Press and daily Dakotaian. (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1880-1889, 1886-02-24

The inspection and muster of com
pany e, First regiment d. N. g., last
night, was very well attended, there be-
ing about thirty of the boys on hand
The company is doing good work and
when the time for camp rolls around
they will be ready for the competitive
drill.
The crcsswalk on Third street, between
Walnut and Cedar, is q delusion and a
snare and many trusting citizen has
put his foot into it up to the
hub. The business men at
either END Of the decayed
structure are talking about putting a
new one in its place.
Under instructions from Washington.
dated 6:l0 a.. M. the cold wave flag was
holsted this morning. The prediction
was that the temperature would fall
from fifteen to twenty degrees in from
twenty-four to forty-eight hours. The
cold wave arrived this afternoon and
brought with it a strong wind and
stormy looking clouds.
A citizen wishes US to cali atten-
ton to the miserable condition of the
sidewalk on the north side of Fifth
s%treet, in front of the Dunlap property.
A, lady in going home from church last
night was tripped by a projecting plank
and thrown upon the hard walk, and
the first remark made by her escort was
something about an action for damages.
This walk is traversed by crowds OF
people every evening, going to and re-
turning from church services, and it is q
serious stumbling block in the way OF
hoped for conversions. No person can
become truly and permanently good
who travels that way after nightfall,
1t will soon be nesting time again and
no attention has been given to the
colony of English sparrows which has
found Judgment in III city. They in
crease rapidly and by another year twill
be difficult to extermlnate them. These
birds are voted a pest ia all towns cursed
l HE-.T.
by their presence and mans inventive
genius has IN vain been invoked to
accomplish their humiliation after they
have secured a ioothold. They drive
out all the insect destroying, song sing
ing birds and are the kings of the roosi
wherever they exist. Yankton has
many choice varieties of feathered
songsters, but they will not remain long
after the English sparrow asserts his
dominion. 1t would be a good move for
the city government to provide for the
destruction of these sparrows and to see
that they stay destroyed.
The Press and Dakotaian mathemati.
clan has been figuring over the bids sub
mitted to the oily conncll for the con.
%struction of a new artesien well in the
city park and the result of his labors is 8
conclusion that the bid OF Messrs. Karr &
Richey, Of this city, is the most accept
able one in the batch. All things con
sidered they are the lowest and theil
proposition ensures q complete vel
down to the artesian basin. Under theil
proposition a well six hundred feet deer
and six inches in diameter, cased witt
the heaviest pipe, would cost the city
$2,400. They agree to use the very bes
material, which is an item of the highes
Importance, and to turn over a vel
which will fulfill its mission. AS they
are residents of Yankton their respon
success of This proposed we'll is a mattel
} of the highest Importance. as it is pro
posed through it, to test the power o
the artesisn supply below us, with
hope that 1t can be used for manufac,
turing purposes. Yankton has had OIL
experience with a half made we'll an,
when it enters into another contract i
will be after a full consideration of thr
points involved in the various PROPOSE
+ ions.
l On the Goth of January the Press an
Dakotaian published, on the authorit.
of a man who gave his name as johnson
an account of the alleged drowning O
7 two men named Lewis r. Wenrick an
Henry j. Neisiens, at Niobrara, ON tn
: evening of the 24th of January. /
afterwards transpired that there was n
truth in the statement, at least 80 ia
as any of the people OF Niobrara or Rur
. ing Water were aware OF. Since th
publication of the item we have n
ceived letters from the relatives of th
two men making enquiry about the ma
ter. Last night q letter came 30 US frol
b the sister of Mr.. Wcnrick. residing q
e Neleigh, Nebraska. The letter stat.
that since the publication of the a
q count of the drowning nothing has bee
heard from or of the two men. 9th
1t letters received have related the san
act. Mr.. johnson, who gave the fir
information, was a stranger here. T
10 seemed anxious to get the item into t
r newspapers and was unusually partic
r lar about the spelling of the names
b. the alleged deceased parties. He 81
scribed for our weekly to be sent t.
sh brother-in-law of one OF the men, res
ing at Columbus, Nebraska. Tht
'ss seems to be q mystery about this aft,
10 which will bear unraveling.
Governor Faulk' son.
The subioined notice We clip from
nd Kittanning Times of the 10Th inst:
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