Daily press and Dakotaian. [volume] (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1875-1880, 1879-08-16
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YANkToN. DAKOTA.
Saturday Evening, August IS, 1879.
LOCAL LAcoHlcs.

LOCAL LAconlcs.
Judge West advertises a gun tor sale.
A regular meeting Of the city council will
be held on Monday evening next. Il
Sheriff Dunn. of Cedar county while out
hunting yesterday, lost his pocket book con-
tanning $40.
The museum of the Yankton scientific
association is receiving valuable specimens
from the Carolina phosphate beds.
Our townsman. M. 7. Woolley is putting
another run Of stone in his Milltown mill.
We are glad 10 note this evidence Of in
creaslng business.
The alarm Of FIRE given at q little after
noon to-day, was occasioned by the burning
of some pitch used in putting the roof on
Bruce's new block. No damage done.
tieuts. Booth and Greene, whose arrival
we mentioned yesterday, delivered n
hundred and eleven recruits at Forts Yates,
Lincoln and Bennett. The recruits came
from Fort Smelling.
Mrs. S. G. F. Norman, mother Of the
little girl who was outraged BY the negro
Lankston Cain, died this morning At her
residence in the western part of the city.
Mrs. Norman suffered = paralytic stroke
about two weeks ago, from which she never
recovered, and which was doubtless the
cause Of her death.
Hon. s. L. Sphinx received . letter last
night from Gen. Geo. D. Hill, in which he
stated that he had been delayed on the road
by waiting for an interview with a promi-
nent member of the Yankton and Niobrara
railroad company, who was absent from
home. Gen. Hill informs MI. Sphinx that
the expedition will be ready to leave Yank.
ton on Monday.
The weather indications for the upper lake
region, upper Mississippi and lower Mis-.
souri, valleys are Partly cloudy or clear
weather, northeast to northwest winds shift
ing to south; in the upper Missouri valley
and Minnesota, stationary or slowly rising
temperature, and in south and eastern por-
tions ofthe upper lake regions rising, followed
by falling barometer.
The clouds which furnished Yankton a
generous supply of rain IN Thursday even
ing poured down a damaging storm of hail
stones a few miles north of town. On
Beaver creek the fall of hail was very
severe, and serious damage was done to the
corn and other late crops. On the head Of
the Rhine yesterday morning, more than
twelve hours after the storm, hailstones to
the depth Of two feet lay in the gullies where
they had been carried by the rain.
Cedar County Nonpareil: As the secre.
tary of the interior department is coming
west to look over his red children, we de-
sire to suggest to him that Spotted Tail
would make an excellent commissioner of
Indian affairs-excellent, we mean, in COM
parison with the one he now has. Spotted
Tail understands perfectly the habits of the
Indians and is thoroughly conversant with
their wants. Besides, he is down on Ham,
mond. We nominate Spotted Tail.
The prairie chicken warfare was inaugu-
rated yesterday on 3 grand scale and the
prairies for fifteen miles about Yankton
we're dotted over with hunting outfits. The
individual scores ran from ten up to sixty
without lying, and all the way up to two or
three hundred when the imagination was
allowed full scope. Chickens are very
plentiful this year, Notwithstanding the
clandestine operations of law breaking
sportsmen, who have been quietly at work
for the past three weeks gathering in young
birds.
Gen. Hills grand excursion which was
to have been In Yankton on the 18th,
seems to have petered out. We have watch.
ed the Press and Dakotaian for the past few
days and as that paper has. like the boy,
had nothing to say, We presume the great
enterprise was still born.-New Era. The
Era man has not been q close reader of our
columns; if he had he would have noticed
that Hon. 8. L. SPHINX has been designated
as the proyider of supplies for the expedi.
ton, and that he has been diligent In the
discharge of his duties. His purchases
have been concluded BY the addition of q
Sac City sandwich.
Messrs John and I'D. Lawler, of Prairie
du Chen, Wisconsin. and prominently con.
nected with the Chicago, Milwaukee and
st. Paul railroad, were in Yankton last
They were met here and had =
conference with Ex-Governor Burbank and
Messrs. L. D. F. Poore, A. G. Millette and
n. r. Bonesteel of Springfield on business
connected with the location of the line of
hat road at Springfield. We have been
unable to learn the result of the conference,
hope it was favorable to Springfield.
The, Messrs. LAWYER left fors the east this
morning.