Press and daily Dakotaian. (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1880-1889, 1886-07-05

T !aas increased to nearly SOC. 1000. TIL,
| few hundred voters. then confined to
narrow strip along the Missouri and Biz
Sioux rivers, o number little les
than 100000, scattered throughout til,
eighty odd organized counties of the
territory. Them alinde to 1861
there was but one mail route in th,
territory, and that a tri-weekiy from
Sioux Oity to Fort Randall, and only
Six postofiees. Now we
have three Thousand miles
of railroad, thousands of miles o
stage or star route mail service and l,60t
post-oficss. We have over SO. 900 farms,
averaging 200 acres. to q farm and 6,600,
GOO acres OF improved land. The ave
rage value of farms is $1,000, aggregat.
ing over $156, 100000. The average
value OF farming implements to a farm
is $3.50 and of live atoek $494. The totsl
value of farm products for 1885 was near.
ly $751; 900, 900, and the value of live
stock owned in the territory
was $40,000,000 In 1884,
the latest statistics we have, there
were produced in the territory over
$4,000, 600 bushels of wheat-the average
yield per acre being a fraction over II
bushels, while for the same year in
Minnesota the yield was IL, in
Iowa ~ and in Illinois 10 bushels per
acre. In the southern counties of the
territory we raised more corn per acre
than is produced in the famed corn
region of Egypt in Illinois, and the
territory at large takes precedence in
this product over twenty states and
territories. The COWS did their
duty in the year ending with the taking
oil the last csnsns by producing nearly
100000 pounds of butter and the hens
added to the general prosperity by CON-
ing to the scratch with 100000 dozen
of eggs, to say nothing of the number
and valus of yellow legged pullets saori-
lovers of good LYING. The %healthfui-
death rate of only six to each one
balance of the United States, according
to the census OF 1880. the death rate was
l8 to every one Thousand, For the
year ending June ], 1885, the total num-
bar of deaths in the territory was 2,511,
while the births for the same period
numbered 1871. No wonder our popu-
lation IS increasing. And the Intelli-
geace of our people is equal to their
thrift. The number of persons in
Dakota who cannot read il 5000, less
than one per cent; who cannot
write, 1880, or about one per
cent. In the United States the per
csntags of the former is is and of the
latter II per cent. In 1885 Dakota had
more children attending school than had
either the states of Colorado, Delaware,
Florida, Nevada, Oregon or Rhode
ToJor1 and r,a.a kl,or kb,,, ~ Ill aAhn,
territories combined.
| Governor Ziebach's peroration was
I addressed to the American eagle az q
national bird and included the custom
airy invocation to liberty and the usual
congratulations to the people. He held
the attention OF the audience to the
close and retired amid the applause of
his hearers.
THE MEETING CLOSED
with music by the band and the crowd
broke up and surged out upon the
stree. to see the Indian dance announced
upon the programme. But it happened
that the red men had taken arrange
ments into their own hands and had
gone OF independent of the programme.
While the speaking was in progress
within the hall they had proceeded with
their dancing, finished that diversion
and had gone to their camp. This cre-
ated much disappointment. Up to this
time the Indians had proven themselves
to be a tame sort of q failure. They
formed no conspicuous feature in the
procession, their band declined to march
and play, demanding carriages or no
music. They are too much christian
lied to pose as wild red men in a Fourth
OF July procession and it is the general
verdict that the Santee Sioux have pro.
gressed too far towards civilization to be
a success as u wild western show.
AN IETERMIssIoN.
After the exercises at the hall the crowd
scattered to partake of dinner and this
disposed of the next rallying point was
the driving park, where the
AFTERNOON RACES
and other sports were to come off. The
races were %patronized by as many as two
thousand people. An account OF thia
feature of the celebration is elsewhere
given.
BASE
AT half past two O'Clock the game OF
ball between the Plowboys, of Walsh
town, and the Yanktons, of Yankton
began. 1t was witnessed by q
large and interested gathering o.
spectators and was q marked feature O!
the days doings. The Yanktons gained
an easy victory, the score standing
twenty-three to ten in their favor at the
close.
BALL SHOOTING.
At six O'Clock in the afternoon the
glass bali contest tooK place near the
water works and was witnessed by {
couple of hundred spectators. The
contest was between the Oentreyilie gun
club and the Yankton gun clut
and the latter were de
feated by o score OF fifty-nine to fifty
Neither club shot with its best skill, tn
combined result being only a few ovel
one hundred hits out OF two lhundre'
bale. The score was, ont OF ten singl
rises each, revolving trap, eightee,
yards:
Centreviile-Power, s; Pullman, {
Kier, Z; Hoe1inger. 8; Besse, a; Ellis, I
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