Daily press and Dakotaian. [volume] (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1875-1880, 1880-04-07
LOCAL LAc0Nlcs.

River TOUR teet three lucueS aOOVe iOWW wafer
mark.
LOCAL LAcoNlcs.
All the ponds and small water courses
h%ereabouts are nlled with wild ducks.
The Parcell Brothers entertainment will
.bs given Ct the club room this evening.
T. Y. Doud this morning started two
teams loaded with lumber and provisions
for his stock farm on the James river.
Ask Frank Van Tassel about the new
babylon second thought, though. there il
danger in the query. Frank carries a
stuffed club as a weapon Of ofense and de-
Tense.
Christ Church-Rev. John w. Trimb!e,
rector. Divine service with sermon every
Sunday morning at eleven o'clock and
evening at 7:30 o'clock. Also divine SER
vice with lectures every Wednesday at 7:3o
o'clock.
Sisux City journal: The mother ofGeo.
w. Kellogg Of Union county, D. T., died a.
her home in McCook at IL o'clock last Sat.
urday morning, aged IS. she had long been
a resident of Dakots, and leaves q large
family Of children.
The train between Yankton and Sioux
City now makes the run in three hours, q
decided improvement on the slow coach
time under the old management. Air brakes
are to be placed on the train as soon as they
can be sent from the east.
Kleiser and Lyons are putting down q
twelve foot sidewalk in front of their new
brick blocks on Third street. The owners of
the property between there aud Broadway
propose to do the same, which will give that
side of the street good footing.
A brace ofgamblers corralled an unsophis.
ticated youth on yesterdays up train from
Sioux City and got away with FIVE dollars of
his money through the medium of several
games Of poker. Conductor Wright dropped
on the proceeding and made the fellows re-
fund the money.
Capt. G. G. Spaids, Of this city, has been
appointed census enumcrator for this city.
We congratulate the captain upon bis sp.
potntmeut, which is at least q slight recog.
milton Of the claims of a gallant ex.soldier.
Captain sp,ids served during the war of
the rebellion as a captain il the 4th Illinois
cavalry. He will make 40 efficient censu.
of, er.
10 Justice Roberts court Yesterday a civil
suit was li,,gs,ed 10 which George w
Reed was plaintiff. and T. Y. Doud, de
,fendant. The case Involved matters of
fact 10 a claim for work and labor as to
time pnt 10 by plaintiff and the compenss.
tion to be paid by defendant. Decision no,
yet given E. G. Wheeler appeared for
plaintiff, and Phil. K. Faux for defendant.
Mitchell Capitol: Messrs. Shannard e.
Wynn, we'll known lumber dealers of Yank-
ton add other points in the territory, we're
here last Thursday and purchased three lots
to establish a lumber ward. They have now
thirty-ive car loads of lumber on the way
here, and as they are we'll known for their
enterprise and energy, they will doubtless
succeed 10 building up an extensive business
in a short time.
Daniel Wilcox this afternoon resigned
his position ae commissioner of Yankton
county for the second district, the reason
for the resignation being that be intends to
remove to Running Water. The reslena.
tion was accepted and VIM. Blatt appointed
By the board to oil the vacancy. This is 90
emiuently fit to be made. Mr..
Blstt is one of our most enttrprising and
intelligent business men, and will make an
I'll cient member of the county board.
rhe preliminary hearing of John B.
Chapman, the Santee Indian charged with I
forging the name Of W. v. Wilton to q
check, was had this morning before Com
Consleton. and resulted in John /
being held in the aum of Eve hundred dol. /
lars to answer to the United States court.
Being unab'e, Of course, to give bail he vas
locked up. The principal witnesses in the
exam ination were Revs. Whitton and Cook I
Yaokton agency, and the evidence Is to +
Johns guilt is very conclusive.
A horse aid wagon, . hoy aud two barrels
Of whisky tool an involuntary dip into the
Missouri river this afternoon. Blau &
Baesdorfss delivery wagon, containing the
driver and two barrels of whisky, in 5eing
up to the bank, where the steamer
Rose Bud is being loaded, went . little too
lar and the whole outfit went into the river.
there was plenty of help near
1t hand, and the driver, horse, wagon and
were promptly rescued. The water
may nots have injured the contents of The
but it was an UNPLEASANT experience
for the driver and horse.
Last night q boy, named Aaron Ramann,
living eight miles east Of town, wa shock.
insly and perhaps fatally gored BY a steer.
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