Daily press and Dakotaian. [volume] (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1875-1880, 1879-09-12
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YANkToN. DAKOTA.
Friday Evening, Sept. l2, 1879.

Friday Evening, Sept. 12, 1873.
LOCAL LAcoMlcs. Is,
visa Brothers arc today receiving Z lsre,
invoice Of new goods. Call and Gee them
Secretary schurz and party arrived 81 Fl
Laramie on Saturday evening, SeptsmbeI
9th.
The proposed excursion of the Yanktor
Turn.Verein to Sioux City has been abau
doned.
The Vermillion Republican gives, Col
Lounsberry Of the Bismarck Tribune . MIC
little puff. Now lets hear from the colo
mel.
The Deadwood Pioneer says the Pierre
Is passenger route, Is gaining in favor
Ten persons left Deadwood By this route o,
the 9th, . number Of them being ladies.
Sioux Falls Paragraph: Coy. Howard
thinks there 10 no doubt that enough Of th,
internal revenue receipts Of Dakota will b,
get apart BY congress at It's next session t
erect . penitentiafy At Sioux Falls.
Box is bringing to market every day mel.
ous of surprising size. and not the least Of
them iss cantelope left in our possession
which measures ~thirty.two inches In cir.
conference. THIS is big for tie cantelope
species.
Gen. Dewey has taken possession of bis
splendid Office rooms 10 his Third street
block. When the general completes bis
contemplated improvements he will have
the handsonest aud best arranged law Office
In the territory.
A train Of four or five wagons passed
through town to-day headed for the Black
Hills. They were from Ve.million, and
their q are Henan Curliss and his
sister Mrs. Banker and family. Two of the
wagons aud the oxen and cows belong to
v. E. Prentice.
The chief commissary Of subsistence of
this department has awarded to A. W. Law
ender for delivery at Yankton los, 600
pounds Of potatoes at 81 cents per one hun.
dred pounds. The lowest bid for onions
~ cents per one hundred pouuds-was put
in at st. Paul.
the Vermillion Republican, in conclud'
ing q pleasant notice of the Congregations
Sunday school excursion to Vermilliop,
says: We are much obliged to our Yank.
ton neighbors for this courtesy to Vermil-
lion and hope the social intercourse of yes
terdsy may be beneficial to all concerned"
The weather indications for the upper
Mississippi and lower Missouri valleys are /:
Clear or partly cloudy weather, cold north.
west winds followed in the north and west
portions by winds backing to warm south
and by falling barometer, followed in the
west by rising barometer and cold west
winds.
The county commissioners of Lawrence
county have passed an order requiring all
druggists who have between the 22d Of
February and Let of July. 1879, sold liquors
in quantities of less than five gallons, to
take out q county license covering the time
from the first date to the LIST of October,
paying into the county treasurer therefor
the sum of SIS. Druggists who fall to take
out said license will be prosecuted. under
the territorial law.
Those of the little boys who accompanied
the Sunday school excursion to Vermillion,
and while there thought they were doing
the manly thing BY puf1ng cigarettes. get
the following notice In the Vermlllion..Re-
publican: "Precocious youths those who be.
long TO Yankton Sunday school, if the
party of . dozen or SO who visited this Office
Yesterday was q fair sample. The eldest Of
the group could not have numbered over q
dozen years. yet they ruffed away at the
Vanity Fair in . manner that
themselves to be veterans and not
mere novices in the so.called art of burning
the weed"
The Chicago 4 Northwestern railroad
company has just located, at the Springfield
land ofice, through it, agent, G. T. Mccoy.
eight hundred and eighty acres of land In
Beadle county. at the point where its pro.
jected extension crosses Jim river on it, way
Pierre. The locations we're made through /
soldiers additional homestead scrip. The
land taken includes the west half of section
six, town n hundred and ten, range sixty.
one, and all of section one, town one hund-
red and ten. range sixty.two. excenfino the
south half Of the southwest quarter. This
is the promised site of . railroad town which
will rapidly achieve importance.
DR.. Livingston, who returned last night
up the Niobrara, where his cattle herd
Is located, says that the crops and grass in
hat region have suffered serious injury from
and that many Of the largest stock
have put up hay for winter use,
This i provident provision against posi-
by poor feed during the winter. They may
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