Press and daily Dakotaian. (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1880-1889, 1884-03-29

With 0snsfsi Campbell and tben rssusn
70 Aurora Temporarily, bat anding 8
large amount Of work 10 the caoe. will
remain and assist tho United States at.
torney. Mr.. Murphy 10 pleasant young
gentleman-one Of the kind who rapidly
populariEe Themselves 10 the new vest.
McPHERSoA C0UNTY.
Newly OrganiEsd and Prepared for Buai.
nsss- Newspaper Representatives its Eirss
Commercial visitors.
Speeta! Correspondents.
Leoia, McPnerson county, has lately
been made the seat Of county govern.
ment, BY action Of two of the gentlemen
appointed BY the governor % commits.
sionerr for that county Just previous to
his departure for Washington last fall.
Since the recording Of these commission.
ers, nothing has deem done by the gov.
ernor to indicate that he desired to com.
piete the appointments by forwarding
the commissions. and ss the people
within the county considered themselves
entitled to the benedts Of q county gov.
ernment, two of the commissioners,
Messrs. Moalton and Darlington, armed
with transcript Of the records in the
Office OF tue secretary of the territory,
met and organized the county. Mr. Dow.
the third commissioner, declined to act,
because of ON error in the initials of his
name. As the public has Of late been
amply stuffed with details of county
organizations. and must. from the IN.
broken regularity of the diet, be some
what sick, refrain from the why's and
wherefores of this recent new departure
IN circumventing the methods of our
great unwashed county seat merchant.
Suffice it to say that human patience had
exhausted itself in this neck of our fair
land, and the acts of Messrs. Moulton
and Darlington are universally COM
mended by the people of Mcpherson
county. Shortly after the organization
two pilgrims. representing respectively
the Press and Dakotaian and the Sioux
City Journal, landed with their packs at
Aberdeen. and proceeded to cautiously
examine the prospect for putting in their
wares, which were record books and sta
tionery. for the benefit of the alleged
new county. BY devious and secret
routes and two horse sleighs they wend.
ed their ways through magnificent dis.
tspce of undulating snow and pictur.
esque claim houses. to the goal OF their
respective desires-Leola. The Press
and Dakotalan man arrived first, and was
hailed by the Leolians as the first swal.
low OF prospective spring cf prosperi.
ty and success, being the first colporteul
who had visited their town for true mis-
sionary work. The trip out was an
uabroken skim over gradual rolls of the
best of Dakota turf, past the houses Of
primitive and energetic settlers, who from
an appreciation of the good qualities OF
the country, had been willing to submit
to the loneliness and hardships Of a
squatter's life, ahead of the rush of immi.
grafton, which will go in there this spring
and summer.
| My driver, with the we'll known nerve
Of q Dakota husbandman. was going into
the country with nothing but his bare
hands and tue price of my ride to star,
him in life. He suggested the purloin
lug of board at Westport to make i'm
provemeats with. fled objections ani
suggested borrowing the necessary i'm
plements aud sluklng two or three or
teslan wells on his claim after our arriv
al at Leola. The unregenerate cannucl
assented with undisguised glee and sale
"he guessed that would be 'nuff.'" Il,
felt SO good that he wanted to set 'em u,
at Westport and-well the Press ani
Dakotaian never likes to hurt
mans feelings or get int
q fight. but it will hereafte,
have some regard for its stomach. West
port is no.license town and concocts
libation from brown sugar, boiled SNOW
and oil of vitriol, calling it cider.
The long ride of forty miles is greatl,
relieved by the chance it offers to visi
the we'll kept farm OF MIR. E. v. Lap
ham, about twenty-five miles out. Kin,
reader, imagine yourself pretty tolerabl.
healthy, and. from 8 disposition to sleel
late when about to take an early trair
obliged to take leave of scanty break
fast. Then whisk yourself over twenty
Eve miles of frosty prairie before dinner
and stop at Lapham's. The lady of til
house makes coffee the fragrance Q
which follows fellow on into roug
pastures and makes his mouth water ft
draught as for hug from his best CIR
Then add to this q mountain of he
brown bread and some luscious bake
J besns. Why, Mack, of the Sioux Cit
Joarnal. made regular bean of himsel
on his return trip, and has gone down t
, Sioux City to raise stalk.
Leola. at the time dropped in did nc
boast of hotel, though q building ha
been put up and will be Immediately OF
cupied for that purpose. In lieu of th
regular two dollar day hostelry, int
which the charitable tourist pools hi
, earnings. I was directed to "the re.
> trant." A philosophical old historian
who wanted an excuse to go ont wit
: the boys, has advised the later day ignc
, ramus that when in Rome he must I'm
medlatelv become a Rnman or ha w;