Daily press and Dakotaian. [volume] (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1875-1880, 1880-01-29
Oh, Daily 9rfss aud 9akotaian
YANKToN, DAKOTA.
Thursday Evening. Jan. 20, 1880.
LOCAL

- Xu0 ItNSA StuAv WIZ SSpu AS0N
Monday.
A quadrapgular contest for county treas
rrer is developing among the Germans.
P. G. assures us that nobody was shot at
last night and don't you forget that he was
around.
The February term of the United States
court will bring to Ysnkton an extensive
delegation from the upper country.
Tax payers and citizens generally are re-
quested to look over the annual sta temept
Of Go. Treasurer Schnsuber on Cd page.
The members Of the Young Ladies
Christian Temperance Union will NEE,
Friday. Jan. 80. Mt An. M. in the Congrr-
e%ational chapel.
Oh! the snow the bully old snow, which
makes every son Of US feel as though things
they are ready to plant and SOW would get
right up and grow-oo. Still it Gomez.
The boys are all out with their s;eds to-
day. several inches Of snow having creased
no the hillsides for their especial benef..
Farmers, tor. are feeling good over the
moist Visitation.
The bon ton Of African society had q
social gathering at the residence Of Mrs.
Murphy, on Broadway last night. They
danced until nearly daylight and e,joveo
themselves largely.
Attention is once more directed to the
coming masquerade of the Yankton Turn
Verein Sac'etv, to be given on the 9th Of
February. 1t will be the affair of the sea
son and everybody Is preparing 10 attend.
The Yankton signal station reports for
to-day: Barometer falling gradually; low
est temperature @ above at 6 q. H.; highest
temperature l2o above at 2 p. IN ; amour,
Of melted snow one.ftth Of one inch up to
l p. m.
Everybody with gumption enough to rig
a pair of runners to q dry goods box is pre-.
pairing to enjoy the sleighing which has
come go unexpectedly. Cutters are scarce
in this snowless region and impromptu We
hicles with slippery wheels are the only re
sort in times like these.
The proprietress of the 'parlor cigar
store" takes exceptions TO the references to
her establishment made in a previous issue
Ia connection with the Maxwell affair. All
we know about the s'parlor cigar store'' i.
through common report and it is barely
possible that it is not SO bad as it has beer
! pictured. She insists that such is the case
and we are not prepared TO enter into absc-
lutte denial.
Repairs upon the Coulson boats on the
ways and lying at the levee will begin next
week and Captain Todd, who will superin-
tend the work, will be here either Saturday
or Monday. An unfounded rumor is afoat
to the effect that the Coulson boats have
been sold but there is nothing in it. They
will all be repaired and the Coulson folks
will 1un them as heretofore and will make
money out of them as freely as they have
in the past. This line does not propose to
let 90 its hold on Missouri river business.
It has always been in shape to carry off the
honors and will stay there for an unlimited
number Of seasons. ...
Treasurer Schnauber's report, published
in our daily and weekly editions, is a docu-
ment in which all of our tax-paying readers
will be interested. 1t shows that county
finances are in good shape and that they
have been ably managed by the county
fnancier, Treasurer Schnauber. There is a
comfortable balance of over eleven thous.
and dollars in cash in the treasury, which
is a better showing than can be made by
any other county in Dakota. Our public
expenses are large, but we manage, through
the judicious efforts of our treasurer and
our board Of commissioners, to keep the
county head several feet above water.
We made an effort in yesterdays issue to
give credit for the following item to the
Grant County Herald, but the compassion
in correcting the proof placed the credit
before aa item of our own relating to Judge
Tufts and General Hill, and BY the trans
made both Of them read queerly.
Lest the public may charge US with a dis.
to puff our own work we repeat.
This is what the Grant County Herald
said "The Yankton Press and D,ko,aian,
published at the capital Of the territory, is
one of the neatest and aewsiest sheets 10
The country. 1t pays particular attention to
territorial matters, and gives a full review
news from all paris OF Dakota"
Q~uartermaster Pierce, of the 1st infantry.
will receive his promotion in a week or two
md become q captain In the place of Cap
johnson. deceased, which will transfer
aim from Fort Randall to Fort Hale. Not
lone Lieutenant Pierce, but the whole mil.
tary service in general and the LIST reei.
nent in particular, is to be congratulated
'ver the contamination Of this pending
promotion. AS 9 qusrtermsster he has
made an enviabie record, and faithful sery-
'nts who have already done we'll will not
to continue in the same direction. Who
8 to be appointed as qu~artermaster of the
st by Colonel Shafter is vet a matter of