Daily press and Dakotaian. [volume] (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1875-1880, 1880-03-26
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Sunday.
The city schools c'ose to-day for a vaca-
ton of two weeks.
Good Friday to-day. Interesting services
Christ's Church this evening.
Ed. P. Stone and Eugene Cutting are
candidates for the Office Of city clerk.
NJ. H. Jenkinson is now the possessor Of
. very neat and handsome delivery wagon.
The civil suit Of Frank Pilatka VI. John
Nicol, was tried before Justice E. T. White
yesterday. No decision vet.
Some complimentary remarks (?) passed
between some Of our feminine colored popu-
lation on Third street last evening.
Interested persons will find . memoran-
dunn of lowest bids for government grain un.
der the lettings Of January goth, in tabular
form in another column.
A report is current which is traced to
passengers on the down stage. that fifteer
men have been killed at Cheyenne crossing
aud q wagon train burned.
: Owing to the illness of Judge Shannon,
court adjourned at two o'clock this afternoon
until ten o'clock to morrow. Nobody seems
to know when the tobacco cases will close.
B. r. Mcintyre is one of the new owners
of the American iron works Of this city.
This fact was unintentionally omitted in our
notice Of the works in our Wednesdays is.
sue.
The new Offices of the register and receiv.
er of the Yankton land Offices, are nearly
completed. The registers Office is opposite
the receivers on Douglas avenue, They
are both convenient and more commodioup
than the old office.
The sociable Of the ladies Of the Univer-
salist parish wilf'meet at the pastors, Cd
Fourth street near the Sisters academy,
weather perm,tting,) tonight. The even.
ing's entertainment will consist of music.
readings, charades and refreshments. All
are cordially invited.
Before Police Justice White this morning
Ada Marks, Bell Lee, Matte Lee and an
other female whose name We have no,
learned, all habitues Of the levee, were as.
sessed the usual fine Of one dollar and costs.
amounting in each case to $50, for drunk.
enness and disorderly conduct.
There is an encouraging prospect that our
Methodist friends will repeat the concert
which met with such marks Of approval
Wednesday evening. A large number Of
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them, and in difference to their wishes the
singers have signi6ed their willingness to
sing again. We predict a full house and an
enthusiastic greeting.
E. G. Wheeler Esq, has recently within
the last two weeks. fled in the local land
Office in this city, claims on ninety-two
quarter sections situated in Brookings and
Kingsbury counties. These claims came
through JuRhson & Hall, of Volaa, Brook.
ings county, D. T. This indicates that an
immense immigration is already coming in
and occupying the fertile lands of southeast.
ern Dakota.
1t is reported that the the wood choppers
along the river on the Crow Creek reserva.
ton have been ordered away and one man
named Hathaway has lost . large amount of
wood that had been burned by order of the
United States agent. This will be discour.
aging information to the steamboat people
and is an outrage upon the public interest.
is Likewise gross Inconsistency on the part
the government to permit the interference J
Of it's officers with that indispensable indus.
Try upon which the successful navigation of
he river 60 greatly depends.
Warren Osburn's dog Fido, passed in his
chips 3 few days ago, At the advanced dog
.se Of fourteen years. Edo was an eccen.
qusdruped in habit, and an oddly in
'hape, . long, low, heavy frame. topped of
With = thick, broad head, all supported by
pair Of short, handy legs. He had q
tail that brushed the ground when he ran
Or walked, unless he held it up in the air.
The color Of this remarkable animal was
to the color of any other "yaller
dog. He had a canine hatred of cats, but
his body was too heavy and his legs too
short, and his disposition too lazy to enable
him to do them much harm. Fido will be
remembered by many of our citizens
from 4 peculiar but degmatic way he had of
any fellow who attempted any liber-
ties with him. He has gone, however, to
some other shore.
A recent number of the Times. Dead
wood, furnishes an item that will recall to
mind . potent political m~anipulator who
vas identified with Yankton county politics
for . number of years:
Col. Lawrence is back from his election.
eering tour among the grangers in our
vegetable belts, q has been previously an
nounced, but the nub of this item il to tell
what he did while out on the trip. As is
we'll known, he went out to work up . boom
for Col. Parker, who is . candidate for dele.
gate to the Chicago convention; but finding
the grangers unwilling to commit them
selves to his man, Lawrence, thinking to
keep the delegateship in the family. !. e.,
bstweea himself and the other colonel. be