Daily press and Dakotaian. [volume] (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1875-1880, 1879-06-10

/. the opening Of navigation until the closinl
of the same With the freeze-up busines
subsidies and the winter Ia spent in compar
: alive quiet.
Agriculture has not yet become an i'm
portant avocation in this portion Of Dakota
though it is this year receiving more atten'
ton than heretofore. There 10 one sixt,
thousand acre farm near Bismarck and 9th
ers not quite 90 large which are being open
ed. President Hayes owns a section Of lane
near town, which is nov being broken up
Other erangers, less distinguished but more
Icompetent to COW and to reap, are giving
their time aud muscle to the soil and Bur
leigh county will this year take a place in
the wheat producing area Of the northwest.
The. extension Of the Northern Pacific
road is an important item Of talk and spec
~ulation. II has progressed to Mandan and
beyond, but Mandan is thus far the only
town which has become the product OF The
extension. It is just now q email accumu-
~lation of small mercantile houses, to which
the people Of Bismarck have given the
somewhat derisive appellation Of "the eigh-
teenth siding" Sidings are points upon the
Northern Pacific railroad where . side track
is laid, and Is Bismarck happens to be the
seventeenth side track westward from Fargo
it is popular to speak of the next n be-
yond (Mandan) As the eighteenth siding"
Among newspaper me I find our old
acquaintance Charley Collins, conducting
the Bismarck Champion. His is 4 compar-
atively new enterprise, but Charley 10 throw
ing into it all Of his old-tims vim and is
leavening the entire lump with snatches of
that choice philosophy which nom but q
Collins can produce. He has the theory Of
success at his pencil end, and his Champion
may prevail. He has been the father Of all
gigantic Dakota enterprises and deserves to
lie down alongside of complete success and
cuddle up to it and call it his own. He has
grown gray in the service Of men and would
again to-day abandon self interest for the
common cause which became his long be.
fore his shadow turned to the downward
slope of life's journey. The Tribune has
gone back to the management of Colonel
Lounsberry, is founder and only successful
business head. Huntley & Jewel have Civ
en- up their ownership of the paper. Thu
former has gone to the Canada border
to interview Sitting Bull and try
and find out, for the Chicago
Tribune, what thst warrior most desires. HI
is not looked for in person, but his scalp ii
expected by every mail. Mr.. jewell i
conducting the Tribune job Office, having
leased that portion of the concern from
Colonel Lounsberry. He is IN active prin'
ter and a bright newspaper man. Much Of
the success Of the Tribune under its late
management was due to his eforts. The
news department belonged to Mr.. Jewell,
and it was a good one. Now that Colonel
Lounsberry has resumed the Tribune helm,
the craft will again be steered into prof,a.
Bile seas.
There are q few Yankton men here. Mai
Wolfe has a position in the quartermastert
Office and is living at the Sheridan. Arthu,
Linn holds forth here, and John l.. Taylor
is visible on the streets. Among the steam
boat fraternity many familiar faces gree
me. Captain John Massie is still kept upo,
his bed by the terrible accident which befe
him a few weeks ago. His leg was shattered
and it was thought at first that he woult
lose it. He is now recovering and the liml
will be saved, thanks to good care and a,
iron constitution. Mrs. p. C. Shannon i
still here, with her daughter, Mrs. Wolfe
but she begins to talk about taking a boa
for Yankton.
The steamer Dacotah will leave to-morro'
, for Benton and your Correspondent will 6
!, with her. She will take a load of mechar
ics, under charge of Colonel Lee, to bull
: the new Milk river Fort. B.
Fair and festival given by the schola
Of Christ Church Sunday school, for Il
n benefit Of the Sunday school library,
e. Wednesday evening, June IL, 1879.
y, B0ARDERs WANTED.
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