Press and daily Dakotaian. (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1880-1889, 1888-07-19
oAsoTA oonpENsArIoNs

Wateftown psahlbitiopists have or-
esuszs d permanent club.
lady eiehty.eigLt years old made
proof of residence on quarter section
of land in Brnle county last week. This
is .be second l60 acres she has proved
up on.
Rye harvest is abont over in Bruie
county and good judges estimate the
yield OF thirty bushels per acre. Wheat
and oats are equally good and corn is
| immense.
The president of the Watertown and
Lake kampeska motor line states that
1t will be completed to the lake by Sept.
lst, Over twenty FIVE men are employ
ed in digging trenches for the water
mains.
a largely attended camp meeting is IN
progress at lake Byron. Rev. Ii. Brad
ford, presiding elder for the Huron dis
trict, is in charge. He is assisted by a
number of Methodist ministers of the
district.
Parker Lucas and wife, of Waverly,
To-, are visiting their son, Capt. w. v.
Lucas, and his family, at Chamberlain.
Tuesday picture of the old gentleman
and his progeny was taken, showing
four generations in the group.
Burglars raided the Chicago & North
western depot at Aberdeen MONDAY
night Several trunks, the property of
travellers, were rifled aud railway tickets
stolen. The robbers made a vain at
tempt to open the depot safe.
a little boy nearly two years old, be-
longing to s. Nj. johnson, of Huron,
while in photograph gallery got hold
of bottle containing cyanide of potss-
SUM and drank small quantity of it,
Death resulted in few minutes.
Postoffice Inspector Stuart has ar.
rested DR.. j O. White, late postmaster
at Oarbondale, ten miles from Dead
wood, charged with embezzliug funds
amounting to $500. He was taken be.
fore United Ststea Commissioner W,
ID. Jones, and held for trial.
While four men were building barn
on the farm of T, /. Lsthrop, in Mime
hsha county, the scaffolding gave way
and pTecipitated the men to the ground,
distance OF % feet. Eriok Erickson
will die of his injuries, Johnas Garrison
was badly bruised, and the Others es-
capped injury.
The board of commissioners of Brule
county at their July meeting ordered a
vote on the location OF the county seat.
This was done at the instance OF Puk-
wana, backed by few from KimbalI,
The contest will be mild one probably,
for the reason that the people in Cham
oeEiain do not care much If Pakwana
gets the seat of government.
AT the annual convention of the the
Christian church of Dakota, In session
at Sioux Falls the board of officers was
selected. The following will be the list:
President, j. j Olnten, Waterto wn vice
president, j. MoNeill, Tyndall; record.
ing secretary, O. B. Baldwin, Olivet;
corresponding secretary, U. s. G. Cherry,
Sioux Falls; treasurer, G. W. Elliott,
DE Smet.
At Aberdeen Monday night an at
tempt was made to fire the building oc.
cupied by r. ]. Baldwin. Fire was dis
covered in an outbuilding. Part of q
barrel of gasoline exploded, scattering
the flames. The citizens with buckets
succeeded in extinguishipg it before
much damage was done. The fire il
clearly of an incendiary origin, and it is
thought was se5 to cover an attempt to
burglarizs the Northwestern depot.
The sheriff has taken possession of
ID. Lathrop's creamery plant at Keyes,
Minnehaha county. IIathrop has dIs-
appeared. 1t is charged that during
the past three months he has been nav.
ing fifteen cents On inch for cream and
selling his butter to Sioux Falls shippers
for fifteen cents per pound cash. that il
has been his custom to pay nothing TO
producers, and that when his creditors
peremptorily demanded pay for the
product of their deiries he left, having
cleared $4,000.
Victor Steiner, the man who killed
William Stevenson on the train near
Bismarck recently, has been held to
await the decision of the grand jury.
The three witnesses taken from the
train, Thomas Broughton, J. W. Riley
and Charles Bush are held under bond
OF $500 each, and, failing 60 furnish
bonds, they have been committed. Bush
has wife and two children in Minne-
apoiis, and his detention will cause
suffering unless provision is made for
their care. There can be no plea for
Steiner, unless it be insanity, as the eye
witnesses to the homicide are heId