Daily press and Dakotaian. [volume] (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1875-1880, 1880-03-09

LOCAL LAcoN,cs.

LOCAL LACOMlCS.
Major Evans has closed his saloon under
the Jencks and sold his fixtures.
"A special meeting Of St. Johns Lodge,
Mol, A. F. & A. NJ, will take place this
evening.
The Yankson signal office reports as fol-
lows for to-day: Maximum temperature up
to 3 o'clock M, 500; minimum, 50 above
.sero.
Mr.. James Fox has broken ground for q
new brtcksyard near the Rhine crossing at
the foot of 9th street, lower Yanktou. A
bed Of very excellent sand was struck
while excavatinr. Mr.. Fox intends to have
the fret brick OF the season.
Major Lightner Gays the Flandreau In.
dians are making fair progress as citizens.
They ovn farms, till the soil, gather the
products therefrom and enjoy the privileges
Of. citizenship. The government aiis them
in these operations to a limited extent.
George Salisbury, of Beloit, Wisconsin,
who was some years ago the champion bill
lizard player Of that state, delighted q large
audience at Browns billiard rooms last
night, with a few samples of his ekill as a
billiardist.
Leaf by leaf the roses fall, and one by
one the bicycle club is ~tumbling to pieces
Each days practice is followed by a sufferer
asking the doctor to send around a man who
wants to buy a bicycle cheap, and the doctor
is willing because he knows he will have
another case in q little WHILE.
Sioux City Journal Superintendent
Merchant said yesterday that no definite
arrangement had yet been made for the
running Of trains of the Milwaukee road to
this city; that such matters shaped them,
selves but slowly, ard that it might be come
time yet before the running commenced.
The Black Hills are to have one more
railroad. Articles of Incorporation of the
Central City. Deadwood & Eastern railroad
company were to-day filed in the office oi
the secretary of the territory. The road
runs ian paper from Bald mountain to Fl.
Mead, via Deadwood and wildwood
gulch.
A letter from Pierre dated the 4th says.
Adolph Branch arrived from Bismarck last
night, seven days out. He has been freight.
ing OF the Northern Pacific. He expert
enced heavy storms and cold weather on the
trip. He leaves for Yankton to-day. 1t
was reported that Adolph was frozen badly,
but it is not SO. He is well and happy.
information comes from Washington that
the Drifting Goose band of Indians will
surely be removed from their Jim river
reservation unless they renounce their tribal
relations and take up lands in severalty. II
they want to become citizen farmers they
have the chance, but otherwise the entire
flock must drift back to their Crow creek
reservation.
Nj. Morrison began operations to-day on
the underpinning of the wooden portion Of
the Jencks hotel. This foundation was laid
in chalk.rock years ago and ithas been
gradually crumbling away until it has be-
come necessary to replace it with brick.
Several other Improvements will be made
along with the reconstruction of the fonda
ton which will add 70 the appearance of the
Jencks corner.
Sam Kaucher, who was in town last
night. says the origin Of the fire which
consumed Kaucher s. Mead's Springfield
Touring mill is a mystery. Himself and
his men were at dinner some distance from
the mill when theyssw smoke issuing from
the roof. They fastened TO the spot but
before they could reach it the structure was
wrapped in flames. 1t burned TO the
ground, together with an office building
and q barn q shrr. distance away. The
mill had just been completed and was built
of wood. It. contained valuable machinery
which was being placed in position for
work. Mr. Kaucher puts the loss at s 5000,
which there was an insurance of s $4,000