Daily press and Dakotaian. [volume] (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1875-1880, 1879-06-18
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!, "Wednesday Exseing, June u, le79.
LOCAL LAcoNscs.

LOCAL LACONlcS. /,
Dsadwosd Is anportins coal On The. "
from Pennsylvania.
=" q Quits . number Of agency squaws are;i
tovn peddlins wild berries.
j. N. Hartert has about completed q ne,
ID s3eilsacs building in lower Yaaktos.
Tho street commissioner IL improvip
the appearance Of Capital street BY gradila
s. xs1AAsa YanktOn ChrikiAl - Tenpsrapc
union hare spplisd fora charter from u
~1aiioaal.
Henry Hefner, reports crops In Nebraskl
a. being . little backward. He Was owe
there yesterday.
ASsex9g machine nm yesterday lopl
E~beSsa o6d6n~tArse for mash,nea aAlSfou,
to leave the house.
A train Of emigrant wagons from lows
bound to the Black Hills, passed through
this city ysitsfday.
Rev. MI. jewell and Dr. ]. B. Van Vel
Dor will lecture this evening at the reform
club room. Everybody invited.
The ss1ly two Chiis6sas in Yankton,
Leng and Hang, picked up their kit and
departed for Sioux City yesterday morn.
ing.
Ayspecial communicates sof. st. Johns
lodge win b held Saturday evening June
2lst. Business of importance will 10 con-
sidered.
A pugilistic encounter took place in the
rear. Of Ole iOleson's saloon last evening, in
which nj Of the parties wa badly dis
figured. No arrestr.
The weather indications for the upper
Mississippi and lower Missouri valleys are:
Warmer southeast winds, stationary or fall
Ing barometer, and increasing cloudiness,,
marrow gauge railroad Is to b built
from the mines In strawberry eulsh to
Bear Butte creek, to- convey orc to tho
mills which will be located upon this
sire Am.
This ID The time when a man pays e5Ior
. fshspole, 90 Tor tackle, 81 for bait and
IS FOR sundries, for the fun Of catching two
or three squalid emaciated catfish, that are
not worth SO cents.
Aparty of young ladies had . pic mic at
Green Island yesterday afternoon. The
affair was Sc well enjoyed that it will not
be repeated for several years to come-not
BY the same party:
What is the difference between a tailor
and . gardener who leases his ground /? One
patches the rent, ard the other rents the
patch. This feeble effort at a conundrum
informs our readers that our funny reporter
still lives.
Affairs at the iYsnkton Indian agency
are In an encouraging and prosperous COZ
dition. Msj. Gardrer, since assuming
charge, has infused a new life into the MAJ.
agement and has gained the confidence of
the Indiana. Crops promise we'll. One
500 acre corr field is spoken. of as the finest
field in the territory.
Nj. sieler, the Russian killed by light
ming on the 18th inst, was buried on Sum
day last. There were. SIS wagons and 80
persons. on. horsebacki in the funeral process
sion. The two boys injured at the same
time are still suffering from the effects Of
the lightning, both of them being paralyzed
from their waists down.
Our reporter was up the wrong tree
when he located Dr.. Dodge on a tree claim
up the Jim. The doctor has unboundec
faith ia tie bbrfhialsent future Of the beautiful
valley to the north of US, and appreciates
the efforts of the thousands who are devot
ing their energies to increasing the woot
supply Of that prairie region, but for til,
present is Of the opinion that it 10 cheape,
to buy what trees he wants than TO raist
them.
The following composition was picked n
on Fourth street Yesterday by our reporter
1t is doubtless a boys composition, intende'
to be read in school: "The grasshopper
smaller a animile than the dog but is tvic
a~ctiyer, tor he can hop about fifty thousan,
times his Own lenth. Once when 1 was I
Sunday skule . gr~asshopper he cum in ,
the winder and lit rite onto the te.che,
bald he'd, yes indeed. I CESS he thot it v.
a mosketer. Ny uncle Pete ses kerosee
oil will kill hoppers, and once I got a pl,
of oil outen the kan and poured it all oat
abe old hopper. and it killed him Is dsd
Moses. Grashoppers like injuns, korn q
weet, but give me . orange or a pack of fir
cracker, which last is necessary on the 4,
Of July. Next time I will rite . pea,
about prary hers,n
Don't forget that the Merchants billia,
parlors can now be found one door nor
of Edmund's & Wynn's bank.
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