Daily press and Dakotaian. [volume] (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1875-1880, 1879-07-24
LOCAL LAcoalcs.

IL le oeke0 tnat t0efo DC y &eneEeA asteuu "uSS
LOCAL LAcoAlcs.
Allows r.iilroad!"
Bray & Fletcher have dissolved partner.
ship, and Mr.. Bray will continue the bust.
ness heaeafter. N
Sergeant Huneke reports to-day's highest
temperature $40. Lowest during last night,
so.
W. H. Heselton has purchased the entire
interest in the Yankton bottling works. Mr..
Bauer having retired from the firm.
A. L. and Jean Holeomb have arrived at
Rapid City with the herd Of mich cows
with which they left Yankton about .
month ago.
Government -four contractors will be in.
terested in the advertisement for bids in
this issue. The amount required is $780,
900 pounds.
Rev. D. P. Brown and Mrs. Charity h.
Thompson of Green Island, Nebraska, were
married In Yankton to-day, Judge Congle-
ton performing the ceremony.
/. Judge Congleton picked a very fine ripe
apple from one of his trees to dsy, the first
fruits of q tree planted eleven years ago. and
the first Yankton county apple we remem-
Der to have seen.
The weather indications for the upper
Mississippi and lower Missouri valleys are /:
Slowly rising temperature and falling ba-
rometer, east to south winds. partly cloudy
weather and local rains.
Colonel Vintop, of Saybrook, received, .
few days ago, $4,000 as his share Of the ap-
preparation under the Law for the payment
of pension arrearages. The colonel will
invest the entire amount in young stock
for his Clay county farm.
It was reported at Niobrara yesterday
that Doc. Middleton the leader Of = large
gang Of horse thieves, operating on the Mo.
brara river and vicinity, had passed through
that town during the forenoon in charge Of
an Omaha detective.
A lamp bursted in VIM. Andrews store
last evening, causing little damage to the
premises, but a severe scare to the occupants
of the building, who were asleep, at the
time Of the explosion, they not having
blown out the light, before retiring.
We we're shown this morning by O. II.
Quimby some specimens Of wheat raised
in the Russian settlement on the east side
of Jim river in Hutchinson county. This
wheat will grade as A No. 1 hard, and is
said to be a fair specimen of the entire
crop in that vicinity.
The prairie chicken harvest legally com
mences fifteen days earlier in Nebraska than
j a Dakota. According to the. Nebraska law
the shooting season commences on the first
of August, and many Of our sportsmen on
this side Of the river will probably have
business on the other side about that time.
The Rapid City Journal, referring to
the firm of Bramble, Miner & Co., Yank-
ton. truthfully says: It is one Of the Oldest,
strongest, and most reliable firms In the
west, and being also largely engaged as
~freighters. they are IN q position to give the
best of terms to retailers-either to deliver
goods at their warehouses OF lay them
down at their customers doors.
Sheriff Baker Ia addition to his official
duties has given some attention to granger
bushes this summer. He has q large field
Of oats on his farm east of Jim river, which
promises a large yield, but as he hired all
the work done. the profits of his agricul-
tural venture will probably be on the wrong
side of the ledger. But what is . premium
of ten or fifteen cents q bushel on oats com.
pared with the glory of being q horny
handed grangeri
The corps Of surveyors under Chief En-.
eineer Wattles, who have been making sur.
veys for the proposed extension Of the Da-
kota Southern railroad up the Jim river
and to Niobrara, have completed their
work and returned to Sioux City. The line
surveyed BY them runs from .Yankton to
Tabor and from thence in = southwester]y
direction to the Missouri river opposite
Niobrara. From Tabor a line was also run
northward parallel with the Jim river.
What. the company intend to do in regard
to extending the road We are unable 70
say. i
Crystal Ice Cream is victuals and drink.
't"'f E4'tatt . Ytle orfen