Daily press and Dakotaian. [volume] (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1875-1880, 1879-05-06
LOCAL LAc0NIcs.

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ges.
a meeting Of the council will be held t
night at which two members of the scho.
board will be appointed.
Sheriff Baker received word last nigh
that the poney stolen from G. L. Richard
son last August, is probably at Onawa.
J. II. Hoostetler will lecture at the Con
gregational church tomorrow evening I'm
der the auspices of the temperance alliance
Judge West will deliver the third lecture
of the library course at the Congregational
church this evening. A full house should
greet him.
The Yankton Opera House will close
after this evening for the purpose of rsmod-
cling the house. Due notice will be given
of re-opening.
William Daily, of Finlay, indicted for
completely in the Parsons mail robbing
conspiracy, was brought to Yankton this
morning and lodged in Jail.
Major Stone to-day broke ground for a
brick block on Third street, eaat of Bruce's
block. He will build torty-four feet front,
and Bruce twenty-five feet front.
The weather indications for the upper
Mississippi and lower Missouri valleys are:
Northerly winds, veering to east and south,
generally followed by higher temperature;
rising. followed by falling barometer, and
clear or partly cloudy weather.
There will be a meeting of the Yankton
temperance reform club at their hall this
evening, At half past seven o'clock. The
club will be addressed by Mr.. Gleason, of
Michigan, and others. Let there be a large
attendance. Everybody is cordially invited.
Alexander Richards, the man arrested
the other day and given a term in jail for
drunkenness, has established his identity
and Judge White will now take steps to
procure the back pension and bounty money
due him. He will receive about q thousand
dollars.
At the request of DR.. M'Glumfre, the
superintendent of the insane hospital, We
draw the attention of our citizens to rule of
the hospital making Tuesday the day for
receiving visitors. No one can be admitted
any other day except on a permit from one
Of the board of trustees.
Mr.. Smart says that the Jim river valley
above Firesteel, which was last year an un-
occupied wilderness, is now swarming with
land seekers. Blowing Goose has been over
to zee how matters were progressing on his
old estates and has concluded to resign his
rights and take a claim on the Crow Creek
reservation.
The wind atorm of Sunday was more
severe up the Jim than in Yankton. At
Rockport the new Russian grist mill was
unroofed and a house blown down. At
Milltown Rev. w. H. Thorne's modest
castle was lifted from its commanding site
and deposited in the valley below. The
natives remark thatit blew some.
The dirt lodge region, which was last
fall surveyed and was at that time unoccu-
pied by whites, is now crowded with settlers.
from the fourth to the fifth standard paral-
lei, along the valley of the Dakota, nearly
every claim is taken, where, less than a
year ago., reigned a solitude broken only
by an occasional passing surveying party,
few trappers, or the representatives of some
horse stealing gang.
During Sundays furious gale a house and
barn at Olivet, belonging to George Hoyt,
took fire and together with a large quantity
Of grain belonging to Mr.. Hoyt were de.
stroyed. The house was occupied by a
family which had just arrived from Indi-
ana. 1t contained their household goods
and a years supply of provisions, all Of
which were consumed, together with their
money. savings. A little girl belonging to
the family was badly burned.
The lovers offs real pleasant time will
enjoy the moonlight picnic Wednesday