Press and daily Dakotaian. (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1880-1889, 1888-10-13


Osdel for the legislative council. The
Hutchinson county convention to elect
DELEGATES to the legislative convention
will Occur a. Psrkrtop next Mooday and
the Il g.rlatlVs (4t Mepuo) next Tuesday,
Republicans are generally interested IN
political questions aud Hutchinson
county ID nearly all republican.
The committee OF the conference to
which is assigned the Mitchell university
matter is evidently wrestling with a
problem. 1t held two sessions Thursday
lad two yesterday and each night SEES
sion la ted up to twelve o'clock. This
evening IL meets again and mag be with.
in sight 4 Sabbath morning before it
rests. A considerable element in the
committee is IN favor OF moving the uni.
yersity, not SO much because il burned
as because the people of Mitchell never
conveyed absolute title to the real estate
doDst. d for university purposes. These
members OF the committee say they have
q good business reason for making q
change and they are in search of an
eqoa ly good moral reason. 1t is with
this moral reason that they are sitting
up nights.
ugene Handy, one of the suffers
from Thursday afternoons prairie fire,
was In town yesterday procuring legal
advice with the purpose OF proceeding
against Henry Goedy, who started the
oophagrstion by accidentally spilllng
the contents of his pipe aud setting fire
to his W barn. 1t is the general belief
of his neia hbors that MIR. Gosdy is the in.
nocent victim of an accident by which he
has suffe r d fully as severely, IN proper.
ton to his ability to suffer, al any of those
whose hay was destroy ed, and they do
not favor the proposition TO punish him
by a resort to the law. He is a young
man, fresh from the east, who occupied
bachelors quarters on a hundred and
sixty acres owned by himself and an
other young man who Is now at their
former eastern home.
The game OF "shinny." as played by
the Juveniles OF Yankton has become
such o nuisance on the streets that sew.
eral good citizens come to US with COM
plants. When the boys take posses
sion of q section of a street in pursuit of
their iavo rite psstims the ta'auoe of
the populeoe may as we'll go around the
block if they regard personal safety or
are in anything of q hurry. skinny"
has tie floor In IL a. neighborhood and
the mob of bludgeon armed small boys
never look before they strike. A Yauk-
ton druggist says hardly a day passes
tt a. a boy or two is not brought in to. be
&c 'ed up or bandsged, the ''shinnY''
stick cutting deep wherever it hits, The
gsme doubtless hiss it's %fasclna.ions.
Other wise 1t would not yield SO many
victims. But its prevalence calls for
some restraining influences,
There was e session this afternoon OF
the county democratic committee for
the purpose of supplying omissions OF
the county convention aud filing va.
csncies ocoasioned by d%eciination of
nominees 70 run. For the position OF
school superintendent j. O. Dillenger
wss nominated. For county attorney j.
7. Read WAS nominated, vice Otto Pee
miller. declined. For constable Peter
Fslker berg was nominated, vice J. M.
Woods, declined. For county commits.
sioner, fourth district Thomas Inch wss
nominated. The nomination for auditor
MAS announced IS vacaet, W.. Bruce
declining and the chalrmaa OF the COM
mittee was authorized to make the nomi-
nation, and also to name a candidate for
county surveyor. These tasks COM
pleted and the d democratic ticket will be
full. Vacancies on the oounty commit
tee were filled by the appointment of
Thomas Noonan for the seventh pre-
cinct, John Thurs,on FOR che ninth, John
Fox for the eleventh, George Pike, jr.,
for the twelfth and o. J.. B. Harris for
the fifteenth.