Daily press and Dakotaian. [volume] (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1875-1880, 1879-10-03
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A dispatch from Eden to Bartlett Tripp,
says the right Of way across Lincoln couu.
". to the G. NJ. & st. p. r. r. is already
secured. ST. ssaa
Tho products Of Fred. s~chuauber's soda
water factory were this morning delivered
to customers from . new and tastefnlly
painted wagon.
Six companies Of the 7th infantry passed
through sioux City yesterday on their way
from Fort Smelling to the scene Of the Col
orado Indian troubles.
Captain Stanley. of Riverside. Clay coup.
", was in town last svening. He says
there will be no trouble about railroad RICH.
Of way through Clay county. ~ 1s
The engineers will commence eros &c.
tioning the Milwaukee railroad survey, on
Monday, At thisend Of the line and contracts
and. grading will be the next thing in OF.
der.
The weather indications for the upper
Mississippi and lower Missouri valleys are
Partly cloudy weather, colder nor.herly
winds, shifting to east, and lower barome'
ter. 81
Jack Durgin, engineer on the Yanktop
train. is of on . visit TO his farm near Aus
tin. MINI. Until his return, on Saturday.
David Bernhard Of the Yankton shops will
have charge of the engine IN that train.
The price of No. l wheat has advanced
to 80 cents per bushel, and No. 2 to 70@75,
which prices are being paid to-day BY our
dealers. The receipts at the Excelsior
mills to-day were about eight: hundred
bushels.
Colonel j. E Vinton will deliver another
temperance lecture Ut the Congregational
church Sunday evening, to which everybody
Is invited. The colonel is meeting With
good success In his temperance work. He
is q pleasing speaker and an earnest laborer
in the cause.
Bismarck Tribune. Goth: Joe Peunell
and Jack Highland left a few days aeo in q
mackinaw for Fort Pierre, following forty
freight teams which went overland. Pen.
nell has q contract for hauling five hundred
tons Of freight from Pierre to Deadwood for
c. X. Peck.
Gus Swanson, jailor At the county Jail,
says he don't see how it could be that james
Noonan gave him first information of the
escape of Reilly yesterday, when he was in
close pureuit from the time.the man jump
ed the Jail fence until his capture. It's a
problem We will not undertake to solve.
Sioux City Journal: Will H. Merchant
Of the Pembina road will spend bis vacation
of two months with the parents of Mrs.
Merchant near Syracuse, N. Y. Will and
his wife expect TO start for that city to-day.
During that time John Webber will act as
conductor On the Pembina train, and Chas
Graham IS conductor on the irregular
freight train between this city and Yank-
ton.
The editor of the Mitchell Capital says
the lithogrspher made . mistake In spelling
the name of his paper, that he will have
the proper correction made, and that here
after his paper will appear ae the Capitol.
The lithogrspher was right and the editor
Is wrong. 1t !. the capital that Brother
Walsh wants at Mitchell; after he has &C.
cured that it will be time enough to COM
mence talking about the capitol.
Al interesting musical entertainer,
will be given Tomorrow night at the Uni.
versalist church by Mr.. and Mrs. s. B.
Presoa. assisted by their little girls Ella,
Hattie and Myra, aged respectively twelve,
ten and seven years. These little girls are
represented as remarkable musical prodi.
gies, and never fail to pleasantly entertain
and delight their hearers. Mr.. Presba 10 an
old citizen of Dakota, and We bespesk for
him and his talented family . full house At
their entertainment to- morrow night.
The receipts of the city treasury from
the 14th of April (the date of tho insu eura.
ton of the present city government) to the
Both day Of September were 81 ,2s7. 4s, and
the disbursements for the same period 81.
$500. The cash In the treasury on the
14th Of April amounted to t3l3.45, which
added to the receipts make an aggregate of
$63.93 10 excess of the disbursements. con.
sequently the latter is the amount in the
hands Of the treasurer on tho 30th ult. The
taxes for the current year arc beginning to
be paid, and since the lot inst, about $500
have been paid in.
Sheriff Baker and Sheriff Francis, the
latter from Clay county, Iowa, returned last
night from a two days hunt after aparty
BY the name Of Ruthbin, who is wanted BY
the Clay county authorities on . charge Of
seduction. They learned that their man
was at work on the Springfield branch Of
the Milwaukee road, but when they reached
the spot where he had been they found that
he had left for Marion Junction. PURSUING
him to that point, the two sheri6s were just
twenty minntea too 1afa-fha tpa;n had IL