Daily press and Dakotaian. [volume] (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1875-1880, 1880-02-14
THE sew SOUTHWEST.

Denver 10 erecting 1915 600 court house.
l~esdvills pre- iicts = population Of 60 D
this year and = bullion out. put Of 500, 600.
600.
Over twenty.iv thousand cars passed
over the Burlington bridge during the month
Of January.
In Utah, during the past two years, the
executive pardon WAS extended TO twenty.
seven prisoners.
Over fifty new leads, which promise rich.
", have been struck this winter in and near
Butte, Montana.
The elevators At Duluth have all united
in one firm, to be known - the Duluth
Elevator company.
Collaborating quartz has been discovered
10 the Pembina mountainr, according to a
report from Emerson.
The A.. O. U. w. Of Iowa now numbers
ten thousand members, an increase of over
two thou1and in the last year.
There are over 100000 head of cattle in
Montana territory and $4,000 or 5000 fat
cattle were marketed last year.
1t 10 estimated that an average of $1,000
per week is paid out for theatrical amuee-
rnents in Council Bluffs, Iowa.
They don't 60 sleigh riding 10 Nevada.
A lover merely asks his girl to slide down a
hill seven miles long with him.
Mrs. Sallie Chase, the Creston, Iowa.
woman who 80 horribly abused an adopted
girl in her family, was arrested at Guth-
rie.
There are n%inety.nine counties in the
state of Iowa, and out Of this number there
are only three that have no railroad faci-
lities.
Bullion shipments from the Alice mill,
IN Butte, Montana, for January aggregate
$32,244 which is at the rate of nearly $780,.
600 per annum.
The Caledonia, Minnesota, Argus, tells Of
q woman in that place giving birth to trip.
lets, each weighing twelve and three.fourths
pounds.
A Nevada man heard that a minis,er was
about TO settle in his town, and he imm edi-
ately. through the local papers, called upos
call married men to protest against the new.
omer.
The school board of Keokuk, Iowa, has
ordered a vacation Of two weeks, on account
Of the prevalence OF epidemic diseases,
hoping the city may be freed in that length
of time.
There are now living in Idaho territory
a small colony of polygamists; and the chief
justice of Idaho, backed by Governor BRAY.
man, has instructed the grand jury to indict
every one found in that territory.
Cheyenne papers say that there will be
many new cattle ranches located in the
country north of that place this spring. 1t
is freely predicted that no less than lOO, 900
head of cattle will be driven in before June
Leadville has the first exclusive book
publishing house in Colorado. Mr.. Rreck.
enridge. the proprietor, is a man Of wealth
ut is my amusement" be says II am not
publishing books for money, but because it
is fur"
About l70, 000, 900, mainly gold. has been
taken from the mines Of Montana territory,
which ia claimed by some to equal the com.
bined gold productions Of all the other ter.
r%itories, exclusive of Colorado, during the
came period.
A robbery is reported toshave been com.
mitted a week or two ago at the residence
of John j. Reese. Gallatin county, Monta-
mia, bv which old Hugh Jones is supposed
to have suffered to the amount of So, 900 in
clean greenbacks.
AT Denver, Feb. 9th, the last spike neces.
sary to complete the branch OF the Atchi-
son, Topeka and Santa Fe road to Santa Fe,
was driven by Governor Wallace. Gen.
Hatch and staff, the legislature, and other
notables attended.
Among the Apache Indians it is conaid.
cred a great indecency for q man to look at
his mother-in-law'a face, and still more to
speak to her. II by chance they happen to
come close together, one runs in one direc.
ton and the other in IN opposite one, until
they are several yards apart.
The postal department at Washington has,
by an order which went into effect Jan. Doth,
arranged for a daily mail service between
Butte, Cable, Philipsburg and New Chica.
60. During three days Of the week a stage
will run and during the remaining fou,
days Of the week a pony express only will
carry the mails.
One hundred head of horses we're stolen
from "Crazy.head's" (Crow Chief camp,
Fort Center. on the night of the 9th Of
January. The thieves are supposed to be
Sioux Indians. Crazy.head's entire camp
arein pursuit. The trail leads towards the
Missouri river. The theft occurred on
Pease bottom, where the Crows we're camped
The largest sale of real estate thus ia,
this year is that made by the St. Paul and
Sioux City railroad company to the Land
Colonization and Banking company of Lon
don, England. The trade is for 2O,OOt
acres of land in northern Northwestern
Iowa at Sc per acre-netting the compan,
the handsome sum of one million two hun
dred thousand dollars.
A secret movement ie on foot in Colorad,
to organize a force to drive the Utes GU
Of that state. The parties engaged in tn
scheme are said to be earnest men VIII
mean business. 1t is expected that the a,
engagements now in progress will be perfect
ed within a week, and that when oil i
ready several thousand determined me,
will shoulder their guns and march int
the reservation for the purpose of riddin
Colorado now and forever of the pesk
Z d-skins.
j, A DISASTROUS FIRE occurred at Fort Collin,
Colorado, Feb. 4th. Welch's block, on tn
corner Of Mountain and College avenue
was discovered to be in flames, and, notwi,t
, standing every effort Of the citizens, v.
entirely consumed. The Ere appears