Press and daily Dakotaian. (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1880-1889, 1886-07-19

of the speakers were listened too will
attention and interest.
William Bennett, a clerk for Walter
Carr, has purchased q meat market il
Tyndall and will take possession Angus
first.
A circular from Mapleton, Iowa, an
pounces that the fall meeting of the
Maple Valley trotting association will
be held August Oath, 25th and 26sh, al
Mapleton.
Word has come that the Yankton gun
club is to be challenged by the Centre
vile gun club. The boys are fleeing i'll al
directions and O quorum is an impossi-
bility just now.
Another one of Hazen's severe local
storms has been raging here to-day on
the bulletin boards. The warning came
yesterday afternoon and included last
night and to-day. 1t has been SO far q
dry kind OF a shower.
As soon as the managers of the Yank-
ton county fair can ascertain the OATS
of the territorial fair they will fix the
date of the Yankton fair. They do not
want to bust up the other gathering by
coming in conflict with it's dates.
After forty-eight hours of threatened,
rain the weather department wound up
it's efforts last night with q rainbow dis.
play in the eastern sky. As the rain
bow Is a promise that the world is not
again to be flooded, the prospects are
not encouraging for moisture.
That Yankton's immense aryesian we'll
is attracting attention ali owe the coun-
try is demonstrated by the number of
strangers who visit artesian hill On Sun
days and other days. Yesterday several
hundred people were there of different
times and they all remarked that the
sight repaid them for the journey up the
hill.
s. A. Boyles of Olivet has returned to
Yankton and henceforth we can claim
him as a citizen. MI, B. has tried
several other points in Dakota for bust
ness purposes and he now returns TO the
Fountain City with the conviction that
this is the best place on earth for him.
Mrs. Boyles and the children have ar
rived and the family is one more domi-
cIled in the Boyles residence.
Passing q group Of capitalists on
Broadway to-day we heard one of them
suggest that the party who designed the
recent bridges across the Rhine would
be a good one to make o bridge across
the Missouri and relieve the ferry boat.
The bridge could be built for $3.50 end
all the additional expense would be for
filing at the ends, which don't count as
a part of the cost. There Is food for re-
Election in the remark.
Mollie Murray, a lady of color, plead
guilty to the charge OF being drunk and
disorderly on Saturday afternoon last,
and the court fined her $500 and costs,
amounting in all to $10.35 Miss Muir
ray refrigerates in the Gladstone Jail
until the sentence is paid in 80 many
days confinement. John Auton, a
vagrant, was started toward pastures
new with some good advice from his
honor.
Irwin Sphinx was severely injured on
Saturday last, while at work in a hay
field. One of the teeth in q hay rake ran
into his right shoulder to the bone. He
was driving o spirited pony, which
became frightened at something and
started to run. Mr.. Sphinx jumped off
the rake but vas caught inside the wheel
and the gearing, was thrown down and
the rake tooth penetrated his shoulder.
He is able to be around. but feels rather
sore.
Fountains are cheap. A taxpayer of
esthetic temperament suggests that it
would very much improve the looks OF
things to locate one at the intersection
of Broadway and Third, another at the
intersection of Walnut and Third and
another at the intersection of Capitol
and Third. They can be put in for a
couple of hundred dollars apiece and
made to serve as drinking troughs.
Then some of the waste water could be
made to delight the senses, cool the
air and quench the thirst of the way.
farer and his steed.
A. w. Barber is in daily attendance
upon the land case being tried before j,
FL. Teller, referee. He has made an
| elaborate landscape sketch of the situa-
ton, with surveyors pits brlstling with
shot guns and artillery mounted on the
corner posts, depicting a warlike situa'
ton in the rural region of western
Yankton county. This is a case wherein
q section corner has strayed torty.sever
rods away from its moorings and carried
several farm boundaries along with it
The trial has lasted ten days and is salt
to be good for thirty more, if the wealth
of the contestants holds out.
In the police court this morning Johl
Fox was arraigned for the assault upol
r. Slaughter. To the charge of assault
and battery Fox plead guilty and tn
court fined him $4,000, and gave hin
thirty days in jail, to stand committed
until the sentence is expiated. DIR
Roane in giving some testimony in tn
case said that during the time of MI
SIaughters confinement to his bed b
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