Daily press and Dakotaian. [volume] (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1875-1880, 1879-06-06
DAKOTA.
YANkroN.
NORTHERN DAKOTA.

The United States district court viii
meet q sFargo. July.5.
Two composites Of the Seyenth cavalr,
lefts Fort Lincoln on Sunday last fer For
Meade.
Fargo is to have a new postofice build
viii at ass. :
AdredH bosteis, At work Of the Red
riverssof lie North Improving the naviga.
Non Of the stream.
A gentleman representing $50 Scots has
gone into the Yellowstone country to find
IN American home for them.
Hon. Geo. III. Walsh informs the Fargo
Times that Grand Forks county is rapidly
filing up with new settlers.
President Billings and Vice President
Stark were to be at Bismarck on Tuesday,
and with . company of the seventh cavalry
will pas over the Northern Pacific route
to the Yellowstone.
Dr.. Burleigh informs the Bismarck Tri-
sbune that the grass is a foot high in the
lettuce were ON the tables aseaEy as the
10th OF May. He says it is "God's
county," {,
Pioneer-Press Hon. Horace Austin, of
the land office at Fargo, came down to St.
Paul yesterday, and reports the rush for
lAud almost as great as ever. The crop
prospects are excellent, and the people are
jubilant.
Last Monday morning the stock belong
ing to Lyon & Wilkinson, contractors on
the extension of the N. p. railroad were
stampeded by Indians near the coal banks
The stock was recovered.
Bismarck Champion: Charles H. Bates,
of Yankton, in charge of the U. S. survey
on the line of the N. P. extension, passed
through here Monday. Charley helped to
build the first house built in Bismarck in
1872. He has great faith in the quick set
Element of this country. His western ex-
perience and his ability as a surveyor is a
sure guarantee of his success.
Bismarck Champion, goth ut: On
Monday, before Justice Wear, James Nc
Bride was charged with assault on Mrs.
Ansley Gray. The plaintiff swore that de.
PENDANT kicked her on the arm as che
reached for q pail of water in front of his
residence. Mcbride and the water man,
White, swore that Mcbride was not within
five feet Of the lady at any time. The jury
without leaving their seats, brought in a
verdict Of not guilty.
Stanley Huntley, late editor of the Bis.
marck Tribune, has accepted a commission
from the Chicago Tribune, to visit and in
terview in the old mans tepee, Sitting Bull.
and with that purpose in view he has
taken passage on the Red Cloud accompan.
led by Col. Mcleod of the Canadian
mounted police, on his way to Woody
mountain where he will be furnished an
escort to enable him to carry out his pur-
pose.
Bismarck Tribune: The gallant young
Lieutenant Fred k%islingbury, who for two
years past has had charge of the scouts at
Standing Rock, left for Fort Keoeh on
Monday with his blushing bride, nee Miss
Fannie Bullock, a sister of his former wife
and of Seth Bullock of Deadwood. Capt.
Reno is now mentioned in connection with
a cracker factory at Yankton, but Yanktop
people will find more talk than crackers in
Capt. Reno's makeup.
Bismarck Champion: Nearly 100 claim
Of 10 acres each have been taken by In.
dams at Standing Rock, their Indian own.
ers being busily engaged in farming. They
have all the latest improved agricultural
implements used by their white neiehbors,
and some have the latest patented moving
machines which they are buying with the
proceeds from the sale of ekins. They are
enthusiastic in their new vocation. Sixty
log houses are in process of construction
on the lands Of the new fedged agri,ul
turiet.
The surviving partner Of Col. Jones and
Mr.. Boughton, who were drowned in ,
water spout west of Bismarck on the line o
the extension of the N. P. railroad a sho,
time ago, gives the following description q
the deluge: "When be left the wagon tn
water was over his shoes, and when b
reached the bluff, 80 yards distant, it wa
waist deep. He turned and saw the waite
coming as if a mill dam had broken iut
above them. Bou9hton was swimmin
against the current, and in a moment y,
lost. Jones did not see. Ire,
from four to six inches thick were levele
q neatly as the weeds. The water rose fy
feet higher than the proposed grade of Ii
railroad. It was reported twenty. five fe'
deep in places. Boughton's body has bee
recovered Jones' is still missing.
Horrifying Contingency.