Press and daily Dakotaian. (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1880-1889, 1888-01-26
pleasant home ana an excellent life COM

panion.
Ice costs q dollar a load, 1t is no
the scarcity of the article so much 81
its weight per chunk aud the distanc.
it has to be hauled. Good ice seeks .
remots hiding place and only the ex.
perts can find it.
The real estate transfers to day are:
8. b. Coulson to Anderson, lots 10 and
ii, block SO, lower Yankton, 5000; Mrs,
NJ. L. Trip to G.. Sebold. lots 1 and 2,
block "a, Yankton, $4,000. These sales
were made through the Roberts agency.
The strength of Buster, the United
States express oompany's delivery horse,
has been tested upon several occasions
this winter. His greatest feat has been
hauling $500 pounds of express loaded
on q sled from the Milwaukee depot to
the express Office.
T. ID. Plumb, formerly of Yankten,
engaged &c storekeeper fer the Milwaukee
railway company while in this city has
been arrested at Sioux City for alleged
completely in the coal stealing opera.
ticns which have recently come to light
in the Milwaukee yards there.
La Justice Pennington's court this
afternoon Laura Leonard was arraigned
upon a complaint charging her with
selling malt liquors without q license.
She plead not guilty and the case was
postponed until 7fo'clock this evening
to allow the police to get witnesses.
The board OF trustees OF the Yankton
asylum have passed upon accounts which
represent $l7,400 in round numbers.
This is the amount of suspended pay
ments which accumulated during the
late unpleasantnese. In the absence OF
Colonel Gale, Id. T. Wooliey is presid-
ing over the deliberations OF the board.
Mrs. j. A. Robson, widow OF one OF
the blizzard victims of two weeks ago,left
Yankton to-day with her children for
Monroe, Iowa. where they will make
their home. The family was in desti-
tute circumstances and was provided by
YanktoR people with means to reach
their friends inIows. Their Dakots OK
perience has been o sad one.
A large audience listened to . f..
Bredley's lecture on Siam at Memorial
hall last evening. The lecture was made
up ofextracts from the sperker's personal
experiences in Siam, and among lis peo-
pie, giving their habits. the laws which
govern them, and their religion and
various characteristics. j. M. King as.
sisted Mi. Bradley by appearing on the
platform Glad in q Siamese costume. The
'%lecture was very entertaining and highly
Instructive. The Grand Army course
opens auspiciously.
A marked feature OF to.day's weather
is o genial thaw which has loosened up
the NOV and made people feel that life
is less q burden. The heat came npon ms
suddenly and the contrast between to-
day and two weeks ago to-day is as de-
cided as the contrast between a smile
and q frown. Out On the prairie the snow
is softening some and this will help the
railroads in their struggle against drift
ing 1t will pack the snow and a
freeze will crust it wei so she breezes
cannot pick it up and carry it into the
the dug~ways through which the trains
run.
Yankton contains many travellers
bound for the region served by the
Chamberlain and Pierre lines of the Mil
waukee and the Northwestern railroads.
They have come this far over the south
ern route, because is the only east
and west route open to travel and here
they are compelled to await the north
ward and westward digging out process.
Some of them have relatives in the in
accessible region who were frosted IN
the blizzard OF the 18th and are anxious
to get to them. Others are striving to
reach their homes from which they are
cut off By the impedlment of snow.
Yankton Is becoming quite q winter re-
sort,
The Chicago Tribune has had a great
deal to say about the Dakota visitation
OF Thursday, the 18th Of January-will
it comment p%rofusely upon the Dakota
visitation of Thursday the 26th OF JAM
uary? To-day has given us typical
Dakota winter weather. Two weeks ago
to-day there came upon us q ~clirstic
monstrosity. To-day, with its genial
skies and baImy atmosphere, is the in
duoement for people to make their
homes in Dakota, and the inducements ia
the rule. The monatrosity is the rare
exception. Yet the Chicago Tribune
will prefer to hsunt the monstrosity
and say nothing Of the prevalent delight
full other extreme. This habit passes cur
rent as the outcropping of human
nature. Correctly designated il would
be known as human cussedness-s
pessimistic failing.
O. 81. Bates, who was in huron this
week, says the snow in that section is
ten fold greater in quantity than hero.
Everything is buried, Huron being al
most hidden by q succession OF noun.
famous snow drifts. The railroad COM
pany keeps q train OF fat cars busy
hauling snow from the railroad yard and