Press and daily Dakotaian. (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1880-1889, 1886-01-21
IOCAk LACOyICS.

lhe new IXcel5lor mill Will commence
grinding next week.
Hogs are quiet to-day at IS %
receipts being only fair.
Zero weather this morning with ,
south wind and lowering clouds.
There has been u crowd at the courI
room to-day listening to the testimony
in the Dickey murder trial.
The Mother Goose family will meet
with Mrs. Geo. W. Kingsbury, this eve.
ming. A full attendance Is requested.
The young peoples mission band viii
give a dime social tomorrow evening
at Mrs. Fairs rooms, in Bruce's block.
Sister Philippine, a sister of mercy
from Fond du Lac. Wisconsin, will teach
the music class in the sisters school at
Yankton.
A southerly wind and a cloudy sky
has brought little creature comfort to-
day, thought it has improved the stand
ing of the thermometer.
Several witnesses IN the Dickey case
from Massilon, Ohio, are in town and an
attorney from that place is said to be In
the court house audience.
A car load of pork house product was
shipped out to-day over the Northwest
ern road-the first shipment from tho
pork house by that route.
DIR. W.J Murphy, has been appointed
by the county commissioners county
physician. This includes the city and
is productive of considerable work.
Charles Brock, convicted in the dis
trict court of grand larcency, was to
have received his sentence to-day, but
the Judgment of the court was post
poned until next Saturday.
L.. e.. Jones, on the Nebraska side,
who was in town a day or two age, says
he has a vein of coal seven feet thick
under his farm. He struck it at a depth
of 40 feet and is sure it is there.
A sufferer expresses a wish that the
signal service would devise a system of
warm wave signals and put it in force
without delay. This idea came to him
while gazing upon his %attenuated coal
pile.
E. G. Mcintosh. the Northwestern
brakeman who was injured on Saturday
last dy q fall from the Jim river bridge
has entirely recovered from the effects
of the accident, and has begun work on
his train again.
About a month ago several horses be-
longing to William VanEps were killed
by a locomotive on the jim river bridge
OF the Milwaukee company. John Nc.
Donald, special agent Of the company,
is IN Yankton to-day to settle with Mr..
VanEps for his loss,
1t is remarked by the people that
prior to the arrival of the Northwestern
no special stock shipping inducements
we're offered. Now that the Northwest
ern has shown how to do it, stock ex-
to the eastern market promise
to become frequent. Our new railroad
will open up many profitable business
channels.
A citizen said to-day that there was
doubt but the Northwestern would
eventually cross the Milwaukee track in
Yankton. 1t was a well settled principle
of law and common sense that no party
should enjoy a monopoly of such
privileges. Being asked about how far
ahead Eventually" was he explained
it was not a great ways off-a mat
ter of two or three weeks, perhaps.
There was no argument to-day in the
Injunction application of the Milwaukee
company against the Northwestern, the
case being postponed, by agreement be-
tween the attorneys, until the 2Sth inst.
r. B. Trip appeared for the Milwaukee
George FL. Hand for the Northwest
EN-. Meantime the Milwaukee enjoys
all the restraining effects of the temper
airy Injunction granted by the court.
A telegram from q. Riohey, at Fort
Randall, received to-day, reads: "Struck
$50 gallons a minute. Great PRESSURE
This interpreted means that the well
boring firm of Richey, Karr & Co., have
struck an artesian supply at Fort Ran
dali, which spouts $50 gallons of water
each minute. Mr.. Karr came down from
Randall about q week ago, and at that
time a small flow had been uncovered,
but it was wisely concluded to go deeper.
The well is now over 600 feet deep.