Press and daily Dakotaian. (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1880-1889, 1886-06-12

Dogs have been conspicuous for thei
absence on the streets to-day.
A Union county patient was brough.
to Yankton last night and lodged in The
asylum.
Plate glass windows will be put il
the Dantorth block on upper Third
street.
Springfeld's mad dog, it is said, bit q
heifer, which was attacked by rabies and
bit q man.
Father Nichols brings us in u stalk of
corn six feet tail, which he gathered
near ST. James.
The usual Sunday services will
be held at the Baptist church, morn
ing and evening.
VIM. Stearns, one of our largest
farmers, speaks encouragingiy of crop
and stock prospects.
John Thompson, who was in to-day
from his Geyville farm, reports an ex-
%oellent crop outlook.
John Dougherty. an extreme eastern
Yankton county farmer, reports an ex-
%cellent crop lay out in his section.
Sheriff Brennan took his little gun
this forenoon and shot a dog which was
said to have been sick. Let the good
work go on.
Frank Devce, of Walshtown, who was
shopping in Yankton to-day, accom-.
panied by his venerable father, says his
crops ers in fine condition.
A dozen or twenty of the colts of ths
noted stallion Captain Woods are to be
exhibited on the driving park course the
last two days at the July races.
Before her departure for the east Mrs.
Stewart Shsldon was presented with q
beautiful gold watch and chain by the
ladies of the Congregational church.
The new well pipe has been described
as being of four inch bore, when it is
full six inches. The latter size conveys
two and a fourth times as much water
as the former.
The council at it's last nights meeting
passedssn ordinance providing for mnz-
cling and taxing dogs and on Monday
the slaughter of untaxed, unmuzzied
dogs will begin.
w. Fred Bancroft Will have charge OF
the Yankton telephone exchange during
Manager Burns absence. Fred will at
tend to all non-working instruments
upon order left at the central office.
Emanuel Zienert and Henry Don
nelly will run 800 yards for ten dollars a
side on Broadway this evening. Both
mon have made 100 yards in something
like ten seconds and the race will be
close.
The members of Phil Kearney post
are requested to meet at Grand Army
hall, in full uniform to morrow after
noon at one o'clock, for the purpose OF
attending the funeral of Comrade Owen
Bartlett,
A baptismal service will be held ct the
James river, near tbs bridge at four
O'Clock tomorrow afternoon by Rev. Q.
f. Clapp, at which sime Miss Ella Mar
tin and q younger slater and Theodore
Dsvol will be immersed.
Sergeant Thompson says the condi-
tions are even more favora BILE for
storms this afternoon than they were
this morning, when Hazsn's bulletin
was issued. The barometer has been
falling for a couple of days.
Jacob Branch, the aldermanic parent
of Yankton's water system, is in high
feather over the success of Yankton'a
new artesian we'll. He stood strong foi
the new we'll and fought 1T through on
that line and has a right to feel good.
A telegram from the weather depart
mont at Washington, received this
morning, warned the people against
severe local storms today IN eastern Da.
kota, Nebraska, northern Iowa and Min
nosota. The day has been hot, murky
and threatening.
It took Richey & harr two months
and a day to make the new arteslan well,
They encountered vexatious difficulties
and delays in the clay and quick sand
beds, all of which were overcome by
skill, patience and their superior well
boring machinery.
Medical authorities do not apply the
word hydrophobia to the disease affect
ing any of the brute creation. The
phenomenon Of fear or repulsion fol
water, from which the name is taken is
peculiar to the human patient. In ami
mails 1t is called rabies.
1t is said that the new city council il
disposed to carry politics into the waite
department and appoint an undisguiset
bourbon as superintendent of waite
works. A. e. Colby is said to be o can
didate for the place and though not
democrat, is a very competent man.
A man who zaid he lived in Gayvill
was in the Press and Dakotaian offic
yesterday yehemently denying the off
cially confirmed report of the existenc
of h%ydrophobia in that nsighborhood. A
/ he was far gone in intoxication his state
ments were not deemed worthy of
second thought.
John Reder is preparing to plat
twenty bushels of Strawberries on tt
market and we havs substantial svldent
of thsir excellence. Mr.. Redsr will ais
dispose of fifty bushels of choice rasl