Daily press and Dakotaian. [volume] (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1875-1880, 1879-04-01
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The county jail contains eight prisoners
and the city Jail thres.
The United States petit jury will comes
into court next Monday.
The territorial grand jury is ordered to
report tomorrow morning.
s. N. Folyer Is building . two story
frame house Of Capital street.
The weather indications for the upper
Misslssippi and lower Missouri valleys are /:
Clear or partly cloudy weather.
Dave Campbell hes retired from the ope-
ra house and will again turn his attention
to st~eamboating. Wambole d Burnis are
his successors.
p. c. has reduced two Of his boarders to
bread and water diet because they refused
to work. P. G. is "afher takin the concate
ont ov them"
New postoaices have been established 10
follows: At Paris, Union county; At Erie
denthal, Hutchinson county; at Richford,
Bramble county.
Capt. Hughes reports that rumors of ter
rible destruction Of property and loss of
life BY prairie fires up the Big Sioux were
current 10 Elk Point when he left there
yesterday afternoon.
A man named A. Wakefield, arrested in
Lake county for stealing horses, was brought
to Yankton to-day by VIM. Lee, Of madison,
and lodged in the county Jail.
Hereafter the banking houses Of Yank-
ton will receive Mexican dollars at 80 cents
and Canada currency At q discount of 2 per
cent. This action is made Necessary BY the
discount rates in eastern cities.
Tim Coyle was before Judge White to-
day charged with being drunk. The charge
was sustained and the prisoner was sent to
jsil twelve days in default of the usual
fine.
Deputy City Treasurer Lang is the man
who conducted the delinquent sidewalk tax
sale. County Treasurer Schnauber has
nothing to do with city sales or city finances,
as was stated yesterday.
A series of lectures by home talent 10
being arranged for the benefit of the ladies'
library. Dr.. Miller and Prof. Ziebsch have
already been secured and 3 minister and q
lawyer are to be engaged to I'll the course.
The board of commissioners of the insane
hospital inspected the new building erected
for the accommodation of Dakota's insane,
this forenoon, and at . meeting held this
afternoon accepted the work Is executed BY
the contractors.
The regular spring session of the United
States court opened this morning, his honor
Judge Shannon, presiding. The grand jury
received its instructions this forenoon and
retired TO begin its Investigations into mat
tiers coming before it.
Deadwood Times: The Yankton Press
took occasion the other day to poke . little
fun at Hon. Anslev Grsy's striped ulster.
We want the Press to understand that that
ulster il now . fixture of Deadwood and
We feel called upon to defend 1t. Make .
note of this Mr.. Press.
The northwestern telegraph company arc
preparing to rebuild that part Of the line
between Yankton and Fort Sully, 80 that
hereafter 1t will be In good working order
clear through. Six thousand white cedar
poles from northern Wisconsin and Min
nesota. will be shipped up the river by
boat for this purpose.
Judge Brookings says that . prairie fire
was burning two miles from Sioux Falls
yesterday morning before daylight which
light sufficient ID the city to en-
able him to read . Newspaper. He also
heard, on the way oyer, thst Capt. Whee.
lock couoted forty burning buildings near
Eden Sunday afternoon.
IA gentleman who was present says that
large and a%pprsciatiye audience gathered
It the court house on last Sunday EVENING"
70 hear Rabbi 0ertsmannS able lecture on
The Wandering Jew" The reverend een-
took the ground that Israel q . M.
lion VA the real wandering Jew; that the
Dcattefing Of the Hebrew people among the
nations VAS nc indication that the curse
of God rested on that people, but rather
hat through this scattering they might still
in the future - they had in the past,
and On inspiration to the whole
gentle world.
FOR SALE.
FOB THE NEXT THREE DAYS.