Turner County herald. (Hurley, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1888-10-11
DAKOTA ITEMS.

The Academy OF the Sacred Heart at
Aberdeen will open October Is.
There are seven graded and 154 un-
graded schools in Brown county.
The university of north Dakota is
open at Grand FORKS with 100 students.
Sioux Falls is overstocked with
potatoes and the Irish are proportion
ately happy.
a camp of Modern Woodmen was
organized at Yankton last "Wednesday
evening.
The advance announces that the old
county seat fight in Sphinx county is a
thing of the past.
The Blunt Advocate complains of the
number of drunken men seen on the
streets of that town.
Owners of mortgages at jamestown
threaten foreclosure if iirebreaks are
not made 10y farmers
j. a. Danforth, of Yankton, promises
to erect a $4,000 opera-house if he can
procure suitable site.
1t is estimated that not one-tenth OF
the wheat in Brookings county is
thrashed at the present time.
There are ten railroad graders sick
with typhoid fever at Palsade. Some
of them are not expected to live.
City morals are improving in Dead
b.,c. ct
in the city Jail for over two weeks.
An Aberdeen grain dealer is trying
to contract with the farmers for the
next years wheat crop a 81 4 bushel.
1t is estimated that Dakota will soon
furnish sufficient grain and stock to fill
over 5000 freight cars every day Of the
year.
The new banking firm of +. II. Iag-
erty e. Co., successors to Hagcrty &
MARBLE, has begun business at Aber-
deem.
The total expense to Clay county for
its clerk of the court during the past
| two years has been $50, or about $75
per year.
The ladies' military company at the
Brookings college is fast developing
The names of the officers will soon be
announced
Watermclons have ceased to be a
luxury at Deadwood and can now be
enjoyed by any one who possesses u
postage stamp.
1t is said there are nine more places
in Sioux Falls where liquor can be
bought than there ever have been be-
fore in the history of the city
The first shipment of wheat to east
ern markets which has been credited to
the Black Hills left Whitewood Thurs
day morning for Omaha.
The business of the Sioux Falls
brewery has become SO great that
steady employment is furnished to four
coopers, who are max ing beer kegs.
A Minneapolis building and loan as
sociation is organizing q local board of
directors in Yankton, with the purpose
of establishing a branch Office there.
a candidate for treasurer in Lake
county announces that he will turn into
the treasury all fees received over l.
200, and asks support on these grounds.
The Salem Register suggests that the
clicking OF gold and silver pieces in the
farmers pockets is a pertinent answer
to the question, What shall the har-
vest be?"
The Congregational church at Sioux
Falls has extended a call to the Rev.
Joseph Y. Duryea, ID. d., who is now
pastor of one of the. wealthlest churches
in Boston.
The receiver of the Insurance Com
pany of Dakota thinks it will be fully
six weeks before he will be able to
make report to the court of the con-
diton of the concern,
The commissioners of Deuel. county
have granted two petitions, one asking
for removal of the county seat from
Gary and the other for vote on local
option. y long and bitter fight is eX-
pected.
An attempt will be made by st, Law
renee to remove the county seat from
Miller at the coming election, and Wig
orous steps are being taken by the citi-
zens Of Miller to circumvent their am
bilious neighbors.
Five hundred invitations are being
printed for the opening Of the new
Central depot at Sioux Falls on Friday
: evening, October H. Fully 300 will be
sent to outsiders and the balance will
be distributed in the city
A prairie fire that started four miles
north of Ayre swept the country north
} and east for miles. The damage IS
varsously estimated at from 5000 to
| $4,000; no insurance. Frost nearly
ruined the grain, and fire has finished
it in that locality.
; Bernharn Paulson. a German about
20 years old, long resident of Faulk
ton, and believed to be wealthy, last
spring went to the Pacific coast and FOL
several months the old man has failed
! to write to his most intimate friends il
!. Faulkton, which leads some to believe
: that foul play or disaster of some kint
has overtaken him.
), III. II. Rreckie, four miles south O.
, Blunt, is diligently boring for coal, ant
:, claims large vein within forth-liv,
: feet of the surface. He is now boring
= or sinking his shaft. and is confden
of securing an abundant supply jus
below the slate rock he has struck. Il
will soon be decided, for he has tn
: means to push the enterprise.
y The counly commissioners of Mime
y bahia county are quite uneasy about tn
Il coudition of the general fund of tn