Daily press and Dakotaian. [volume] (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1875-1880, 1879-03-28
LOCAL LAcoHlcs.

Cakes Bros. tonight.
The city election will be held on the 18th
ofApril.
Charley Collins is going to start a daily
paper at Bismarck.
Court convenes on the first of April
regular spring term.
The territorial petit jury will come into
court on the 24th day Of April.
That halter will remain but a Jews longer.
Parties having work take notice.
The public schools of the city closed to-
day for the spring vacation of a week.
Seventy-1ve final proofs have been made
at the Yankton land Office this month.
The city convention will meet at the truck
house at 8 o'clock tomorrow afternoon.
The warm weather of the past few days
has started our people to gardening in earn
eat.
The fourth ward is without . saloon, and,
as the boundaries are now fixed, never had
one.
One of the most pleasing entertainments
ever given in Yankton will be that ut Stones
Hall tonight.
Last nights blow has cooled the atmos-
phere somewhat, though it 10 etill warm
enough for comfort.
A thunder storm came upon US last night,
accompanied BY q few drops Of water and
an abundance of dust.
John Oliver, a grain dealer of this city,
has purchased the grain elevator 1t Eden,
on the P%ortlandville railroad.
The frame Of Mr.. Wetter's new house is
up, and q good force of mechanics are rap.
idly pushing the work to completion.
Sheriff Baker has his business down to
such a fine system that horse thieves are
having poor luck trying to keep out of his
clutches.
Sheriff Mcdonald arrived this afternoon
with Mr.. Schmidtgall's stolen horse and the
man who stole it. The capture was made
north of Vermillion.
As General Hammond is defendant in a
case to come lore before the United
States court it is promised that We shall
soon be honored With his presence.
Dr.. Buchanan's mineral springs will
probably be utilized this season, q gentle.
man at the east having become sufficiently
interested in them to invest money in their
development.
G. w. Roberts desires us to state that he
is a candidate for the Office of city justice
and points to his past record as q justice
for evidence that he can do the business sat
isfactorily and with profit to the city,
1t is intimated that the witnesses in the
government cases against DR.. Livingston
are badly scattered. 1t would be interest
ing for the grand jury to undertake the
task Of finding out who scattered them.
The weather indications for the upper
Mississippi valley are: Cloudy weather,
with frequent rain; warm southerly, veering
to colder northwest winds, followed by rising
barometer. For the Missouri valley
Cold clear weather, northwest winds, and
higher pressure.
An excitable politician belonging to the
hrst ward was so much worked up over the
d%oublevoting which he says occurred at yes
terday's caucus that he, last night, declared.
with . big, big D, that he was going to at
tend just n more CAUCUS and that there
would be fair play and honesty in it even
if he had to put in three or four votes him
self on every proposition which came up.
From a gentleman recently in from a trip
up the Jim river VI receive the somewhat
surprising information that Is far up as forty
miles above Firesteel nearly every claim is
taken and it is the opinion of our informant
that inside Of three months the valley will
be mostly occupied as far up as the dirt
An immense immigration is pour
ing in and there will soon be a continuous
settlement from Yankton to jamestown.
The shooting character, Holmes, who
was brought in yesterday by Deputy Mar
shall Burdick, was arrested by him at Fort
sully. He is charged with emptying his
revolver in the direction of John P. Watson,
but as his aim was much disturbed by the
quantity O up river whisky he had absorbed,
none of the six shots took effect. Holmes
was on 3 kind of a celebration when the
event occurred and it is supposed that his
revolver practice was instigsted largely BY
his desire to hear the weapon 60 of: He
is IN ex.soldier and is rather an obnoxious
character on general principles-one whose
absence is more pleasant than his presence.
The shooting for which he was arrested &C.
CURED in December,
Silk hats remodeled in spring styles a
Smithsonian Hotel.
Cakes Bros. unparalleled entertainment
ct Stones Hall tonight.