Daily press and Dakotaian. [volume] (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1875-1880, 1880-03-02
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YANk ON. DAKOTA.
Tuesday Evening, March 2, 1880.
LOCAL LAcoN,cs.

A0e61of HERMAN Ellerman 10 ouslIy en-.
gagged with his official duties.
Candidates for city Offices will Soon come
to the surface, as the time Tor the annual
municipal election draws near.
Judge Lot s. Bayless is building an Office
edifice on the corner of Fourth street and
Douglas avenue, which will be used for the
land Office.
A fight on the corner Of Third street and
Broadway, last night, which contained more
words than blows, was settled before Justice
White this morning.
A pulled aud bowed silk 6xen, sandwiched
with velvet, and evidently intended for an
~afterpiece to a lady's dresa, has been left at
this Office for an owner.
Capt. Wetter has commenced the erection
Of q building adjoining his residence on
Douglas avenue, which he designs using as
an Office for the publication Of the Freie
Press.
General Hill is still employing his time
retaining lawyers on his libel suit against
the Press and Dakotaian. Every ipsue of
the paper adj Is a fresh count TO his prospec.
tive Indictment
The concert which was to have been given
this evening by the German club, has been
postponed to the 9th inst, on account of a
death in the family of Judge schnauber,
one Of the members IF the club.
Two or three strangers in the city were
observed quite early this morning testing
their ability physically in carrying heavy
loads of Yankton ambrosial jim jam cordial.
Their experiments were staggering in their
effects.
Charles H. Martin Of this city, formerly
Of Clusters cavalry, has secured a pension of
eighteen dollars per month, on account of
chronic rheumatism contracted in the ser
vice during Gen. Clusters last and i'll fated
campaign.
The Yankton signal Office reports as fol-
lows today: Highest velocity of wind, 40
miles. from the southwest; maximum tenn
perature up to 2 p. m,, 630 minimum tenn
pesature up to 2 p. M, 340 River gorged
above this point.
Charles Pickering, or Charles Pickering
Williams is called upon BY the newspapers
to report at orce BY telegraph, letter or in
person TO his mother who is now in Dead
wood, having travelled Thousand miles and
spent her all to find him.
Two horses belonging TO Sheriff Baker
and one horse belonging to Judge Roberts
turned up missing this morning. Bakers
horses were found this afternoon IN the
Willows on 5mutty Bear bottom, but Rob-
erts' steed is still missing.
Sioux City Journal, Goth: kilograms
received in this city yesterday said that
John l. Blair was in Chicago and that c. G.
Wicker was to arrive there on Monday.
Geo. E. Merchant will remain there till the
long agony is overpast and the question of
who is to run the Dakota lines is settled.
We are panied to announce the death Of
the little daughter of Judge and Mrs. Fred
S%chnauber, which occurred this morning at
the residence IN Second street, from the
prevailing epidemic. The family has an
abundance of sympathy from the people Of
Yankton. The funeral will occur to morrow
afternoon at two o'clock from the residence.
The Deadwood Pioneer puts it thus:
United States Marshal John B. Raymond,
the handsomest bald headed federal official
in the territory, and one of the foremost nags
in the sweepstake race for congressional
delegate, waved his bandana in gentle adieu
and lit out yesterday morning, by way of
Sidney, for his home in the bull pasture re.
gion.
Among the regulations established FIVE
years ago, by the board of education, for
the government of the city schools, we find
the following rule which the superintendent
has always en~deavored to c~onscientiously
enforce: mo child known to be affected
with . contagious or infectious disease, or
coming from a family where any such dis
ease prevaile, shall be received or continued
in the public schools"
The storm of last week was unusually
severe j in the upper country and travel was
for a time entirely suspended. The stage
company has had a hard time working its
coaches through the big drifts, bat by to-
night the track will be clear to Sullv. The
stage which left sully for Yankton Friday
noon reached White Swan at eight o'clock
last evening and will be in Yankton tonight
bringing the through mail.
The Scotland Citizen complains thusly.
"For two weeks past the Citizen was not de.
livered at Bon Homme in the morning as
it should have been, but was sent through
to Springfield and returned to Bon Homme
in the evening. Our subscribers who came
for their mail in the forenoon had to return
without their paper. Will Postmaster
Howard Of YauktoD, see hat the Citizen
package for Bon Homme is not put in the
through mail hereafter {" Postmaster How.
ard will sit up nights to zee that this re
guest is complied with.
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