Press and daily Dakotaian. (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1880-1889, 1886-09-09

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parison may do them good.
We to day publish the advertisement
Of the Dakota Mutual insurance COM
psny, of Huron, Dakota. This company
now has agents and does business in
every place of importance in Dakota.
1t operates on o plan which furnishes
insurance at cost, and challenges critic
ism. e. a. Bruce is agent for the com-
pany at this place and will be pleased
to fully explain all particulars.
Tomorrow evening at the rink, the
attendants at the harvest home festival
will be entertained as follows: Solo by
Ridell; toast, '.Yankton County, the
Garden Spot of Dakota" Gen. Beadle
music, duet: toast, .'What Shall oui
Future Harvest be ?" DIR. Joseph Ward
solo, Baker; toast, "The Women of the
West" Col. Hughes East; music, duet,
Baker aad Ridell.
The committee appointed by the
mayor from the council to confer with
the electric light company, met several
members of that company at Scougal's
bank this morning, and after an hours
discussion of the passage of the substi-
tute for the original ordinance granting
the light company o franchise the con-
ference adjourned and the committee
will report to the council this evening.
A business man suggests that, mas
much,a as the proper city officials decline
to remove tho unslghtly weed patches
from vacant lots, a collection be taken
up to defray the expense and some one
hired to do the work. The cost will be
small and perhaps the authorities can
be made to blush with shame for their
neglect of this important duty. Ihe
experiment would be an interesting one
and well worth the price of admission.
Prof. Young, the instructor in music
at Yankton college, has organized a
chorus class which meets in the chapel
of the Congregational church each Wed
nesday afternoon. To his pupils in
vocal music the benefit of this session is
given free but others may become mem
bers by paying a small fee. Yesterday
the class met for the first time, and the
hour spent in practice was highly
enjoyed.
AS the result of the row at the depot
last night Andrew Williams the man
who struck Chas. Kruce, was called upon
this morning to pay $3.50 into the city
treasury. After Mr.. Willisme had paid
up he swore out a warrant against Kruoe,
charging him with disorderly conduct
on the public streets and with carrying
concealed weapons. Marshal Baumann
had not succeeded In finding Kruoe up
to 3 o'clock this afternoon.
Twenty-six boys, some knee high to a
large toad and Others nearly the size Of
small men, were congregated OF the
Milwaukee depot Lass evening when the
train from the east arrived. As these
boys have, no business at the depot and
as they are q public nuisance there
their parents are asked TO keep them al
home. The station men request this
notice and ask that we give Yankton
parents warning that this evening an
officer will be at the depot, and eacL
youth there present will be arrested
The mon at the station mean business
and the kids had best roost high hence.
forth.
Jim Rosebaum, summoned yesterday
to set up a stove and put the pipe IL
place. was told by the housewife, upor
his arrival, that the Job was already hal
done, but she wanted him to complete
it. AS the stove was yet in the store
house and the pipe scattered. all ovel
the back yard, Jim couldn't exaotl.
understand what was meant by hel
explanation and asked for further light
She told him her husband and her sor
had used up all the early morning hourt
IL futile profanity over the severa
lengths of s%tovepipe and she considered
their efforts a legitimate hall of the task
She called III professional aid only wher
home talent had exhausted itself and at
her family mad gone as far as it could
towards putting mp q stove she wanted
Mr.. Rosebaum to complete the job.
There is a man in Yankton who for I
year past has been in the employ of the
government as mail carrier and has also
been attached to one of the city 'bu'
lines. At various times he has made
himself obnoxious to other people BY
loud talk and boisterious conduct ant
some of these people have seen fit tt
retaliate in such q way as to disfgurt
his countenance. After he has succeeded
in surrounding about a pint of whisky
he puts on high rubber boots and pre-
pares 20 wade in gore. Yesterda.
afternoon this individual nearly BROKE
his own neck in getting out of the wa.
of a man whom he had blasphemed
When he met this party at the depo
last night and the mar knocked hin
silly, his spirit was broken and he wax
content to lie IN q pile Of beer boxe
and hold his peace. He is now perfect.
docile. A little child can lead him.
The city council will meet again thi
evening to consider further the reques
of the Yankton electric light compan,
for a franchise. This matter has been
long time pending, There is bardl.
another city In the world that woul,