Turner County herald. (Hurley, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1888-07-19
DAKOTA ITEMS.

000-pound fire bell.
Watertown claiu1s to be still enjoy
ing building boom.
Ten of Highmore's fair damsels have
organized brass band.
A towmill is among the contemplat-
ed industries at DeSmet.
Sioux Falls claims to have an abun-
dance of work for everybody.
A grand band encampment will be
held at Madison commencing July 81.
A large area of sunken forest has re-
Gently been discovered in Devils lake.
Eighteen boarders feed regularly
three times per day at the Deadwood
jail.
An $4,000 courthouse is the next
thing on the programme at Sioux
Falls.
Yankton brewers are shipping large
quantities of beer to Iowa and Dakota
towns.
There are SAID to be over 100 cases
yet piled up against the saloon men of
Sioux Falls.
Material is arriving for the round
house to be built at Yankton by the
Milwaukee company.
G. w. Ainsworth, of Watertown, has
been elected superintendent of the ter
rltorial reform school at Plankinton.
A society was organized at Mitchell
last Friday for the promotion of a
better observance of the Sabbath in
Dakota.
Sioux Falls real estate boom Is just
now between hay and grass. The
spring boom has ended and the fall
boom has not begun.
Freight traffic for the past week upon
the lines centering in Aberdeen is re-
ported better than at any time during
the past two months.
1t is expected that citizens of Mitch
ell will subscribe funds sufficient to
restore the University of Dakota, re-
Gently destroyed by fire.
An Omaha company is negotiating
for the purchase of all the purchasable
bluff and chalk rock land in the vicin-,
ity of ankto2 and Aten.
In base ball game at Lennox, last
Saturday, between the Worthing nine
and the Lennox Muffers, the score stood
| 81 to 9 in favor of the Muffers.
The first kiln of brick was recently
opened at the Pattee hospitable brick
yards at Yankton and the product
thereof was found to excellent.
A stage driver at Rapid City has re-
vealed the secret of successfully driv-
ing SIX horses. He keeps hat full of
stones on the seat to throw at the lead
ers.
Lennox is about to incorporate and
become a city. The preliminary ar
rangements have been made and on the
23 inst. the first city election will be
held.
The Lead City Herald says that the
citizens Of Rapid City, in order to es-
cape jury duty, have organized new
hose company with a baby carriage for
apparatus.
/ at Chamberlain the sports have got
new hobby. Two men have been
matched out there for $50 side to find
out which can kill and dress two beeves
the quicker.
The gold excitement at Clark still
keeps up, and knowing ones claims
that metal in paying quantities will
soon be taken from the range of hills
north of town.
There is talk of boarding-house be-
ing erected at Sioux Falls, to be run on
city principles, for the accommodation
of class of boarders who pay from
$50 to $40 per month for board.
a great deal of dissatisfaction pre-
walls among the members of the farm
ers' alliance of Potter county because
of the failure OF the territorial alliance
to furnish them with binding twine.
The inhabitants of the houses of ILL
fame on the school section adjoining
Watertown, who have been safe from
the city laws, have fled in anticipation
of their arrest when the district court
opens.
The city council of Sioux Falls is in a
quandary. 1t ordered the stock yards
moved last winter and again last
spring. The railroad companies are
ready to move, but they want to know
where The council wants to know
where, too, and there the matter
stands.
One might conclude that the bank.
ing firms of Canton were not worth
{ much, if any confidence were to be
placed in the affidavits relative to ass
, essment now on file with the county
board. One prominent institution
, swore itself $1,000 in debt above all
assets and resources.
The way grand Fourth of July bal
at Whitewood was broken up furnishes
| a good story. The boys had made al
4 arrangements for dance, engaged hal
and girls, and meant to have goo6
time. In the afternoon they took the
girls to camp-meeting and the services
were so impressive that all but one Of
the girls were converted and of course
after that could not do so unchristian
like an act as to dance.
Hartford township, Minnehahs
/. county, has a first-class sensation. The
case is nothing more nor less than on'
of rape and bastardy, wherein Jane.
Van Horn, aged about 35 ar 40. is th'
: defendant, and a Miss Shoul, aged
about 10 or 16, is plaintiff. Van Horr