Daily press and Dakotaian. [volume] (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1875-1880, 1879-12-05
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Friday Evening, Dec. 5, 1879.
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Col. Peck's life was insured for $4,000.
Mercury twenty above zero this morning.
The ladies of Christ church are requested
70 meet at the church tomorrow afternoon
at 3 o'clock.
Tom Marshal, the cash grocer, keeps the
retail store where you can buy your goods
at wholesale prices. Come and be con.
WINGED,
Mills & Purdy invite those who desire
to make special orders for Holiday books,
to call and examine their list, and also their
stock already on hand.
The young ladies of the academy of the
Sacred Heart, yesterday purchased an ele-
CANT Mason 4 Hamlin organ from Will
Turner, for use at the academy.
Bessie Kingsman, proprietor Of one Of
le,ee houses, was in the police court to-day,
charged with selling liquor without alicense
She plead not guilty and the trial va. post.
poned until tomorrow.
The Springfield insurance company, E.
T. White agent, has settled with A. Kleiser,
paying him $500. His other loss, with
Edmunds 4 Wynn's agency, has been ad.
justed and will be settled soon.
The weather indications for the upper
Mississippi and lower Missouri valleys are:
Variable winds, generally cloudy weather,
with rain; partly or cloudy in the northern
portions, followed BY clearing weather.
Fall blowing has been suspended and
farmers have settled down to the conviction
that farming operations for 1879 have come
to an end. They will have two months
rest before wheat sowing time arrives.
The Eagle house bus was out to-day with
aequad Of the boys in blue from the upper
country, showing them the various points
Of interest within the city. Kaiser was in
command Of the expedition.
George Cammack, one of the principal
witnesses in the Landphere murder case,
left this morning for Mazomanie, Wisconsin
having last night received his discharge a.
witness. As soon as his absence was dis
covered he was telegraphed to return and q
subpoena issued remanding him az a witness
The United States is. not quite through
With ammack.
Here 10 an arithmetical problem which
some of the boys are unsuccessfully laborip,
with, but which Capt. Lavender says IL q
easy % rolling of . log: Two men under
take TO dig . ditch one hundred yards Ions
for which they are to.receive one huudre,
dollars. One part of the work is more dil
hcult than the other. and the men aeres I
divide IT.. the one doing the most Difficult
part to receiys $l.25 per yard and the o,he
% cents psr yard. The problem is. no,
many yards must each man dig 10 receiv
ono half the contract price-that IL. hft
dollars apiecel
A public meeting is Contemplated /,
which . petition to congress will be .dopte
asking for On appropriation for the cor
struction of . wing dam . few miles abo,
Ysnkton which will turn the channel
the RIVER back to the Yankton side and re-
tore the steamboat landing % 1t existed
few years ego. Governor Edmund,. Viii
In Warrington. will devote oil his sp,,
time TO this project. Ito importance mex
hot be commented upon. Everybody G,
Pee y. A small money outlay would ri,
the river . permanent channel where II
most needed. When the meeting 10 he
evsrybody viii DO out.