Daily press and Dakotaian. [volume] (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1875-1880, 1879-12-13
LOCAL LAconlcs.

Free lunch at Henry Wagners tonight.
Regular meeting Of the council Monday
night
The streets are crowded with teams and
business is lively.
A foot Of n is reported along the
Niobrara and Keya Paha.
Skating is good in spots on the river and
the boys have been enjoying 1t to day.
a prominent Iowa land dealer predicts a
big land boom for Yankton county next
spring.
About the lst Of January regular trains
will be run on the Springfield branch of the
Milwaukee road.
The judgment of the court iu the case of
Silas P. Beebe, convicted of murder, has
been postponed twenty days.
The weather has moderated and our cold
snap is at an end. 1t was forty degrees war.
mel this morning than yesterday morning.
The ladies Of the Methodist church will
give a fair and supper in the basement of
the church next Friday evening, the 10Th
inst.
In the case Of Andrew Newell, on trial
! n the district court for horse stealing, the
indictment was quashed in consequence of a
technical error.
Ed lverson left Yankton Thursday morn.
ing for Parker and at noon yesterday had
only gone as far as Swan Lake. The storm
held him back.
There il yet no clue to the mysteriously
missing Erick Erickson. His friends have
settled down to the conclusion that be has
committed suicide.
Inc Singer agency has occupied its new
building on Third street and has hoisted .
sewing machine to the ton of the from,
cornice for q sign.
There has been q continuous stream Of
travel over the ice bridge to-day, a large
quantity Of wood having been transferred
from Nebraska to Dakota.
The long delayed spices for the Pembin,
extension have arrived and it is promised
that BY next Monday Yankton and Siou,
Falls will be connected by rail.
y. B. McKarsom, convicted of grand
larceny, was sentenced this morning, By
Judge Shannon to three years and 81,
months in the Detroit penitentiary.
Last Sunday morning Lane & Frisbee'
livery stable, at Canton, was destroyed b,
fre and twenty.one horses burned. TIL,
loss is about $4,000, with no insurance.
Chief Engineer Kimball, Of the Nil
waukee road, is building a handsome resj
dence At Parker, Turner county, which vii
be occupied by his family when completed
The half breed freighters At Yankto
agency are loading six wagons with reape,
at the depot this afternoon. These reape,
are to be used on the agency farms ne,
harvest.
The mail due here Thursday night fro,
the up country had only come as far as tn
Wheeler postofice, in Charles Mix count
last night. It will probably arrive SON
time tonight.
An inventory Of the effects Of the Dako
Southern (more correctly known "a Il
Sioux City & Dakota) railroad company
being taken. This may indicate . sale or
may be only the annual round up of asse
Hubert Goepfert, convicted Of petit Il
ceny, was this afternoon sentenced to pa,
hne Of 500 and be imprisoned thirty d,
In the county Jail. In default of paym,
Of fne he will have to serve fifty days .d
tional.
The railroad isabout finished to Niobra
and working operations will cease for
time. As soon As the weather will perm
the whole force will go to work on I
Yankton line, audit will be pushed throu
with all possible speed.
The weather indications for the up,
Mississippi and lower Missouri valleys q
Falling barometer. increasing southeast