Daily press and Dakotaian. [volume] (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1875-1880, 1880-01-16
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YANK DAKOTA.
Friday Evening, Jan. is, 1880.
LOCAL LAcowlcs.

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LOCAL LAcoNlcs.
Leap year party at Stones hall this
evening.
Bricklayers are at work to-day on the
walls Of Turner hall.
The county commissioners adjourned last
night until the ID Of February.
Another summers DAY. with the mercury
up in the ne,ghborhood of sixty.
The ice harvest is about completed and
q large crop Of excellent ice has been
gathered.
A candy null will take place at the Uni
versalist chapel. this friday evening. All.
are invited. .fa
Morrow says he has already rented one
of the stores of hisSnew brick block, which
is e. be built in the spring.
In the case Of Dr.. Burleigh against the
Dakota Southern road 0 suit was entered
on motion Of the PLAINTIFF attorneys.
Webbers new store in Pennington's
block il beginning to assume shape under
the maaipulatfons Of plasterers and carpen-
teri. 3F;i i!!t .la&
The ladies of the Universalist church
will hold q social at their hall, corner Co
dar and Fifth street, Friday evening, Jan
uary 10Th, to which all are invited.
The Yankton sisnal station reports for
to-day: Highest temperature up to 2 p. N.
$50; lowest temperature, 30 at z a. m.
Barometer rising slowly and thermometer
falling & A. I:
What has become of the Yankton cham.
Der Of. commerce.? There is plenty of
york for this organization which ia .now
unattended to, because s it is nobod,'s
ii s.. & Aa YSsFs sls{s
Along the Marion Junction line of the
Milwaukee road the talk 10 that the Yank-
ton branch is to be made the main line and
is to be the first one to be pushed across the
Missouri. Z -. 1870
The district, court j. engaged to day upon
an action brought by aSt Paul banking
company against DR.. Bnrleigh for paymen,
of the premium on insurance for the steam
81 Gen. Terry.
A team attached to . lumber wagon, be.
LONGING to Henry Strunk, Of Jim river, ran
away IN Third street this Afternoon, bringing
up In front Of Mills & Purdy's store. A
broken wagon tongue was the result.
The weather indications for the upper
Mississippi and lower Missouri valleys are
Falling followed BY rising barometer, south
winds shifting to colder north and partly
cloudy weather, and possibly light snow.
Cedar county, Nebraska, declines to vote
bonds for the old narrow guage extension
The people over, there prefer q north and
south road from the Union Pacific, and they
are very sensible people. u
Avery good suggestion has been made
that the business men of Yankton organize
an association for the purpose of advertising
the vacant lands of Yankton county and 10.
ducing settlers to purchase and. occupy
them. aayaG
There will be services at Christ church
on Sunday next, morning and evening
Rev. John W. Trimble has te~legraphed
that he would leave Chicago for Yankton
this morning and arrive Saturday even
ing. He will be installed as rector OF
Christ church Sunday morning, Bishop
CLARK conducting the services, assisted by
Rev. Mr.. Doherty, of Omaha, and Rev. DR..
Hoyt.. Fass sf,t;..t
The amount of cash in the city treasury
to the credit o: the general fund TN the 3lst
day of December last was $3.50 OF, aud no
warrants outstanding. There are about
1900 worth of warrants outstanding. against
the. city road fund, but there is nearly sufa.
Gent due that fund from the cousty, which
when it Is received will enable the treasur-
Ell. to take up a large proportion OF the mn
paid warrants, and leave the city entirely
ouvsoftdebts with the comfortable sum above
named to provide against a "rainey day."
Major Grimes, who is y heavy property
owner in the city of Atchison and is pos
ceased of unerrinx business sagacity, has
been figuring on the resources of the Jim,
river country and has reached the unani-%
nous conclusion that the best thing which
could happen to the city of Atcbison
would be the extension of the Atchison
and Nebraska road from Columbus to-
.Yankton and from here up the valley Of
the Jim. Major Grimes views this subject
purely from q business standpoint. His
interests are in Atchison and he is heart
lily in favor of anything which will give
that city a boost.
s Charley Collins says that :he engineers Of
the Chicago. Milwaukee & St. Paul railroad
company have been at work for two or
three weeks at Brule City probing the river
bed and digging holes In the banks on eth
er side. their object being to ascertain the
depth and character Of bed rock and the
character Of the soil everything 1t. Thew
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