Daily press and Dakotaian. [volume] (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1875-1880, 1879-03-04
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MNkToN DAKOTA.
tuesday Evening, March 1, 1879
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tuesday Evening, March 4, 1879
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The cooler d vacant and p. c. is leadiu
an simlsss life.
Wheat ranges from forty to seventy cen,
per bushel to-day.
Foskett is improving bis agricullur,
implement facilities.
A good load Of old wheat sold yesterda
FOR seventy-seven cents per bushel.
Adler & Gilman are building a room,
addition to their beer warehouse on th
levee.
George Havley has filled the basement o
his store with . summer stock of cool
stoves.
Business on tho Dakota Southern Is pick
ing up, the increase being mostly on freight
received.
Gentle spring 10 with Us in earnest to.
day, but tomorrow 1t may DO kicked out BY
northwester.
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 enEagein seeding spring crops.
The up river stage line, under new FAR
rangements. conveys passengers from Yank.
ton to Niobrars, vie Bon Homme gand
Springfield.
The ladies' Of the Baptist society will hold
their social at the res,dence Of Mrs. DR..
Vanderhule on Pine street this evening.
Ali are cordially invited.
Alderman Schnauber hss been delegated
by bis colleagues to 20 about town with q
hammer and drive down the nails which
protrude from the sidewalks.
Hanson 4 Haywood are erecting an i'm
posing shed on Third street, near Capital,
under which they will corral the grangera
who come to Town to buy machinery.
Allen, at the postoflce, keeps himself
busy exhibiting a quantity o! Eastlake wall
paper, whick 10 not only imported but ID
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. This
transaction appears to include . bond tha,
the governor can't 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 Cbartrana vs.. the
man 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 mel 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 to be reconstructed during the
summer and an extension made by
the government to the military posts Of the
Black Hills. New poles and new wire will
placed between Springfield and Sully and
The line made reliable at all seasons of the
year.
Yesterday was the beginning of the March
'pecial term Of the district court. Defaults,
and combinations of sale were 1t.
ended to. The argument of the motion for
new trial in tho case of the territory vs.
;arl Johan Hanson was also resumed, but
10 ruling has,..as yet, been made by the
curt.
Hon. John W. Boyles, ex-associate justice
+ Dakota, is now in Vermillion lecturins
n Temperance. Sunday night, the occasion
bis opening address, Al names were I'd.
ed to the rcd ribbon roll Of honor, Mr..
'oyle resided in Vermillion II years ago,
represented that county in Dakota,s