Turner County herald. (Hurley, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1883-11-29
DAKOTA ITEMS.

The Presbyterian university at PfefTe
will cost $4,000.
There are thirteen church organiza-
tions in Sioux Falls.
A Kidder county mother has recently
given birth to triplets.
The murderers of the Ward brothers
have all been indicted.
Rapid advancement is being made on
the normal school building at Speariish.
Des Moines. Iowa, will be furnished
with paving stone from the Sioux Falls
quarry.
Crow Dog, who recently escaped from
the Deadwood Jail, has been recaptured
and returned.
The new military bridge across Cho-
teau creek has proved failure, and is
being torn down.
The wheat receipts Of the North Pa
citic elevator company at Fargo already
equal the total received last year.
1t is reported that j. c. Andrews, of
Brookings, has been appointed attorney
for the Chicago and Northwestern road
in Dakota.
Blunt, Hughes county, contains a
venerable resident over eighty years OF
age, who claims to have taught Abra-
ham Lincoln English grammar and sur
veying.
Alex Mckenzie of Bismarck, the
north Dakota boomer, has sent to Rus
sia for a quantity of seed corn which
natures in sixty days, with which he is
going to experiment next year.
Eph Weatherwax the notorious Bon
Homme county desperate and a fugi-
tive from justice, has been captured
near DR.. Livingston's Keya Paha ranch
and will be brought back to Dakota.
1t is great point in favor of the In
dians that, according to Father Stephan,
they have no word of profanity or
blasphemy in their language, and they
| take their first oaths from their white
| brethren.
1t is reported that George Knowlton,
a former resident Of this county. and
later a prominent figure in the United
States court at Yankton,h been given
a long term for highway robbery by an
Indian territory court.
Scotland Citizen: Large quantities
of flax straw are being delivered at the
Scotland tow mill. There are now
about five hundred tons of straw in the
sheds and stacked close by, and the mill
is running to its full capacity.
One of the most extensive gangs OF
horse thieves in the northwest, whose
field of operations extended from Sioux
Falls to two hundred miles west OF
Deadwood, has been broken up and sew.
eral of the most active members are
now in Jail. More arrests will doubt
less follow as the boys are beginning tc
squeal.
Vermillion Republican: The work OF
the main portion of the university
building has been stopped for this sea
son on account of the near approach OF
expected cold weather which woud
make the work much more expensive
than if carried over until next spring
A good beginning has been made and
in the early summer the whole can be
finished, which will make the Daketa
university building the finest structuEs
in southern Dakota by all odds.
Sioux Valley (Canton) News: A brute
/ by the name of Gunder Gunderson who
lives about four miles northwest OF
| this city, kicked his wife out doors and
told her if she returned he would kill
her. She and her three children took
refuge with neighbor and were this
morning brought to this city by III. +
Benedict. The woman states he has
compelled her to do most all the work
on the farm and then would beat and
kick her when her strength failed and
she could do no more. Wednesday ht
made her hitch up their mules and &C
to the field and husk corn all day, ther
after she had fed the stock and got sup
per for the family, he made her agair
hitch up the mules and work Ions
time hauling out manure. Because she
did not work all night he drove hcl
from home. The brute should be tiet
to post and given hundred lashes
well lain on.