Turner County herald. (Hurley, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1886-11-25
DAKOTA ITEMS.

Bismarck is reported as undergoing a
great temperance reform.
Burleigh county pensioners number
fifty who draw 1929 monthly.
The notorious Smith family of gypsies
will winter in the Black Hills.
Two men were discharged from the
Sioux Falls penitentiary lust week.
More grain has been marketed in
Memo this year than any previous year.
The Mitchell water works were
started Saturday and proved success.
A buildingto TO be used as public mar
ket has Just been completed ut Cam
ton.
Minnehaha county contains seventy
nine pensioners who receive $646.75
every month.
Water in the wells at Canton and
vicinity was never so low. \ good
time to try for an artesian flow.
Roscoe has been incorporated and is
now striving for new school house
and other substantial Improvements.
Redfield is greatly rejoiced over the
county-seat victory, and celebrated the
event with a grand banquet and ball.
Three men broke Jail at Columbia
last week but were soon caught and re-
turned to closer confinement than be-
fore.
Thos. Mcconnell, formerly of the
Carthage Prairie Home, is still in
critical condition at his home in Garth
age.
A lake in Foster county is reported
to have risen two feet lately without
any visible supply of water from inlets
or from rains.
A new railroad town thirteen miles
south of Lake Preston is called Leora.
One ten miles from Madison will be
known as Otoham.
Charles Mix, Douglas and Aurora
county farmers have plowed more
ground by nearly one-half this fall than
they plowed last year
The Mitchell Republican announces
that it will hereafter charge half price
tor advertising church fairs, socials
and other religious entertainments.
The Rapids City street car line has
been a paying Investment from the
first and now there is prospect of an
extension of the line before spring.
An old man named Thomas Buckly
fell down stairs at Wagner, Brown
county, few days ago and was killed.
His body was buried by the county.
A railroad meeting was called at
Olivet the 10th to consider propositions
toward the early construction of a rail-
road through Hutchinson county.
The literary society of Roscoe dis
cussed the question "that it is better to
marry for love than for money" recent
ly, the decision being made that it was.
John Wilson, a well known resident
of La Moure county, died q few days
ago from the effects of gun shot
wound accldently inflicted by himself.
The largest locomotive in the world
has lately been sent to the Cascade
division OF tile Northern Pacific rail
road. 1t is q ten wheeler and weighs
eighty tons.
The Galena district is believed to be
the coming mining district of the Black
Hills. Several of the mines only par
italy developed, are already paying
handsomely.
The following Dakota post offices
have been recently discontinued: Bar
ker, Benson county; Bethel, Clay coun-
ty; Groverill, Union county; Shelby.
! Brown county.
j. W. Ross, recently discharged from
the railway mail service for drunken
ness, was found Monday between
Mitchell and Alexandria, with three
bullet holes in his body.
A three year old child fell into a we'll
forty feet deep at Andover, the other
day. :ind when rescued its arm was
broken i'll two places, hip dislocated
and head badly bruised. twas thought
its wounds would not prove fatal.
Lake Preston isjubilant over the fact
of the location of depot grounds, round
house and turn table at that point.
The conclusion is that when the road
is extended south and north that town
will be made division headquarters.
Articles of incorporation Of the Sc
curity Investment company of Yank-
ton. have been filed with the territorial
secretary. 1t proposes to buy and sell
real estate, loan money, etc. Its capital
stock is 100000. E. T. White, j. c.
McVay and E. Odiorne. of Yankton,
and six Boston capitalists are the di-
rectors.
| Sully county keeps its prisoners in
the Hughes county Jail and during a
late settlement of accounts the sheriff
of Hughes county made oath that he
had fed the prisoners, five in number
and three of them children, for their
daily fare each for SIX months two and
half pounds of beef, six pounds of pota
toes, two loaves of bread and all the
incidents and ct ceteras.
| DR.. W. w. Bradley, who was convict
ed of frauds connected with the election
of '84, in Sargent county, but still awaits
sentence, has made confession, II
which he asserts thatT. c. Lauder, can
didate for register, and himself, with
the connlvance of the clerks of election
at Minor, stuffed the ballot box will
100 votes, and changed forty NOR,
against Geo. Montgomery, the opposing
candidate for register.