Daily press and Dakotaian. [volume] (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1875-1880, 1879-05-08
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YANkToN, DAKOTA.
Thursday Evening, May 8, 1879
For Additional Locals Sec Inside.
LOCAL

LOCAL AcoHlcs.
The Moonlight Picnic tonight.
The jury In the Wakefield horse stealth
case spent another night In the jury roo
and have not yet reported an agreement.
George E. Hawley, with the assistant
OF Justice White, got ever with q couple
delinquent Nebraskaians yesterday, throug
an attachment process.
Messrs. /. E. West and Fl. e. Dewey, a
torneys, have entered into partnership 70
tho practice of law, under the firm name
West & Dewey. Office in Pennington
block.
The wife of Mr.. j. H. Balmat died thi
afternoon at 4 o'clock. The funeral vii
takeplace Saturdays 10 o'clock a. M, from
the family residence, corner Douglas and
Third street.
The case Of David Brazille, charged will
stealing q horse in the Indian country, went
to trial yesterday afternoon and is before
the court to-day. Six fresh jurymen were
summoned for the trial.
Mrs. E. ]. Coggins s. Co., have secured
the services Of . competent milliner from
Gage Bros, Chicago, and are now prepared
to furnish promptly the very best and
latest styles of millinery.
r. 8. Gardner, special agent of the In
dian department, has been directed to pro.
coed to Yankton agency and receipt for the
NOVornmonf npnroptO tharo and v1ono II in
the hands of acting agent Andrus.
Felix VinateriEwas brought before Jus.
tice Roberts last evening charged with an
assault on James Leslie with intent to kill.
After . hearing the case was dismissed. 1t
was all about q boarding house bill.
The weather indications for the upper
Mississippi and lower Missouri valleys are 7;
Southeast winds, stationary or higher tenn
e%rature, cloudy weather and occasional rain;
and rising, possibly followed by falling ba-
rometer.
A new conner who isn't yet accustomed
to our prairie zephers remarked last Sun.
day, somewhat impatien.ly, that after the
world was finished there was a big lot Of
wind left, which was gathered up and
thrown down all in a. heap and named Da-
kota.
A..man entered the Jencks hotel Office
Yesterday. knocked the mud from his
boots, shook the moisture off his coat, and
With a sad look at a stranger, sitting in the
corner, remarked that be never saw such
an Internal wet country as this Dakota
always raining always rainipg!
The election of DR.. Livingston to q posi-
ton on the school board reminds a worthy
citizen that Christ church, not long ago,
expressed its confidence in the integrity of
E.. E. Hudson by choosing him ss a vestry.
man. Hudson is another one of the par
ties whose reputation has been assailcd by
the Hayt-H Hammond Dougherty combina-
lion and against whom nothing has been
proved.
1t is a singular fact that the Indian CON-
missioner insists, in the face of the pub
lished testimony and verdicts of acquittal
in three separate trials, which. he has read,
and Notwithstanding the contrary state
ments Of Governor Howard and Delegate
Bennett, that DR.. Livingston cleared him
self by pleading the statute of Limitation.
There is not much use in advancing argu-
ment or reason when an official takes such
a bull headed position as that.
Yesterdays rain visitation eliminated
late last night in an electrical performance,
which opened wide the food-gates of heaven
and let down a respectable young deluge as
a. topping to the moisture which came more
moderately during the day. This morning
the streets were filled with standing pools
and mud has taken the place Of dust. The
rain extended as far east as Sioux City, and
probably farther. All this moisture has
been stored away in our spongy soil, to be
used as it is needed for the good of the grow.
ing crops.
Sheriff Baker received word last night
from Sheriff Mcdonald. of Clay county.
that he bad trailed Patrick Dement'S stolen
horse and the thief into the timber this side
of Vermillion, where he had them corraled
and would in time smoke them out. This
morning the horse returned to Dement'S
stable showing every indication of fatigue
from hard riding. The thief did not &C
company the horse. One out of three things
Is certain--either he has escaped. or is still
hiding in the timber, or Nc Donald has
massacred him.
j. 81. Hoofstetler delivered the opening
temperance lecture of the series for which
he is engaged at the Congregational church,
last evening, to a crowded house. He gave
to his hearers an interesting sketch of his
" life as a %drunkard, from which he was
finally rescued and reformed. He is an en-
tertaining and effective talker and has the
cause for which he labors uppermost in his
heart. Mr.. IL. will lecture aosin fhIs axen,