Sioux County pioneer. (Fort Yates, Sioux County, N.D.) 1914-1929, 1914-11-27
Cong. Morton, Urge
Better Mail Service
North Dakota Congressional Delegation
Favor Proposed Fl. Yates-Cannon-
ball Daily Mail Route

Favor Proposed IT. Yates.Cannon-
ball Daily Mail Route
Carignan & Stiles are in receipt
OF Il letter from the Bismarck Conn
mercial Club regarding the proposed
establishment OF a daily mail route
lYtwcen Fit. Yates and Cannonl,all
According to the letter, which is
published below the Bismarck club
are lending their cooperation, and
have brought influence to bear on
the North Dakota congressional del
CATION to this end. The letter fol
lows:
At the request of Mr.. Kraft OF
the N. P. railroad a few days ago,
we have taken up the matter of cs-
tablishing a mail route from Cam
nonball to Ft. Yates with the North
Dakota delegation at Washington
and have heard from Congressman
Norton and Senator Gronna to the
effect that they will at once take the
matter up with the Post office De-
partment and hope to be able to
have the route established SOON"
Additional Locals
David lta]scy who lives south OF
town, was in the city "Wednesday
OH some business matters.
The county treasurer, clerk of
court and auditor have been busy
this week getting the court house
and grounds i'm prcsentablc shape.
The records are now installed in the
large new fire proof cabinet and all
the county officials or their deputies
are on the job daily ready for the
transaction OF amy business that
may come before them.
If Power who resigned assia.
sue clerk at tho local Agency after
/ four years service. and left the first
of the month Tor his old home in
{. Indiana, did not remain cast very
4 long, having returned the first of
the week when he was seen at Nc
Laughlin. What bis future plans
arc is not konwn, but he will in all
! probability show up here one OF
these days.
DIR. G. A. Rapp, who made head
quarters here off and on the past
two years while working under the
direction OF the L. S. Bureau of
Animal Industry during the douri-
ne epidemic among horses, is now
ut Blissfcld, Michigan. He has
been assigned to foot and mouth
disease among cutie, and states in
a letter to j. NJ. Carignan that the
disease is widespread in the east.
The Hokanson-Turner store was
broken into Friday night, entrance
being made through a basement
window. . 1t is believed to the worl,
'.Foi. boys, as so far as can be ascer.
Itained nothing OF any particular va.
luei was taken. 1t is understood
'8Ithat this store has been burglarizeG
several times before and an effort
will. be made to locate the guilt,
parties.
wednqsauy was an ideal day
!, The weather this fall has been al
7 that couldsbe desired except for {
cold snap a few days last week
The Missouri river froze over /;
week ago Monday, but not suf1ici
emily to allow passage on the ice
If this mild weather continues it i
.tpredicted that the ice will breal
again before the final freeze up
Last year the river did not freez
over until in December.
t John McKenna OF Inmogene, S
d., who had the. contract for p)as
\ tering the government .hospita
completed the job Monday and LEI
with his crew for Bismarck, wher
h he has another contract to fnisl
! before the first Of the year. Th
work Of inside finishing is progrcs.
ing fast and the contractor wi
have the building completed in al
l. l-5othcr few weeks. No furnishing
l. have been ordered for the building
lcs however, and it is not likely th'