Daily press and Dakotaian. [volume] (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1875-1880, 1879-08-07
LOCAL LAcoAlcs.
City council meeting Tonight.

OF.
Jacob Max and John Bates are receivin
new goods for the fall trade.
Kadish has been repainting and other
wise improving the front of his store.
Two wheat buyers had q collision yes
terday, but with no very disastrous results
however.
After this week Yankton banks will al.
low only ninety-dve per cent. for CanadI
currency.
E. E. Hudson's residence on Capita
street is all enclosed and rapidly approach
ing completion.
Capital street was the scene of q runaway
this morning, but the horses were headed
of and stopped before any damage was
done.
There is joy ia the household of Joseph
Powell, of the Dakota Southern road, the
cause thereof being a ten pound morsel of
feminine sweetness.
Frank Hefner bought a load of wheat
and two loads Of flax yesterday, which he
says are prime goods. He has placed sam
pies on exhibition at Kadish's.
Tom Mcdonald and Frank Cochrane
came to blows yesterday afternoon. Nc
Donald is slightly disfgured and Cochrane
has a dislocated wrist. No arrests.
Junction City is to be the name of the
town which it Is expected will grow up at
the forks of the Firesteel and Yankton and
Niobrara divisions of the Milwaukee road.
1t is laid out twelve and one half miles
northwest from FinlaY.
All unpaid taxes will be advertised by
County Treasurer Schnauber in about two
weeks. D~elinquents desirious of saving
additional expense will accomplish thai
object by calling and settling prior to thai
event.
In the police court yesterday, John
Bohey was up before Justice Roberts fol
disturbing the peace. He was fined. Cor
nelius Schaun was brought up for fast driv
ing. and the usual fine was imposed upon
him. He paid it and agreed not to drive SO
fast in the future.
A fire alarm sounded at half past one this
afternoon, occasioned by the discovery of q
fire at,Krudwig's new hotel on Cedar street.
but upon investigation proved to be only q
tar barrel near the house that bad caught
fire. No damage done beyond the burning
Of a few pounds of tar.
From Yankton to Canton, via Junction
City, by the c., NJ. & st. P. r. R., the dis
lance will be e%ighty.two miles, abouttwenty
miles farther than the straight line fret pro-
posed. The time between Chicago and
Yankton by this line of travel will be short
ened about twelve hours.
The Jim river crossing for the Niobrara
branch of the Milwaukee road is three
quarters of q mile above Maxwen's mill,
and the crossing for the Yankton branch
will be about five miles south of Maxwelrs
mill, and it Yankton county.
The stage in which Marshal Raymond,
Judge Campbell and G.. w. Kingsbury took
passage from Bismarck to Deadwood upset
somewhere between those two points and
spilled out its precious load. A telegram
to Mrs. Raymond says that the Yankton
party escaped without injury.
Charles Broulette, who has been running
the depot hotel, has skipped out for the up
per river. Before leaving he mortgaged all
household goods and left his wife and
children in destitute circumstances. Mrs.
Broulette has gone to Jefferson where her
reside, and the parties holding the
mortgage against the furniture have taken
possession of the same.
Last night between nine and ten o'clock,
Madame Doyle, keeper of a house of easy
virtue on the levee, accompanied by two of
he inmates of the house left privately for
Sioux Falls. She leaves her creditors in
he lurch to the tune of about two hundred
She was met by a Yankton gentle
man who was returning from the Falls last
Acting Governor Hand issued a requisi-
lion, this morning, on the governor of
Iowa, for the persons of John Gortmaker
md Peter Ludens, of Swan Lake, arrested
md confined at Sioux City for stealing
lorses at Swan Lake. Deputy Sheriff
Of Turner county, took the requisi-
ion and started on this mornings train for
.owa and will bring back the prisoners.
They are said to be mere boys.
AT an early hour this morning q painful
md delicate task was performed, and now
hat 1t is all over, it is our duty to give the
acts to u readers. It has been evident
or some time past that John Cunningham
las been considerably cratic, and how to
,et him where he would become less so
vas the problem which bothered his
1t happily occurred that, this
morning, Major Andrus and G. G. Sperry
to start for Yankton agency, which is
lear Fort Randall, the headquarters of Mr.
Cunningham. As the road over which they
we're to travel led by the main entrance to
he insane asylum, it seemed that this was
be best opportunity which could be afford.
ed to induce Mr.. G. to take a ride. He
'as accordingly induced" and his friends