Daily press and Dakotaian. [volume] (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1875-1880, 1880-02-07
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'"c' % Sca'ce ~ Deutou ~ $lV per c0fo
Coal oil In Miasouli, Montana, is $3.50 pr
gallon
In the legislature Of Utah So per cent Of
the members are p~olygamis.s.
W. A Flanigas hiss been confirmed &
postmaster st Fl. BrLton. Mphtana.
Half grown %grasshoppers have been
found near Deer Lodge. Mnn,snn.
Princeton, Minnesota, has raiaed the price
of liquor licenses from $50 TO $500.
A man by the name of jesse Warren wss
found frozen to death near his ranch on the
Yellow Some river.
The taxable property 10 White Sulphur
syringe Montana, is said to mount to more
thsn 100000.
The Central Pacific railroad Co.. has cold
$4,000 shares OF it's stock to a syndicate OF
eastern capitslists.
Seventy five miles of the Northern Pacific
railroad, from the Columbia river east, IL
GRADED.
The bnsineas of the St. Paul postofice
was $30,272M in January, 1880 than in
January. l879-an increase of over Is per
cent.
So far, n hundred and seventy-three
licenses TO retail liquor, representing ST..
3OO, have been issurd at st. Paul.
A Leadville paper has been making a
canvass Of presidential preferences in Color.
ado and finds the result favorable to Blaine.
Several head of sheep were dug out of
the snow where they bad been eigh: days.
10 Mesgber county, Montsns. and were
alive aud som recovered.
The merchants of Rushford, Minnesota,
say they have not had in three years three
months business equal in magnitude to that
Of the lat three months.
1t is reported at Fort Benton that one Of
the steamboat companies will endeavor to
have q boat at Benton BY the first day Of
April.
The Iowa Central railroad is becoming
celebrated for its record for accidents.
Scarcely a week passes but that they furnish
a sensational item for the local prees.
Kansas claims 1,UO0. 600 Inhabitants, and
before the next census is taken. This will
give her seven members of congress.
Montana is treating her convicts bette,
than they deserve and some measure should
be devised and adopted that would ensure a
greater degree of punishment to the crimi
nal.
Grant seems to be holding his own very
we'll in Minnesota. OF. some 600 person.
interviewed in that State 245 were for tn,
general, 1873 for Blaine, ~ for Sherman and
the rest scattering.
The Cherokee times says LeMars peopl
can get up more rapes aud deductions, NOR
fights and brawls, and drink more whisky
than any other equal number of people OF
the face of the earth.
Sunday evening a fire occurred in tn
First national bank building at Davenport
and damaged it to the amount Of $4,000
insurance $4,000. The bank has opene,
in another place.
Quite a society event occurred at Wind
ham, Iowa, one day last week. Hnrac,
Meana, a young lawyer Of that town, bein,
arrested for forgery just as his marriage t
a beautiful young lady was about to b
solemnized.
The Des Moines Register tells US of DO
napza coal strike at Mitchellville, in Poll
county, the prospecter's drill having passet
through eleven feet and seven inches of Goa
in a single vein at a depth of $50 feet below
the surface.
The ladies of Council Bluff. have reason
to feel proud Of their efforts in the directicl
Of an Art Loan. We doubr if any of the
cities in the west that have had their Gar
Loans" have in any way equalled that o
Council Blufs.
The farmers Of northwestern Iowa ar,
planning pretty generally for cattle, corr
and hogs the coming season, and instead o
crops of email grain a. heretofore, whicl
means more money and less machinery.
Earnest protest is entered by the Daven
port Gazette against the republicans of ID
several states selecting delegates to IL
%uationsl convention earlier than NAV. T
do otherwise, it lie argued with great justic
and force. is simply TO try tn run the con
%veEtiop, not 10 the interests of the republ
can party. but of some one man.
Yellowstone Journal, Sth: A band {
l18 Cheyennes, under Young-man. afraid-oi
his.horses. from Pine Ridge agency, Dakc
Ia, arrived at Fort Keogh Thursday noor
They are ostensibly on a visit, but in realit
will be retained in this vicinity and a
agency established. Their agent is abou
four days behind with his family and house
hold effects.
J.. C. Flood, of San Francisco, is the Kin
Of father-in.law to have on the premises
He has just given his daughter Jennie 81
0 $1,000 worth of registered bonds in antic
patton Of her marriage to young Gran
This rather beats a silver plated pickl,
fork and deed to an imaginary corner Il
the kind Of bridal gifts journalists daugl
tiers become Injured to.
There is great excitement in Denver ove
a new discovery Of gold near the mouth
the canon Of the Platte and onl
twenty miles west of Denver. A vein
mineral was struck in the Dolly Varde
mine a, q depth Of twenty feet, on last Fr
day, and q specimen vas brought to Denve
. and an assay obtained, giving the value
the ore At $21.l99 per ton. $20,176 of
being gold. A publication Of these fac
was made in of the papers Sunds
morning, and before night 100 people We,