Daily press and Dakotaian. [volume] (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1875-1880, 1879-05-30
N%E,eHBoRHoop NEWS.

The Republican says that tramps are
in Vermillion.
Elk Point expects that the territorial
fair will b. held there this year.
A union SUNDAY school convention will
oe held al. Efk Point on Saturday June
l4'h.,
Gus. Wood, formerly a resident of Yank-
ton, and an engineer on the Dakota s uth-
ern. is in Vermillion.
Courier: Last Sunday afternoon some
fishermen caught an eel in the Sioux that
weighed FIVE and a half pounds.
Bates & Son, of Sioux Falls, have sent
$4,000 feet Of lumber to Fires,eel, and have
established a yard at that point.
One of the attractions Of the 4th of July
celebration at Sioux Falls will be a game
Of base ball for the championship Of the
Sioux Valley.
What does the Paragraph mean when it
says there isn't much politics involved in
the selection of Alfred Flagg as district
attorney 7?
hiobrara Pioneer: The firm of Fry &
Draper is.about dissolving, Ed. A. Fry TAX
ing the Pioneer, and bookstore and S. Drap-
er the real estate and collecting business.
Mrs. Charles Freeman, employed in the
family Of T. 8. Benton, Elk Point, fell
through q trap door into the cellar last Sat.
u!rday and broke her right leg below the
knee.
Another addition has been made to the
Sioux Falls site. The ten acres southeast
of the village, owned by r. F. Pettierev
and Marshall Morse, have been laid out in
lots, and willObe known as. "Morse's add.
ton to Sioux Falls"
A severe rain, hail and wind storm visit.
ed Flandfeau and vicinity last Sunday,
The millinery store of Miss. LeClare was
blown across the street and set upside down
entailing q loss of about $500. Other build.
ings were more or less damaged.
The Niobrara Pioneer says that from par
ties who are in from various sections of the
county, We are told but one story about
crops, and that Is that they are rs rood al
ever grew. The abundant rains of the pas,
few weeks have proved very beneficial. and
the happy countenances of our farmers arc
good things to see.
The Courier says that Ponca rejoicet
lover having Q live Indian agent, in the per
AscnsofN. T. Porter who goes to Fort Peel
Il - Montana. A local Journal of that bnre
reports that he will take six or eight citi-
fzsus along as clerks, &c. 1t is rumored tbs,
%. Hasson will go as physician.
The dead body recently found in a boo
Of water on the west fork of the Vermiliion
% supposed to be that of John Hetlinp. VIII,
left Sioux FaNs on the 10th of March i,
company with : stranger to 60 to his clain
. hundred miles northwest of that town
He had yoke Of oxen, wagon, a lot o
farming implements, a watch and SIS or So
|. u money, and as al Of the property is miss
ing il j. supposed he vas murdered an,
3 robbed by his companion.
! Union county Courier: We learn tbs
Eric Johnson. Of Sioux valley ovnsh;
was Killed :ast Thursdsy Wills ON hi -,
e to this city. he VA dri vins dovn : M
and the team being usabIe 70 hold Tbsck -
n wagon. began to run. 10 his edorts I
check them he was thrown from his ~.
In front Of the wheels. one of which pssse
70 over his head, crushing tho skull and eau,
> iog instsnt death. We hsve been unsbl
r 20 gather any further paruculsrs Of the q
III aGsir.