Daily press and Dakotaian. [volume] (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1875-1880, 1879-07-03
Our newspapers. AbOu, ever, other man

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something to one Of them. Its funny to note
the differerce in this respect between here
and other places, everybody here takes an
interest in his newspaper. and when he
knoxs,ex hears af = thing he tells it orwrites
it dDwn md sends u in. CATER that he's !
retdrterN OF course each usa.has his
choiSsi II papers, but that is not Only justifi-
able, but it is desirable, as this rivalry tends,
per consequence to improvement. -
The water question has been the agitation
for q few days at least. And by the way it
i'd question. not to be ignored. Water il to
be brought in aume OF ditch for distance
Of think thirty miles. Just think of it in
this way. Imagine ditch from sprigfeld
down to Yankton to carry drinking water
in, part of the way down gullies, part
around a mountain, here big trellis work
across . eulch and along the top this" "aume''
or trough, now through a tunnel-thirty
miles without break or = leak, and all
built at such an incline as to insure steady
run, without any waste Of power. Such op-
.portunities to for miners to 60 in swimming,
and to wash. 1t must be nice to go in swim
ming in water you know has to 60 into q
house in two hours.
This water question brings p-the subject
of the election We had Saturday. Be it
known there were two companies contend
ing for the privilege of furnishing this wa.
ter. Both are rich-up among the millions,
and both are run by nerve and energy
enough to float ship. Men came all the
way from Spearfish to vote-that's Is miles
away-and then we're disappointed. The
average vote sold for from. Eve to ten dol.
lars. One herd of 120 men stood off in a
body for $3.50 apiece. They got it, and
went up two abreast to the polls lock ins
arms, in the brotherhood of honest connec.
ton at $3.50 a head. 1t Was fun. 1 got up
in second story window. had nice
view up there and it was farther off. There
was prospect of trouble once, some one
yelled out "Flaherty's hit! Flaherty's hit 4.
and sure enough he was hit. An opponent
had took him behind the ear During the
excitement some one mentioned the fact thai
."he's. got revolver" This caused terri
BILE scattering. hu. no one shot. Flahert,
was carried into bank, the hitter went t
get drink, and the crowd again surged to
ward the polls. Barring this. it was nice
quiet election. The only trouble seemed tc
be that if q man wanted to vote he had te
run his chances When you know that .
crowd Of about twenty deep, all of the same
way Of thinking surrounded the voting place
you may know of the difficulties 10 be over
come by man who intended to vote tn,
other way. II man with the right ticke
came; up, his treatment reminded me some
thing of. the ".water line" at fire. There
it don't matter much whether any water gets
to the end Of the line; so the bucket get.
there. Here it didn't matter much whether
. mans hat, or his coat or his boots, got to
the polls, so his vote was safe. He was
hoisted up and carried bodily over the heads
of the faithful. After ihisgvote. was deposi-
ted he was hoisted up and thrown back, for
all the world like fire bucket, and the mex,
called &C.