Daily press and Dakotaian. [volume] (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1875-1880, 1880-02-27

LOCAL lAcoHlcs.

LOCAL uAcoMlcs.
Cold and stormy to day.
ooh! that mine enemy would Join q bicy.
Gle club" is the popular rendering Of the
old nw.
The Young Ladies' Christian Temperance
Union will meet at the Reform club rooom
Saturday. Feb. 9Th, at 4p. m.
General Hill has been endeavoripg to re.
tain 90 attorney to bring an action for libel
asainst the Press aud Dakotaian.
The Livingston case is still occupying the
'attention Of the United States court and will
probably not reach the jury this week.
Every business man in tde city and every
property owner ehould be at the meeting
OF the Chamber of Commerce which will
be held at the Reform club room this eve.
Ming.
Robert Cox has quit boarding aud gone
to housekeeping in bis Cedar street resi-.
dence. Gene Cutting will occupy his
former rooms q Mrs. Dawson's boarding
house.
The Yankton signal office reports as fol.
Iowa for to-day: River three feet three
inches above low water,a fail Of nine inches
in "a hours. Maximum temperature up to
2 p. M, 400; minimum temperature up to
2 p. M l20.
Judge Shannon is so busy with the regu.
lar routine Of court proceedings that he will
be unable to give his decision on the motion
for q new trial in the Beebe murder case be-
fore some time next week, probably early in
the week.
Articles of Incorporation of the Dead.
wood Central s Lead City r. r. Co., we're
to-day filed in the Office of the secretary Of
the territory. The company proposes 10
constructs railroad from Dssdwood to Lead
City. by way of Central City and Bob Tail
gulch, all in the Black Hills.
Charles Miner was run through the city
justice mill this morning, and when he came
out he was minus $3.50 which Judge White
had retained as the penalty and costs of a
drunk. He was arrested last night by Mar.
shal Gemmill with the evidence OF his guilt
upon him. He made no defence, but paid
the charges and went off to join the reform
club.
A private letter from Cheyenne agency
says that great disaffection still exists
among the Indians there:.and that police and
military are kept busy watching the lower
camp where q break is threatened. The
demand OF the Indians is for u civil agent
and unless this is complied With the pros.
pect is that about all the Cheyenne agency
Indians will escape to the interior and Join
the Spotted Tai! band. There are now
some seventeen hundred Iod,ans at Chey-
enne, several hundred having already left
the agency.
The Sioux City Journal gives the follow
log account of the troubles which have come
nnon an individual who Is not unknown 10
Y%anktonians: "John Hall the itinerann. d..
rectory man, was arrested yesterday on COM
plant of A. Groninger, charged with cheat
ing BY obtaining money under false pre-.
tense. 1t seems that John had taken Mr..
Groninger's order for a card in the directo.
~, had assigned that order to one ofhis nu
merous creditors in the city, and then col.
tlected the SIS for the card from Mr.. Gronin-
ger. He was too drunk to answer the com
plant Yesterday and was given till this
morning alto o'clock to appear. Hall has
q copyright on bis directory and has sold to
his associate the state right for Minnesota
for $1,000 in money and other valuable con.
sideration." SD
The diphtheria epidemic in Yankton is
increasing SO rapidly that 1t seems neces-
sary-to adopt every precaution to hold it 10
check. Thus far It is having The erea,es,
effect among children, though many adults
are staicted. Dr.. Van Velsor, the medical
member of the city board Of health was
consulted to day upon the subject and it is
his decided opinion that the city schools
should be closed at once. He says it is no,
possible to prevent the spread of the conts-
gion SC. long as children are permitted 10
come together ID the school rooms of the
city and transfer the infection from one to
other. A great many new cases we're
reported this morning and 1t is the sudden
which induces DR.. VanVelsor to
so positively recommend the closing Of the
schools. 10 the absence of the mayor he
taken no steps towards tho issuance Of
order to this effect, though be feels that
The public s1fety demands it.
NOW Is 1T
That all kinds OF merchandise has oone IN
IRON. twenty-five to forty per cent, and Kee
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