Turner County herald. (Hurley, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1883-06-21
,,Ews OF THE NORTHWEST.
DAKOTA.

L (,KNTIsLVlLLE lS " BdNSN pahh.
A posrorFlcE has been established at
Clearwater.
FARao is becoming metropolitan. 1t
has opium dens.
TnE new capitol building for Dakota
will be lighted by electricity.
RESIDE the capitol Bismarck has. an
attesian we'll /, 155 feet deep.
,rpr fargo Argus will not be removed
To BismarcG. 80 says the Argus.
Lors in Bismarck have sold as high aE1
$500 per foot sipce The capitol location.
THERE ARE forty -uipe lodges aud eight
encampments OF Odd Fellows in Dakota,
Tag Yapkton Press and Dakotian re-
t,mts wheat IL Hutchinson County a foot
high.
EpwAnt, JAMES eighteen years old,
was killed Try lightning Ill Kilkenny
township, LIE Sucr County.
TnE Argus says everybody is satisfied
with The location of the capital except the
speculators who boughtreal estate at the
wrong place.
TIE Mapdan Pioneer looks for clamor
next for division on the Missouri River,
and thinks the reasons for such division
unapswerable and irresistible.
THE north Dakota penitenlIary d,rec-
tors have accepted the plans submitted
! by W. l.. Dow, OF Sioux Falls, which
we're modelled after those of the Sioux
| Falls prison.
TIE Winnipeg Free Press states thet
there has been eleven deaths from smali-
oox on the Dakota side OF the line near
L lt,,E m
cases existing.
THE acting commissioner of Indian
affairs gives notice that persons who
| were settlers on the Turtle Mountain
lands When the reservation was estab-
lished will not be disturbed in heir pos.
| session.
| ME. JOHN PRoUD, of Aberdeen, who
was reported TO have lost three children
from the effects of drinking alkali water
| denies the t;.iemcnt. He lost one child
sixteen mouths old from an entirely DIFF
| fcrcnt cause.
MANDAN Pioneer: The excitement
in Bismarck reminds one OF the old time
excitement iu oil towns. Speculation In
land and lots developed as fully into n
craze as ever oil did ut Titusvillc, Brad
ford or Oil City.
Mr.. EARL private secretary of Vice
President Oakes. of the Northern Pa
cific, is at Mandau suffering from bro
ken arm. The fracture was sustained ut
Helena some weeks ago, but has not yet
properly knitted, and while MIR. Earl
was enroute east he was compelled to
stop of for treatment.
The Fargo Republican says: Our adj
| vices from every section OF the Red
| isiver Valley are uniformly to the effect
| that the growing crops have never
| looked better al this season of the year.
Mr.. b. Stephens, Of Wheatlanh, says.
that wheat could uoilook better or prom
4 ise a more abundant harvest.
A PISTOL fight took place OIL a claim
near Carson, twenty y-tivc miles north OF
Pierre. Two contestants Tor Il pre-emp-
tion becoming enraged Mt each other
drew revolvcrs aud commenced firing.
After number of shots had been ex-
changed one Of the bclllgerents received
a serious though not fatal wound in the
side.
In Bear Gulch, near Deadwood, dur
ing the recent Hood, the gulch filed
with debris from the hills, covering the
ilume many feet III depth. The entire
ilume was Carried out. The Niger Hill
Miniug Company has sustained II loss of
not less than S25 800 and h.s been set
back nauy days III their work Tor this
| season.
] NoErI1ERN DAKOTA, according TO the
Fargo Argus, boasts Vi eight towns with
u population OF more ihan 1000 each.
Fargo heads the list with a round 10, 900;
Grand Forks follows with G.000: Bis
marck claims 1900; jamestown comes
up next with 2,5D0; Valley Guy bonsts
of 500: Mandan and Wahpeton have
] 800 each and Casseltuu ends the llst
with ], 200.