Press and daily Dakotaian. (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1880-1889, 1884-08-25
UP THE MISSOURI.


A Trip Through the Productive Countiss
Of 1on iiomme and Charles Mix.
Special Correspondence.
Dear render want you to take trip
with me, and l will guarantee pleas.
ant and enjoyable Journey. In the first
place you will have to let your imaeina.
tion go at long range, for We, after ex.
perience. have made up our mind tbnt in
this world most OF our griefs aud pleas.
ures are imaginary anyhow. You have
made up your mind to go. All right, we
take you.. At the unseemly hour OF 6
a. m. you are called from your peaceful
slumbers, and after drinking in the
sweets OF q delicious cup OF coffee, eat
ing one or two BREAKFAST rolls, aud try
ing to mastlcate q piece of Yankton's
famous beefsteaks, you are ready to drop
the troubles and cares Of this world, and
give yourself up to the pleasure and en-.
joyment to be found in taking two
hundred mile ride in one oi the Missouri
stage company's Concord coaches, with
sleeping and dining attachments. Soon
the driver pulls up at your door and in
cheerful and happy voice, calla. "All
aboard for Bon Homme, Springfield and
all points north" With duster thrown
gracefully around your shoulders, and
your heavy overcoat hung up stairs in
the closet, you trip gaily down the
stairway, humming that old familiar
tune, "Ihere's land that is fairer" &c.
place yourself inside the coach, throw a
kiss to the dining room girl, and away
you go, rolling along at rapid gait,
with light heart and lighter purse.
After leaving tho usually busy, noisy,
and dusty city, you merge into the coun-
try where the air is pure, and every
thing looks serene. The driver. always
having the welfare and happiness of his
passengers in mind, cracks his whip,
chirps at his horses, and warblers forth
music at the rate of eleven knots an
hour. in response to which your heart
gives a joyous bound, and your soul fills
with romance as you wend your way
through tue richest and best region OF
country on earth, and finally you find
yourself joining in the chorus to some
familiar song, and everything is lovely.
10 the right yon gaze with wonder and
admiration upon the countless stacks of
grain which has Just been havested, and
to your left the free and unshackled
farmer sits proudly upon his mower,
whistling "the gir! left behind me-" in
his happiest mood, for he is making hay
while the sun shines. The chirping and
singing of birds as they tlit hither and
thlther blends in harmony with the hum
OF the threshing machine, and you i'm,
agine yourself granger, with more
stock than anybody and the possessor of
a section of land. happy and contented,
little dreaming of the wear and tear on
most farmers caused by small chattle
mortgage loan, with q mighty big com.
mission. The first city we visit ou our
route is Bon Homme. You go to the
court house, and find the officials at
J their post. Joe Zitka is trying to record
? real estate mortgage, argue national
( politics, defend the purity Of his favor
ties (Cleveland's) private character
and sympathize with the people
on prohibition. Joe is
= prohibltionist after our own heart
Solomon Wenzlaff is enjoying himsel
hunting chickens, telling fish stories, ani
musing over the profits of this years to,
receipts. Charley Stilwill was busy
dlshing out naturalization papers ii
r seven different languages and charging
the unsuspecting the legal rates there
p for. Sheriff McCullum was fixing up
= cell in the county jail in which to plac
the fenian who got away with Ed. Whit,
for 1925 on chattle mortgage loar
. when he catches him. The probat,
judge was trying to figure out his profit
; on case where the deceased had lef
by will, large number of debts, and n
property, to long list of heirs. Th
stage comes and away we 60. Our mex
. stopping place is Springfield, where tn
driver informs us We get dinner. Her
/. you have q change of drivers, and
dandy one too. He is known along th
line as the "Flying Dutchman" aud 9
he rattles along, telling his experienc,
q &c, you would think if they had left O
~ the If" he would have been right
:. named. He flew the track last Saturda
;, night and got married. "Dutchy
9 becomes general favorite with pas
% sepgers, and never in his long experienc
! has he been the cause of an accider
on his run, excepting the time b
% talked tie arm off lady passenger VIII
., was going up to the agency to insttue
the offspring Of our beloved red-mal
II On the route from Springfield to Whit
n Swan you pass through the Yankto
"a Indian reservation, and quite move
i, sight it is too. Some of the red devil
have become so civilized that they liz
70 in their tents or teepes and use tt
/, houses, which this grand government {
of ours has had erected for them, at gret
expense, to keep their horses and ca