Turner County herald. (Hurley, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1886-08-12
DAKoTAITEMs

LdDOTeTS are III demand at N Orth-
vile.
Aberdeen is to be made signal SER
vice station.
An artesian we'll is to be sunk at Rec
Heights.
Sneak thieves are becoming numer-
GUS at Deadwood.
Edmunds county has fixed the license
to sell whisky at $4OO.
A telephone exchange has been es-
tablished at Aberdeen.
Several forged deeds to real estate
haye showed UP at Fargo.
The electric lights viii be in opera
tion at Huron by October /.
Politics are getting red-hot and slight
ly personal in Sphinx county.
Rich placer mines have been discov-
cred few miles from Pierre.
. Work on the school building to be
erected at Egan will be begun at once.
a new loan and trust company, with
a capital of 100000 has been organized
at Canton.
The careless emptying of pipe near
Lafoon, cost 4 Mr.. Chapman ten acres
of good wheat.
Out OF 250OOO cultivatable acres in
Yankton county only $4,000 are yet
producing crops.
The Huron Street Railway company
will raise the price of a ride during fair
week to ten cents.
An attorney at Glendale was fined
SIS and costs for shooting prairie chick
ems contrary to law.
The cause of child's death at Le-
Beau, one day last week, was eating
too many choke cherries.
Elk Point has a broom factory which
proposes to turn out twenty dozen
sweepers a day this fall and winter.
The badly decomposed body of an un-
known man was found near Highmore,
August 4. 1t IS thought to be case or
foul play.
An encampment of a portion of Da-
kota's militia will be held at Canton,
commencing August Gath, and continu-
ing four days.
The board of trade at Yankton has
issued an eight-page folder containing
valuable information concerning Yank-
ton and vicinity.
Rev. w. b. Affleck was arrested at
Kimball for shooting prairie chickens,
but was discharged on the ground that
he didn't know chickens from plover.
Marshal Foster, of Ch amberlain, ar
rested John Colomb for employing men
to cut cedar posts on the Sioux reserva-
tion in Gregory county and selling
them.
Tw9nty.seven insurance companies
sustained losses in the late Mitchell
fire. The Dakota Mutual, of Huron,
was the first to adjust and pay. Its
loss was $1,000.
An Indian named Red Breast, living
on the Cheyenne agency, is the happy
possessor Of 4-year-old buffalo COW,
that runs with his cattle and acts much
the same as any other bovine.
A young daughter of c. Van Hees, of
Harrison, got hold Of some fly paper,
one day last week, and ate considerable
Of it, making her so sick that for some
time her recovery was despaired of.
A Prof. Fisher, a dancing teacher
has made for himself an unsavory re-
cord IN several cities of the Red River
valley, collecting for dancing lessons In
advance and then quietly leaving the
| city.
Besides editing the Hawley Star,
Miss BIS. Mills has planted five acres
of trees on tree claim, built saw
mill, and when she has proved up her
| homestead, will have 4SO acres in her
own name.
The Yankton Herald advises DR..
| Burdick, of Clay county to stick to ped
ding pills this winter, as there is not
much chance for "boodle" since the
passage of the bill by congress suppress
ing special legislation.
The treasury of Minnehaha county
contains S2S,OOO in gold coin, S6,S55 in
currency and $2.S1 in silver. making a
! total of 1874, ,S57.8l, and still the county
commissioners of that county prefer to
rent rather than build court house.
Yankton Herald: Peter Huber, the
jolly farmer of GAINESVILLE, thrashed
2S7 bushels of No. l hard, from ten
acres this week. And yet there are
some foolish people around Fargo who
are willing to swear that wheat cannot
be successfully cultivated in south Da-
kota.
The Farmers Alliance has cost the
Jerauld county farmers many thousand
dollars this year by not having binding
twine on hand as was agreed. But for
the delay caused by the lack of twine
much of the grain destroyed by the hail
| week before last would have been har-
vested before the storm come.
A section hand working on the Scot
land extension of the Milwaukee line
proved to be the senior partner of a
large printing firm in Chicago. He dis
appeared from home July Is, and his
distressed family heard nothing until
Monday, when he wrote for funds to
get home. He says he doest know how
he reached Dakota.
! Nora NJ. Ellis died last week at Rap
i'd City few days after arriving from
her Iowa home. Her father. who had
been telegraphed for, reached Rapid
| Citv inst as tha f,nar:,1 seryica wac he