Press and daily Dakotaian. (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1880-1889, 1886-02-08

JuoetCo VIII shtlsly ltsolI.
Richey & Karr's Fort Randall artesiai
we'll spouts fourteen hundred gallon
OF water per minute, with q force whicl
lifts q solid column of water SIX fes
above the mouth of the pipe. This i
the most powerful we'll in Dakota ant
it is only 610 feet deep.
j. Frederrckson, John Dougherty ant
several others will be interested in th,
special cattle shipment which leaves 70
Chicago this week. 1t is reported thu
afternoon that Mr.. Frederickson, VIII
has four car loads to ship, is inclined tt
send them over the Milwaukee road.
Christian Dickman, a farmer living il
the vicinity of Wakonda, was arrested
and brought into town yesterday or
charge of an assault with intent to com,
nit a rape or the person of an eleven
year old girl, on Saturday last. He is
confined in the county Jail but is en-
%deavoring to secure bail.
Nicholas Morgan said this morning
that he never knew it to thaw six inches
In one day until yesterday, after which
remark he grinned his grin, and tried to
borrow q chew of hiawatha fine cut
from q bystander. Whether the ice in
the river did thaw six inches or not
yesterday we don't know, but we give
this for what it is worth.
The wooden awning which has shaded
the west and south sides of Stones
block for years past is being removed to-
day and will never again afford proteo-
ton from the elements to those who
were wont to linger hereunder in days
gone by. The old story OF the woodman
and the tree might be applied to this
awning by a number of Yankton's enter
prising wall flowers.
VIM. ]. Stockwell, the Yenkton cigal
man, has introduced q brand of cigars to
the smokers Of Yankton and other
places, which has become SO much of q
favorite that the manufacturer Is kept
hard at work to fill the orders 90 they
come in. The cigar is known as the
Sumatra. MI. S%tockwell's business has
been steadily on the increase ever since
the beginning, and he may in the near
future enlarge his facilities.
Members OF the water committee O
the city council express o determination
to place a new artesian well in the city
park and to have it made in a workman.
like manner SO us to avoid the difficult
ties and %annoyances occasioned by the
unfinished hole which now supplies the
city with water. The we'll which is now
performing the service has not decreased
III flow during the past year, bat the
supply was very large and there
IS a liability that its uncased sides may
fall in at any time aud stop the flow
entirely.
-Four teams heavily loaded with wood
and following each other closely had
Just crossed the channel OF the Missouri
Saturday when the ice behind them sud-
denly heaved upward, causing a loud
ASPStts LIZ d11fEic VI Uuo bGhuS uuT-
ried onward with a nervous desire to
reach the Dakota shore, but there were
no further demonstrations and the con-
clusion is that the ice-quake WAS caused
by atmospheric pressure. The ice across
the channel was fully twenty inches
thick and solidiy made.
AT noon yesterday the Thermometer
hanging in the doorway of Duffack's
boot and shoe store, on the north side of
Third street, indicated q temperature of
one hundred and five degrees above zero.
This was in the full glare of the sun. On
the opposite side of the street, in the
shade, the mercury stood at forty-nine
above zero. On the Thursday morning
previous the recorded temperature was
twenty-five below zero in the shade, and
there was very little difference between
sunshine and shade on that occasion.
One hundred and thirty degrees is some
thing OF a rise in three winter days.
A wolf chase was among the amuse.
ments to-day and it was very exciting, if
the word OF the spectators is to be re-
lied on. The ground chosen was on the
level plat northeast of the Milwaukee
depot. The wolf and the hounds were
the principal actors and they played their
parts we'll. There was, however, one
part OF it that seems qneer. After the
return OF the hunters to the city, the
wagon bearing the carcass of the defunot
wolf stopped in front of Brennan's
butcher shop and the wolf was taken in
side. a man standing near remarked
something about swearing off on the
sausage diet long enough to steer clear
of possible chances.
Last Saturday Anton Betz, an old
resident of Cedar county, living a couple
OF miles south of st. Helena, was the vic.
tim of a runaway accident which will
probably prove fatal. His team got the
advantage of him and while they were
running MIR. Betz was thrown between
the forward wheel and the wagon. His
head and face were badly lacerated and
conclusion of the brain Is the dangerous
result of the affair. DR.. Turkopp was
called to see him and when he left this
afternoon his patient was verv low. Mr.
Betz has been a resident of Cedar county
since 1860. He is a brother of james
Betz, who lived on Jim river and wal
killed some nine years ago by the kick
of a colt.