Daily press and Dakotaian. [volume] (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1875-1880, 1878-08-12
FORT PIERRE.

Town-Being Unlawful to Sell Liquor,
How the Bibulous Crafty their Appe.
tites-Pain Killer and GarEling OH ~ .
BeveraRs-The Freightlng Business at
Fort Pierre-Asricultural Operations-I
Mosquitoes, 70.
FoRT PIERRE, Aug. 8, 1873.
The steamer Black Hills arrived At Chey-
enne agency from Benton at noon day before |
yesterday, and taking passage on her We
arrived at this place at 6 o'clock the same
evening.
Pierre has improved considerably during
this season, and the business transacted here
is of considerable magnitude. Fred T.
Evans, Harris & Doyle, P. j. McManus, ].
A. Kent and Ed. Iverson have stocks Of
merchandise of the variety suited for the
Quitting trade; Henry Pfotenhauer has
meat market and deals in ice and provisions;
Bress& Leeper keep the leading hotel ofthe
place, and G. A. Marshall has just opened a
boarding house, which will probably devel-
op into hotel. In addition to these there
are several restaurants and bakeries. There
would doubtless be saloons. but it being in
an Indian country, establishments of that
kind are interdicted. But there are several
places where cider, soda water, Jamaica
ginger, pain killer and other decoctions ap-
proximating intoxicating compounds are
disposed Of. 1t is remarkable to what expe-
dients men will resort to "make the drunk
come" We are informed that large guam
titles of Jamaica ginger are purchased and
drank, and that very emphatic cases of
"drunk and disorderly" frequently follow,
and are succeeded by entirely satisfactory
hair-pulling and headaches. In one in
stance party, which had got up steam on
Jamaica ginger, and having exhausted the
towns supply of that beverage, procured
several bottles if mustang liniament which
they drank and attained condition of most
hilarious intoxication.
FRElGHTING.
The amount of freight received here and
shipped to the Black Hills is far in excess
of what we anticipated. The principal
forwarding and commission houses here are
those Of Bramble, Miner & Co., in charge of
J. A. McNaught, and Fred T. Evans,
in charge of James Doud. The
former house has shipped up to this
date 751,276 pounds, and the latter
1,535,09l pounds, making an aggregate
of 2.2S6,367 pounds or about 1,l45 tons.
The advance charges upon this freight aver.
age about one dollar per hundred, so that
these two firms have paid 10 steamboats, at
Pierre about $4,000. Other firms and
freighters have received and shipped consid-
cradle freight, enough probably to swell the
aggregate.to upwards of 1900 tons.
The principal freight trains on the Pierre
road are those OF Fred T. Evans, the Violin
Brothers, and Rouse & La Plant, although
there are many others which consist of from
two to dozen wagons. C. A. Marshall and
Geo. P. Waldron formely of Yankton have
small trains on the road. The freight rates
are low, one cent pound to Rapid City and
one and half to Deadwood are the ruling
prices. The low rates Of freight. bad roads
extreme heat and tormenting swarms of mos
quitoes, have made freighting, especially for
small trains, improbable. On Wednesday
four oxen in Volin's train were overcome by
the heat few miles from Pierre and drop
ped dead in the yoke. Other freighters
have lost more or less cattle from the same
cause. Thursday evening the cattle were
stampeded by mosquitoes, and one OK ran
headlong into perpendicular bank and
broke his neck.
This brings us to the subject Of mosquitoes
which is the prevailing topic of
conversation apd swearing along the river
But we have no opinion to express or state.
ment TO make ia regard 10 the number or
habit, Of the much discussed insect. Where.
ever we have been the little pests have
averaged from one to half pint to the
square foot; but whenever we. commenced
fighting them or complaining of their mum.
Der. and voracity, some old settler, or per-
son who had been farther up the river or
back in the country. would console US by
saying that what we we're then enduring
was nothing if we wanted to see and feel
skeeters we should 60 to Bismarck, or up
the Yellowstone. or out on the Pierre road,
or any place except the particular spot we
happened to be-there we would see skeet
ers as was skeeters-and then they would
relate incidents of their number and PROV.
ess which would make Munchausin blush
And aN the time the narrator was talking
to US score or two of mosquitoes were
settled on his nose, his cheeks, his ears
and his hands, disteHding their transparent
diaphragms with his blood without attract.
ing his attention or detracling from his
comfort We will not undertake to repeat
the fabulous stories for fear of being for.
ever ataer denied the privilege Of carrying a
little hatchet. Ts
A stat has been made at crop raising in
the vicinity OF Pierre, with satisfactory 10.
suits. Messrs. Bross & Leeper have