Press and daily Dakotaian. (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1880-1889, 1886-09-30

r. j. Shumway, the man who som
time ago was arrested for an attemp
to kill Charles Rudd, in this city, anc
who, after being released from custod.
on bail, left The city and was for a lonl
time'uuheard OF, has returned, and vii
have his case investigated by the grand
jury.
The Maud Howe dramatic compan,
VIII open IN engagement of one wees
In Turner hall in this city On the 1871
of October. The company receives the
highest recommendations from the
press and public, anu considerable time
was expended in inducing it to visit
Yankton.
The Bohemian settlers in the vicinity
OF Tabor are now recovering from three
days ratification in which they ~lndulged
because of their bountiful crops and the
general prosperity which they have en-
ioyed this year.. They danced at Tabor
from Sunday night until last night,
without allowing the music to stop.
An inmate Ct Yankton college, who is
something more than an amateur orni.
biologist, after careful research announ-
ces that that the MISSOURI river country
included within the counties of Bon
Homme, Yankton and CLAY contains q
larger variety of birds than any district
of similar size in the United States.
In the district court, of which a SEES
sion was held last evening. a motion
was made by Fl. o. Preston, of Mitchell,
that some disinterested person other
than the sheriff of Dawson county,
strike the jury in q certain case. Judge
A, j. Edgerton argued against the
motion, which was not allowed by the
court.
DR.. Turkopp's family dog, chained in
the yard back of the doctors abode,
attempted suicide to-day by jumping
over a high board fence, leaving the
fastened end of the chain on the other
side. Success would have crowned the
CANNES efforts at self destruction but
for the intervention of Ed. Bruce, who
came to the rescue at the critical mo-
ment.
The steamer Minnie Herman, Captain
VIM. Boland, is now operating on the
Missouri between Chamberlain and
Sioux City and is prepared to transport
passengers or freight between intermedi
ate points. The Minnie Herman will
reach Yankton next Monday evening on
her second up the river trip and will re-
ceive, at the %levee, all passengers and
freight consigned to upper points.
George Bailey, who went from Yank-
ton to Sioux City and was there N
ployed ID a saloon, says the prohibition
boom has made the liquor business
dull in Sioux City and he has returned
to Yankton permanently. FREQ Lerch
and John Bradshaw, ex.Yanktonians,
have closed up and Bradshaw is seeking
a location in Colorado. George is of
the opinion that prohibition does pro-
hibit to some extent in Sioux City.
There was a brief blow last evening in
honor of Virgins. While it ratified the
loose windows and shock the shaky
shingles for about an hour, it was a
mere puff of borean breath compared to
the dire promise proclaimed by the
Canadian fraud. One lady testifies that
she thought she felt an earthquake
shock aboat ten o'clock, but her ex-
periences are not confirmed and she
admits that her thoughts were with
Virgins at that particular time. On
.ne whole the night was a very COM
Portable one and every thing was intact
this morning.
Cedar county, Nebraska, has granted
to Andrew Larson. of Yankton, the ex-
elusive right to run a ferry boat between
Yankton and the Nebraska side for o
period of five years. Larson pays Cedar
county FIVE dollars per year for this
privilege and is bound by the charter to
make ten trips per day from the open
ing of navigation in the spring to the
closing in the fall. a schedule of charges
is fixed by the county commissioners in
which it is provided that q man and his
wife count one and are to be charged
only n fare. If they should happen to
run through a Dakota divorce court
while over here it would cost them full
rates to get home.
1t is with 30 little regret that we are
finally compelled to record the demise
of the electric light project. 1t is dead
beyond hope of resuscitation. At q
meeting of the stockholders late yester-
day afternoon the company resolved to
go no further and practically disbanded.
Its expenditure of several hundred dol
lars in Investigating the electric light
business was voted q loss. This company
was composed exclusively of Yankton
men, who proposed to put their own cap
| ital into the business. They canvassed
the city and secured a guarantee OF
enough patronage to render the venture
a safe one. They were enthusiastic in
their work and pushed it with vlgor up
to the time of the adverse action of the
city council in response to their applica.
ton for a franchise. Since then tileil
business ardor has been cooling until
it is now in a polarish condition. They
argue that the city government did moi
meet their public spirited efforts in {
public spirited way and say they canno'
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