Daily press and Dakotaian. [volume] (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1875-1880, 1879-07-14
LOCAL LAcoNlcs.

der company will be held tomorrow night.
Important business will DO transacted, and
all the members are requested to attend.
The First National bank, which is one
of the truly solid institutions of the coun-
try, today declared a dividend of five per
cent. on its earnings the last six months.
First National stock Is good property.
The hook and ladder company, will give
a ball in their truck house on Thursday,
July "a: The. boys are short about $40 on
their 4th Of July celebration and propose
this method of making up the deficiency.
Just after Justice White had consummated
a marriage ceremony to-day be handed over
. portion Of the fee to his jsnitor and In
structed him to order ice for two. He was
exhausted by his labors and the heat of the
day. .&
The Excelsior mill ls shut down for the
summer vacation and will remain quiet
about q month longer. In the meantime
considerable new machinery will be placed
in the mill, including some steel rollers for
crushing wheat. ...f&
Judging from the number of harvesting
machines purchased ia Yankton this season
the grsin harvest In the country tributary
to our city will be a very large one. Our
agricultural implement dealers are unable
to supply the demand for reapers.
The prairie chicken shooting season
commences ON the 18th of August, one
month from tomorrow. Chickens are
said to be very plenty, and our sportsmen
anticipate rare sport when the proper time
arrives. No true sportsman will violate
the game law.
The foot race which was advertised to
take place Saturday evening at the foot Of
Broadway between R. E. Lee and Freder-
ick Preston fzzled out. A large crowd
had, collected and both men were on the
ground rugged out in their racing harness,
but for some reason or other they refused
to run. 1000. .4s.s. -.
The husband of one Of the ladies who
went to Sioux City this morning was de-
tected in the act of pilferipg his wife's
pocket book, which contained all her, circus
money. His object; which waste havt
her arrive dead broke, a stranger in {
strange city, was happily frustrated by the
watchfulness of his wife. .s
j The Vermillion Standard says: "John
Cunningham, the man who was in this city
last week, and gathered quite a number d
nickels and dimes into his pocket, sold his
bear, 10 Yapkton, TO Maj. Oaley, who with
his bear and "Wild Bill" have started on a
starring tour onsthe lower, Missouri.p 1t
seems from this that.Johns exhibited his
bear in Vermillion. ta9
A couple of young men of Yankton who
J have located timber claims about fifty miles
out, recently visited their ,possessionsl 10
make arrangements for necessary improve
ments. The trip cost them eighteen dol
, lars They biredianan to break uptwenty
acres and plant ten thousand trees, and
have 1pst discovered that the claims which
are being improved at their expense belong
to other parties and that their own quarter
sections are four miles further on.
Petty thievinqg seems to be more in order
this summer than ever before. For some
week. past The freight cans at the depot
have received The attentions Of nocturnal
de'ppsa4ileFs and hardly = hight passes that
something, of large or small value il not
taken: Adler A 4 Ohlman's wagon was taken
from 4 shed inthe rear Of their store 4 few
days ago. Judge Shannon has recently lost
a harness. Other individualsshave suffered
minor losses. Yet tho city in its wisdom
deems two policemen sufficient.
A worthy citizen of this modest burg was
yesterday passing along Third street accom-.
panied By his little girl. At Purdy,s store
re halted to Retsthe status Of the weather,
and. not knowing that q couple of smokers
standing near by, had just applied the bust.
ness ends Of their cigars to the thermome-
ter bulb. he was very much overcome on
discovering thlt the mercury stood at 1902
above zero. e The little girl was taken into
the. store supplied With liberal rstionus of
soda water. and told nottoSenture outaeain
until the sun went down. Meanwhile the
two individuals who had inadvcrtantIy
caused allthis distress moved off and went
home. concluding that Sunday wasn't a
good day to fool with q thermometer.
Herbert Goep:art, Of Bon Homme county
lad ? preliminary examination before
Justice White this morning and held in
$500 bonds toasppear at the next term of
the district court and answer to the charge
of grand larceny. Several days a ago Adler
& ohlman's delivery wagon was missing,
snd Investigation led them to the conclu.
q a. k that Gpepfart had stolen it. On Sat-
urday Deputy Sheriff Eliot arrested him
and found the. wagpn in his. possession,
The wagon was readily identified, although
the new possessor of it had made an effort
to change its appearance 50 that it you'd
lose its identity: The sides of the box
which bore the names of Adlar g. Gilman