Turner County herald. (Hurley, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1911-08-10
SOUTH DAKOTA NEWS NOTES

The Methodist churches of Grant
and Roberts counties will hold har-
vest festival service at Corona on
September 1O-11-12.
A special election will be held a.
liecla soon for the purpose of voting
ON the question of issuing bonds of
$4,000 for municipal system of water
works.
j. P. Cheever of Bookings has ac-
quired fame by lasso;ng moose
while hunting in northern Wisconsin.
At least that it the story that comes
from Superior.
Mary Williams and Ben Looking
White, two Indians, are in Jail at
Oacoma awaiting trial on statutory
charge. The woman is married, and
she eloped with Looking White.
Claude Garner, of Onida, picked up
little gasoline money" a few days
ago, by running down and killing a
coyote with his auto. There were
three coyotes in the bunch at the stalt
but two of them got out of the way and
the third went under the machine, and
gave Garner the bounty for expenses
of the race.
Fred Briggs, a rural mail carrier,
had narrow escape from death near
Leslie. A cloudburst swept down a
creek, catching him and sweeping him
down on the crest of the flood. BY
desperate efforts he succeeded in
reaching cave under cutoff bank,
from which he was rescued the follow
ing morning.
The Vermillion valley drainage ditch
is no small project. 1t will be IA miles
long, Is feet wide and 12 feet deep
and will cost $17O,OOO. The dredge
which will do the work cost $4,000.
The ditch will make dependable many
thousands of acres of land hitherto
Subject to flooding and quite unprofit.
able in wet years.
Cattle shipments for this time Of the
year at Rapid City, are heavy and all
the available stock is being sent 10
market, largely due to the scarcity of
feed in the western part of the state.
in some instances the cattle are being
shipped to other points in the west
where the feed is plenty and will there
be fattened for market.
Rapid City has taken its place as
one Of the towns of the state which
will have no Sunday mail in the future
Complaints reach Hudson that un.
known persons are engaged in dyna.
hitting fish in the Big Sioux and Rock
rivers. and that the law also is being
violated by others who are USING
seines. 1t is expected arrests will he
made. ils34t ee
That hundreds of elk, deer and an.
telope are starving to death in the Vel
lowstone National park while the
Black Hills and other localities are OF.
fering them shelter and protection, is
the assertion of Claude Williams. 3
Eeadwood man now specially employed
by the government in the park gather
Ing trout spawn. Williams writes ci
his trip through the park and declares
that he finds bodies of the animals for
miles around Gardner, Mont, In some
places the bodies being so thick that
they are piled on top of each other
He also declares that he learned that
what he saw was only small per cent
Of the animals that are constantly
dying.
T Sparks blown from the pipe OF :,
man who was enjoying smoke dur.
Ing high wind set fire to the prairie
In Ca:npbell township. in Hand county,
and before the flames could be extin.
guished they had consumed the hay
on 3 full section of land. IN
States Attorney Woolfe Of Ziebacn
county did not like the looks of thu
report OF cattle in that county which
was tNrnedin by the assessor and start.
"a on hunt Of his own which resulted
in the placing on the assessment roll.
about 10000 head which the assessor
lad not found.