Press and daily Dakotaian. (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1880-1889, 1886-07-01
LOCAL EACogrCs.

Thirty.six strangers are registered al
the Merchants hotel to-day.
A valuable horse belonging to ii. B
Murphy died of colo last night.
The Fountain city band will furnish
music for the celebration at Wakonda
on the 9th.
A large number of Sioux City sport
ing men arrived last night and will stay
during the races.
The young peoples aid society of the
NJ. e. church will picnic on the Jim on
Saturday, the third.
A man from the east has organized a
singing school which meets on Cedar
street in one of the Pruden buildings
nightly.
But one thing is lacking to make the
celebration of the 3rd o grand success,
and that is a ball in the evening. The
rink is tho place to have it.
DIR. FL. +. Livingsion's family has been
increased one by the srrival of o boy
who appeared at the Livingston maasion
st an early hour this morning.
Yesterday was a red letter day for the
Yankton fire insurance company, its re-
oeipts for the twenty.four hours being
over two thousand dollars. The Yank.
ton booms.,
Third street patrons OF the street
sprinkler were kicking some to-day be-
cause the anti-dust cart went off and
left them several hours while the wind
was blowing savagely.
'Howe's Standard theatre company
will open a weeks season in Yankton
next Monday. This company makes a
speciality of cheap rates, selling tickets
down to ten and twenty cents.
A. @. Seaman, OF this city, has a COW
that ought to be valuable in a.Iarge fam
lily of children. Yesterday he obtained
thirteen ounces of butter from one milk
ing Of this COW. Who can and who
would beat her?
a prediction of possible severe local
storms in Wisconsin, Minnesota and
Dakota last night and to-day reached
us last evening. We have thlckening
weather and disagreeable wind to-day,
but nothing worse.
a small fraction OF the crowd of
Indians who wall spend the 3rd in Yank-
ton came across the Missouri river last
night and are camped near the MilNau-
kee depot. Their pappooses, dogs, and
aboriginal appearance ars with them
and the camp has been visited by @
large number Of visitors to-day.
AT the sisters school last evening the
closing exhibition was given to q
crowded house and it passed off most
happily. The talent displayed by the
participants was most commendable.
demonstrating intelligence OF & high
order and careful training. The school
year closes under the most gratifying
auspices.
From the Santee Indians who arrived
last night we learn that they need 8
drum, as theirs is no good. That about
forty Yankton Indians have left the
agency and will be here on the Sd. That
the supply of dog is running low and
that they will thankfully accept dona-
tions of that character. That the Indian
base ball club is q good n and would
like to play with the Yanktons.
Messrs. Karr & Riohey, the a~rtesian
we'll men, came home from Scotland last
night. They report a bad state of
affairs at the Scotland well, saying that
it has stopped flowing and that next
week they wall begin reboripg with a
drill reduced in size. They make no
predictions regarding the result of the
dig. Karr & Richey began deepening
this well because the Scotland authori-
ties wanted them to, and against their
own judgment.
A German named AnGrews Frank
took his running horse to the race track
this morning and placing his boy on the
back of the animal started the horse
around the track. When about half
way over the course the racer bolted
the track, going for the fence, through
which he jumped, throwing the boy and
severely cutting both bis arms. He
was picked UP and taken home to re-
cuperate. The horse will not go in the
races.
An agreeable caller to day was the
Especial correspondent of the Boston
Herald, J. B. Harrison, who is in Dakota
inspecting the Sioux Indian country fol
the information of his paper. He has
visited the Pine Ridge and Rosebud
agencies and looked them over. Mr.
Harrison is q strong advocate of the lane
in severalty proposition and believes il
granting to Indians exactly the same
rights as are accorded to the whites
He rays thu people of the far east can
not understand these matters as they
really are, without coming in contac
with the actual condition o
affairs. He will endeavor to enlight
en- the Bostonians through thu
columns of the Herald and to SOW tn,
seeds of much needed reform, the frs
step to which is the wiping out Of TIL
big reservation and then giving ever,
Indian as much land as he needs. MI
; Harrison's trip has not been made il
vain.
Representatives. of the Sioux Fall