mississippi and lower Missouri valleys,
ire, rising barometer, stationary or higher
emperature, north to west winds and clear
n partly cloudy weather, followed in the
after by falling barometer and winds shift
ng to southeast.
Joe Jefferson jumped the town this MORN
ng, leaving the Madison house about forty
.ollars out for board. Several saloons are
lso caught for smaller amounts. Altogeth- {
Joe's stay in Yankton has been more
rofitable to himself than to any one else
nd under the circumstances no one will
onder that he took a clandestine depar-
Ire.
A special to the Omaha News reports that
ohm Gasmann, agent and operator of the
Central at Loveland station, COM
lifted suicide on the 31st of May by shoot
1g himself through the heart. Mr.. Gas
ian is we'll known in this locality. He was
nephew of Maj. j &C. Gasmann, ex-agent
t Yankton agency, and formerly had
barge of Major Clarkson's store at White
wan.
An ecclesiastical court of the Protestant
church, consisting of Rev. NJ.
Ioyt, D. D., dean of Dakota, and Revs.
of Elk Point, and Ellesbee, Of
;ioux City, was convened at Santee agency
ast week, for the trial Of charges against
Rev. S. D. Hinman, late missionary at that
gency. The court took a recess last Friday
ntil Wednesday of this week, when it will
econvene and resume the trial.
Joe Ellis, of White Swan, IN a letter to
business man of this city, says that within
no weeks he has lost by disease IA or Is
cad of his best COWS and steers. He
the first one that died, and his hogs
lie the carcass, and the next morning he
,und twelve dead hogs. He Gays the dis
use is a strange one, and hat if it is not
hecked he is afraid it will annihilate his
ntire herd. He does not give the symp-
oms of the disease.
A foreigner just from across the water
allied at the 1st National bank Saturday
nd laid down seven $50 bills on the Trades
National bank of New York. His
rrand was to ascertain whether or not they
7ere genuine, and he was quickly informed
hat they were not. He then said that he
them in Bremen before starting for
America. There vas no intention on his
to use the bogus money.
On the last trip of the steamer Western
p the river, when near Cheyenne agency,
number of sheets, pillow cases, &C., were
from the beds. A search was in.
and the missing articles found in
he carpet bag of Jim Taylor, of the Her
Id, who was a passenger on the boat. As
i'm Robb was a passenger on the same boat
he mysterious circumstance is accounted
Of, otherwise it might be inferred that the
unior Of the Herald would make a good
,artner for a modern Indian reformer.
There were two cases before the police
curt this morning-one a common drunk,