Turner County herald. (Hurley, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1888-03-29
oAkofAlTEms.
Watertown is to have another bank
with $4,000 capital.

Watertown is to have another bank
with 100000 capital.
The Pierre board Of trade at meet
ing Wednesday night raised $1,000 to
advertise the city.
In Brule county little grain has
been sown, but most farmers are wait
ing for warmer weather.
Nineteen paving cutters arrived at
Sioux Falls direct from England and
Scotland to work in the quarries.
Sioux Falls jasper tor building pur-
poses is sold by the cord and cord is
measured by pounds. 1t takes 1850
pounds for cord.
1t is reported that Auditor James A.
Ward will be one of the commissioners
to secure signatures to the bill for
opening the Sioux reservation.
The new system of wholesale water
filtering, known as the Hyatt system, is
being put in at Sioux Falls at cost of
$4,000. 1t Will be completed by April
1st.
Negotiations are pending for the sale
of the Commercial house in Sioux Falls
by it's owner, Len j. Clark, to ID. +,
WyEtan, of Minneapolis. The consider
alton is $4,000.
a Sioux Falls druggist has the dis
tinction Of having invented the latest
temperance drink, called prohibition
sling" The ingredients are glass Of
hot water, one lump of loaf sugar and
q straw.
While crossing the Missouri river, q
few mikes north of Bismarck Wednes-
day, "Eagle Head" a well known
Indian scout, and John Warren, a
white hunter, were drowned. They ran
into an air hole and were carried be-
meath the ice.
a party af surveyors has passed over
to the Sioux reservation and camped on
Bad river. A new line will be run from
| Fort Pierre to Deadwood as the Chicago
and Northwestern, but the line sur
veyed over the Sioux reservation is
supposed to be by the Illinois Central
corpse
A kimball justice OF the peace an
nounces that he will perform all cerc-
monies free wherein the event was
brought about by the young lady exert
Ing her leap year prerogatives. An
nouncements to the same effect are
looked for from the ministers at Sun
days services.
There is some excitment in court
circles at Bismarck over the trial of w.
II. Winchester for refusing as Griffin
alleges to pay his liquor hill. AS Win
chester has been one of The leading
champions Of prohibition, the charge
that he purchased the liquor for elec-
tion purposes has caused a furry
among his friends.
A travelling man reports Chamberlain
people wild with enthusiasm. He says
nearly everybody pretended to be
''bilin" drunk, and that the usual
order of things was so completely re-
versed that sober people were locked up
for disturbing the general hilarity
The joy is all because of the passage Of
the Sioux reservation bill.
The superintendent 90 the Monarch
quarries at Sioux Falls says the stone
business has struck boom as well as
real estate. More calls are being made
for stone than any previous year since
the quarries opened. They expect tc
ship large amount this summer. and
have at present 100 men and 20 teams
besides their steam labor-saving ma
chinery. at work.
The creditors of the firm of Commit
Buck g. Co., who failed at Bridgewatel
and Spencer some two weeks ago, are
mp before the judge on supplemental
proceedings to compel them to show
where the assets of the firm and books
of account are, as about the time of th'
failure they had decided their rea
estate to their relatives and coolly in
formed their creditors that they had NJ
account books, as they had kept then
on their door and had cut the door VI
for kindling wood.