Daily press and Dakotaian. [volume] (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1875-1880, 1879-09-13


LOCAL LAcoaAcs.
The prics Of nails has advanced one dol
lar per keg since the first Of August.
There will be . regular meeting Of th'
city council on Monday evening next.
Potatoes are plenty 10 town to-day ant
cell on the streets At 2o@22 cents per bush
81,
Woolley & Wyman shipped . car load Of
lard, the products Of their Yankton refinery,
east today. 2
The Springfield Times says 1t il reported
that Geo. N. jenkins, Of this city, 10 soon TO
open q meat market at Springfield.
Mr.. Mitchell, q freighter on the Pierre
route, says that three of his horses were
stolen at Cheyenne crossing on the night Of
the 18th, ult.
The weather indications for the upper
Mississippi and lower Missouri valleys are
Colder, clear or partly cloudy weather,
winds mostly northwest, and in south and
east portion rising barometer.
Mrs. Kate Brennan, an insane woman
from Fargo, ~adjudged to 90 In that condi-
ton by the commissioners of Cass county,
arrived on last nights train and was taken
to IL hospital.
Scotland has a pedestrian in the pereon Of
Ellis Shupe. He informs the Bon Homme
Citizen that some time next month he in
tends to walk from Scotland to Fl. Pierre, a
distance of 240 miles, in 4S hours.
A young man named Thomas Cap, resid.
ing near Lakeport, is seriously sick Of brain
fever, and . day or two ags, during = violent
paroxysm of the disease, made q bad wound
in his arm with a razor. He is attended by
DR.. Diedrich.
Rev. E. J. Bronson. a graduate of Madi-
son university, N. Y, and Newton theolo-
gical institution, Massachusetts,, commenced
his labors as pastor Of the Baptist church last
Sabbath. Regular services will be held in
the future.
A. Schandein has applications for a large
number of tickets on ocean steamers for
which he is agent, from persons who desire
to visit Europe this fall. Several Russian
families who came over this summer talk of
returning to remain permanently in the old
country.
Deadwood Times: A contract has been
let to V. w. Parker, Of Atchison, Kansas,
to carry the United States mail between
Deadwood and Miles City, . distance of 1856
miles, twice a week, for $6.340. The con-
tract goes into effect on the first of next
month.
The Excelsior mills yesterday purchased
on the streets one thousand bushels of wheat.
being the largest amount purchased in one
day since harvest, the usual purchases being
about six hundred bushels q day. Some of
the wheat purchased yesterday came from
the Silver lake region in northwestern Tur-
ner county.
c. w. Blunt, jr., pilot on the steamer
Nellie Peck, which arrived here this morn.
ing, in behalf of himself and the other
members Of the family, returns sincere
thanks to the citizens Of Yankton for their
kindness and attention to his mother during
her illness, and for their generous sympathy
and aid between the time Of her death and
burial.
At the recent district court of Bon
Homme, Henry Emery va convicted Of
willfully and knowingly obstructing the road
from that place to Yankton BY digging .
ditch across the road. 1t was proved that
the road had been used Is . public highway
for over twenty years, and the verdict estab-
fishes that fact. He was sentenced to pay .
fine Of 800 or in default Of payment, to be
imprisoned for As days.
A petition is being circulated asking for
the discharge from the army Of Franz Tro-
burg, Who ID left BY the death Of his wife
with the care Of three little children. He
is said to be = good mechanic, and those
who have interested themselves in his be.
half believe that If he was released from
further service in the army that he would
DO able to make . living for and take care
of his children. He will leavs on Monday
with the children for New jersey.
Proposals were opened, to-day by Capt.
Elderkin, for 100000 lbs. Of aour for the
subaistence department Of the army, As fol-
lows: Wm. Miner, Yankton, 1000 barrels
delivered in Yankton at $40 per barrel;
1000 barrels, in sacks, same delivery, at
$2.65 per 100 pounds. Burns, Treat 4 Co.,
Of L. Msr., lows, 100000 pounds in sacks,
delivered q Sioux City. at $40 par 100
pounds. These were the only proposals.
presented.
Maj. NJ. R. Morgan, chief commissary Of
subsistence Of the department of Dakota,
under date Of September 18th inst, asks for
proposals, to be made by 10 m. Of the 10th,
for the delivery At Yankton, or IN the cars
Of the Dakota Southern railroad, or Sioux
City 4 St. Paul railroad, At Sioux City, on
or before the let of October, 1879, Of $4,000
pounds Of good clean shelled corn. in new,
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