Press and daily Dakotaian. (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1880-1889, 1888-03-03

pertnme of roses and the fragrance OF
orange blossoms, OF blue grass lawus
and OF various other nlcs things.
ASioux City man said to-day that
treason number sixteen" was q good
enorgh reason for fank.on to quit trad
ing with Sioux Uity. Yankton could
hardly do anything else and preserve ITS
self respect.
Major j. f. Kinney writes Colonel
East OF this city that the stories which
have been reported in the newspapers
as coming from him about the storm OF
January 18th are pure ~fabrications.
The public will agree with Major Kin.
ney.
The next meeting of the choral union
will not be held until Wednesday eve
ming, not Tuesday as stated in last
nights paper. The committee will be at
guild hall at o quarter before seven on
Wednesday evening TO receive appliea-
tions for membership.
The board of education held q meet
ing last evening at which plans for the
new school house we're examined.
Within q few days o special meeting of
the board will be called and at that time
the day for beginning work on the new
building will be decided.
The firm OF Cox Odiorne s. 90 OF this
city was yesterday dissolved by mutual
consent. Clarence w. Cox retiring,
Messrs Robt Cox and e. a. Odiorne will
continue the business at the old location.
O. w. COX is at present in st. Paul hndit
is understoo / that he will locate there
permanently.
Major Hell, agent OF the Santee Sioux,
who was in Ysnkton last evening, says
the Indians under his charge are pro-
crossing fairly with their experiment of
downing lands in severalty. They are in.
dustrieus and last year raised good crops
of corn. Wheat was light. Other crops
we're satisfactory. The Santees have
only recently become citizens and have
hardly had time to develop.
Rev. Dan. It. Bradley last evening
delivered his lecture on Siam at the Fox
school house, Jim river district, for the
benefit of Father Nichols Jim river
church. The house was we'll filed and
the lecture interested the attendants as
1t has interested Yankton audiences.
Father Nichols accompanied MI. Brad
ley and the two almost made q night OF
il getting home over the craggy Jim
river road-the 70 that is going to be
fixed by the county commissioners.
A lady who occasionally delivers adj
dresses before public assemblages asked
q Congregational minister the other day
to grant her private audience while she
read her latess effort to him, the design
being to secuse opinions and suggestions
from her auditor. He complied and the
reading proceeded. Hall way through,
the lady glanced over her paper and
then her voice died away into inarticulate
nothing. She gathered up the pages,
%rearranged them and placed them in her
nuff and silently stole away. The min
lister ives asleep.
There was trouble on the line OF the
Milwaukee road between Scotland and
Mitchell yesterday. The breezes of
Thursday and Thnssday night reJuvena-
ted the now drifts, which had almost
withered away, and the whole railway
management WAS thrown into disorder
thereby. And then a consumptive To-
connective, which left Mitchell some days
ago for sioux City, suffered a hemorr-
hage Of the lungs, from the effects of
which 1t died, and the remains were in
tered with appropriate ceremonies at
Parkston yesterday. All these mlshaps
kept the passenger trains back, and the
train out of Ysnkton last night was two
hcars late.
AT Oiivet this week Judge Tripp has
been holding a term OF court. The
court attracted q large number of peo-
pie to that village, and o profitable Judi
cial jubilee was the result. Among the
legal transactions which occurred was q
plea OF guilty entered by Washington
IGleun, who was indicted for assault with
attempt to commit rape. Glenn is
guilty of incest, but his family was
charitable enough to let him off easily.
Another court item is that =. N. True
successfully defended q suit brought
against him for libel, which was institu-
ted by Justice of the Peace Hawley, OF
Hutchinson county, who claims that
True slandered him in q newspaper.
Judge Trip returned from Olivet to.
day.
Bear in mind that a now time card
goes into effect on the Milwaukee Mon
day. Numbers two.and ours(passenger)
make connections at Manila for Chica-
go, the same as last summer, Number
two leaves Yankton at $50 a. m. and
number four at $3.50 p, m. Number four,
the most convenient Chicago train ovel
this road for Yankton people. resches
Chicago at 2:10 the next afternoon
covering the six hundred miles il
twenty-five hours and fifteen minutes
The ice in the Missouri river broke mp
and went out without a gorge at Fort
Benton on the 22d uIt., floating quietly
, off without doing any damage whatever
The river was frozen thick and solid dur
ing the cold weather, and SO tight wal