The Warner weekly sun. (Warner, Brown Co., Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1885, 1885-03-20
rHE RRrRrRY MvEsTTGATION,

which has been hanging fire for the past two
or three days, has taken definite shape IN
the arrest of Wells and Prentice OF Pierre.
The charges made in the complaint were TO
the effect that they offered and paid to
Dewoody 81 600 to secure his vote tor the
capital removal bill.
CONFIRMED BY Fl COUNCIL.
In executive session the council c@nnrlneu
the nomination of A. Sheridan Jones, mem
Der of the council, to be superintendent or
public instruction, vice Rev. Joseph Ward OF
YanktON, recently appointed, declined. Mr..
Jones lives at Olivet, Hutchinson county, is
forty-ROur wears old, was born in ONO, came
to Dakota in 1872, served as a private
and uon-commissioned officer in Com
pany E., Third Wisconsin, in the Army
of the Potomac three years, was
four times wounded, and since
1872 has served as county superintendent
of schools, district attorney, county COM
missioner and territorial auditor. Before
the war Mr.. Jones was a teacher IN the com
mon schools and academic institutions, and
several years instructor in actual business
and at the head of the department of pen
manship in Bryant & Stratton commercial
college in Cleveland. He is now practicing
law and editor and owner of the Rural Voice,
q weekly paper at Olive, directed TO agrl-
culture, literature aha home news. Bills in
troduced in the council:
Vacating the bottom laid portion Of the city
Of Canton; establishing independent school
district No. 2, Bon Homme county; providing
for volunteer road grading and d1tChing III Red
river counties; lcgalizing the act Of the com
missioners of Sphinx county. in Offering a reward
for the arrest of persons who moved the county
records; ConCurred in house amendments TO the
general insurance bill, except relating tc fees
and salary of the auditor, and on that asked a
conference.
Council bills passed:
Amending the city charter Of Mitchell, so as to
require one-fOurth OF the license collections to
ha nj =, n ot,D - II thnriVinu RFOVVn county
when Adams county has been set OF, to FUND IN
debtedness; amending the charter of Chamber
lain relative to licenses: providing a special
election in May to locate the Steele county
seat; creating Norman county, by taking
five towns from Steele county and ten towns
from Trail county: amending the statute re-
lating to capital punishment so that the judge
NAV determine the grade Of crime on plea of
guilty; providing for vaCaJlng town plaUs by
proceedings in court; amending the
statute relative to salaries of district
attorneys and probability of reduction dur
ing terms of Office; making owners OF
dogs liable. without exemptions, for damages by
the same to sheen; bonding for county auditors
in Brown, Day, Grant, CodingtOn, Deuel., Sar-
gent and DiCkey counties; defining the powers
Of the PreshvtPrv of South Dakota: yacatin2
pIass in Odessa, Ttamsey county, Wamdreshca,
Nelson county, and Lounsberry's addition to
Bismarck.
The council rejected the council bills Gre
ating the Office OF public examiner, and
Walsh's, for regulating elevators and weigh
ing and inspection OF grain.
HOUSE BILLS PASSED.
Amending the MIndau CiSy charter: ctuceling
q deed or gltt by Milton COnnors or lanu IN La
MOuT county for a normal school, which the ter
ritory has not accepted; Incorporating the city
Of Big Stone Citv anC making 1t an independent:
school district; amending the city charter OF
Elk Point relative TO licenses and saloon ragu-
lation for ascertaining the timber acreage IL the
territory; leealizing the Butte county asSess-
ment Of 1888: making drainage receipts
nnUpf the INV uT l9NS3 IGEeiVaDG Tor
taxes; amending the village charter Of
Parker: transferring Burleigh %cOuuty's debts
prCporttOnallY with towns annexed to kidder
county; for dividing R:chland, Faux, Hyde aud
SARGENT counties into commissioner dIsCricts;
recurring all counties TO provide Offices ter all
omcers; memorial FOR opening the bISseton res
~ervation: appropriating money for n FORMAL
school a. Springfield; establishing the Grand
View independent school Districts; chang
ing the name of Logan township To Plank
erton: authorizing Nelson county TO fund
debts; authorizing the change OF name OF the
Tenham Lumber and Elevator company; proyid-
ing for changing the names OF villages and
towns by county commissioners; changing the
name Marshall village to Engleyaie; amending
the code relative to confirmation to pleadings;
changing the name of the town OF Victoria TO
Coal Harbor.
House bills passed:
Authorizing the commissioners of Walsh
county TO purchase a poor farm; repeating chap
ters of the special laws OF lS67-6S-60-70-7I
and lS72-73; relating to bonds OF Union
county; relating to the selling and smok-
Of Cavalier county to fund Indebtedness;
authorizing Marion school township, Turner
county. to fund Indebtedness; authorizing
school township No. 10. Day county. to issue
Donds TO DuIIu q scroot mouse; amending
section i, chapter IL, laws of 1879:
creating st. Pierre county: amending chapter 2,
session laws of 1888, relating to drainage: in
cooperating the village of Valley Springs .ncor-
porating the village OF Frankfort: authorizing
Grant and Montrose school townships TO fund
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1t the insane hospital TO their homes; providing
for the formation of school districts; authorizing
Stark county to issue bonds to erect a court
house ard jail; authorizing Union township,
indebtedness: legaliziEg the acts of the
commissioners OF Dlckey county ia
In erecting a court houses; organizing Salem
township, Morton county; establishing an in-
dependent school district in Bridgewater: es-
tablishing Independents School District No. 2.
Hutchinson county; establishing School Dis
independents school district In Harrison. Doug
lass county; ~appropriating 1897 for the pay
ment OF witnesses Ia the contested cases Of An
dersOn VS.. Hutchinson, and Bechtelv VS.. Stong: the
Joint resolution providing for printing and bind
Ing the laws Of this legislative session: amend
ING the act authorizing tine commissioners %
authorizing the COMMISSIONS OF Mercer county
TO issue bonds to erect . court house and build
bridges.
Council bills passed:
Defining the boundaries Of Cavalier county;
authorizing commissioners of Dudley county TO
fund indebtedness; amending sees. z and Is,
chap. 80. Civil Code, fixing terms Of court
In the Sixth judicial district; author
ling the commissioners Of Hughes
county to und indebtedness: author
Izing the commissioners Of Potter county to
fund Indebtedness: defining the boundaries Of
Mclean county: relating TO certain streets In
madison, Lake county: vacating certain portions
Of Mathews addition. city OF Brookings: incor-
~porating Howard. Miner county amending sec.
5, chap. Is, Laws OF 1879, relating TO the
Diind; Incorporating Mayville. Trail county:
m cba9tpr f ennann nravid;ng s fnp
taking dispositions In continual cases: authoriz-
Ing Foster county TO issue bonds to build q
court house; authorizing Yaukton county 20 re-
init certain taxes, amending the charter OF the
city Of CasseIton: authorizing Miner
county to fund indebtedness: establish
Ing an independent school district In Gilman
Lake county; c4aagl1g the corporate limits OF