Press and daily Dakotaian. (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1880-1889, 1886-12-11


rate OF u q minute at the pork house
all day to. day.
Sheriff Brennan escorted Morris
iO'Bleauns to the peuitentiary at Sioux
Falls this morning.
There will be services at Christ
church to-morrog morning. Rev. DIR.
Hoyt will o~ficiate.
Miss Alice Poulton will entertain q
number of friends with progressive
euchre on Monday evening.
Fred Donalson's infant on, who has
been seriously i'll with typhoid fever for
some weeks past. is convalescing rapid
ly.
The quarter yearly calendar Just
issued by the Milwaukee road is q gem
of art. Conductor Jackson will accept
our thanks for the series.
The young peoples mission band of
the Congregational church will mold it's
next sociable w NJ, M. Mattheisen.s
residence some evening next week.
City Marshal Baumann was down
town to-day for the second time in
nearly a month. He expects to resume
the duties CT his office some time during
the coming week.
j. II. Teller and A. w. Howard, hav-
ing disposed of their stock, have retired
from the directory of the Ysnkton in
suralce company and E. E. Hudson
aud Commodore s. B. Coulson have
been elected directors in their stead.
The result of the meeting of athletes
at the rink last night was the organ,zs-
tion of three poIo-clubs. The first game
will be played at the rink on Saturday
evening next, and later in the season q
regular polo tournament will OCCUR.
There was fog last night, rain in the
early morning houra, mist during the
forenoon, rain this afternoon and mud
continuous during the tw%enty-four
hours. The wind holds steadily in the
north and snow is confidently expected.
VIM Blatt, who visited Centreyille
yesterday. says the people of that bure
are confident that the survey being made
from Oentreviile to Sioux City is O
permanent one and that the building OF
the road means an increase in the bust.
mess of Cen~trevllle.
Tomorrow there will be held in this
CITY the first quarterly meeting OF the
Ysnkton M. e. church. Elder Hart.
sough will preach in the forenoon and
the love feast will be celebrated at lC
O'Clock q. m. and at11 o'clock the sacra-
ment of the Lords supper will be admin
istered.
Corn husking is o occupying the
attention of the farmers. and that worl
has just fairly begun. Corn sells fol-
twenty cents per bushel just now Blu
the farmers believe that corn pays onl,
when converted into pork and conse
qaently the hogs get q large portion o
each years crop.
A number of teams have crossed th'
Missouri ice bridge to-day, but the ice
is fast becoming weak, and no very
heavy loads were crossed. People whit
have made use of the bridge say tina
it the warm weather continues over to-
morrow crossing on Monday will be at
tended with danger.
There was a meeting of the hook snt
ladder company at the track house
last night for the purpose of arranging
for a fair by which the boys expect t.
raise enough money TO defray tn
expenses-of the trip to the Mitchell
fremen's tournament. The arrange
ments will be completed on Tnesda,
evening next.
The Ponca Journal announces tina
gold has been found in the sands of tn,
Missouri at Ponca, and that a pan full
of sand yields ten dollars in gold. This
result was obtained by Mr.. De Sombre
A. E. Barnes and Mr.. Thornton. ex.
miners from the Black Hills. Man,
years ago the edge of the river at Yank-
ton was prospected for gold, with small
results. The Journal is OF the Opinion
that the Ponca sand was sailed.
Acting City Marshal Bruce recent.
arrested q farmer named Ole Garne
for being drunk and d%isorderly. Afte
his release Mr.. Garnes got drunk agail
and the officer administered snothe
and o stronger dose, but without doin!
Mr.. Garnes any perceptible good. Flo
the third time he drank two mucl
whisky, and then started for hom'
with his horses on a gallop. He viii b
interviewed by the police upon hi
return to town,
Charles Wsllbaum and Peter Stefin
packers Of Brightness, were notsssatisie'
with what nature had done in the wa
of preparing ice in the Missouri river
Desiring a crop of good ice for the sum
mer they went to the river and save
out nearly al acre, hoping that a freez
would come and make heavier ice. I'll
holemade is still there and 10 daily grow
ing larger, and now Charles and Pete
are being quizzed earnestly by thei
. friends who want to know what is I
: be done with that hole.
Some hunters returning from Nebrat
ka Thursday night at about seve
O'Clock report having heard CRIES for al
s~istance coming from near the Nebrask
shore, about a mile up the river frol
thu nity Tho crieR uera kant mn &,