Turner County herald. (Hurley, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1889-02-07
st. Valentines day next.
Hard-tack. beans and coffee.

Hard-tack, beans and coffee,
i. j. Hill has purchased the NJ. j.
Hogan house, facing Court House
square, and will occupy it with his
family about March 1st.
%. T. Moore started for the Turkey
Creek coal fields yesterday. taking along
his well boring apparatus, with which
he will sink some prospect holss.
To those of our subscribers who haYe
so kindly and substantially remembered
us, we return thanks, and we have
large stock of the said thands on hand
to be distributed among those who may
follow the good example set.
lfit is declared a misdemeanor to take
usury in excess of the rate of l2 per
cent per annum, Il new deal will have
to be make in regard to delinquent
taxes, as they draw % per cent interest,
exclusive of the liveper cent penalty.
The members of the Hurley post e.
A. II. have decided to give dance and
supper on the 22nd inst, Washington's
birthday. The dancing will be done in
kyte's hall, and the supper, which is to
consist of regulation army fare, will be
served at Brauch's hall.
Calling in at the county treasurer's
Office recently we found Treasurer Gil
bert with hands full of business. He
showed $500 draft just received from
D. Reitf of Marion, which came within
about $50 of being large enough to pay
that party's taxes for 1883.
TheCenterville journal has chan ged
its form from quarto to folio, which
has, in our estimation, greetly improv-
ed. its appearance. Bro. Wass issued
a5,O00 editiod last week, setting forth
the advantages of Centerville and that
| portion OF Dakota adjacent thereto.
Mr.. o. q. Udell takes the place made
vacant by the departure of w. E. Wort
mar. From slight acquaintance we
are favorably impressed with the gen.
tleman, and extend through the Herald
Il hearty welcome to himself and wife,
and trust they may find their sojourn
in Hurley to be one of pleasure and
profit.
Mr.. Peter Nelson informs us that
early Monday morning party of eight
men in teams passed his house in
Spring Valley, going west. Early risers
in In
through on the road running on the
north line of the townsite. Whether
they were coal prospectors, railroaders
or horse thieves has not yet been accer-
tained.
A citizen of this county recently
made the assertion to the editor of this
paper that there was rascalty and job.
berry going on among the officials of the
county, and that the newspapers of the
county did not dare to expose it for feal
tl.ey would lose little of the county
patronage. We wish to say to The
aforesaid citizen, or any one. else, II
they know of any crookedness being
carried on by any of the officers of thi.
county, that they will find the column!
F Of. the Herald at their disposal. and it,
editor ready and willing to assist then
!, in exposing the guilty ones, withou
, fear or favor. a.
9 Work is being pushed as fast at tn
| circumstances will permit at the Goa
| shaft near Nolin. 1t was found neces
$ sary to put in steam pump to handl
the water. No timbering will be don
q unless absolutely necessary until tn
! slate rock capping the coal is reached
: which, it is expected, will be at dept
, of fifty-five feet, 1t is rumored that
J, representative of the Northwester
railroad company-C. c. Whitten-ha
,, already invested $1,000 in the entel
= prize. # the mine pans out, it is surel
to be hoped that no railroad corpor;
tion will get control of it. Prospec
) holes are being sunk at other point
further up the creek, and it may /
that the Turkey creek bills will "
= prove blessing, and lode-stone
" draw railroads.