Turner County herald. (Hurley, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1883-05-10
DAKOTA ITEMS

Yankton is agitating the question cf
gas works.
Work has been commenced Oh the
woolen mill ut Yankton.
The surveyor generals Office will be
moved to Huron June lst.
The Yankton pork-packing cstab-
lishment is IN assured fact.
NJ. W. Sheaha of Elk Point, has Sc
cured q large -four contract Ia the up
per country.
Coal was struck at depth OF $50 feet |
in an artesian well being sunk three
miles west of Yankton.
The Press and Dakotaian has been
made the official paper of the city of !!
Yankton for the ensuing Year.
One hundred and forty thousand
acres of government land was taken in |
the Yanktoh land district last month. !
Gov. Ordway Was before the grand
jury ut Yankton recently and that body |
was thereby enabled to appreciate its !!
own insigniticancc.
THERE'S lot a vacant claim, tree clam
homestead or prescription to- day open
for filing in Aurors ccunty, and but
very few in the Mitchell land district.
A tri>weekly passenger train will be
put on between Iankton and Scotland
next Monday, leaving iankton Mpn-
days Wednesdays and Fridays on the
arrival of the Sioux City train.
Two hundred and fifty cars Of immi-
grants stock were unloaded ut Huron
during the month of April, and 1900
ears, loaded with immigrants movca-
blcs, passed through that city, en- rrutc
to points north and west.
1t is said that Mrs. Simonds, wife uf
y, W. Simonds, who is being held in
Milb'lnk for unluwfmllv dci;.nining the
county records, is seriously i'll, and will
probably lose her reason, all growing
out of the county seat fight.
The body of Michael Collinyan, who
was lost in the storm on the night of
April 9th was found May LIST on North
Medary creek near Aurora. He became
bewildered in the strrm and fell into
the creek and was drowned,
The Miller, Hand county, people are
out of coal and getting desperate. The
Press says that parties in the country
and many in Miller are preparing to
stop the first train that arrives with
any quantity of coal and shall not per.
nit the same to leave until the coal is
distributed among the needy and long
shivering people"
Sioux Falls Press: DR.. NJ. Stone, of
Omaha, chairman OF the committee de
tailed to locate til Baptist collegiate in
stitutc, declared full satisfaction with
the manner in which Sioux Falls has
fulfilled her pledge to raise $1,000 for
securing the location, and says he is
certain that before the season is closed
she will much more than fulfil it. The
location of the institute ut Sioux Falls
is therefore forcgonc conclusion.
From railroad sources, it is estimated
that In southern Dakota fifty thousand
acres OF new ground will be added to
wheat acreage; in central Dakota, sew
enty.tire thousand; in the james river
valley, twenty thousand, The North
ern Pacific officials state that along
their lines in Dakota the increase in
wheat acreage will be one hundred per
cent. The Manitoba road estimates
that the increase along their lines will
be five million bushels.
Two miles from Mandan has been
found vast burial ground Of some pro
historic race which embraces fully one
hundred acres, and is filled with the re-
mains Of some giant race. The ground
has the appearance of long trenches
filled with bodies, horses, pottery, etc.
The pottery is of Il dark material, beau
tifully and delicately finished, and as
light as wood, showing the work IhsA
people skilled in art and in higl'
of civilization. This burial gr
evidently the scene of a grant
where thousands of men ana
were slain, and marks the rpstinl
of some prehistoric nation. =
Indian on being asked who the,
said he knew nothing of ther
were there before the red man.
Mandan Pioneer: The Marq,
Mores has arrived in this city. He h;,s
closed IN agreement with ali the actual
settlers along the Little Missouri, num-
bering twenty.four, to supply each of
them with 500 sheep for seven years,
the profits to be equally divided be-
tween the farmer and the marquis. BY
this arrangement 1900 sheep will have
to be obtained. The entcrprising mar
quis has bought the greater number of
his sheep in the east, as they are strong
er than any that can be purchased IN
the west. A few he will buy in Mon
tana. The marquis has other plans for
starting different industries in the Bad
Lands, which will be maturcd in n few
weeks and given to the public through
the Pioneer. He is also building a num-
Der of nice houses up the line and two
beautiful cottages for himself and fami-
ly, who will be out there this summer.
y little garden is being made out of the
Bad Lands. The marquis very pleas
ant gentleman, ard he is displaying the
happy faculty of placing his capital
where it will do the most good.
REAL ESTATE TRANSFERS,
For the Week Ending May 5,--Itcportcd b.,
NJ. Hogan.