Press and daily Dakotaian. (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1880-1889, 1884-04-01
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Tho case of ex-senator Kellogg was be.
fore Judge Wylie. who fifed the trial yfor.
April 2lst. 's.
The president has approved the joint
resolution for the relief Of the sufferers
from the overfow of the Mississippi
river.
The spring elections ate the absorbing
topic in Dakota cities. aud in allthe
counties where township government has
been adopted.
Chas. Korner, a pension attorney at
Alton, Ill. has been disharred from prac-
tice before the interior department upon
evidence that he extorted. illegal fees In
pension cases. 4. 3
The secretary Of tbs interior has dis
barred from practice before the interior
department the following pension attor-
neys: Samuel J. r. Wilson, Of Fairfield,
ILL.,; Henry Etherton and David McWil-
liams. of Monticello, Ill. S;S.
The house committee on invalid pen.
sion., by vote Of five to four, decided
to report adversely Prices bull to pension.
all soldiers who served IN the late war At,
the rate OF twenty-five cents per month
for each month Of servise.
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The house committee on postoiiices
and postroads instructed Representative
Skinner to report favorably the bill au-
thorizing the postmuster.general to lease
and pay the rental for the use Of prem
ises for the first, second and third class,
aud branch postoffices.
Secretary Lincoln will pursue the same
plan in distributing relief to the missile
sippi river food sufferers as he followed
in the case OF the Ohio floods. Vessels
will be sent out from New Orleans and
st. Loais.s
]. Meldrnm, Of Wyoming, has been
recommended to the president for sur.
veyor general of Wyoming territory. He
is young man, and made the congres.
sionsl race on the republican ticket last
fall against Mr. Post, the present demo-
cratic delegate in congress. Meldrum
was opposed by the present surveyor
general in the race, and the latter has
concluded to turn the Office over to q
successor. He has held it for eight years,
and now is candidate for postmaster Of
Cheyenne. against lady who holds the
position and is Endorsed by the citizens
of that place.
Chicago Inter.O Ocean: T6eresa are too
many reading people in Dakota to suit
the democratic bosses in the lower house
of congress. But Dakota will move;rieht
along and vote as she pleases, and will
come into the union too. Just as soon as
the people Of the land can get chance
to kick out at the back door the poor
pettifoggers of congress who imagine
themselves statesmen. It is not at all
strange that the majority in the houss
of Representatives do not like Dakota. II
there we're "a saloon on every hilltop,
and the men and women of Dakota rolled
their tongues in their cheeks while they
made cross instead Of signing thei,
names, Dakota would he admitted with
whoop.
Mr.. A. II. Hanson, general passenger
agent of the Illinois Central road, has ad.
dressed letter to the lines in the west
ern association of general passenger aud
ticket agents, in which he says that he
has been informed that, at the last meet
ing of the association, held in Cincinnati.
March 18th. all land exploring tickets
reading to Iowa points we're ordered of
sale. This road not being member OF
the association, he is not fully advised
as to the reasons which actuated the
members in thus singing out one state
and discriminating against it, but he ID
: confident that at least the majority dc
not feel like discriminating against the
Illinois Central railroad in this way, and
will respond favorably to the request
hereby made to still continue LeMara
land exploring tickets on sale.
Some unknown writer catches thii
glimpse of the migration that has Dako.
ia for its goal this season: It is coming
from the east aud from the south, from
the sunny shores of italy and from the
vine clad slopes OF France; from the
crowded marts of England and from the
oppression cursed confines of the Emer.
aid Isle; the sturdy German joins the
rolling, food and the highlands and low.
lands Of Scotland pour their thousands
into the grand Dakota bound .phalanx.
Even the almond eyed idol-worshiping
Ohinaman. glauces With his cut bias eyer
in this direction, with envy in every look,
aud wishes he could come too. There is
room enoDRh for all. Dakota could al
most camp the world upon it's pralries
and arabic slopes, and the production ol
its Incompatible soil would feed the uni