Press and daily Dakotaian. (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1880-1889, 1884-02-09

James Waters has opened roller
skating rink in Stones block in a vscaLt
store.
Ferdinand Frich's eleven year old son
died yesterday and two more of his chill
dren are dangerously sick. They were
hrSt taken with measles and after that
disease was subdued lung fever followed.
Yankton's pacing prodigy, Wynn &
Bakers "Elk," is in training at the driv.
ing park this winter and is developing
IN manner which surprises old horse
men. He will be in good flying condi-
tion by the time the spring season
opeus.
Last night witnessed the close Of the
series of nightly religious meetings at
the Congregational church. These
meetings have drawn large attendance
from the beginning, and as many as
hundred converts have enlisted under
the banner of Christ.
A squad of Yankton Sioux-bucks,
squaws aud pappooses-passed through
town to-day in wagons on their way
home from a visit to the Omaha Indians.
They camped out in their tepees on jim
river during last nights intense cold, but
were none the worse this morning for
their experience.
1t is given out as the design of the
board of county commissioners to con.
struct an addition to the court house and
to endeavor to improve the present struc.
tnre. 1t is the Intention to extend the
building in front nearly to Douglas
avenue and on the side as far rs Fifth
street aud to snrmount the whole With Q
new tower. Possibly this old building
can be made over into something more
presentabls and more convenient and
comfortable. II should be heated BY
steam.
Mr.. Moulton, ono of the commission.
ers appointed for Mcpherson county,
whose commission ,s withheld by the son
of the governor, was in town last night
aud while here procured q transcript of
the record of his appointment and was
sworn in as commissioner for Mcpherson
county. The commission is of no conse.
quence to Mr.. Moulton, who is now q
duly qualified commissioner of McPher.
son county, and will proceed to act as
such upon the strength Of tho official
record OF his appointment. The highest
courts have held that the record is the
authority aud not the commission.
Other distressed counties eau profit by
Mr.. Noulton's action.
Thermometrical indications this MORN
dng were surprise to those who teok
occasion to inspect those temperature
indications. There was no wind stirring,
the atmosphere was dry aud crisp and il
did not seem that an unusual degree OF
cold was prevailing. At the government
weather station the mercury scored be.
tween twenty and twenty.one degrees
below zero. Thermometers about town
varied from twenty Eve below to thirty.
two below, the coldsst place being on
the top OF the west bluff. To-day the
weather has been moderating and the
mercury is now ten above zero. Au old
timer says this is the last severe weather
oi the winter.
Chicago Inter. Ocean. 9TH: The Hon
A j. Edgerton. chief justice OF the su
preme court Of Dakota; the Hon. Newton
Edmunds, ex-governor of Dakota: the
Hon. Bartlett Tripp. leading membe,
Of the bar OF Dakota, aud the Hon. p. O.
Shannon, ex.chief justice OF tho Dakota
supreme court arrived in this city yea
terday afternoon. en- ronte from theil
home, in Yaukton, to Washington. They
remained over only between trains, ar.
irving on the Northwestern at. a:l5 ant
departing via the Pennsylvania iimitst
at 1850. A reporter for the Iutcr. .Ocea,
Who met Meesrs, Eisettou. Eimunds
and Tnpp vaa Informed that they mus
decline to be interviewed, further tina,