Turner County herald. (Hurley, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1886-09-09
DAKOTA ITEMS.
The Diana Monitor is for sale.

1900.
A large brick county Jail is being
built at Deadwood.
Pennsylvania nut coal is worth S25
per ton in Deadwood.
Rapid City is to havea free reading
room and public library.
A Young Women's Temperance club
has been formed in Huron.
Corn is as general thing considered
| to be out of danger of frost.
A Plankinton Chinaman is among
the students at the Yankton college.
Horse stealing is becoming quite II
common industry in the Black Hills.
Bishop Hare will return to Sioux
Fall from Europe about September q,
September was ushered in with pret
ty heavy frost all through the territory.
Dry goods boxes are advertised in
Columbia, suitable for claim shanties.
Judge Blair, of Elk Point, will have
eight tons of honey to sell this season.
Burleigh county with Il valuation of
S2,SOO,OOO has an Indebtedness of $l34,-
OO0
Wakonda, Clay county. will have two
churches to commence the winter
with.
1t is said that Vermillions prohibi-
tion law don't prohibit very success
fully.
Rapid City is taking steps to send a
sample of it's tin ores to eastern expo
sitions.
c. S. Jones, of Pierre, has purchased
the Wright house in Huron at a price
of S26,OOO.
John b. lama, of Elk Point, has
been appointed clerk of court for Ham
lin county.
a Yankton man was recently fined
500 for using profane language in the
presence of a lady.
The artesian well at Scotlan d is be-
ing sunk through granite at the rate OF
ten inches per day
1t is said that victims of the Newark
5 wnd-storm are suffering greatly from
$ privation and exposure.
A new hotel is to be built at Madison
to be three stories high, and to be con-
, structed of Sioux Falls granite.
Acloud-burst on the Chugwater made
; a torrent seventy feet wide and fifteen
feet deep, which carried everything be-
!, fore it.
: The faculty of Yankton college have
: decided to make Monday the weekly
q holiday instead of Saturday, as has long
; been the practice.
o Deadwood is suffering from an ice
n famine, there not being enough in the
: town to cool whisky cocktail Great
e suffering prevails.
Il An Indian family living near Pierre
r recently sold their farm Tor $500, and
y spent the entire amount the first day
Il for gaudy trinkets.
II Harvey L. Buckland, living near
l. Estelline, was killed last week by fall
d ing from a load of hay and striking up,
> on pitchfork handle.
:, The heirs of John Elliott. who was
: killed at Meckling by being run over
by a train on tie Milwaukee road AT
e that place, have sued the company for
ID S25,OOO.
n The Sioux Falls Press vans the
farmers of Dakota against the Farmers
0. Mutual Liye Stock association, of Mar
u ion, Iowa, which it declares to be /;
n. swindle.
r Flankrau Herald: A fifteen year ole
boy is working south Dakota for aims
telling of dead mother in Sioux Fall
or st. Peter or anywhere, and is max
~ ing lots of money. Look out for him
The track-layers on the Scotland ex
= tension reached Mitchell Monday, cele
brating the event with big spree
40 which necessitated the employment o
III Il large police force. Ten OF the town
painters were locked up.
of Mrs. Linda w. Slaughter, one of tn
en- early settlers. and first postmaster o
is Bismarck, is candidate for count
superintendent of Burleigh county,
&c position she held for over seven year
by from the date Of the organization o
er that county.
An ANNA township, Jerauld county
IN father has been accused by his ivy
,s- daughters, one IA and the other 7year
m of age, of incest. The eldest daughte
is about to-become mother, and sh
-, declares that her father is the father G
=, her unborn babe.
w W. E. Dodge, of jamestown, was az
- cidently shot by D. G. Buck while bot
were chicken hunting near Tarbe
ne station recently. Ten or twelve No.
we shot entered various portions Of hi
OIL body, one passing through the cheel
ir- No serious consequences are antic
eu pated.
Wakonda Independent: Rev. w.
lis Hill, from the Presbyterian church j;
de Parker, has accepted the pastorate
m. the Reformed church at this place, an
he will commence his labors the secon
Mt, Sunday in September. Rev. Hill h;
at the reputation of being a fluent speakt
and an earnest christian worker, an
he will doubtless be substantially a
nd preciated by our people.
aid Over 100 students have applied fc
N board at the dormitory of the Vermi
n lion university during the coming yea
;tv and desirable places in private famill,
ies are being rapidly engaged. From a
at appearance good number of studen
200 will be enrolled at the beginning OF tt
ill coming year, and it is thought the a
no tendance during the entire year wi