Daily press and Dakotaian. [volume] (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1875-1880, 1879-04-11
LOCAL

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All the hotels are overloaded again to-day.
Farmers' teams numerous on the streets
to-day.
Last nights train was loaded with home
seekers.
There was heavy rain up the jim day BE-
fore yesterday.
S.N. Felyer has nearly completed his
new residence on Capital street.
Judge Rossteuscher is celebrating the ar
rival of . new and promising boy at his
house.
Miss. Ada Lawrence, balladist is one Of
the new attractions at Camptell's variety
theatre.
One private boarding house on Third
street had twenty.four day boarders last week
and turned away o. many more.
J.. A. Wallace, of Elk Point, is candi-
date for appointment as district attorney for
the new judicial district recently created by
act Of congress.
Eight thousand dollars has been pledged
towards the erection of an opera house on
the corner Of Broadway and Third, and
there the project rests.
Persons attending the teachers' institute
at Elk Point will be charged full fare down
and will there receive q return ticket at one
fifth the regular price.
-Four or five insane people from the Ne
braska asylum are expected At Yankton to-
night. The delegation from the St. Peters
will arrive to morrow night.
Agreat many settlers are coming to Yank-
ton this spring from Davenport and Rock
Island. They belong mostly to the labor
ing class,-solid fellows every one Of them.
Mrs. E. J.. Coggins, a Massachusetts, lady
is fitting up rooms in the second story of
Danforth's block, on Third street between
Broadway and Cedar street, where she will
shortly open a millinery store.
The vote of the city election was officially
canvassed by the council last night. The
result is substantially the same as announced
by the Press and Dakotaian Monday night.
The proceedings in full will appear in to-
morrow's issue.
There will be q meeting of the Yanktsn
Bar Association at the Office of E. T. White
Esq. tomorrow evening. The officers Of
the organization are: President, Hon. s. l..
Sphinx; vice presidents, Oliver Shannon and
E. G. Wheeler; secretary, E. T. White;
treasurer c. ]. B. Harris.
The weather indications for the upper
Mississippi valley are: Clear or partly
cloudy weather, cold north winds
generally veering t warmer south
east; rising, followed BY stationary OF fall
ing barometer. For the lower Missouri
valley: Warmer, clear or partly cloudy
weather, southeast winds and falling barom-
eter. The rivers will remain nearly station
ary.
Judge Brisbine is an important witness
in the case of the negro Cain, charged with
the commission of rape upon the little
daughter of c. F. Norman. A few days
ago the judge took passage on the steamer
Terry for Fort Keogh, and when his absence
became known q bench warrant was issued
BY Judge Shannon for his apprehension and
return to Yankton to be in attendance
when wanted as . witness. A telegram was
received this forenoon by Sheriff Baker that
Judge Brisbine was in the custody of the
sheriff Of Bon Homme county, having beel
taken from the steamer Terry at Springfield,
and Sheriff Baker started for Springfield
this afternoon to bring him down.
Some workmen who are spading up Sec
rotary Hands garden, for the purpose Of
enabling him to put in his annual crop
struck . snake mine this afternoon, which
yields big returns. They found the opening
# an ancient we'll q few feet beneath the
surface, and when they began to remove the
tones with which it was walled up.the snake
began. At three o'clock one hun.
ired and twenty-eight snakes-large and
been taken out, and there are
encouraging prospects that the vein is grow
ing wider n it descends. Two Of the young
exhumed had rattles on their tails
md the balance were of the striped variety.
The last gentleman who arrived from the
of the discovery is Of the opinion that
he old we'll is full Of snakes, and that . big
'attler will be found at the bottom.
Don't forget that the Merchants billiard
can % be found one door north
Edmund's & Wynn's bank.
An elegant assortment of fine Gold Pens
and holders, pencils, etc., Of the celebrated