Press and daily Dakotaian. (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1880-1889, 1886-05-11
Cox, Odiorne G
LOCAL L~AcOxIcs.

A door key has been left at this Office
Tor an owner
Judge Trip will open court in ollvet
Ion the ist Of June.
Ssnborn & Son shipped a car load o.
y furniture to Scotland yesterday.
H# g. G. Mayo, the Chicago piano tuner
will be here the last week in May.
Don't forget the repetition of Lady
Secret at Turner hall this
Henry Wagner, has shipped twenty
loads Of brirk out of Yankton, thus
Tar this spring.
Some twenty attorneys were to-day
admitted to practice in the supreme
sSssccourt of the territory.
Vermillion's baseball club is ius.
dying to meet the Yankton boys on the
field, and an arrangement will
probably be made whereby such q colli-
will occur.
Ole Olson, for some unexplainahle
reason, to-day severed three of the tele,
phone wires which run up Douglas ave.
s#nue and one or two of which are fasten-
ID to the upper part of his saloon build
ing.
sE A Yankton scientist has recently Ok.
planned to a reporter that alligators are
Adeoidedly fond Of dog on the hoef. The
pity have a,few hundred "gatora" ship.
sped IN from Florida, andf rendered q
banquet.
That luxury OF the season which al
ways makes its appearance with ths
spring time, the female book agent, has
reached Yankton, and the man who in
vented that concootion known as trough
on book agents." will please accept tbs
thanks Of Yankton yonng men.
Farmers report two railroad survey.
ing parties placing grade stakes on the
Nebraska side. One party is about fit.
teen miles a little west of south OF Yank.
in the neighborhood of the Macls-
gan & Pierce farm and is continuing the
work interrupted by o last %Jsnuary's
blizzard.
J. a. Teller now has ready for dis
tribution 8 large number Of illustrated
pamphlets and maps OF Yankton, which
Nhe wishes to scatter throughout the
outer world. Every body who has :
friend in the east ia requested to pro-
SO urs a pamphlet and q map, and to seno
them east.
*Gaz ~ "a Rates 1e thfc p1fv haG haar
I'm awarded contracts to survey five town
ships in Sheridan county, four il
Stevens county, and run some township
I Zines IN Stevens county. This is his frs
SNdemocratic job and the hope so long de
B ferred came heal making his heart sick
DIR. Bates faith in democratic princl
$M Piles il now renewed.
George E~Falksnberg, a former resi-
dent of Yankton, recently applied for Z
pension on the ground of lung trouble
which was denied him. Those who
KNEW Mr.. f. while ne was q Citizen o.
Yankton, will probably be surprised al
81 this information, as he weighed nearly
sS 200 pounds, and hls voice when raised
would put to shame ever the sound OF
fog horn.
# A man with a shovel went prospecting
%Ein mother earth near the tow mill yes
Atsrday afternoon, and although he die
not discover gold or diamonds, and b
did not want silver, he unsarthsd elgh
baby wolves which he retailsd at fitJ
5@5ceass each. We would like to suggss
DO the parties who own them that vol
scalps bring two dollars each from tn
county, and that their pelts will bring
k33bit more.
There Was a large and q very fruitfr
E@ meeting Of the pensioners Of Chrii
&ahurch at the church last evening. Th
election Of a vestry and q general discul
ASsion of the business affairs of the paris
Was the order of business. The follow
ing officers were elected: Newton Ee
munds, senior warden; Geo. a. Hane
lanior warden; vestry-N. Edmunds, ]
= Hudson, Geo. r.. Seongal, George Y
hingsbury, Robert Cox. George
&ocougal was chosen treasurer and T.
ohsaaler, parish clerk.
The citizens OF Deli Rapids are yer
q enth1siastic over their prospects for g
outing the Daln.h e. Denver road. I'll
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