Press and daily Dakotaian. (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1880-1889, 1886-05-14

hiSu III CStlLnauv "SS tud DukTu suOltl
be patted on its official back ia an ap
preciaslye sort of way.
at the meeting of the Grand Lodge o
Dakota, 1. o. O. F., at Watertown mex
week, Yankton will be represented by
q. Haimester, IS. W. Swift, James Kings
bury, q. Richey and NJ. P, Gilman, who
will leave Monday morning for Water.
town.
A number OF Yankton ladies' heye
formed a sketching class, under the in
structIon of Professor Taylor, and the
beautiful scenery around our city will
be transferred to paper before long.
Prof. Taylor is an artist of merit and
his class will prosper.
The Mitchellites are looking around
for q good band for the encampmsnt sx-
~ercises next month. They should not
forget that Yankton has the best band
in this west and the most stalwart drum
major. Wheelock, who is on the music
committee, knows this.
The combination switch arrangement
between the Milwaukee and the North
western roads Is now complete, and the
people need not be surprised if they see
Northwestern trains on the Milwaukee
levee track, or If Milwaukee trains are
seen fooling around the Northwestern
depot.
Next Monday, the 17th, is the day
with the Scandinavians which corrss-
ponds to the American Fourth of July,
and all over the country it Will be OBJ.
served in an appropriate Our
Yankton Sc%andinayians however, are 80
much Americanized that they prefer to
wait for the United States Fourth.
A street crossing made of the glazed
brick which came from the fire arch of
the kiln has just been constructed at
the Congregational church corner. The
city engineer Is experimenting with this
material and it promises durability.
The wooden walk at this crossing lasted
only four years and was almost entirely
destroyed by decay.
The Yankton college glee club have
arranged to give q concert at Bon
Homme on the evening of the 23rd inst.
The proceeds are to be devoted 10 the
purchase of books for the college library.
This affair will take half the young
people OF Yankton to Bon Homme on
the 23rd, a large proportion of the liv-
cry rigs having already been engaged.
The moon rises late on that occasion
and the homeward ride over the roman
&c stretch of prairie twixt Bon Homme
and Yankton will be worth twice the
price of admission.
Father Nichols, of Bon Homme, re.
gretfnlly declines the appointment of
field agent for Yankton college, unani-
mously rendered hIm by the board of
trustees of that institution. His Bon
Homme congregation melted his heart
with their circumstances and he con-
sents to stay with them. The work laid
out for Father Nichols was the raising
of $4,000 to be expended in erecting a
much needed addition to the college
building. This labor will be entrusted
to other hands, though there are none
more competent thar the pastor of the
Bon Homme church.
A Nebraska farmer who was in town
yesterday says a party of railroad sur.
veyors left Harrington Monday and be-
gan q line from Harrington towards
Yankton. This was q Northwestern
party, and it is now somewhere on the
twenty-five mile stretch between this
city and Harrington. The Wayne party
of surveyors, referred to q few days ago
and then located sope fifteen miles
south of Yankton, is said to be a
Union Pacific outfit. There is no doubt
but Cedar county is being considerably
surveyed this spring in the interest OF
protected railroads and though the SOW
eral parties are working as surrerti-
tiousIy as possihlethey cannot dodge the
farmers of that section.
Yankton knights Templar report a
very pleasant time at the grand COM
msndery gathering at Watertown. The
ritual prepared by DR.. d. f. Etter, o.
this city, for the use of the grand COM
mandery, was adopted entire. which was
gratifying to the doctor, as he gave
much labor to its preparation The
Yankton knights elected to positions in
the grand commandery are: A. W,
Howard, eminent grand treasurer; W. II,
81. Beadle, eminent grand standard
bearer and chairman OF the
committee on foreign corres.
pondence. d. S. Gliddcn, of Sioux
Falls, was chosen right eminent grand
commander and Marc A. Brewer, oil
Fargo, deputy commander.
On the 9th inst. john Murphy, of 20
D 18th infantry, stationed at Fort Sully
Dakota, was killed by parties at the time
unknown. Since then q private of COM
pnny E Of the same regiment has been
arrested, on suspicion of having commit
ted the deed, by the authorities and last
night he reached Yankton in tie custody
Of Deputy United States Marshal Geo
Harris, of Pierre, and was placed in tn.
Yarkton Jail on a commitment issued
after d. preliminary examination held be
fore United States Commissioner Ferris
of Pierre. The prisoner whose name Il
JIG. Barringer, waived the preliminar.