Turner County herald. (Hurley, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1886-11-18

COiupleUeu W OUettSOuTS, EOCteT county.
All the dirt is thrown up over the en-
tire distance and only the finishing
gangs are now at work.
Mr.. Zelenka, living short distance
from Springfield, had leg broken last
Tuesday by the wheel of a loaded wood
wagon passing over it.
The Deadwood city marshal is I'M
dergoing Investigation at the hands of
the city council for using profane Ian
guage and being intoxicated.
The Dunseith Times printed 5000
election tickets and 2l,OOO posters for
Rolette county politicians. and wants
election to come more often.
Hughes county is in excellent finan-
cial condition; its county warrants at
par and it claims to have one of the
finest court houses in the territory.
On account of the drought in north
Dakota tree seeds are very scarce
article. Box elder are worth 40 cents
per pound, and are in great demand.
\ young woman living at Amour
died a FEW days ago from the effects of
taking the wrong medicine, compound
ed by mistake by a druggist.
Deadwood has outlived its wild and
woolly frontier days. A man was fined
twenty-five dollars in one of its courts
last week for carrying arevolver. Il
Frank Washabaugh has been ap-
pointed clerk of the United States
court at Deadwood, by Judge Thomas,
in place of General Dawson, resigned.
The greatest mining company in the
world is the one which owns the Home
stake, at Lead City, three miles from
Deadwood The mine employs $500
men.
IN. Lucas. OF Dell Rapids, was held
to answer to the district court at Sioux
Falls, in the sum of $500, on the charge
of practicing medicine without q
license.
w. Burgess, who is putting in Rapid
City's system Of electric light, received
a shock from contact with wire which
rendered him unconscious for couple
of hours.
The latest report in railroad circles is
that the b. s. NJ. is about to send out a
corps of engineers with instructions to
survey an air line from Omaha to
| Deadwood.
The woodpile of the Northwestern
round-house at Yankton, is fast disap-
pearing during the nights of the pres
ent cold snap. Neighbors manage to
keep hot stoves.
| Sun Dance, Black Hills town is
flourishing and prosperous. 1tsgrowth
is continual and healthy, while the i'm
provements made are all of a substan-
tial and permanent character.
A very interesting contest has been
commenced in Benson county by Z. S
Rolfe, a well known banker and attor-
ney there against Mr.. Campbell, who
claims to have been elected county at
torney by a majority of eighteen votes
A serious prairie fire burned over a
large tract of country in Brookings
county, Monday, destroying among
other things 500 tons of hay. The fire
was caused by the burning of an old
straw pile.
A bad lands wanderer has brought
into Rapid City the petrified head of q
| brontotherium in q complete state OF
| preservation. 1t was seen by large
number of the citizens of Rapid City
ann they all pronounced it brontothe'
rum. The head is four feet long and
the teeth two feet long.
Young Wheeler. on trial at Lakoti
for the murder of Andrew Abrahamsor
at Michigan City some time ago, has
been acquitted by jury. Wheeler was
watchman at an elevator at Michigan
City. Abrahamson WIS prowl:ne
around the premises, and not obeyine
Wheeler's commands to halt, was shot
dead.