The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1885-03-20

reports. by Mr.. Hunt1ntou, authorizing An
dover school township, No. 9. Day county, ia
issue bonds to build school houses. BY Mr..
Steele, amending the charter of the city of
Steele. By. Mr.. Williams, establishing a com
ae Governor veto message concerning the
.ioyal of the capital was received, and laid
over for one day.
TIE BRIBERY INVESTIGATION.
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 bis vote for the
capital removal bill.
CONFIRMED BY a COUNCIL.
In executive session the council confirmed
the nomination of A. Sheridan Jones, mem
Der Of the council, to be superintendent Of
public instruction, vice Rev. Joseph Ward OF
Sankton, recently appointed, declined. Mr..
Jones lives at Olivet, Hutchinson county, is
forty-four years old. wa born in Ohio, came
to Dakota in 1872, served as a private
and non-commissioned officer in Com
pany e, Third Wisconsin, in the Army
OF the Potomac three years, was
four times wounded, and ince
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
college in Cleveland. He is now practicing
law and editor and owner of the Rural Voice,
a weekly paper at Olivet. directed to agri-
culture, literature and home news. Bills in
Produced in the council:
Yachting the bottom land portion of the city
Of Canton; establishing independent school
district No. 2, Bon Homme county: providing
for volunteer road grading and ditching in Rcd
river countless; leealizing the act Of the COM
m1ssioners of Sphinx county, in offering a reward
Tor the arresG of persons who moved the county
records; concurred in house amendments to the
general insurance bill, except relating to fees
and salary Of The auditor, and on that asked a
Council bills passed:
Amending the city charter of Mitchell, so as to
require one-fonrth of the license collections to
be paid to the county: authorizing Brown county,
when Adams county has been set of, to fund in
uebtetness: amending the charter of Chamber
!ain relative to licenses: providing a special
seat; creating Norman county, by taking
1--WE towns from Steele county and ten towns
from Trail county; amending the statute re-
lating to capital punishment so that the Judge
may determine the grade of crime on plea OF
guilty, providing for vacating town plats by
s pteeesaih %Felatty la to e0of Salaries amen az d,s,r Ihs
attorneys and probability of reduction dur
Ing terms Of of1ce; making owners of
dogs liable. without exemptions, for damages by
the same to sheep; bonding Tor county auditors
In Brown. Dag, Grant. Codington, Deuel., Sar-
gent and Dickey counties; defining the powers
Of the Presbytery of South Dakota; vacating
plats in Odessa, Ramsey county, Wamdreshea,
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 Mandan city charter: canceling
2 deed of gift by Milton Connors of land in La
Mour county for a normal school. which the ter
rltory has not accepted; Incorporating the city
Of Big Stone City and making it an independent
school district; amending the city charter of
Elk Point relative to licenses and saloon regu-
lation: for ascertaining the timber acreage in the
territory; legalizing the Butte county assess
ment Of 1883; making drainage receipts
taxes; amending the village charter Of
Parker. transferring Burleigh county's debts
proportianally with towns annexed to kidder
Sargent counties into commissioner districts;
requiring all counties to provide offices for all
officers; memorial for opening the Sisseton res
ervation: appropriating money for a normal
school at Springfield; establishing the Grand
View independent school districts: chang
erton; authorizing Nelson county to fund
debts; authorizing the change of name OF the
Tenham Lumber and Elevator company; prosid-
towns by county commissioners: changing the
name Marshall village to Englevale; 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
tiers OF the special laws of 1S67-GS-69 -7O-7l
county, cou n .s'I relstiur Iei to The % s eDnas and 9r s un1Gn
ing OF opium: authorizing the commissioners
OF Cavalier county to fund Indebtedness
authorizing Marion school township, Turner
county,. to fund fnHpbfa6npSS. at1tLpriZiuu
school township No. 10. Day county, to issue
creating St. Pierre county: amending chapter !,
session laws of 1888, relating to drainage: in.
cooperating the village of Valley Springs; incor-
porating the village of Frankfort; authorizing
Grant and Montrose school townships TO fund
indebtedness providing for the return Of patients
at the insane hospital to their homes; providing
STARK county to issue bonds to erect a court
house ard jail; authorizing Union township,
Edinnnds county, to Issue. bonds to fund
commissioners OF Dlckey county in
In erecting u court house; organizing Salem
township, Morton ccunty: establishing an in
tahlishing independent School District No. 2,
Hutchinson county; establishing School Dis
trict No. 80. Hamilton county; establishing an
independent school district in Harrison. Doug
lass county; appropriating 1897 for the pay
ment OF witnesses i'll the contested cases of An
derson vs.. Hntchinson,an Bechtet ys. Stong: the
ohh tlpN " pitlttilS Iilu billI
ing the laws of this legislative session: amend
ing the. acs authorizing the commissioners OF
Day ana ifyde counties TO rund Indebtedness;
authorizing the COMMISSIONS of Mercer county
to Issue bonds to erect o court house and build
bridges.
Council bills passed:
Defining the boundaries OF Cavalier conntv.
authorizing commissioners of Dudley county I,
auna lna~eDtedness: amending secs. 2 and 10,
chap. 80, Civil Code, fixing terms OF court
IN the Sixth Judicial district; author
1zing the commissioners of Hughes
county. to fund Indebtedness; author
iztng the commissions of Potter county To
fund indebtedness: defining the boundaries Of
Mclean county: relating to certain streets in
Madison, Lake county: ~vacating certain portions
Vt Matthews addition. city of Brookings: incor-
eorating Howard. Miner county; amending sec.
D, chap. 13, Laws of 1879, relating to tho
blind; incorporating Mayvilie, Trail county:
incorporating Fairbank; amending the
chartcr Of Canton; providing for
taxing dispositions in continual cases; anthoriz-
ing Foster county to issue bonds 60 build a
court house; authorizing Yankton county tore
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