Press and daily Dakotaian. (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1880-1889, 1886-12-17

Hogs were purchased OH the streets
to-day for $3.50 per hundred, and
dealers are expecting another raise.
b. B. Smiths barber shop will be
closed from seven o'clock this evening
until to. morrow morning to allow for
interior painting.
All the city schools excepting the
high school closed this afternoon
for the holiday vacation. High school
closes on Wednesday.
A mail pouch containing only mail
from points in Dakota will reach this city
each day at 7:25 2. m. on the North
western passenger train.
Hamilton LaRue who was arrested,
some time ago and placed in the county
Jail for petit larceny, will be given his
freedom this evening, he having served
his time.
Stockwell, the cigar man, has in his
store window an illuminated picture of
the board Of trade building in Chicago,
which at night is surrounded by an ad-
mlring throng.
Judgment was returned against VIM.
Tobin to day for $l1.50 and the attorneys
lees IN a case brought against him by
Lee y. Morrow who formerly was in
Tobin's employ.
Reports from the artesian we'll boring
operations at George Rays farm are tu
the effect that the drill is about 235 feet
below the surface, that it Ia working in
q sand bed, and that it has peer working
10 the same sand for about 200 feet
Local dealers in cloth. both clothing
and dry goods, are offering Inducements
to Purchasers which attract persons
from many miles around who can come
to the CITY and buy goods for less money
than in any other Dakota city. Compe-
tition is the life OF trade.
A. l.. Lewis, sometime last June, pur-
chased four lots of Bartlett Trips prop.
perty on Broadway and has converted
the same into a hog raising ranch and is
meeting with success. Mr.. Lewis is one
of Yankton's enterprising colored citi-
zen's with an eye to business and his
Broadway possessions Will pay a large
Interest on the capital originally in
vested.
The management Of the Yankton COL
lege lecture course, have succeeded in
more than supplying the place made
vacant by the return of Justin Nc
CarthT, m. p. to the old country. Gen.
Lew Wallace author of ben Hur," and
"a Fair God" and also Major Dane
have been secured IN con.
sequence of Mr.. McCarthy's inability to
come to YanktoD, white Sioux City,
where the honorable member of parlia-
mept had also been announced, will be
able to secure Gen. Wallace alone.
The way of the democratic editor is
hard. 1n yesterdays issue OF the Dako-
ia Herald there appeared a telegraphic
item from Huron. concerning the state
business, and headed se~nsatioDslly. but
not as Editor Sargent inten led it should
be-. The editor wrote the heading 1.-THE
alleged state at Huron" "Will prove a
fzzle. Seeds of disruption sown." But
Mr.. Printer made 1t read "The alleged
state at Huron "Will prove q filzzle''
Send q description down" The scene
which followed the meeting between the
editor and printer, after the dioovery
can better be imagined than described.
Yesterday evening A. l.. Hinman
called at the residence of Newton Moore
and presented him with a buffalo over
coat and cap which were purchased by
the contributions Of Mr.. Moore's neigh.
bors and friends through the active In
terest OF MI. HiEmap. The presents
were peculiarly appropriate in view of
the fact hat MIR. Moore carries the nail
overland between Hurley and Yankton
three times a week. They were thank,
fully received and will be gratefully ap.
preciated by Mr.. Mooreswho Is an honest
industrious and deserving man severely
afflicted for years past by sickness in
his family. The act which benefited
him, was an act of what we call practical
christianity.
An individual who dresses a Ia semi
COW boy, and the other semi of the
digger Indian order, With his red banded
sombrero tilted on his head, his over
alIs within his boots, his hair pendant
down his neck, has made his head
quarters at Frank Shepperheyn's saloon
for two Oh three days past, and during
that time his queer actions indicated
that there was something wrong with
him. His manner was very quiet, bu'
he seemed to have a mania for scribblinG
unlntell,glble sentences, which occupa
ton would employ him in a spasmodi,
sort of way, most OF the time. This fore
noun he was taken in charge by the cit,
authorities, but would give nc name, AM
had nothing about him that wouI,
serve to identify him.