Press and daily Dakotaian. (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1880-1889, 1885-12-21
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A delegation of Flandrau Indians ar
buying Christmas goods in Yankton to.
day.
The A. NJ. E. Church people are al
ranging for Christmas festivities il thei
new church building.
This evening the annual election O
chief and assistant engineers of the fir,
department will take place.
The price of a cord of dry wood on th,
streets to-day is "a 90. Somewha
cheaper than before the river froze up.
The Northwestern railroad compan,
will occupy its new depot and begir
business in Yankton a week from to-day
The Northwestern construction trair
picked up all the waste material which
was left at the Jim river bridge on Sat
urday.
Five car loads of material for the
Northwestern freight depot arrived this
morning and work will begin on the
building at once.
Fred Meth, the Broadway grocer is
the first man in Yankton to receive
freight over the new road. A car load
of oil this morning fills the bill.
The Missouri ice bridge is not strong
enough to allow the crossing os teams
today, but foot passengers without
number are passing to and from the Ne
braska shore.
A prominent business man suggests
that natural gas could be found 1900
feet below the surface at Yapkton, and
he wants to be one of o few to drill an
experimental hole.
A railroad from O'Nelll City. Neb., to
Yankton, would fill a long felt want,
and open the way for Black Hills travel
and traffic to reach this city. O'Neill
City is only seyenty-fve miles away.
A photograph of the four stenograph-
ers of the Sioux Falls convention which
is displayed in George Fishers news
stand, shows the familiar faces of Mrs.
j. ID. Washburn and e. a. Maglone, of
Yankton.
-Four hundred and sixteen pupils at
tended the Congregational Sunday
school yesterday. This number is a
little higher than the average though
near four hundred throng to the church
every Sunday.
a large number of our people visited
the buildings aud yards of the North.
western yesterday. Many of the ladies
who were out took spikes home with
them, and will gid and keep them as
memorials of the new road.
Judge Congleton was occupied this
morning with listening to testimony in
the hotel burglary case against Charles
Bennett. There seems to be no doubt
that the officers have found the right
man and he will be held for grand jury
investigation.
In the police coart to-day, Charles
Bennett was tried charged with assault
and battery on the person of ]. Collins.
His honor found the defendant guilty
and fined HIM the usual $1.0O and cost,
in default of which he went to Jail. A
plain drunk was the last case on the
docket.
The Mjlwaukea company is having
the engines on this division thoroughly
overhauled and repaired. Engine No.
240 pulled this mornings train east and
the iron horse fairly glistened in its new
suit. Our artistical painter, John Lang,
has been dong the painting and like all
his work that on the engine speaks for
itself.
Miss Kate @. Wheaton, the instructor
in vocal music at Yankton college, gave
a musical IN the chapel of the Congre-
gational church on Saturday evening,
which was decided as being very enter
tanning hby those who attended. Miss
Wheaton has held the position she now
fills ever since Yankton college began
work in the new building, namely, over
four years of time, and at every exhibit
tion given by her pupils q marked i'm
provement is manifest.
John Coulson, who returned from the
east with Commodore CouIson Saturday,
was treated during his absence for a can
GER, which had begun to destroy one side
of his face. The cancerous growth was
removed and the physician who did the
work guarantees a permanent cure. Be-
fore the operation was submitted to
Commodore Coulson hunted up several
ex-patients of the doctor and found that
his treatment produced radical cures. lie
feels confident that his brother John
will have no more trouble from cancer.
Mr.. A. B. Wicker, the agent of the
Northwestern at Yankton, reached the
city on Saturday night and has spent
the time since his arrival ID calling on
the business men of the city and in look
ing over his new field of work. He is
very agreeably impressed with Yankton,
and in this connection we are reminded
that all of the Northwestern officials who
have visited us have seemed to find here
something very gratifying in the lay of
the town and the promise of a better
one. We extend to Mr.. Wicker a hearty
welcome.
1t seems that the robbery mentioned
in Saturdays issue as having occurred
at the Madison house, was only one of
four like instances which happened in
the city on Friday night. Beside the
robbery at the Madison. two enests at