Daily press and Dakotaian. [volume] (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1875-1880, 1879-01-09
LOCAL LAc0NIcs.

sage, and it is'being placed in type, and will
he given 10 the public next Tuesday.
People who ride over the Dakota South
ern road will be gratiaed to learn that =
new iron bridge is to built across the Big
Sioux early in the spring.
The tax collections by County Treasurer
Schnauber for the month of December,
1873, were four dollars more than for the
month of December, 1877.
Albert Zemlicka was arrested this after
noon and brought into the police court I'M.
der a charge which virtually mounts to an
assault upon bis wife. Trial postponed till
Moaday.-
Treasurer Schuauber has concluded to
give TO tardy ones yet q few more days of
grace and will. omit the penalty on those
who come up promptly and settle their tax
accounts.
The weather indications for the upper
Mississippi and lower Missouri valleys are:
Falling barometer. diminishing northwest
winds shifting to south and east, clear or
partly cloudy weather.
J. R. Fitzpatrick says that, last FRIDAY, at
Fl. Randall and White Swan, the thermom.
eter registered forty-eight below zero. In
his estimation we have had no cold weather
here, worth speaking Of.
The weather again claims brief attention,
its disposition to hang on to the frigid NUM-
bers giving it a notoriety it might not other.
wise attain. This mornings record was
twelve below zero, and throughout the day
there has been enough cold to keep things
solid.
The Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul rail-
road officers have conferred upon the men,
Der of the late Yankton railroad committee
the unsolicited and unexpected compliment
Of an annual pass each over all the lines Of
that corporation. This looks % though the
Yankton committee made something of an
impression while it was in Milwaukee.
Sioux City Journal: John Coonce has
leased the Hutchins building on Pearl street,
and as soon as scenery can be procured and
the necessary staging and seats built. he will
open up a variety theater. 1t is the iuten.
ton Of Mr.. Coonce to give entertainments
that will merit the patronage Of all. No
rowdyism or anything Of an indecent or i'm.
moral tendency will be allowed. He ex.
poets to give his first entertainment in about
two weeks.
Secretary Hand received q telegram this
morning Informing him Of his reappoint-
ment, yesterday, by the president, 10 the
Office Of secretary OF Dakota territory. Mr..
Hand has given four years of service in this
position which has been entirely satisfactory
to the people and 10 the government, and his
reappoin,ment will be heartily endorsed by
those whom he has go faithfully served. A
speedy confirmation will be acceptable to the
people Of Dakota.
A prominent business man of Yankton
was srraigned this afternoon before Justice
White charged with making q loud and un.
usual noise. with threatening to fight, with
threatening. with offensive
and intoxication, all against the
peace aad dignity of the city. So great q
of amusements was deemed
sufficient for one day and the trial was put
off ustil Tomorrow.
The county commissioners this afternoon
opened the bids presented for medical At.
enhance and medicines for the county poor
nd the inmates Of the county Jail for the
n .uing year. Drs. Etter and Miller put in a
oint bid of s4s, so per quarter; Dr.. Ed /.
Kidd bid $3.50 per year I; DR.. Dei,rich bid !
per year. The board voted unani. !.
nonsly to accept the bid of Drs. Etter and
diller, thereby securing two physicians at
ew dollars increase over the lowest bid of
ingle physician.
Judge Kuykendall, of Deadwood, says
hat the propoted line of the Chicago, Mil b
'aukee & St. Paul road, from Yankton up Il
he Niobrsra valley and Westward through =
Wind river region, would give to the y
a route which would furnish y
aging business from the moment the rails v
ere laid. 1t would lead through hundreds of q
liles of stock growing country already noted b
r its extensive herds, and already furnishing p
valuable feeder to the Union Pacific road. ii
also contains inexhaustible deposits of ex- e
'llent bitsminous coal which would become II
! article of commerce with a railroad Is I Il
ighway o. traffic. A, railroad, he says, F
inning directly east from this region of u
would take all the business.
these cattle ranges are now . c~onsidera.
e distance north Of the Union Pacific line.
Kuykendall is himself interested ia +
le production Of stock in this region, and q
entirely from . business standpoint. n
his il q point for Milwaukee to consider.
Gotose chsnaien's .nd.inspec4 his large
attractive assortment of new goods. J.
lower than ever, and of the :
est quality. ss