Turner County herald. (Hurley, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1911-10-19

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ing, to be erected by F. F. Ribstein.
Judge James d. Elliott has appoint
ed w. l.. Hale of Morristown as Unit
ed State commissioner for that section
of the state.
Frank Lee, the Dallas telegraph op-
orator who was arrested by the feder-
al authorities Monday as an alleged
white SLAYER, received word that the
authorities had dropped the proceed
ings.
Garden City finds itself in such good
condition that the town council has
taken steps to pay off some of the
outstanding Indebtedness with surplus
funds which have accumulated in the
town treasury.
Fire on the farm of Frank Sexton, a
few miles from Washington, destroyed
his fine large barn, together with four
head OF valuable horses and other
property. The loss, which is heavy, is
partially covered by insurance.
The Sioux Indian stock raisers on
the adjacent reservations now are
shipping their surplus cattue to mar
ket from Murdo. They are making eX.
tenslve shipments and will receive
many thousands of dollars therefor
Owing to the impossibility of issu-
ing bonds based ON this years assess
ment, and the assessment of last year
being inadequate. the city council OF
Winner has for the present abandoned
efforts for municipal system of wa
terworks
Aberdeen will entertain the South
Dakota Dairymen and Buttermakers'
association some time in November.
The exact date and the program have
not yet been definitely decided upon.
Several dairymen and creamerymen
| will be in attendance
At a special election held a. Fulton It
was decided to incorporate Fulton as
city under the general laws of the
state The board of county commits
sioners now will be required to call
another election for the purpose of
choosing officers for lhe new city
( Attorney l.. W. Crofoot of Aberdeen,
has gone to Washington to apply for
a pardon for Robert Gilland, who was
convicted of numbering Thomas Pow
ers on the Cheyenne river reservation
three years ago and sentenced to
| life term in the federal prison at Leav-
| enworth, Kan.
| An enormous buffalo wolf, weighing
over 200 pounds was shot by T. r.
| Phillips southwest of Fort Pierre, near
| tusks, and looked very formidable 1T
is supposed to be the animal which
has made great depredations among
the young live stock. 1t sold for $65.
| Accidentally falling into the gearing
of a threshing machine operating near
Canton, Jacob Eliason, young Nor
wegians recsntly over from the old
| country, had one of his limbs so badly
mangled that it had to be amputated
He was unable to withstand the opera
| tion and died soon afterward. All of
his relatives reside in Norway.
Homesteaders in the vicinity of Nor
| ristown are being greatly annoyed and
are almost daily sustaining losses from
the operations of unusually bold
thieves, who watch their opportunity
while homesteaders are temporarily
absent from home to raid the home.
articles and property as is not nailed
! down
| Final arrangements which have
been under way for some time, have
been concluded between Morningside
| college of Sioux City, Nebraska Wes-
leyan of Lincoln, and Dakota Wesley
an of Mitchell, for triangular debate,
| which is scheduled to take place some
time next April. The questions are to
be submitted to each college by the
/ first of next week.
AS the result of cleaning out a cup
board, Mrs. H. A. Reeves of Scotland
met with a peculiar accident She
threw supposedly empty bottle into
the stove with other rubbish, and an
instant later, when she again raised
| the lid of the stove to put other rub
bish in it, the bottle exploded, pepper
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glass and cutting several ugly gashes.
The postoffice at Burbank was rob-
bed and after blowing off the safe door
secured $50 in silver and currency and
500 in stamps the thieves escaped
unmolested. The explosion was heard
by several people, but they did not ven
| ture out to learn the cause. Gilbert
and Albert Stanley of Elk Point were
| arrested by Sheriff James Hartige and
Deputy Frank Beckett. One of them
had bar of soap and a silk handker-
chief. strip had been torn from the
handkerchief and this was found at
the post office covered with soap.
The Canyon Sioux have again mus
| tered and established a large village
south OF Rapid City, where they met
\ Congressman Martin recently and de.