Press and daily Dakotaian. (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1880-1889, 1886-07-16


evening and tonight Rev. Q. E. Hage
will conduct the services. Everybod.
is cordially invited to attend.
Mr.. Slaughter was found unable t
attend court to-day and the examination
of Fox was again put off. Fox expresse
himself as heartily sorry for what he ha
done. but be has no one to blame bu
himself. For more than a year befor
the assault for which he is to ans
wer, he has been steadily at work in tn
country.
To-day workmen began operation
on the grain elevator and warehous
which Messrs. Archer & Howe, of Day
ton, Ohio, are erecting in this city. Thu
site of the building is near Broadwa,
and alongside the Northwestern track
and 30x70 feet are the proposed dimen
sions. The building will be replete will
all the paraphernalia of modern eleva
torism.
DR.. w. A. Burlelgh writes from Miles
City, that last week the thermometer!
in that locality registered lie degrees
above zero in the shade and that in the
sun 1855 was registered. AT Glendivs
1870 in the shade was reached, and al
business was suspended IN both places
on account of the heat. The vegetation
is all drying up and hay will be very
scarce next year.
An accurate test of the pressure and
elevation of the water flowing from the
new artesian we'll was made this after
noon by Superintendent Campbell aud
Alderman Branch. A hydraulic guage
of the most approved pattern and abso.
lutely reliable was used. 1t was found
that the pressure Of the water as it flows
from the well is %thirty.two pounds pei
square inch and that the column oil
water will lift itself seventy-two feet
high in a pipe.
The WakonGa Independent announces
that DR.. Dywer, the party who created
the recent domestic disturbance fl thai
town, has fed from the officers who had
a warrant for his arrest, and has gone
into the unexplorable Businesses of the
whittier. The Independent feels that
an ounce of cold lead in his anatomy
would have been justiiable punish.
ment. 1t mentions him as o serpen,
and q reprobate, and warns oyer the
subject of tar. feathers aud q rail. Jus
tice appears to have lost a victim IN the
departure of DIR. Dwyer.
Mr.. Wheeler, of the wooden mill, il
figuring on running his machinery by
water power from the city mains and
dispensing with his steam engine. The
Press & Dakotalan is also securing esti
mates and propositions with q view te
substituting water power for steam
power, if it is demonstrated that thu
reservoir head will drive Its machinery
Next season the Excelsior mill company
will carefully investigate the force of on,
| srtesian wells and if it is shown tina
sufficient power can be procured the,
will put down a large well and run theil
machinery by water.
a citizen was noticed yesterday sitter
noon engaged in the work of killing
dog. He turned the animal loose OF
the base ball field near the Northwestern
depot, and when the dog was something
like q half mile, more or less, away the
man took his gun and fred. The bulle'
struck the dog in or near the wag emf
of his tail, but it wounded him SO badl,
that he was forced to lie down. Thel
| Mr.. citizen took a club about the size o
a mans wrist, and proceeded to hamme
the poor brute on the head until lif,
was extinct. The destroyer wore a com
placent smile all through the massacre
The success of the new Excelsior role
mills located in this city would be
marvel but for the we'll recognized fac
that the best always succeeds. The MI
company is %disposing of it's -four il
nearly all the railroad towns in th
southeastern quarter of Dakota and
sending regular shipments to Sioux Git
and Omaha. All their customers VIII
have tried the Excelsior -four order agai
and again without solicitation an
accompany their orders with the mos
fattering comments. A Sioux Cit
dealer writes that the Excelsior -four
"the boss-the best to be had in th
market" A sample of the brand know
as bakers -four was sent to o dealer j
Washington, d. g., By request. 3
writes that if it is bakers -four it is til
best ever made, but he expresses q sui
picion that it is "Etraight patent
because OF Its excellence. But the PR
duct is Just what its name implies, /
superiority coming from the manufactu
ing process employed at the Excelsio
The Yankton mills have already achieve
q reputation which has created q big d
mand for its products. 1t outsells tt
local mills in almost every Southwestern
Dakota community.
Go to Shaw's ParlOr for IL
Cream--Made from CREAM. Strict
pure and most delicious. Festival
Fairs, parties and picnics furnished
one dollar ane twenty-five ($1.25) p
gallon. Cakes made to order, plain ar
iced. Sign of the Red Lamp.
Lumber! Lumber!
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