Press and daily Dakotaian. (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1880-1889, 1884-02-08
LOCAL LACONllS.


The man who was placed in Jail few
days ago under the suspicion that he was
crazy has been released.
Block three, lower Yankton, has been
included within the fire limits Of the city
of Yankton, by the city council.
A Niobrara man who was in town o
couple of days ago confirms the reports
of the hanging of Kid Wade by the v,gi-
lantes.
The school pupils and teachers have
been investing the money earned by
public entertainments in beautlfying
their school rooms.
The music Of the sleigh bells and the
streets filed with flying cutters show
that Yankton is enjoying its season Of
deep snow and slippery streets.
The family Of Sues, the rapist who was
given quarter of century in the Sioux
Falls penitentiary, are in destitute cir
cumstances aud are liable to become q
county charge.
A literary and scientific society was
out last evening in foar horse sleigh
investigating the phenomenon of the
beautiful snow. It is unnecessary to add
that that there was more beauty in the
sleigh than under 1t.
Sioux Falls Press: Sioux Falls is with
out general. Yanktou has q score or
more, and every town in southern Dako.
to of half the size of the Queen city has
from one to dozen. This is the only
thing in which Sioux Falls is behind her
slsters.
The price of water from the city mains
will be from five to ten dollars per yeas
for families, and where it is sold,to manu-.
featuring establishments by metre meas.
ure, the rate runs about one cent per
hundred gallons. Besides the conven.
fence of the arrangement, its cheapness
recommends it.
Letters of inquiry have reached Ysnk.
ton from New York, concerning Robert
Walker, q young Scotchman who was
here all last summer at the head of an
English colony. His wife, who is in
Glasgow, Scotland. is anxious as to his
whereabouts. Any one knowing any.
thing as to his whereabouts can notify
jos. T. Adams. No. 65. Broadway, New
York, of the same, and such information
will be thankfully received.
The young lady members Of the T. =.
@. did the handsome thing by the gen.
tlemen belonging thereto last evening.
They very successfully arranged and en-.
gineered leap year sleigh ride in which
the glorious moonlight, the glittering
snow, the thermometer down in the base
ment. end twenty young folks in bob
sled that was big enough for sixteen,
combined to render tho occasion one oi
unmarried felicity and we'll regulated
hilarity.
Even though the dullness Of mid.win
tor is upon us, Yankton county real @.
state is steadily advancing aud the de-
mand for farming property exceeds the
supply. Eight hundred dollar quarter
sections bought last summer find plenty
Of takers at twelve hundred, but owner
are no. disposed to sell for less than tif
teen hundred. The promise OF the sprinf
is that there will be lively demand 70,
real estate and holders are not disposed
to let 60 for anything short OF iarg,
profit.
Parties who travel over Iowa, Mime
sofa and Dakota report an unusually
dull winter everywhere. There ,s n.
particular reason given, only that il &
dull. In Dakota the crop yield was larg.
aud probably also In the states men
TONED. Produce 10 low in price and i,
the newer localities there 10 not much t.
send ont. In tho beginning the boon
regions depend largely upon immigra
tion for receipts Of money aud there ar,
few people coming in during the colt
lnonths. Prospects ass excellent for uu