Press and daily Dakotaian. (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1880-1889, 1886-01-12
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Yas,e.oay's wolf hunt WIS mo- p.a-
duc1 sc of scslos.
fh,ee ounded and eighty . WAGON
ioas.S .. nogs were marketed in Isuaton
to-day.
The Northwestern road Is now open
10 Chicago and though naessngers Cd .
axe tbe popular Fonts " aa dsnasI
II delay.
The streets have osen thtougea With
ID fmeis' teams to day, "2s, Soa4. ooin
AND hay bein, the cnlef commodities
marketed.
J. Ii G, Eoun t.as ,ecided il a.e
apen the Joys OF housekeeping e-u ia,
rented Mrs. Dawson's house, near the
corner Of Third and Cedar streets.
At one O'Clock this afternoon twenty,
eight hog laden teams were vs. s,ug
their turn at the pork house and tenn
forcements were looming up in the dis
lance,
1t is reported here to-day that Con-
ductor Weber and Engineer Higgins,
OF the train which ran into the STOW
pillow locomotive in the Sioux City bluff.
last week are "laid Off"
A session oil the board Of trace com
mittee is being held late this afternoon
to review the bylaws, alter which tue
committee will be in readiness Tor TIE
call of DIR. Ward, yeconve ing the ciil-
zens' meeting.
The Wilcox lumber com0"ov received
the contract for furnishing lumber 10
both the Ponca and Santee agencies. The
contract Is a large one, calling for about
$4,000 worth of lumber from the COT
tractors. The have sixty days after the
approval of the necessary bond in which
to fill the contract, and az the firm s
1oted for It's push and energy the In
| dams will have their lumber in the tine
agreed upon.
The meeting of the newly organized
Building and Loan association OF Yank-
t.n at e. H. VanAntwerp's OH I
st night was well attended. AboGE
a,riy .; the business men, mechanic
,nd laboring men o.: Yankton met &
.scussed the oruer o. organization aau
ether matters Of int. eat. The by In -
yu"e read and talked oyer and nu m -
citing meeting throughout was held. A
scess of one TeaA ", aakeu to alloy &
lorough reHdlng All discussion OF II
y, laws. No Officers we're elected, as tbs
laws OF the orGan,Ztilon are regarded as
ne very first ESSENTIAL Ia the w5liare o.
he association Those wlo have been
Working for the biiug!ag rbont Of suct
tn orgaoization leei highly encouraged,
md they request Il larger attendance at
the reyt meetin..
The district court for the second 10
iIciai district convened this morning /.
the court room al Yankton 1T l. o'ciu1h
Judge @. S. Palmer, of the fourth dis'
trlct, presiding, with District Attorney
French, Sheriff Brennan and Bailiff.
Geo, FL. Miner, j. Campbell, P. Conway
o r. Brooks and P. Noonan in attend
~ance. Clerk E. G. EdgeTton oeeap!e!
his usual place. The usua
number of attorneys occupied the
space within the railing, while the juror
and o large number of spectators filled
the remainder of the room. The docket
bas been gone over as far as the case O.
the Jargelaus brother, charged with set
ting prairie fires. William @. Dickey'l
trial for the killing of O'Brien, is set foI
Tuesday morning next at 9 O'Clock
Charles Brock, for grand larceny, will b.
, 5ried tomorrow morning, while the cas-
of William f. Coney, indicted for prac
> ticing medicine without license, is OF
trial this afternoon.
During last week the Press and Da
kotaian gave accounts of the reported
flight of Milton Weston from Pennsyl
: vania, a millionaire convicted Of man
+ slaughter and sentenced to four year
t IN the penitentiary. This IS the same
Milton Weston who years ago engineere'
t the construction Of the Dakota Southern
railroad and was we'll known among tn
/ then residents of Yankton. He is q brothe
/ of q. W. Weston, for many years con
! nected with the Dakota Southern unde
the Wicker-M eckling-M Merchants mar
Y agement. The crime for which Milo
' Weston was convicted was committed i
Westmorland county, Pennsylvania.
1888. He had purchased some oil LAM
o there, the title to which was dispute
and in an armed conflict between Wes
Q on's forces and the jumpers o me
named Haymaker was killed with
bayonet. Weston was indicted an
Y tried for riot and murder, being cor
If vlcted aud sentenced to seven years in
prlsonment. A new trial was secure
and about a year ago @ second convictic
,r was had, the penalty beir
Is fixed at four years imprisonment
O.. An appeal to the Pennsy
vania supreme court was taken, al
RS not long ago the finding of the low
to court was approved and a new trial d
of MED. Weston He'd, being then at lar
on bail.
S nd your orders for ice. / am pl
pared to cut two hundred tons o day.
CHAs. WALLBAUM