Press and daily Dakotaian. (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1880-1889, 1888-02-01

The building improvements cd Gary
for 1887 foot up $3l 900, and the pros.
poets for the coming year are even more
hattering.
The merchants OF Gary replenished
their stocks of groceries this week. The
first freight for three weeks arrived last
Saturday,
Two hundred and sixty-ive inoandes-
cant electric lights are used at the Sioux
Falls p%enitentlary. Each cell is provid-
ed with one.
Already 275 pupils have enrolled for
the winter term OF the Vermillion uni
yersity end before its close the 800 notch
will have been struck.
Work upon the large brick structure
at Aberdeen which will be known as the
Kennard hotel, has begun and will be
continued till spring.
A5erdeen's city council has bought q
lot just back Of Main street, and an
engine house and city hall will be erect
ed thereon in the spring.
L. O. Bucklin was housed in his claim
shsnty, ia Walworth county, during the
blizzard, and vas without anything to
eat for forty eight hours.
Freight rates on the Chicago, 81. Paul
Minneapolis g. Omaha have been reduc.
ed 25 per cent between Sioux Falls and
st. Paul and Minneapolis.
The recent finds of coal by parties
who are digging wells at Gary has
stirred Its citizens into O fever for PROS
pectipg. and investigation is to be made.
j. L. Humel, who committed suicide
in st. Paul last week, was a highly res
pected resident of Sioux Falls, and q
member OF Sioux Falls lodge No. S, I. o.
10. #.
John Westdahl's merchant tailoring
establishment OF Huron was destroyed
by fire at 2 O'Clock Monday morning,
Loss on building and stock 81, 500; in
sured, $500.
At Alexandria q new creamery, with a
capicity of 1000 pounds o day, will start
up April i. The ice houses are being
filed from the James river, Ice is two
feet thick and clear.
Monday afternoon two cowboys nam
ed Arthur and Potts attempted to run
the town OF Buffalo Gap, when the
citizens turned out and killed both oil
them. Who fred the fatal shots no one
knows.
Drs. Elliott and Welsh secured iudg-
ment against Brown county Wednesday
in the sum OF SOL. The bill was for medi
cal services rendered o poor woman
named OLeary, who was unable TO pay
the bill.
1t was reported that no one periehec
in the REGENTS storm in Hanson county.
Later one man, Walter Munger. I'm.
married, was found frozen in a straw
stack. The remains we're sent to lows
for burial.
All the country roads leading to Can
ton are now open. and the farmers are
attending to business. The streets are
lined with farmers teams every day
while trade is picking up rapidly since
the late storm.
Last Saturday while Frank Wins war
feeding a breaking machine at the tow
mill of Paxton & Son, below Canton, hif
left hand caught in the machinery, tear.
ing off three fiHgers and meking an ugly
hole in his head.
According TO the report OF Miss Cors
M. Shaler, county superintendent O
schools, there are in BeadIe county 2 %!
persons OF school age; three graded ant
10 ungraded schools; AT male and 10l
female Teachers
The total receipts OF the Beadle coun.
ty t%reaaurer's office for the six months
ending Dec. 81 were $50, 3l7.29. OF thil
sum 37,915.9 81 we're collected for. taxes
81 426 20 interest and penalty on taxes
and $,898,55 for other sources.
The directors OF the university OF Da
k~ota.are making their annual settlement
During the past year they have IL
addition to completing the east wing
built 9 fine dorm:tory capable OF as
~comodating several hundred students
W Ely Hustled, q young man who ha'
his feet and limbs badly frozen, wa
taken to the Samaritan hospital in Aber
deem last week. His feet were ampu
tated Saturday and if he can survive til
shock, which is doubtful, his hands vii
be taken of.
The Fifth Avenue theatre compan,
~disbanded at Aberdeen Saturday night
The reason for ~disbsnding was not o
account of financial straits, however
but on account OF on internecine strii
caused by jealousy between the tw
leading ladies.
The first mail for nearly q week reach
ed De Stnet Friday night, and trains al
all running nov 1t was none too sool
for the supply Of kerosene oil an
gasoline waa oil exhausted, an
merchants we're greatly in need Of good
long q ordered.
Alexandria has been blocksaed TO .
~intents and purposes since Jan. 10.
that time we have had only M way ma
and FIVE mails Of any kind. Freigh
have besn RAINING and occasionally