Daily press and Dakotaian. [volume] (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1875-1880, 1879-04-03
LOCAL LAcoH,cx

10 . few days. X. A. KETCHUM.
LOCAL. AcoM,cS.
The Excelsior mill is undergoing repairs
throughout.
The Methodist ladies' gave an Ice cream
sociable at the church parlors last night.
This is the first of our moving days and
our paper is consequently thrown together
at random.
Last nights train was crowded with pas
se~ngers-people coming west to grow up
with the country.
The board of insane trustees have ordered
seal BY telegraph and until it arrives off.
cial acts will have to halt.
The furniture is going into the new insane
hospital and the institution will be ready
for business early next week.
The United States court has been occu'
pied most Of the day with arguments or
demurs in the Livingston cases.
The three casks Of liquor seized under
the revenue laws will be cold tomorrow a
IL o'clock M, in front Of the postof6ce.
The ladies' of the library association hay,
secured Rev. j. A. Potter for . lecture anc
are o In pursuit of q lawyer to fill til.
list.
Remember the Universalist social hor
Friday evening, April 4th. Coffee refresh
ments. Admission as usual, at the chape,
on Cedar street.
The Missouri River Transportation com
pany has been asked if 1t can move q regi
ment from Yankton to Leavenworth. From
which it is inferred that one of the Mis-.
souri, river regiments Is to be transferred.
A good time is anticipated at the Univer-
sslist social hop Friday evening. April
4th. Coffee and cake will be served. A
cordial Invitation is extended to all-sd.
mission at the door as usual-Gents Csc,
ladies 1Oc.
The weather indications for the upper
Mississippi and lower Missouri valleys are
Clear or partly cloudy weather, cold north.
west winds, generally shifting to warmer
southeast !; falling, preceded in the south
and east portions, by rising barometer.
Dr.. Rainey, superintendent of the Dakota
insane hospital will leave for St. Peter next
Wednesday, accompanied BY two assistants
and will transfer Dakota's insane. from there
to Yankton. They viii come through in .
special car and will reach here next week
Saturday.
John Becker asks % to inform the public
that be il not q candidate for Alderman In
the first ward and that he 10 uncompromis-
ingly 10 favor of the two candidates named
on the citizens ticket. 1t having been re.
ported that be would permit his name toI
be used, he desires this explanation made
public.
Sioux City Journal: "A Bismarck letter
Of the 2lst sys: Charley Collins, of the
Black Hills, is talking Of . daily paper in
Bismarck. he sees . fresh field to conquer.
and IL going for it. He will publish the
dispatches, and give US = lively daily in
every respect" Charley has . good field
for his new venture, - there is at present
no newspaper published at Bismarck.
Judge !. E. West requests us to withdraw
his name from the reform ticket, where 1t
was placed Is . candidate for alderman for
the third ward. The judge says he does
not as . rule believe IN putting forward "citi.
Tickets" but a. the one TO be voted on
on next Monday hes been made up in good
faith, after due notice to oil concerned, it is
opinion that it 10 the duty of the mem.
bers of both parties to give It their earnest
support. This . the reason he wishdnws
bis name.
A great many people have come to Yank.
Ion during the years of it, existence, but
never before in ito history Wa there such
rush 10 this direction % 10 now occurring.
Dur hotels, Of which We hsve Q score or
moro. are crowded beyond their capacit,
md private boarding houses are daily BE-
sieged BY new corners. The Jencks hotell
night vas compelled TO turn away ar.
teen applicants and the smi,hsonian seven.
teen. The Merchants 4 filled nom cellar
70 garrett and the sides of the Germauts.
Bradley, and Central begin to stick Out.
The people who come this spring arc pros.
s~ssslsss. They are hsrs 70 stay.
Major Hansen wants to know II It's any
sosss . tall IagliaA tea 1aalas absas .