Daily press and Dakotaian. [volume] (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1875-1880, 1880-02-19

LOCAL

Washington's birth day. II
The advance guard of spring . migration
hos been rolling through town for a day
or two past. There are millions behind.
In the district court yesterday Malyin
Van Arman obtained a divorce from Mary
Van Arman, now in Minnesota, on the
ground of adultery. 2 80
County Treasurer Schnauber to day paid
to the territorial treasurer S.. $50, one
mouthe's collection for I .rrisorial purposes
10 Ysnkton county on the 1870 tax.
Charley Collins writes from the east that
Dakota is to witness the biggest rush OIL
new corners this season that ever came 10 +
any new country in a short space Of time.
The city election will occur in April. Al
most time to begin preparations for the i'm
portant event. Four aldermen, a mayor,
city clerk, and city treasurer are to be elect
cd.
A Bismarck telegram of the 10th says that
Captain Braithwaite has bought the steamer
Eclipse, sold by the United States marshal.
He paid $685., and the boat ia said to be
worth $4,000.
The Yankton signal Office reports AZ fol-
lows for to-day: Highest temperature up
to 2 T. M. IS; lowest, 100 above zero at 6
q N. Velocity of wind at l:30 p. ~, 80
miles per hour.
The United States petit jury appeared in
court this morning pursuant to adjournment.
They we're discharged until tomorrow morn
ing ct half past nine o'clock, owing to the
absence Of the U. S. district attorney and u.
8. msrshal.
The death of NJ. III. Somers removes an
important witness against Beebe, the con-
victed murderer Of Lsndphere. should he be
granted . new trial. Beebe's confession of
the killing of Landphere, made to Somers
was an important scrap of testimony in the
last trial.
The Sioux City Journal says that Colonel
Akin is in daily receipt of dozens of appli.
cations, BY letter and by person, for posi-
lions on the boats. ranging from cabin boy to
master. The officers of last year will, it is
understood. be generally retained, and the
few vacancies will be filled by experienced
and competent river men.
In reply to inquiries regarding Hanson
county We haYe received the following:
sour county contains IL townships 246,-
$50 acres. We find 5,1ss acres under cul-
itivation.; 1852 head of cattle; 324 head of
horses and mules; 1850 sheep; 24O hogs.
The population to-day is $40, which will
be doubled by May LIST. The wheat crop
last year was very light and The acreage
small. About 1900 bushels were raised"
Sioux City Journal: A Sioux Pointer,
who returned on Monday from up river.
brings che news that Jo.Ls Near was killed
at Pierre lately. The story is that be inter-
fsred in a,quarrel between two half-breeda,
and one of them stabbed him. The La
Near family removed from Sioux Point last
season to Brule City, and 10, when last
heard from was up in the neighborhood of
Pierre, which gives probability to the
report.
sThis morning was tbs time set for the
continuation Of the Livingston cases and
d.. Livingston was on hand promptly with
his witnesses, but the cases were not
brought on because the prosecution was not
ready. Is it not about time that these ex-
pensive relics Of the Hayt and Hammond
persecution were stricken from the docket ?
DR.. Livingston is compelled to keep his
witnesses within call, at great cost to him
self, and every time the government fails to
put in IN appearance he must submit and
await the slow progress of events. Nothing
will ever come out Of these cases and they
might ~ we'll be discontinued as to be car.
ried through to their inaRitable failure.
Senator Call has introduced a bill to
amend section 400 of the revised statutes,
relating TO steamboat inspection and licen .
sa, to except from the obligation Of
inspection Of boiler and hull, at a
yearly expense Of S25, and from obligation
to keep under pay and on board of all
steam vessels on navigating waters of the
United States, which are common highways
Of commerce, high.priced engineers and
pilots, small steamboats, used by their
owners in place of ordinary towboats. A.
the Law now stands no boat, however small.
propelled BY steam can move upon the
water without both a licensed engineer and
q licensed pilot,at the expense of which, it is
alleged, prohibits the use of such craft.
Fred Donaldson and his brother David
Donaldson have constructed a corn and feed
grinding mill on Third street, a few doors
east Of Capital street, and are now ready for
business. They have put in four horse
power engine and a grinding mill, each
being mounted on wheels 20 that they can
be readily moved out of the building in case
Of ere. They have tested the capacity of
the apparatus and find that they can grind
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