Press and daily Dakotaian. (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1880-1889, 1888-02-03

the Northwestern, complains earnesti,
about the scarcity of freight CARS. 81,
Is baliDg two car loads a day and the
road is hardly equal to this s rain upor
It's rolling stock facilities.
Commodore Ooulson is moving his
half of the old steamboat warehouse or
the leyee to the Coulson stock farm nea,
Violin where it will be converted into
living apartments for the fine stock
the commodore is raising. This ware
house in an old land mark, but has
served its time.
The dissolution of the merchant tailor.
ing firm of Hacker & Grebe was an
nounced yesterday. MI. Hacker goes
out OF the business and Mr.. Grepe
remains In. 1t lie understood that Mr..
Hacker will so to Sioux City to reside.
He will take With him the good wishes
of many Yankton friends.
There was q conflict of words betw cen
a couple OF local democratic OF. high posi-
tiou the other night. One democrat
undertook to chide the other for his
lack of loyalty to the territorial admins
tration and for q few moments the con-
versatlon was much more dangerous than
the blizzard Of the 18th.
The ice in the river has been rendered
somewhat shaky by the thaw of the past
few days and trsyel from Nebraska to
this city has we'll nigh ceased In conse-
qnenee. In spots on the ice water is
from four to six inches deep. People
familiar with the river think that two
more weeks OF warm weather would
cause a break up.
Who is the man or woman, be he or
she ever so young or 80 old who has not
"hshed on dry land" In order to re-
mind the old OF past days and give the
young q chance this fishing sociable is
given by the ladies OF CHRIST Church at
E. G. Edgerton's residence this evening,
Every one is sure OF o nibble if he bats
his hook with rs cents.
DR.. d. F. Etter has been appointed a
member of the pension board for the
Yankton district in place of DR.. W. a..
Iurkopp. This places q republican on
the board, which Is in compliance with
the law upon the subject. DR.. Etter is
also the only ex-soldler on the board,
AS now organized the pension board is
composed of Drs. Van Velsor, Roane and
Etter.]
Joseph Zitke, of Tyndall, who ia in
Yankton to-day, in talking about the
death of Robson and Winters in the
late blizzard, said that if these men had
continued walking in the direction they
took after leaving the sleigh for 200 feet
farther that they would have found q
fence which would have conducted them
directly to a farm house. They were
near shelter but did not know it.
d resident of LeMsrs, who was in
Yanktop yesterday is authority for the
statement that the Rock Island & Pacific
is DESTROYS Of securing q route for its
road from LIE Mars to Yankton. This
company now has lines running to Sioux
Falls and Watertown in Dakota. The
same party Gays the Illinois Central
surveyors are now at work in the Broken
Kettle country between LIE Mars and
the Big Sioux, on the Yankton route.
A Press and Dakotaian representative
saw d. M. Inman on the train from
Sioux Falls to Vermillion yesterday
afternoon and asked him about the re.
ported change of authorship. Mr.. In.
man emphatically denied that he was an
applicant for that Office and said be
would not accept it under any circum-
stances. He stated that that subject
had not been broaohed during the re-
cent visit OF Governor Church and his
associates to Sioux Falls.
Bananas and Catawba grapes at
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