Daily press and Dakotaian. [volume] (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1875-1880, 1879-12-20
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Two billiards In n week are reported
from the upper country.
Abe Adler 10 moving into his new house
to-day and will soon be ready to comm,ncs
living.
Coal, wood, overcoats and overshoes arc
staple articles of trade. when ice is a drug
intthe market.
The staee which left Fort sully Tuesday
morning did not reach Yankton until last
night. being caught out In two blizzarde.
4 The stage which arrived last night from
bp the Missouri, wa storm bound at
Cbatne de Roches and aeain at B,jou Hills.
Sellers Of Christmas wares have been
kept on the jump all day. This u their
harvest and they oil remark that there are
no grasshoppers In the winter.
The friends of, Christ church Sabbath
school are requested to meet at the church
at 2 o'clock p. M, tomorrow, to take action
with reference to a Christmas observance.
A complaint wa entered this afternoon,
in Justice Roberts office, charging certain
parties in lower Yankton with stealing
wood. They will be. brought to the bar of
Justice.
The weather indications for the upper
Mississippi and lower Missouri valleys are (:
Diminishing north winds, cooler, clear, fol.
loved by warmer. partly cloudy weather,
and stationary followed by falling bsrom-
eter. -
The weather to day has been very much
like the weather of several previous days.
The mercury this morning was eight be.
low zero and we have not heard that any.
body's thermometer has scored anything
above zero between sunrise and sunset.
Those of our readers who keep close
watch Of the closing end Of to-day will oh.
serve that the sun sets a minute earlier than
usual tonight. On the 9th of January it
will commence rising earlier and the day
will continue to lengthen out al both ends
until the 2lst Of June.
Niobrara Pioneer: From a reliable source
We learn that the Milwaukee company will
ct once send their surveyors up the Niobra.
70 and make permsaent survey. Their OBJ
ject ID TO reach the cattle regions of the Nj
obrara BY next fall. and thus far have the
inside track Of any other road. This the
company appreciate and will take advantage
Of.
Speaking Of Hubert Goepfert, convicted
Of stealing Adler & Ohlman's wagon, the
Springfield Times says: This 10 not bis
first venture 10 the stealing line. we are told,
but 10 the first time he has received anything
like bis just deserts. Last summer he was
convicted In justice court here of larceny
and fined. and about a year ago vas 10 .
scrape. that IT properly prosecuted, would
have placed him for q time where the dogs
would not bite him."
Judge Brookings says the Pemb:na trains
are running into and out of Sioux Falls
every day, and that he took passage on one
Of them, at the St. Paul depot, when he
started for Yankton. This does away with
the bogus rumor that the road is yet i've
miles south of Sioux Falls. Mr.. Wicker
aays no eide tracks have been disturbed TO
procare iron with which to lenethen out the
extension. From all of this We infer that
the Paragraph didn't know what it was
talking about.
There is = fair prospect that a divorce
case will emanate from a Rhine reeidence
which never had . skeleton in its closet IN.
til one was placed there by the head of the
family. It happened in this wise: The
wiis vas in Chicago . short time ,go and
there bought q gorgeous silk dress which
vas % b made up and sent to her BY ex-
pres. She failed to receive it on time and
= The days went By she began to feel symp'