Press and daily Dakotaian. (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1880-1889, 1886-01-29
west of Yankton $50 head of cattle, and

west of Ysnkton $50 head of cattle, and
several of this herd have recently died
from some unknown disease. The stock
is located right 10 the midst of a colony
of Bohemian farmers, aud the spread of
the malady would be disastrous TO the
people tbereabouts. Howard Wagner
has recently visited these cattle, and
has, he thinks, stopped the sickness in
| the herd.
On the north bluff, close alongside
Che Broadway road, is a deep and
yawning pit caused by the removal of
sand from the bluff. Around this pit
on the road side Is strung a wire fence.
Some dark night q team will run
through this himsy protection and will
fall into the pit, dragging the vehicle
and Its contents over the precipice.
When it occurs We purpose republish-
ing this paragraph With appropriate
embellishments.
DID, Swearingen died at half-past n
O'Clock this afternoon. The deceased
has been bedridden for a year past and
has suffered greatly. His maludy was
incurable aud his death therefore oc-
c~asions no surprise. He had been sew
eral years a resident of Yankton and as
a suburban farmer, horticnlturist, florist
and tree grower has successfully de-
monstrated many experiments of i'm
portance to Dakota. He leaves a wife to
mourn his loss.
The Yankton college literary soclety
goes i'll . body to Aten, Nebraska, to-
night, where there will be a debate be-
tween the champion orators Of the Y. G.
l.. s. and q trio of Atenites. Messrs
| Wenzlatf. Riggs and Jamison are the
chosen ones from Yankton college aud
they have the negative side OF this cues
ton: "Resolved, That the Electoral
Franchise Should be Limited to Those
who can Read" The party goes in bob
sleds to the scene of the debate. L. j,
Gamble goes along as judge and a large
number of young people accompany
the debaters for the pleasure Of q sleigh
ride and the debate.
In the district court this morning the
application of the Chicago, Milwaukee
& st. Panl railroad company for an
order permanently restraining the CHI
cago & Northwestern railroad from
crossing the tracks OF the former COM
pany anywhere in the county of YanktQD
east of Mulberry street, in the city of
Yankton, was argued. r. B Trip ap-
peared for the first named company and
George Ii. Hand for the other. After
listening to the arguments Judge Trip
granted the order asked for by the plain
tiff. This ruling does not appear to be
Objectionable to Che Northwestern of
~fcials. Assistant General Saperintend,
ent Sauborn, who was in town this
morning, said it suited him. He reasoned
that if the injunction had been dissolved.
other restraining orders would have
been asked for as loon as the North
western made O more, and thus there
would have been a long drawn out series
of legal conflicts. The Northwestern
will now proceed auder the statute tc
procure the condemnation of the prop
erty affected by the crossing and in the
end will haYe a joint ownership in it
As we have previously remarked, The
Northwestern will operate it's side
tracks across the track of the Milwaukee
A. Hale, a Sioux City travelling mis-
~sionary, is a gentleman gifted with larg'
tongue development, u vivid lmagina
lion and lots of experience. 1t is bette
than q quilting bee when he begins 4
: relate the incidents of his combined
sugar and hardware career, He was il
Yankton during .the flood Of 1881 and i
is clearly apparent that had he been Oh
earth just after the Noachian episod
the inspired writers of that perio'
= would have turned over their manu-
script to him for revision before it wen
to the publisher. The othe
night Mr.. bale gathered a crowd Of east
ern road agents about him sc tn
Merchants hotel and told them oil abou
this later food. Kramer began to whit
;. tie softly as Nj. HaIe's tongue sped owe
the course, but when he reached the plac
IN his narrative where the ice betwee
= Yankton and st. Helena is a hundre
:, and twenty-five feet thick, with IL
Green Island church on top of it and IL
bell ringing liz the steeple, Mr., Kram'
. climbed the stairs and hung himself OF
of q northwest window alongside tx
: low pressure thermometer. AS a precaI
tionafy measure, the building haviL
~ already been unduly strained, MIR Krar
e er is causing a room to be- lined wi
10 boiler IRON for Mr.. Hale's use when
yisits Yankton.
lis EavOrs the Army Bill.
~ at the request OF army officers Gre
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