Press and daily Dakotaian. (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1880-1889, 1886-12-29

~ "S "'BusJ BiaA " StEiho VIC La
kota warm wave.
Next Monday the county commis-
%sioners will meet aud on that day the
newly elected county officers wall enter
upon their duties Changes will be
made in the Offices Of sheriff. county
Clerk, superintendent of inst ruction,
coroner and several constabl es and
Justices of the peace.
Sam Folyer rises to explain that he
also has an abundance of coal OH hand
and more coming. A surprising quau-
tity of unsupported fuel has been un-
covered by an innocent paragraph in
the Press and Dakotsian. II isIi't every
day that a newspaper can discover
a coal mine in this prairie country.
Ysukton contains q considerable army
OF democratic patriots who are anxious
to serve the territory under Governor
Church and we have heard of one re-
publican who is going for an office on
the basis of old time opposition to
j udge Bennett, who ran for congress
many years ago On the republican
ticket.
Geo. w. Balm says of Geo. Woodford:
"He is one of the strongest lecturers on
the temperance platform. He has d
power that reaches the highest and
lowest and captures all classes between.
For u Campaign of from five to ten days
he has not u superior on the continent.
A town he cannot literally capture in a
week Is a hard place."
Last nights entertainment at the
Methodist church was fairly attended
and Chaplain Hartman rendered his
pr ,gramme of readings with pleasing
effect. Following closely upon the
lecture of Major Dane aud having been
but briefly announced. the entertain
ment was not as we'll %patronized as it
otherwise would have been.
Some bibulous joker has been defacing
the Woodfoid posters in the postutice
with pencil marks of libelous IMPORT.
This anonymous iconoclast informs the
pablo on the margins Of the posters
that Mr.. Woodford is himself a votary of
the flowing bowl, but we do not believe
that he would dare say so out loud.
There is a tradition abroad that Wood
ford likes to pulverlze (igurativel speak
ing) such chaps.
A year ago yesterday morning the
| first regular train ran out OF Yanlkton on
| the Northwestern road. This Isl past
history. Future history says that before
a year from now the first regular train
| will leave Yankton for Omaha over the
Missouri Pacific. There is an aching
void between the two cities-aching to
be filled-and Jay Gould is not the man
to see q void suffer so long rs there are
millions in its relief.
At g meeting of the trustees of the
Dakota hospital Tor the insane, hetd this
afternoon, contracts were awarded to-
the following persons for two hundred
cords of wood for the hospital: Matt
Reed, rs cords green wood at $4,48 per
cord; d. M. Pettibone, Is cords green
wood at $4,4S per cord; Matt Heed, 25
cords dry wood at $44S per cord
George Murphy, rs cords dry wood at
$4,25; Robert Cox, 80 cords dry wood
at $4,60 per cord.
A st. Paul report of wheat on hand 10
the northwest says there is no wheat
west of Jim river. Hutchinson, Charles
Mix, Bon Homme and Yankton counties
protest. Wnlle they do not run to seed
on wheat, they raise enough to leaven
the corn, cattle and hog lump and most
of last years crop is in the hands OF
farmers. Producers IN this section do
not sell when prices are low, as they all
have money in the bank, and they are
generally holding their wheat against
the day when Europe begins its war.
A time table from Superintendent
Beardsley announces a daily train each
way between Sioux City and Rodney on
the new line OF the Milwaukee road
eastward from Sioux City. The tram
leaves Sioux City at nine in the morn.
ing and arrives at fifteen minutes be.
fore seven in the evening. The etationt
on the new road are Glen Ellen, Strange
Siding, Luton, Hedges Siding, Hornick
Grant Centre and Rodney. This piece
OF road appears to come under the
superintendency of Mr.. Beardsley, oil
the Sioux City & Dakota division.
The new witness to the Haddock
murder in Sioux City turns out to be
no witness at all, but a grim and unfeel,
ing joker in the person of Martin Wat
son, who formerly swung a razor in {
Yankton barber shop, Martin says ht
was playing it Gu Attorney Woods, VIII
, makes himself unpleasant in his pursuit
of evidence. Mr.. Watson was a guilelesl
. youth when he left Yankton, but it ap
pears that contact with the Sins and sor
, rows of Sioux City has had a hardening
effect and he is now so much changed
for the worse that he deliberately trihe
with the feelings OF a great man lik'
Woods.
II Previous mention has been made q
o the case of VIM. 81. Leonard, q prisone
in the Yankton county jail severa
years ago, who was convicted at Gardel
City, Kansas, OF q murder whicl
occurred while he was confined at Yank