Daily press and Dakotaian. [volume] (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1875-1880, 1878-07-10
LOCAL LAcoNlcs.

LOCAL LAcoNlcs.
A two months old son of J-cob Max ws,
buried Monday.
Eleven car loads of Montana freight wer,
received here yesterday.
Another heavy rain and electrical storm
prevailed last night, the third in three nights
The county commissioners concluded thei,
work to-day after eight days continuous ses
sion.
The Erocasy firm of Kiels & Clark hss beer
dissolved and Mr.. Keils will continue the
business.
Two daily trains will be run over the Da.
kota Southern road until the freight blockade
is raised.
The Ladies Temperance Union will meet
at the Congregational chapel tomorrow
(Thursday) afternoon.
Ninety car loads Of freight have been re-
ceived at 1ankton over the Dakota southern
in the past two days.
Maj. Elderkin's condemned bacon, 1900
pounds, sold yesterday at auction at an ave-
rage of one cent per pound.
Treasurer schnauber will pay, to- morrow,
$1,000 on county warrants allowed at the
la't session of the county board.
The large new school house at Maxwell
City is nearly completed and term Of school
will begin the first week in September.
Last nights storm filed numerous cellars
about town, caved in we'll at L. D. F. Poore's
residence and killed calf in the suburbs.
Dan Rice contemplates taking his circus
to the Black Hills by way of Pierre, to
which point he will run by steamer if he
goes.
James Clark will, in few days, open a
grocery establishment in the store Just west
of that occupied by the late firm Of Keils &
Clark.
No appropriation has yet been set apart
for Dakota surveys, but the surveyor general
is daily expecting instructions from head
quarters.
Zemlicka's cellar on west Third Street.
was flooded with water by last nights storm
and his sidewalk was moved from its accus.
toned place.
Capt. Mart. Coulson says there is big
rush to the Bear Paw mountain gold mines
from Montana and that Fort Benton is near.
ly deserted in consequence.
There is now in the county treasury S3,-
600 in school money, which is to be appro-
priated by County Superintendent Barber as
q part of the school fund.
One copy of McCabe's Pictorial History of
the World, new, can be bought at this Office
for six dollars. 1t is the property Of poor
woman who needs the money.
The winter wheat harvest begun yesterday
in twenty acre field five miles west of town
which was all cut. 1t furnishes large yield
and the earliest wheat harvest ever known
in Dakots.
For the three days ending this morning
the rain fall in this section amounted to 3.12
inches. On Monday the fall ives 20 of an
inch; Thursday, .S2 and this morning it was
9.1O inches.
The indications Of the weather of the up.
per Mississippi and lower Missouri valleys,
are southwest to northwest winds, falling
barometer, warmer, cloudy and rainy wealth
er, followed by rising barometer and cooler
clearing weather.
The celebrated evalgelist and noted tenn
perance worker, known as "Bro. HaskslI
will be here to commence series of revival
meetings At the Methodist church next Sat.
urday evening. The public and co-opera-
tion of all christians invited.
Deadwood Pioneer: Bramble, Miner
Il Co., now have on the way upwards Of
one hundred terms. which are hauling
about 800, 900 pounds weight. mostly mar.
chandise. Probably ene.half this freight
will arrive the last of this week, and the
balance by the 10th of this month. The
roads are In good condition, and no farther
trouble need be exl ected by DELAY of trans
port1tion BY this route.