Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1884-07-04

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college for dwar1ing his sons mind
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An exchange says that future ANAL
lists may well describe this period of
American history as the wire age. In
no part of the economy of our dailylives
are we divorced from wire. 1t is our
slave. and yet an eve present master.
Sleeping. we repose on wire mattresses.
Eating, we see, food which has passed
through sleeves, and which is sheltered
from, insect appetite by, wire covers
Calling, we pull wires to ring curled
wire gongs. Travelling, we are convey
eddy cable or electric railways, hoisted
by elevators hung On wire and hurried
over wire'bridges. n3Ne announce our
comingbytelegraph or telephonerwires,
and wethread'our way by nj ht through
streets lighted by means Of electric ca
bles.; Across our fields are strung
thousands of miles of barbed wire.
Our clocks are set'by wires, our watch
es run by wires, our books are stitched
with wires. pictures hung by wires,
and politics managed by wires.
Letcher Blade:-One of the most
magnanimous propositions We have
seen lately is that made by Gov. Ord
way to Gen. Hugh Campbell. His Ex-
cellency has for some time avowed the
mostfrantic desire to be "investigated."
The grand jury at it's recent session in
Yankton accommodated him with an
opportunity. Instead Of coming up
squarely to:tile trial and refuting all
charges against his official honor, as he
had SO often declared himself both able
and anxious to do, he secured the dis
missal OF theoase on technical grounds,
thus proving beyond question the in
sincerity Of his professions and his fear
of the damaging disclosures which
might be made in the court room. AS
soon as Judge Edgerton has decided
that the court has nc jurisdiction over
a governor, and cannot compel him to
come to trial, the desire to be investi-
gated returns with all its original force,
and Mr.. Ordway PUSHES into print in a
letter to General Campbell, asking that
gentleman to join him in being v
hauled by a committee of Ordway's
own procurement, and winding up with
the magnanimo4s proposal that the
one who is 'folnd guilty shall resign his
Office. AS Governor Orawayfss term of
office expired last May The generosity
of the offer is simply stunning.
The new land bill passed by the ma
tional house of representatives is inter-
esting to the people of the westbecause
it involves q radical departure from
past customs in the procurement of
government land. The provisions of
the bill are these:
All persons entitled to pre-empt any
land under existing laws, who before
the law have in good faith filed their
claims, Or, who, having the legal right
to pre-empt, have located on any of the
u%nsurveyed public lands with the in
tention of entering the same when ur-
veyed, shall have the right to complete
their entries and receive a patent as
though the repeal had not passed. It
also provides that the repeal of the
timber culture law shall not prejudice
the rights Of those who have in good
faith made entries under the law and
complied with the requirements there
of. The second, third and fourth sec
lions OF the bill providefo amendments
to the homesteadlaw. Thefrst amend
ment applies to cases where a. person
has entered upon land in good faith,
intending to homestead and perfecthis
title thereto, but il prevented from do
ing SO by a grant previously made by
the government, Of by the shifting Of
the channel or bed of any river where
by his lands may be lost, or from any
cause owe which he has no control,
without fault on his part, he may by
making satisfactorily proof Of the. fact,
enter another homestead upon any of
the public lands Of the United States
subject to homestead: The third sec
ton provides that every homesteader
shall make final proof by two credible
witnesses that he has resided upon. cu1-
tivated and permanently improved his
Or her homestead for four consecutive
years next succeeding such entry. The
proof is to be made in duplicate, and
one set is required to be filed in the To-
cal land Office and one in the general
land Office for one year, and if no con-
test is filed or notice given charging
and specifying fraud in the entry or
proof before of that time,
then the patent shall issue.
This gives time between the fling Of
the proof and the issuing Of the patent
to detect fraud, if any, on the part Of
the applicant. The law as 1t now stands
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