Turner County herald. (Hurley, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1884-01-24
NORTHWESTERN NEWS,
MINNESOTA.

THE railroad passenger business st
Duluth in 1883 showed an increase Of
$50, 900 over the preceding year.
NEARLY all the towns in southern
Minnesota are making determined war
against the saloons and club rooms.
Mr.. LOUIS d. McNuTr, of Mime.
apolis, has been appointed assistant
superintendent OF the Winona Street
Railway Company.
j. X. MOORE, of the ST. Peter
Tribune, refuses to sell his paper to
parties who wish to purchase and make
prohibition organ of it.
a ST PETER gentleman has offered to
give pair of boots each to three dill.
ferent parties providing they will ab.
stain from the use of intoxicating drinks
during the year 1884.
A POKER ROOM was discovered in LIE.
Suelr the other day and the proprietos
arrested, convicted and fined S75 each
and costs. Neally dozen of those who
had played the game were also fined s25
and costs each.
PETER CzIzEK, late city treasurer of
Moorhead, has been arrested charged
with embezzlement OF city funds. The
amount of the defalcation is said to be
S14,O23,O5O. Czizek is very sick at his
house, where he remains under sur.
veillance.
A. nj. MARTENS, of New Prague, sold
two car loads of pork to the Van Haven
Live Stock Company of st. Paul, and in
the settlement the latter maintained it
was three car loads, and persisted in
payment for the same, drawing their
check for $500 more than was actually
due.
COUNTY TREASURER G. A. FRIzzE1I,
of Olmstead County, refuses to relin-
quish the Office until March next.
Treasurer elect Lull appeared to take
possession of the Office, but was met by
refusal by Mr.. Frizzell. 1t is under
stood that this will be made q test case,
and will be carried to the courts for
settlement.
Mr.. j. N. DONALDSON, ex-register of
deeds, of Faribault, while driving from
his home tothe court house, was thrown
from his sleigh and the bone of his leg
broken. The limb had been amputated
several years ago, and the bone of the
remaining stump was broken about two
inches from the end; the hip joint was
also badly spraiped.
ANOTHER case of troubled conscience
has come to light. L. l.. Hanson, q
resident of Mankato, in 1874, while work
ing in New Ulm, found pocketbook
containing S24) in money besides other
papers. He burned the pocketbook and
papers and appropriated the money TO
his own use. After ten years he gives
hirtself up to the police and asks to be
prosecuted for the crine that had
weighed on his mind for years, and ex-
pressed a sincere wish to find an owner
for the stolen money. Mr.. Hanson had
an examination and was sent to the
asylum for the insane at st. Peter.
DAKOTA.
Huron claims to have erected $44O,-
$40 worth of buildings last year.
A PETITION asking for the removal of
Gov. Ordway failed to secnre signatures
in Mitchell.
GR1swoLD and party have abandoned
all further mining enterprises at Lisbon
until spring.
NELs LARSON, of Coopersto IN, started
for home, about eighty rods distant, on
the night of December 22d, and has not
been seen since. 1t is lelIeved he wan.
dered off and persisted.
CITIZENS of Mitchell, who have inter.
ested themselves in the proposed
6 homestead monument" have ar
ranged to send James Davis, the origi-
nator of the project. to Washington, to
ask donation of land and funds from
congress.
On the Goth ult., the Sheidley Com
pany purchased Grimes interest in the
Grimes & Thornton herd, Black Hills,
which numbers about 5000 cattle, to
gether with ranches, range privileges,
etc., the price being between S150, ,G0C
and $175,000.
Mr.. AND Mrs. G. D. THOMAS were
found ut their residence at Valley Git,
Dak., in state of aspbyxiation from
coal gas. Although under the influence
of the gaseous inhalation for ten hours,
they will recover.
JOSEPH @. FAIRFIELD, Judge of the
probate court of Douglas County, has
been arrested on charge of willtnl and
corrupt perjury, alleged to have been
committed before United States Com.
missioner Kongabe in the contest of a
homestead claim. He is the same party
that prosecutes the proprietor of the
Chronicle for libel.
NOTWITHSTANDING the fact that busi
ness was not very brisk in the Red River
Valley. last season, Fargo, the metropo,
lis of Dakota, makes good showing in
her resume of the year. According tc
the Argus the improvements aggregate
81, 100, 900, including very substantial
brick blocks and number of elegant
residences. The Northern Pacific plart
cost nearly 100000. The Fargo gas
works are now in successful operation.
The territorial judges hold that und,
the United States laws they have right
to appoint the clerks Of the district
courts for term during good behavior.
AT the last session of the territorial az.
sembly an act was passed making the
office elective. Chief Justice Edgertor
holds that the act under which the clerks
were appointed is paramount and thai
the appointed clerks hold over. On the
other hand the people will elect parties
to the clerkships aud it is now warmly
contested by some of the ablest attor.
neys that the election of all ministerial
territorial officers, including clerks OF
the district courts, is reserved to the
people by the organic act creating the
territory.