Press and daily Dakotaian. (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1880-1889, 1886-11-18
siona to-day and the small boy has lost

tione to-day and the small boy has lost
his lively interest in the blizzard.
A large number of the people who are
attending court in Ysnkton are kept
here by the blockade of the railroads.
The Maud Howe dramatic company
will appear in Yankton, opening On the
23rd and remaining until the 9th.
Prof. Bartlett took his little shovel
and made paths for the school children
on the high school grounds this morn
ing.
The Christ church sociable which Yves
to have been held to- morrow evening OF
Geo. r. Scougal's has been postponed
one week.
The Blind Boone combination, which
lie showed in at Scotland, will come to
Yankton by the first tram, and fill their
engagement.
The signal Office records show that
last month was the warmest October in
thirteen years. The mean temperature
was fifty three and three tenths degrees.
Thanksgiving day will be with ut
Dext Thursday, one week from to-day,
and We now have the promise of sleigh
ing as an unusual feature of that occa-
sion.
The sidewalks on the business streets
have been made passabie to day by hard
work with the snow shovel. There are
now symptoms of a thaw and it ID prob
able that the snow will slowly disappear.
Stationery OF all grades Is retailed as
the Press aud Dakotaian counting room
and blank books are kept in stock for
the retail trade or manufactured to
order. We have just now a heavy stock
of fine writing paper. y
At the college operations have been
resumed to-day, though the down town
students have experienced difficulty in
wading the drifts. Yesterday those of
the students who board at the college
attended to their studies and Rotations,
so the day was not wholly lost.
On account of blockaded streets and
sidewalks the Japenese fair announced
for tomorrow evening at Captain j. @.
McVay's residence has been postponed
until next Tuesday evening. The delay
will enable the ladies to add many new
specialties not before contemplated.
Phil Kearney post has again post
Iponed its camp fire and now announces
it for Tuesday evening next, the 23d inst
when q good time may be expected. Ii
is hoped by the management that all
old soldiers and their families aud their
friends will be present on that occasion.
During yesterdays blizzard the tele:
phones of the city worked with surpris-
ing %dlstinctness. The explanation comes
through the electrical condition Of
the atmosphere, which operated as .
powerful battery. This result leads to
the suggestion that increased batter.
force would render the telephone service
more satisfactory.
Sergeant Thompaon's record at the
signal Office shows that the highest wind
during the blizzard was t~hirty-eigh,
miles per hour. His measurement oi
snow gives seventeen and two.tentht
inches, but it is difficult to obtain OIL
accurate measurment during o higl
wind and the probability is that the
actual snow fall was about two feet.
Frank Hefner Indignantly repudiate:
the report that he lost two Car loads O
hogs in the late blizzard. He wa
dissuaded from making the sbipmen
by the information given by Sergean
Thompson, of the signal service, that
cold wave was expected. The whit
dag with a black center saved Hefner'l
hogs. The old man is not the kind t,
be caught by a blizzard when the UniteI
States signal service is whispering
q warning i'll his ear.
Tuesday the pork house slaughtere,
two hundred hogs, which exhausted il
stock on hand and the blizzard has Gu
off the expected supply. Several ca
loads had been purchased at adioinin
stations and these will be run in as 500
as the railroads are cleared, probably b
tomorrow. BY the time this supp y
used up farmers will begin to delivs
wagon lots aud it is expected that fh
packing house force will be kept cor
tinuously busy. A supply of tenderioi
and spare ribs for local consumption
already available.
There ia q possibility amounting I
almost q certainty that many Of IL
. cattle and other domestic animals With
the radius Of the late storm, have gu
: fered considerably and in some instanc
perhaps fatally. A large number
farmers had not thus early provide
shelter for their stock and q few hou
,e In tthe wind induces tine animals to !
down and then if cold weather continu
: further harm is done in reducing the
9 in flesh more than can be repaired by
z winters steady feeding. This stor
came very unexpectedly and few farme
were prepared for it.
g. The babbiing brook which flo,
q down the hill from the city artesi
we'll became impeded by snow Ii
night and proceeded TO spread itself
over the neighborhood. In the coul
of time the damned up watera were I
leased and the brook now flows unvex
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