Press and daily Dakotaian. (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1880-1889, 1888-06-21
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the wool crop has been gathered and
is coming to market.
Frank Hefner says his rye Is ripe and
will bs cut in a day or two.
The Yankton and Herrick base bail
match has been declared off,
It is Brauch s. Son she new hardware
firm. See their advertisement.
The oil mill is being improved on the
exterior By a thorough painting.
VIM Box will be assisted in managing
his suburban plantation hereafter by q
daughter, who arrived on Tuesday night.
Rev. j. V. Hines. OF Elk Point, will
conduct the usual Friday evening SER
vices at CHRIST church tomorrow eve
ming.
George Hohson's household is to-day
in a state of ioyousness over the arrival
of boy number 2. The youth will be
named after the republican nominee at
at Chicago.
At 2:30 tomorrow afternoon DIR. Dur.
yea will deliver a lecture Cd "True Man
Illness" OF the Congregational church.
This lecture sill be of particular inter-
est and value to yoGng men and every
young man in Yankton is earnestly re-
qnested TO attend, Don't forget the
hour.
The Kssota stone to be used in the
new school building arrived yesterday
and was uhloaded from the oars to-day.
II is ali cut stone, ana considerable care
in handling is necessary to insure its
safe transit and location in the building.
One of the stone door sills Is twelve feet
and six inches long, three feet and six
inches wide and seven inches shick and
weighs $500 pounds.
VIM. M. Powers returned last night
from q fruitless search for his lost horses,
but found awaiting him q telegram an
bouncing their capture by the sheriff Of
Wayne county, Nebraska. Mr.. Powers
rode over three hundred miles of Ne.
brsska prairie and he brings back glow
ing accounts Of the condition of crops
Everything Is doing we'll, he says, and
the portion of Nebraska tributary tc
Yankton is a garden.
The Northwestern railway company
has a force of men at work in this cit,
building stock yards. The site of tht
new yards is on the ground near tn,
depot, occupied by the very small pei
which has done duty as q stock yard fo
the Northwestern Tor two years. Tb,
yards are 90 be 200 yards long by 81
feet wide, and contain eight pens, eacl
about forty feet square, Sheds will b,
erected along the west and north side
and it is designed to have the yards
accommodate comfortably 400 head o
cattle. This improvement may be takel
as an indication that the Northwestern
nnmpany will hereafter pay more atten
ton to the shipment OF live stock fror
Yankton, a business matter which ha
heretofore been cramped because of
LACK Of accommodation for cattle.
There were experiences at the store c
O.. 81. Bates and the real estate offices o
Goodrich & Matthews and J.. E. Bennett
last evening with vhe electric Ugh
which were not accounted for. Thes
three establishments are in enc group
incandescently speaking. When th
Illuminating fluid was turned on til
lights in these establishments were {
dazzling brllliancy. for a few minute
and then they vent out, one by one, th
intense heat destroying the carbonI
New cartoons were put in and the electri
current again turned on. The resu
was the same. The light was inteni
and the osrbons quickly burned on
No other lights in that nsighborhood' @
being supplied over the same wire, e,
hibited these characteristics and Il
unusual flow Of electricity into the
three places is a mystery.