Daily press and Dakotaian. [volume] (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1875-1880, 1879-08-18
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YANkToN, DAKOTA.
Monday Evening, August 10, 1873.

YANk TON, DAKOTA.
Monday Evening, August 1s, 1873.
LOCAL LAc0Nlcs.
The city council will meet 10 resula.
session this evening. y
This section was visited this morning BY
. refreshing shower of rain.
The recordslat the signai service oflcs
show that the highest thermometer to-day
was go and the lowest So. =,
An extra freight train arrived over the
Dakota Southern at noon today.
John L Taylor, formerly of this city i
practicing Law in, the Black Hills 6.
Last weeks hail storm did serious dam.
age to the crops o. Smutty Bear bottom, a
few miles west of Yankton.
The children of the Episcopal church
have decided to have . pic mic in Todd's
grove on Jim river, Thursday Of this week.
A first class boiler, engine and complete
saw mill outfit has been received here oyer
the Dakota Southern for the Fort Berthold
Indian agency. Tehy will be shipped from
here BY the Powers line.
The weather indications for the north.
west are: Partly cloudy weather, occasion.
al rain, southeast winds, falling barometer
generally followed by rising barometer and
colder northwest winds.
Major OBeirne purchased Of Gen. Dewey
on Saturday q. valuable span Of Yoadsters
which We understand are to be used BY
Secretary Schurz in his coming visit to the
Indian agencies in western Dakota.
City Treasurer Schandein has been sect
ting up" the cigars today. the occasion be-
Ing the arrival at his house last evening Of
. little girl. All parties interested, includ.
ing the father, are as we'll as could be ex-
pected. -"
CT. Rossteuscher s Co. have commenced
the erection On Second street Of . first class
beer house. The building will be built Of
brick, two stories high, with a capacity for
. large amount Ct beer and ice. Nj. Fin.
niean will do the stone work and Nj. Val
entine the brick work. 81
AT the election at Sioux City on Friday
for delegates to the county convention s. B.
jackson beat John NJ. Mcdonald in the
contest for sheriff. The result was unex.
pected, although Mcdonald claims that the
country districts, which are said. to be solid
for him, will give him the nomination.
Apony. two saddles and Q bride were
stolen from Capt. Grant Marsh's stable in
this city on Friday evening last. at about the
same time Eph. Miners horse was stolen
A bride was also taken from Clarence Van
Tassel's stable the same night. Thus far
the officers have been unable to find any
clue to the thieves.
Hon. Carl Schurz, secretary of the inter-
ior, is expected to arrive in this city on the
2lst inst, on his way to visit Spotted Tail at
Pine Ridge agency. The party Of govern
ment officials will come to Sioux City over
the Illinois Central line in the private car
Of the directors Of that road, and will there
be transferred to the Dakota Southern line
for Yankton.
Major Crisley, Indian agent at sisseton
agency, writes to the editor of the Herman
Herald: We shall start August 9Th for the
Jamee river and be absent perhaps a week,
to meet and locate the Drifting Goose band
Of Indians, of whom so much has been said
lately. The party will consist of myself, Mr..
Tuckey, Smiley Shepard, Interpreter, Cab.
riel Renville, and perhaps one or two more
Indiana"
Messrs. NJ. T. Woolley and N. Morgan of
this city have been awarded a contract TO
grade five and q half miles on the Omahs
q Northern Nebraska railroad. Their
work Is the valley Of Logan creek, about
miles southers. from Yapktop.
The road is completed to Tekama in Burt
county, and the extension now being con.
structed Is in q northwesterly direction to.
wards Yankton.
Professor Alexander Fellner, Of Vienna.
aas located in Yankton for the purpose oil
Engaging IN vocal music instruction and in |
tuning. Prof Fellner is a graduate
IT the conservatory and opera school oil
music, Vienna, and has several years of ex-
oerience asss teacher in Illinois and Texas.
has also given six months of his time to
abor in an extensive piano repair shop at
Fort Wayne, Indiana. See his adyer-
n. 7. Woolly, who was wounded in battle
Turing the war of the rebellion and received
pension of$S per month for a year or two
,ft ter. his discharge, then neglected. to draw
hs,ssnne By not preparing his vouchers, wasl
scently restored to the rolls. His attorney.
'hil. K. Faulk was . few days E notified
hat the proper certificate had been forward
70 the Chicago pension Office. Mr..
Nooily will consequently soon be put in1
Of the snug little sum Of $l,35O.
We mentioned on Saturday that Sheriff.
Of Cedar county, while cut hunting
a Friday, had lost his pocket book. On
attirdSy morning the sheriff in comn.nv