Daily press and Dakotaian. [volume] (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1875-1880, 1879-03-04
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MNKToN DAKOTA.
tuesday Evening, March 4. 1879
LOCAL LAcoNlCx

LOCAL Ac0Ntcx
The cooler Il vacant and p. G. is leadin
en- simlsss life.
Wheat ranges from forty to seventy cen,
per bushel to-day.
Poskett 10 improving bis agriculture
implement facilities.
A good load Of old wheat sold yesterda,
for seventy-seven cents Dor bushel.
Adler & Gilman are building a room,
addition to their beer warehouse on tn
levee.
George Havley has filled the basement O
his store with . summer stock of cook
stoves.
Business on tho Dakota Southern Is pick
ing up, the increase being mostly on freight
received.
Gentle spring is with Us in earnest to.
day. but tomorrow 1t may be kicked out BY
anorthwester.
Last Saturday night some night hawks
carried away the entire front porch from
one of the houses on the leyee.
Dakota farmers will, in the event of the
continuance Of. our present pleasant weather,
soon ~engagein seeding spring crops.
The up river stage line, under new ar
engagements, conveys passengers from Yank.
ton to Niobrara, via Bon Homme Yand
Springfield.
The ladies Of the Bsptist society will hold
their social at the res,dence Of .Ifrs. Dr..
Vanderhule on Pine street this evening.
All are cordially invited.
Alderman Schnauber has been delegated
by bis colleagues to 20 about town with .
hammer and drive down the nails which
protrude from the sidewalks.
Hanson & Haywood are erecting an i'm
posing shed on Third street, near Capital,
under which they will corral the grangers
who come to town to buy machinery.
Allen, at the pottofice, keeps himself
busy exhibiting a quantity o! Eastlake wall
paper, whick 10 not only imported but lie
cotton up in the highest style of decorative
art.
Tolerably accurate information says tina,
the Hon. Frank Pe,tigrew, of the late coun'
Gil, was married in Chicago last week. Thi,
Transaction appears to include . bond tha,
the governor cant veto.
Prof. r. L. Comrock, of Chicago, the
finest elocutionist in the United States, will
read At the Congregational church, Satur'
day evening, March 18th, under the auspi.
ces Of the lecture association.
The case of joseph Chartrana vs.. the
mar who rode his horse out of town with.
out permission has been decided in favor OF
Chartrand, in the district court, through
the efforts of his attorney, Judge West.
John Dillon, the leading Irish comedian
Of Chicago and the rest of the world, tele.
graphed to-day to know if hs could have
Stones hall on the 18th and 18th inst.
Nobody objects. John can come right
along.
The weather indications for the upper
Mississippi and lower Missouri valleys, are:
Slowly rising barometer, southwest to north
west Winds, partly cloudy weather, and
areas Of snow or rain, and during the night
lower temperature.
Gene Cutting and VIM. Box met on the
sidewalk to-day and compared legs and dis
cussed the relative advantages of their re-
spectiye crutches, while the crowd which
Accumulated endeavored to match them
for a foot race. They declined to run until
after the city conventions are held.
The telegraph line from Springfield to
Fort Sully is 70 be reconstructed during the
coming summer and an extension made by
the government to the military posts of the
Black Hills. New poles and new wire will
be placed between Springfield and Sully and
the line made reliable at all seasons of the
year.
Yesterday was the beginning ofthe March
term Of the district court. Defaults,
demurers and confrmations of sale were At.
tended to. The argument of the motion for
! new trial in tho case of the territory vs..
Carl Johan Hanson was also resumed, but
ruling has,..as yet, been made by the
,ourt.
Hon. John W. Boyles, ex-associate ~just!ce
# Dakota, is now in Vermillion lecturins
N Temperance. Sunday night, the occasion
t his opening address, AZ names were 3D.
ed to the rcd ribbon roll of honor, Mr..
Ioyle resided in Vermillion II wears AGO.
nd represented that county in Dskots's
rst legislature In March, 1862. He will