Turner County herald. (Hurley, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1886-09-23
DAkOTAITEMS.
Logan county is s6.soo in debt,

oiptiit'
There are ten candidates for the
Office of register of deeds in Brookings
county.
CO.. Donan, of Fargo, will lecture
this winter, taking for his subject
"Women."
Sioux Falls expects to saye 900 on
coal alone on the advent of the Burl-
ington road.
The Salem News man says that it is
fun to be an editor and saw wood to
pay the Office rent.
Two barns were burned in Mitchell
one night recently caused by the eX
piosion of Il lantern.
a. V. Waldros, of Big Stone City. re-
Gently caught siX-foot sturgeon,
weighing l3l pounds.
The Redfield band received $3.50 as
compensation for its services at the ter
ritorial fair at Huron.
Between 5000 and 5000 bushels of
wheat are being marketed at st. Thomas
Pembina county, every day.
There is much sickness among the
children of Coddington county, and
many deaths have occurred.
President Kellum denies the state
ment that the Chamberlain Insurance
company is to remove to Sioux Falls.
7 NTFpn,nr Loo
recently purchased twenty-three quar-
ter sections of land in La Moure
county.
The Deadwood Pioneer says: Hon.
G. c. Moody, of Deadwood, has law
practice that nets him $4,000 per
annum.
At a recent meeting Of the Speariish
Fair association an offending member
was suspended for one year and fined
500.
A new democratic paper is soon to be
issned from Grand Forks, to be called
the Spirit of the West, edited by Col.
| Jay b. Edwards.
Work is being prosecuted constantly
in the Potter county coal fields, and it
is claimed that a superior quality of
coal is being mined.
Deadwood is said to contain 400 in
habitants who neither toll nor spin for
a livelihood, an average of one to every
six of the inhabitants.
Daniel Vol Sol was recently dis
charged from the Sioux Falls penitenti
ary, having served out 4 three years
! sentence.
A $4,000 train load of stock, occu-
pying eighteen cars was shipped from
Yanhton last week over the North
western by special train.
All Tyndall is jubilant over the re-
cent birth in that city of a fifteen and a
half pound boy baby. Dave Brazzill.
the father is slowly recovering.
Col. Worden, editor of the Eden Echo,
says that he is still bachelor, but
"open to conviction as to the advanta-
ges or disadvantages OF matrim onial
life"
Six years ago the Northsrn Pacific
Railroad company sold to the school
board of Mandan there lots for SIS each.
The three lots are now worth $500
apiece.
The South Dakota Live Stock associa-
ton has just effected the purchase Of
225 acres of land lying west of their
ranch near Pierre, for a consideration
of about $4,000.
The Congregational conference for
north Dakota will meet at Grand Forks
September % and "a, when it is ex-
pected the final location Of the college
will be effected.
The Black Hills Salt company has
been organized at Deadwood with q
capital stock of sl25,O0o. This com
pany owns 640 acres of land near the
well known salt springs.
| Two boys were recently caught in the
| act OF burglarizing the postofflce al
Bismarck. They were arrested ant
| placed under bonds in the sum of S50(
each to answer for the crime at the
next term of the federal court.
Two new prisoners were received al
the territorial penitentiary at Slou,
Falls last week from Clay county
They are Samuel Washburn, sentenced
/ to ten years Imprisonment for robbery
and Martin Woeston, sentenced to fly,
years Imprisonment for forgery.
An effort will be made to take cen
!, sus Of the Indians on the great Siou,
reservation September %. All of tn
, tribes will be invited by the ditferen
agents to attend grand feast on tina
, date. In 1880 10000 Indians wer
counted, but IL Is believed now tina
their number is much less.
Il A sad accident occurred at the EN-
celsior mill, at Yankton, on the after
noon of the l4th inst, by which Johl
: Campbell was fatally Injured. Will
:; engaged in putting belt on one of tn
driving rods, he was drawn into tn
machinery and horribly mangled. H
lived but a few minutes after the ace
dent.
!, a case of attempted abduction is RI
: ported from Huron. Some villain gral
bed a young lady as She was passing a
alley way with her mother one nigh
recently, and attempted to carry he
off, but the cries OF the two ladie
brought assistance IN time to rescue tn
young lady, but not in time to catch tb
\ wretch who attempted her abduction
~ Glendale Telegram: a peat bog COY
ering an area of 100 acres, was recent
It discovered in the Coteaus, nlnetee
IS miles west of Ellendale. Specimens {
IS the peat were brought to town, and
20 proves to be genuine, Austin PoWel