Turner County herald. (Hurley, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1883-06-07
NEWS OF THE NORTHWEST.
DAKOTA.

A METHODIST college is to be locaded
at Ordway.
The postoffice at Benton has been
discontinued.
DAWSON, Kidder County, is building
n $4,000 hotel.
FARGO is complaining of lax sani-
tary regulations.
THE Plankinton postoilicc is now a
money order office.
BISMARCK and Mandan gre to be con-
nected by telephone.
RAPID Cry talks OF issuing $3.50, ,00O
in bonds to secure Il railroad.
CHAMBERLAIN has expended $4,000
for new buildings this spring.
CAssELroN and Fargo are talking OF
being connected by telephone,
FIFTY. ONE nav buildings have been
erected in Kimbail this month.
The school teacher in Minnehaha is
in jail for an assault on scholar.
The Bismarck land Office derives its
business from land west of the Missouri
River.
THE lost Trail County records have
been found at Trail Center, the new
county seat.
IT is expected that all the public land
east of the Missouri will be taken up by
settlers this year.
The Turner County Herald, by W.
G. Brown, is the name of new paper
started at Hurley.
GRAND Forks is to have 500, 900
saw-mill, having subscribed a bonus Of
$25, 900 to secure it.
HoN. ALEX. MCKENZIE, of Bismarck,
will be the permanent president of the
penitentiary commission.
The university regents are looking
for suitable site at Grand Forks for
the erection OF a building.
The Sioux Valley Baptist association
will meet with the Baptist church at
Huron. Dak., June 7, 1883.
M. G. WRIGHT, of Morris, for embez-
element from the Manitoba Road, has
been sentenced to Saltwater for one
year.
HE two Scandinavian papers at Fargo
and Moorhead have been merged into
one, a weekly paper, to be published at
Fargo.
The citizens of Miller, being out of
coal, forcibly detained train and tln.
loaded two cars of fuel bound for anoth
er point.
SALT works are to be established at
Hamilton, near ST. Thomas, where an
excellent quality of that article has been
discovered.
Hon. HENRY M. LORD, OF Michigan,
has been appointed register, and A. o..
Whipple, OF Minnesota, receiver, OF the
land office at Creelsburg.
GOVERNOR AUSTIN is to be reappoiuted
register of the Fargo land office, but the
appointment, to save expense and
trouble, will not be made out until after
the recess of congress.
The Northern Pacific railroad has just
issued an elegant new folder. 1t credits
Mandan with 1000 people, Bismarck
with 3, 600, jamestown with $500, Val
ey City aud Fargo 5000.
Mr.. MILBANK, of New York, has sent
men to build SIS. 600 church in the
city bearing his name, and work has be-
gun. The church will be undenomina-
tional, and will be presented 70 the city
OF MilbaDk.
Miss KATE FARLEY came from New
York to Dakota to secure a piece oflaud,
and while waiting to prove up on her
claim she IAN Il laundry at Plankinton.
She has closed up her business and re-
turned home with the title to 1GO acres
i'll her pocket.
WARREN MARSH, the Snake Creek.
Charles Mix county, cattle man, has bad
luck with the cattle lie brought into his
ranch last fall. He has lost somewhere
IN The neighborhood of $50 head Of cat
tie III the last five months. Mr. Marsh
is the only man in the county that has
lost any cattle the past winter and
spring.
The Fargo Republican says: An in
genious Moorhead Yankee has con-
structed novel little propeller which
looks like a cross petween a shoe box
and cofliu. 1t is rugged with side
wheels after the style OF the steamer
Pluck, and can run as fast as that steam
er-it the tow line doesn't break. 1t is
furnished with a Yankee boiler which
carries about $50 pounds Of steam and
Its tongue out, when going up stream.