Daily press and Dakotaian. [volume] (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1875-1880, 1880-04-17
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LOCAL Lacuascs.
The supreme court will convene on the
second Tuesday in May, instead Of the sc
and Of Nay.
Las. sishsss train Was crowded With pa.
sengers. The probability is that another
coach will be added to this train.
Mrs. Lyons will continue her millinery
opening until Monday night. Tonight il
the time Get apart for gentlemen to call and
look at Mrs. Lyons goods.
II il understood that John I. Blair claims
$65, 900 from the Milwaukee company on
stock which cost him $4,000 and that upon
this basis he is willing to settle with tina.
company.
Adler & Gilman, within the Lest week,
have received nine hundred dollars worth
Of orders from points below Sioux City.
This house has gained . popularity which
extends from Omaha to Fort Benton.
Miss Cleveland will discuss the subject of
temperance tomorrow 1t the following
hours and places: At eleven o'clock .. M,
ut the Methodist church At three o'clock
D. m, at the Methodist church-children's
cloeins meeting; At four o'clock p. n, At
the reform club rooms; at half past seven
o'clock p. NJ, at the Congregational church
closing meeting Of the series.
A gentleman from Sioux City says there
il the sickest lot Of business men down there
that ever congreeated in any one town. The
cause of their commercial unwellness 10 The
wsy the Milwaukee railroad folks are run
ming things BY their town. When the trans
fer of the Dakota lines Was made, they all
jumped up on the fence and crowed. Now
they are under the fence with dropping
wings. In the years Of the past they have
fattened from Dakota spoils, but they now
realize that no more substance will come to
them from this direction.
There is just now considerable agitation
at Vermillion over q reported proposition
to move the track Of tho Dakota Southern
road back TO the table land north of Yer
million and leave the city several miles
away from any road. This proposition orig
mates out of an intimation from the officials
Of the Milwaukee road that it will Be i'm.
possible to stop the inroad of the Missouri
at the point where it is cutting into the
Vermillion bluff. aud where it has already
once destroyed the railroad track. By the
time the Milwaukee folks get ready to move
their track it ia probable that the river will
be a mile away from the point of exposure.
AJudge West and Ex-Msyor Wynn re-
turned from q Jim river trip q day or two
ago. They report . large Immigration into
this fertile valley and every new arrival
announces that more are coming. The Mil
waukee road is running cars to the river
near Mitchell and by the middle Of next
wevk the bridge vilfbe completed aud the
track laid into Mitchell. This village nav
contains as many a. sixty houses, mostly
built this spring. Most Of the buildings in
Firestsel, Two miles away, have been moved
to Mitchell aud the new railroad town
threatens to absorb everything 10 it, neigh.
borhood. All claims bordering on the river
fifty miles above Fires,eel have been taken
and new corners are rapidly locating the
upland-. Judge West is preparing to move
his family to his country residence twenty
miles above Fireste,l, where they will re-
main during the RUNNER.
Sheriff Baker arrived at one o'clock from
a long and 'tiresome search after the escaped
prisoner NJ .xwell. When informed of the
Jail delivery. at Milltown at midnight last
Sunday, bv q special messenger sent on that
errand, be Immediately started for Firesteel.
From there he struck across the pstbles
prairie to the Washington Hills and then
proceeded to Red Lake. Nowhere could he
obtain any trace Of the missing man. From
Red Lake he started homeward, taking in
Bijou Hills, Felicia's, Papinas's and other
ranches on the way. Yesterday he drove
over q hundred miles and vas compelled TO
leave his team at Springfield and procure
fresh horses for the last thirty miles. The
whole country between the Jim and the
Missouri has been notified of Aaxvell's
escape and . close watch will be kept.
Since his frat notification Of the affair
Sheriff Baker has been almost continually
upon the road and be comes home complete
" exha usted BY his severe labors.
Don't forget that Ketchum makes - rood
photographs for $500 per dozen - can b.
got elsewhere in the city for $3.50.
Choice onisss. cAsiss Apslss. asa
Sweet Potatoes NJ
wALrxR n. cARRs.
Five hundred Ladies, Misses and Child.
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