Press and daily Dakotaian. (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1880-1889, 1886-07-17
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Chilly gress and 9akutaiau
kilograms from Bismarck say the con.
tract TO build the Milwaukee & st. Paul's
extension from Roscoe to that city has
been let to the Winston Bros. OF Mime
apolis.
The postofice at Caledonia, Dakota,
was robbed Wednesday night of $50 in
cash and q quantity of stamps. Sheriff
Larson and Deputy Postmaster Hell
grandson are after the thieves.
The following Dakota postofices have
been made money order Offices: Bangor,
Walworth county; New Rockford, Eddy
county; Olivet, Hutchinson county; Rec
Heights, Hand county; Frankfort, SPHINX
county; Park River, Walsh county;
Gary, Deuel. county; keystone, Diokey
county; Fairmont, Battle River, Dick.
son, W,lmot, Bath, Hillsboro. Emery,
Stnrgis.
A Howard Dakota, special says the air
in the county of Lake is full of railroad
news. The Burlington, Cedar Rapids d
Nrothern, has run a survey from Sioux
Falls northwest, crossing the Milwaukee
& st. Paul at Lake Herman, three miles
west of Madison. A party of Milwaukee
& st. Paul surveyors are running q line
northwest from Madison, it is said, to
connect with the company's Tower City
line. 1t is said that the Burlington folks
are grading on the above line north OF
Sioux Falls, which is heading for Desmet
in Kingsbury county.
Inquiry is made as to the prospects
of the passage of the bankruptcy bill
and the bill to extend the time for the
payment of the indebtedness of the
Union Pacific railroad to the govern
ment. There is not the slightest chance
for either of these bills at the present
session. The bankruptcy bill sleeps in
committee. The Union Pacific bill
stands in pretty good shape upon the
house calender, but Carlisle, Morrison
and Randall, the committee on the order
OF business. will not consent to its con-
sideration, knowing that IT will simply
result in a waste of time.
Orders have been issued by General
Ruger directing that company q
Forbes), fifth infantry, proceed from
Fort Keogh, Mont. to Fort Abraham
Lincoln, Dakota. and there take station.
Upon the arrival of Capt. Forbes and
his company at its destination. COM
panies B (Whitney's) and F (Reed's) of
the eleventh infantry, will proceed to
Fort Yates, Dakota, and there take
station, replacing the battalion of the
seventeenth infantry recently transferred
to the department. of the Platte. Maj.
John 81. Page. of the eleventh, will also
proceed to Fort Yates. and will assume
command OF the garrison at that post.
1t is now whispered that the real
cause of the resignation of Assistant
Secretary Smith of the treasury depart
ment was his unwillingness to be guided
by President Cleveland in his civil
service views. 1t is said that q
delegation of civil service reformers
from Boston and New York
preferred charges against him. The
delegation consisted of Richard II. Dana,
of Boston, and Silas Burt and William
Potts, of New York. The charges were
preferred and a demand made that
Smith be ordered to halt in his manner
OF conducting his business in the treas
ury. Mr.. Cleveland was in q predica-
ment. Smith was Samuel j. Tilden's
friend. he tried to patch it up with the
assistant secretary, but Smith said he
would resign before he would be dictated
to. This nettled Cleveland and he said
"resign."