Daily press and Dakotaian. [volume] (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1875-1880, 1879-11-15

$50 ~S~St
, for Denver.
! On Thursday night Of Las, week, Willis
Graham. Of FL Moro, attempted to murder
his partner in the sheep business-Postmas-
: ter Bradley. at Pho Grove ranch, twenty
five miles from Trinidad, ON the Chlcosa
Graham was jealous Of Brady, and though,
too much attention was shown his wife BY
the postmaster.
There was . murder and n lynching or
= the road to Lead willie, one night last week
= The party had camped for the night, and
toward morning one Of them was awakened
. by q sharp pain in his hand, and discovered
. that one Of his fingers was missing. HI
sprang up, and found Bailey, the freighter
) dead, with a bullet hole through his head
and the passenger. whose name was moi
learned, up and dressed. The murderer wse
left hanging in his shirt and drawers as the
sun rose. and the party moved on.
"A gorgeous lottery scheme, advertised az
a "free distribution of city lots In North
Denver" has been hunted down by the faith.
full news gatherer, who finds that the ad-
~vertiser has some real estate to divide, but
that it is at q distance of some forty miles
out Of town. And the {. n. &. incui. % Why
should this scheme he adorned with cuts
representing "ths Denver opera house." 'the
United States mint at Denver" "the high
school at Denver" and "one of the many
churches"
The editor Of the Dodge City Globe is
going to start a bank.
About forty car loads Of cotton pass
through Fort Scott daily, the bulk Of it for
Chicago.
The people Of Sugar Greek, Miami county,
propose having a grand wolf hunt On Safur-
day, the 22d.
George Shaver, of Reno county, an extn-
sive dealer in horses and mules, has skipped
the country with some $4,000 of the peoples
money.
A farmland near Lawrence went into a
pen where q boar was confined, and was
pitched upon by the hog and terribly torn
to pieces.
A Catholic priest was arrested and 6ued
$40 and costs for repeatedly telling a Bap.
tist preacher he lied, while the latter was
pointing the road TO salvation, in Prairie
City.
A little girl ut Lawrence, who had a
wealth Of hair, sat warming herself before
the fire the other morning, when her tresses
fell into the blaze and were burned to the
scalp.
A young lady Of Leavenworth, who hap.
pened to be left at home alone of an evening,
successfully "held the FORT against a party
of drunken soldiers who were out on a frolic.
She fired two shots at them.
A Garnet man killed a pelican, that was
sailing near Lake Joy, last Friday evening,
that measured four feet eleven and a hall
inches in height, and eight feet one inch
from tip to tip of its wings.
, The Kansas Farmer says that a million
dollars would not pay for the loss in butter
and milk in bad management and lack Of
3 proper dairy conveniences in the state O.
Kansas alone in a single year.
Frank Furber, assistant paymaster of the
Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe railroad
was to have been married on Tuesday, in
Lawrence, but in an evil hour, one day last
week, he attempted to leap over a post on
the avenue of his brides residence, and wa
thrown headlong to the ground. He wa.
buried on Thursday.
: At the recent session of the Kansas acad.
envy of science there was an interesting dis.
, %cussion of the question whether rainfall had
increased in Kansas with tho settlement O,
the state. One of the speakers thought the
soil was changing, and absorbed more waite,
!, than formerly. The earth retaining more
water draws more rain. The blue-stem
grass accompanies civilization, usurping the
buffalo grass and loosening the soil.
xCornelia Harris, daughter of a prominen,
farmer living at Ottawa, was out taking 8
ride on her favorite colt one day last week
when the animal became frightened at
railroad train, and Mics Harris,in her efforts
to stop the frightened animal, wound one o
the straps around her wrist to get q bette,
leverage. In its wild actions the horse sue
ceeded in throwing the poor girl, who could
not extricate her hand, and was DRAGGED
swinging between the horses legs and strik.
/ ing against stones, stumps, and fences, fol
half a mile. Nearly all semblance of hu
manity was dashed out of her before tn,
animal became exhausted.
MISCELLANEOUS.
!, 1t is said there has been $40 DOC. 600 O
eastern capital invested in Utah mines thi
a season.
The Union Pacific earnings for the frs
, two weeks Of October, show an increase o
t Sl25,00O over that of one year ago.
The gross receipts of the OREGON state
fair were Sl0,O0O-not enough to pay iii
liabilities. The society pays it's premium,
in scrip.
, There is a lively demand in Utah anG
Nevada for lead mines, due to a heavy def.
cheney in the annual production Of thu
] metal in the United States.
> The cattle king, Mr.. Lang, of Olympia,
= w. y, has purchased in Wasco county
: 1900 head of cattle, paying as follows
: 1earlings 81; cows $40 two-year olds SIP
three.year Odds and upwards, $l8.
! Some few days ago q man loaded 5.3O(
i pounds Of Hillside bullion at Bristol, New.
! for York, Utah. When within four day
travel Of York his team gave out. II,
4 went and procured fresh animals, but upor
o return to the wagon he found the buliio,
gone.