Daily press and Dakotaian. [volume] (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1875-1880, 1879-07-30

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A PERSONAL.
H. H. Rudd, of Lodi, is at the Mer-
chants.
D. P. Putnam, of Elk Point, was in
town last night.
Gov. Howard will start for Michigan in
q day or two.
Walter A. Burleigh, jr., returned last
evening from St. Paul.
Captain Grant Marsh, Of the steamer
Bachelor, is in town.
NJ. H. Day, of Springfield, went down to
Sioux City this morning.
W. F. Kiter started this morning for
Kansas and will 60 to Wisconsin before his
return to Yankton.
Clarence W. Cox returned last evening
from q visit to his parents and other rela-
tives in Grant county, Wisconsin.
United States Marshal Raymond started
for the Black Hills this morning. Court
business calls him to the bonanza belt.
M. T. Woolley left this afternoon for
Milltown, whittier he goes to look after his
mercantile and milling interests at that point
George W. Kingsbury. of the Press and
Dakotaian, left this morning for the Black
Hills, on a business trip. He expects to
be away three or four weeks.
Geo. w. Sterling and w. c. Grant came
down from Springfield yesterday afternoon.
After supper, in company with Ex-Governor
Burbank, they left for Scotland.
General Esperson left Ysnkton this
morning for Lake Kampeska, for the pur.
pose of looking over some work being ex-
ecuted by his surveyors in that region.
Ex-Governor John A. Burbank arrived
the east last evening. He left imnedi-
ately for Scotland for the purpose, it is said,
Of steering the railroad into Springfield.
Rev. Mr.. Williamson, of Washington,
Iowa, arrived last night and is visiting with
Judge Bennett. Mrs. Williamson has been
here two or three weeks and finds that her
health is much improved by ever SO short
stay.
President Wicker and Superintendent
Merchant, of the Dakota Southern, arrived
last night. Mr.. Merchant went back to
Sioux City this morning and Mr.. Wicker
remained to talk over railroad matters with
our people. u
W. H. Munro aud family arrived last
night direct from Corpus Christi. Texas,
where they have resided for three years.
They intend to make Yankton their home.
Mr.. Munro is q lawyer and will engage in
the practice of his profession.
Sam Coon, who keeps a ranch on Crow
creek near where Lamphere was murdered,
was in town yesterday purchasing goods,
and left for his up river home this morn
ing. His theory in regard to the murder
is similar to the statements already pub
E. S. Mosher returned last evening from
a trip to O'Neili City, Nebraska, which is
not far from the scene of the late reported
6ght between detectives and Doc. Middle
ION. MI. Mosher says the information he
got there was that Middleton was in the
fight and that he was wounded as reported
BY the detectives. A physician at O'Neill
called to dress Middleton's wounds,
and this physician told Mr.. Mosher that
Docs wound was not dangerous and that
would be round again in a day or two.
L. p. Williamson, of the firm of Vale &
Williamson, came down on the Western
yesterday from Bismarck and left this
morning for Indian territory. Mr.. Will
is one Of the heaviest mail con.
in the United States, having stage
lines scattered all the way from Mexico to
British America, and has just received the
contract for carrying the mail between
Bismarck and Fort Keogh, once a week and
back. For this route alone he receives
thousand dollars per ahnum. Mr..
Williamson says he has had several head
Of stock stolen from his stations along the
route between Bismarck and Keogh, by In
dams within the last few weeks, and that
%depredations are being committed
at nearly all the ranches in that vicinity,
and altogether, he thinks this route the
toughest and most dangerous of any in the
United States. y
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