Daily press and Dakotaian. [volume] (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1875-1880, 1879-07-30

YANkToN. DAKOTA.
Wednesday Evening, July 80, 1879.
LOCAL LAcowlcs.

Meaars. Harris and Cushman, of this city
are going into the stock business ON the up
per Jim.
A. Kyes has shipped sixteen hundred
sacks of corn and feed on the steamer Ben
ton for the Hills.
The accumulation of waste hay on the
Douglas avenue hay market was removed
to-day by the street commissioner.
The maximum temperatureiat the signal
service station to-day was 9lo; minimum,
$50. At Kadish's the mercury reached 92o
The festival and dance given by the Re-
form men will be held on Thursday eve.
ming of this week, instead Of tonight, ~
announced in last nights issue.
DR.. Livingston's cattle have arrived
from Minnesota and to-day the doctor is
having them branded. preparatory 10 their
removal to the Niobrara range.
Capt. Tolman's company of the first
infantry has been ordered from Fort sully
to Fort Meade. It is probable that one
other company from Sully will accompany
them.
Forty or fifty Of the friends Of Captain
and Mrs. Raymond assembled at their resi-
dence last evening and enjoyed a few hours
Of pleasant entertainment at the hands Of
the hospitable host and hostess.
Rev. Robert Kirk, an able and worthy
minister of the Congregational church, of
Springfield. was admitted to the Episcopal
church by confirmation by the bishop Of
Niobrara, o Sunday, July 9th,
Ten teams with plows, scrapers. &C.,
from the grading force of the Chicago, MIL
waukee and st. Paul railroad, arrived from
Maxwell city late this afternoon and went
into camp on the northern outskirts of the
city.
The weather indications for the upper
Mississippi and lower Missouri valleys are:
Clear or fair weather, southeast TO southwest
winds, slowly falling barometer and station
airy or slightly rising temperature. Rivers
will remain stationary.
Those of our citizens who have sporting
proclivities are just now indulgtng in fire.
quent fishing excursions, They carry
double barrelled, breach loading fishing
poles, and take their hunting dogs along to
"set" and retrieve the fish.
They have had a "Doc. Middleton ex-
element at Deadwood. A local officer ar
rested a man whom he declared was zone
of Middleton's men," but the examination
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proved the "6nd" to be more insignificant
than the Yankton affair. The Deadwood
desperate turned out to be a drunken
saloon keeper.
AT Fort Thompson rations arc issued to
the Indians every Thursday, and the labor
is SO systematized that 800 Indians are sup.
piled in two and a half hours. When it is
remembered that these rations are all
weighed out to each Indian, and comprise
-four, sugar. coffee, beans, baking powder
and tobacco, it must take active storekeep-
ing. Two white men and one Indian as
sistant perform the whole duty of weigh
ing, etc,
One of the Yankton Indians had a fine
field of wheat ready for the sickle, and not
having a reaper to harvest it, he took his
mower, and attached q platform to it in
such a way that with the aid of another In.
dian provided with a rage, he was enabled
to cut his wheat. 1t was lodged on the
platform from which his assistant would
rake 1t off and bind it. The agent regards
this improvised reaper as a notable evi.
dence of the inventive genius of the red
man.
President Wicker Of the Dakota South.
ern has been comforting to-day with the
appointed at q public meeting of
held when the project of. extending
the Dakota Southern up the Jim river val
ley was first preached. MI. Wicker is de-
of commencing work at once, and
completing twenty-five or thirty miles .lofl
road this fall. Our citizens, at the
meeting above referred to, agreed to donate
the Dakota Southern depot grounds and
of way through the city and county,
aid that corporation to extend its lin. up
the Jim river valley, and this agreement
Yankton will stand by and fulfill, provided
original design of the railroad company
is carried out.
Among the contracts, awarded for carry
ing the U. S. mails, we find that route
35100, from Firesteel to jamestown, was
awarded to V. w. Parker, of Atchison,
This is the route that Brinkerhof
& Jordan has been running temporarily.
Route No. s5lo1, from Springfield to Mill
town, w. R. sutley, Yankton. Route No.
35OS9, frown Watertown to Fl. Pierre, v.
w. Parker. Route No. 351o2, Bijou Hills
to Fort Robinson, also to v. w. Parker.
Ronte No. 5000, w. r. sutley, from Rsck-
port to Sioux Falle. These are the most
important routes that were let this year,
and are all new ones. We understand that
Mr.. Sutley has also secured the route from
$685..