Turner County herald. (Hurley, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1883-11-01
DAKOTA ITEMS.

Trail county has 965 900 in its treasu-
ry and don't owe dollar.
A vein of coal twenty-seven feet wide
has been found ninety miles from Pierre.
James Calighan of Star township,
Clay county, has been adjudged insane.
Pierre's. estimate of money spent in
improvements there during 1883 is
S6OO,OOO
The Standing Rock Sioux killed
1900 buffalo on their recent hunting
expedition.
The telephone will soon connect the
towns of Lead, Terraville. Central City,
and Blacktail with DeadwOod.
Charles 7. Mccoy, of Bon Homme
county, has been appointed register of
the Aberdeen land office.
The Pierre Recorder says railroad
from Pierre to Chamberlain direct is
among the enterprises of the near fu-
ture.
The deepest shaft in the Hills has been
sunk blythe Old Abe mine, a part of the
Homestake property. 1t is down 444
feet.
A meeting of the farmers of Brook
ings county will be held Nov. 3, for the
purpose of establishing grade on
wheat
The garden at Fort Sully has pro-
duced potatoes this season of enormous
size-some of them weighing four
pounds.
The Springfield Times has found a
farmer who raised 800 bushels of pota-
toes on a quarter of an acre of Bon
Homme county soil.
Salem Pioneer Register: At depth
of $50 feet the arteslan well men struck
sandstone and after passing through
that struck foot vein Of coal, 50 Capt.
Duncan says.
The Plankinton Free Press says the
wheat raised in Dakota this year, when
sold. will amount to more than all the
gold and silver dug from the mines of
Colorado during the past year.
The Rev. J. G. Ahern, of Miner, while
under the influence of liquor, at the
Cataract house in Sioux Falls recently,
insulted married lady and came very
near receiving the contents of a revol-
yer.
Howard Advance: Fred. Sherman,
| 60 lin foy- of
this place, this year raised 228 bushels
of Lost Nation wheat on six acres, or
:, an average of 3S bushels per acre. How
r is that for high from one of the " COW
counties?"
n Sioux Falls Leader: Work on the
c north wing Of the penitentiary is pro
crossing very slowly, owing to the
i inability to obtain masons, conse
0 quently the work will not be
completed as soon as expected. Active
j, operations on the government wing will
l. commence next week. Contracts for its
entire completion have been let.
r The Black Hills Times reports thai
q "the best oil region in the world is il
T Wyoming and Dakota territories. Their,
a are nine oil basins there within cas-,
,e reach by pipe when they are needed
There is no fear of a scarcity of oil il
the next thousand years or so, and b.
II that time the most of us will be old ant
u can't read well after dark anyway.
- Two young ladies, the Misses Phelps
;, went to Fargo from their claims il
~ Dickey county few days ago. The.
A. came to the territory three years ag
"a without means, and by their unaide'
~ efforts, trading in city lots and getting
claims, they are now worth more thai
$4,000 each, and will, no doubt, NOR
IN than double that in the next three year.
~ ~, Chicago Inter Ocean: The lager bee
~ ~ breweries of Chicago will shake to thei
:. ~ foundation stones if the news is confirm
= ed that comes from Dakota. Near tn
90 town of Gary, in that territory,is wei
/" educated farmer, who is graduate Q
y one of the most noted agricultural co
80 leges of Germany. BY series of e,
% periments he has discovered that b
~ feeding COW on hops, malt and cor
w she can be transformed into sma
' brewery, and made TO produce the bes
quality of lager beer. 1t is ready for us
er- after being corked up in jugs for da
DIS or two.
10 The Sioux Falls Press says: Son
We evidence was unearthed in this city ye
III terday that goes to prove that tt
W, ground upon which Sioux Falls stant
u.s. was run over by human being when tt
'rs earth was not as tall by ten feet as it
on now. A piece of a thigh bone was foun
sh in the drain, that has been dug fro
mt VIM. Van Fps store to the river. 1t Wi
we discovered over ten feet below the su
an face on bed rock. In all probability
IKE good many hundreds of years ago son
human being laid down on the rock al
:. died, and the eaccumulations of ages ha'
been piling up on top of him until b
bones reposed over ten feet below q
surface of the earth.
Wilmot Journal: The county seat
Sargent county has been located at NJ
nor, = place within a mile Of the mort
ern boundary line of the county, al
the people are very indignant over t
result Ransom City, so says its Pill
offered $500 in cash and l6O acres
land, adjoining the townsite, to begiv
the county, while another place put il
bid of $4,000 and five acre lot for col
house grounds, but all in vain, the lore
commissioners would not listen to the
and treated their offers with scorn. II
is but similar fraud to the many th
wn- have been perpetrated on the people
every newly organized county siI