Turner County herald. (Hurley, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1883-08-09
NORTHWESTERN NEWS,
DAKOTA.

A powbEn-HopsE will be erected near
Bismarck.
GRAND Forks has attained popula..
ton of 6, 600 in three yenrs.
PnANKINaroN expects $500, 900 NJ
building improvements this year, among
them 81, 200 Touring mill.
Mr.. GEo. B. EvERITT, of North Ca,o.
lima, will succeed VIM. Letcher as req
lister of the Mitchell Land office.
A NUMBER of counties have elected
delegates to the Huron constitutional
convention, which meets September 4th
TIE Bismarck Tribune claims that tba
building boom of that city during the
mast two months will amount to nearly
81, 900, 900.
ERNEST. son of Mr.. and Mrs. Fred
Schrauber, OF Yankton, was drowned in
the Missouri, aud, strange to say, the
body was recovered.
ONE of the thieves who captured four
fine horses and terrorized the people Of
Sanborn, Oak, has been arrested at
Larimore, and taken to Valley City.
The idle mine mills in the Hills
country are being robbed of everything
movable. Whole wagon-loads of ma.
chinery are hauled away and sold for old
iron.
WnrTEwooD CREEK is to be prevented
from overfowing Deadwood again by
building bulkheads along the bank.
About 81, 900 is to be raised by subscrip.
tion for the purpose.
The blanket brigade at Pine Ridge
agency is to be increased by 39l Chey.
ennes and Al Arapahoes from Indian
Territory. This makes it the largest
agency in the country.
A COMMEMORATIVE monument to be
placed ut Fort Keogh has been COM
pleted for some time and is daily ex-
pected from the east through st. Paul
en- route to Fort Keogh.
JAMESTOWN authorities will not permit
travelling salesmen to do business III that
city without license, as it tends to
breed an unhealthy competition to home
business firms who pny taxes in that
city.
A BUILDING syndicate, composed OF
six Bismarckians, has entered into bonds,
and put up forfeiture of $500 each,
agreeing each to build residences on
Prospect Place, west of the capitol
grounds, Bismarck, costing from $4,000
to 5000 each.
DAKOTA, north of the forty-sixth par
allel, claims II national banks, 81 phi
vate banks, 10 Touring mills. 76
churches, 254 school houses, IL daily
papers, 40 weeklies, ia miles OF rail
road. It's assessed valuation is S34, 1884,
900; population, 19S.526. 'tb.
Mrs RUDOLPH MILLENz, of Mitchell,
suffered from malaria, and DR.. Crane
gave her husband bottle of aconite,
with directions to dilute the drug with
water before administering dose. Ru-
dolph forgot about the water and gave
the aconitc straight. He is now wild
over.
A MAN nomed Woods, living in Bis
marck, received severe bite from n
horse ut Ostland's livery-stable recently
while pu,riug bride on the animal.
The eyebrow was bitten almost entirely
off, and Ind the beasts teath entered
an eighth Of TN inch lower the eye would
have been taken ont.
A B1ooDLEss duel was fought between
the day and night telegraph operators OF
Pierre, the day operator being the chal-
lengipg party. Mr.. Charles J. Haines,
Of the Signal, acted as second for the
day operator, the night man having no
representative. The weapons used were
pistols, at twenty PAGES. Two shots
were exchanged without injury to either
party, wien the day man, considering
his honor sustained, claimed he was
satisfied.