Press and daily Dakotaian. (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1880-1889, 1881-11-19

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have been at work putting in trestle
work which is now about ready for the
iron. The culverts west have all been
spilled and ON Thursday evening the
pile-drivers completed their work on the
west Vermillion.
In the Labor congress at Pittsburg on
Friday, Mr.. Bnrgman, of California, pre-
sented the following:
WHEnEAs Experience Of the last thirty years
proved conclusivcly that the presence of Chi.
ncse and their competition with free white
any try le e tIn therefSre %. Which
Hes0fscd, That we will use our best efforts to
get RID OF this monstrouH evil which threatens
union, by the dissemination of Information
respecting its true nature and character. by ur-
E,n. upon our representative in the United
ing laws entirely prohibiting the Immigration
of Chinese into the United States
This resolution occasioned a heated
debate, Mr.. Cummings of Massachusetts,
opposing it strongly. Upon vote being
taken, however, it was adopted us read.
A Chicago telegram of the 18th says;
From dispatches received yesterday it is
learned that in all probability there will
be consolidation of railroad interests
which will result in the strongest rail.
road combination that has ever existed
i'll this country. The road, it is said, will
comprise the following lines: New
York, West Shore and Buffalo: Buffalo
and Chicago; Chicago, Milwaukee and
st. Paul; the Northern Pacific and the
Oregon Railway and Navigation compa-
ny's roads. 1t is claimed the entire line
will be i'll running order in two years.
The distance by the road now being con.
structed between Chicago and New York
is forty miles shorter than any other
route, and the line for its whole longth
runs through very productive country.
Hand and Henry Willard. of the Oregon
Navigation company's roads are said to
be disconcerned in the arrangement.
In his last report to the general of the
army General Sheridan gives the statis-
tics of the military division of the Mis-.
souri,, OF which he is the commander. II
includes the states of Minnesota, Iowa,
Illinois, Missouri, Kansas, Colorado and
Texas, and the territories of Dakota,
Montana, Wyoming, Utah, Idaho, New
Mexico and Indian Territory. These
states and territories are garrisoned by
sixtv-nine permanent forts, twenty-nine
camps and one cantonment. The divi.
sion has eight regiments of cavalry,
twenty regiments of infantry, twelve of
which are mounted, and one battery of
artillery, all aggregating l4.07G officers
and men. The report earnestly recon-
mends congressional action to keep in
trudcrs out of the Indian Territory. The
troops in the division are commended as
efficient and the discipline rs good. At
tention is called to the army being much
too small to efficiently and economically
perform the duties required of it. Great.
er activity is recommended in enlist.
ments. The school of instruction TO,
cavalry and infantry, will shortly be cs.
tablished at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas
The Central Pacific surveyors who
went out from Yankton have been heard
from. This time the news carrier hes
unbosomed himself to the Springfield
Times as follows:
From Mayor Turner, who returned the
first OF the week from trip as far west
as the Pine Ridge agency, we learn &
few facts concerning railroad matters in
the section of country lying between
here and the Black Hills.
The Central Pacific surveyors, who
created such intense excitement through
tins part of the country, and set spin
ming the heads of our neighbors dowr
the river with visions of bridges over the
Big Muddy, transcontinentnl roads anc
all that sort of thing, are now on their
way to Fort Randall from the point a
which they left off Tor tie winter. Til.
point is twenty-five miles west of For
Niobrara, and about 100 miles from hcfe
where the engineers had arrived abou
two weeks ago. From that point the,
were going direct to Randall, and iron
there begin the survey of the river Will
the view OF discovering the best rive
crossing. They say that from what they
have already seen, the probabilities al,
strongly in favor of the Central Paciti,
crossing at Running Water. and shoult
it do so Springfield will come in for
share of the benefits to be derived from
being on the line OF n great trunk lin,
between the east and the Pacific states
The party will inspect the river iron
Randall to Ponca in search of bette
crossing than the o. above spoken Of
} though they do not expect, nor, (w,
! think care to find such place. Th
signs of the times" the movements ant
words of the engineers, and other infor
nation all tend to strengthen the belle
that the Central Pacific and Chicago
Milwaukee & st Paul companies lnten
to splice, for the present at least, an
5 form one powerful trunk line betwee
, the east and west, with the line runnin
through this county as the main lin,
and with the Missouri river crossing q
Running Water.
A Good Explanation.
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