Hand County press. (Miller, Dakota [S.D.]) 1882-1893, 1890-09-18
CROSS DECEPTION.
Pierre Again Tries 10 Hoodwink the
People Of South Dakota on the
School Land.
Pierre Must Make Campaign Of Truth
II She Becomes the Permanent
Capital.
That GumbO Section VIII Not Compare
With the Fertile valley OF
The Jim.
A STUDIED INSULT.

Ex:-The Pierre Board OF Trade
through their organ, the Daily Capital,
have just perpetrated another damaging
outrage on the ints,liaent people of South
Dakota bv mapping and publishing what
they wish 70 have understood 10 the To-
cation OF their school lands. By their
map they make il appear that they have
two school sections sbutting on the east
and north sides Of their town. and an.
ether one across the river in Stanley co.
unity.
Now, to show the gross deception and
swindling intent OF these men let our
readers take any sectional map of town.
ship, and then in the southern part of il,
on section 80 cut out good sized town
site, say one square nile Now, from
that, measure each way, east and north,
until you touch sections l6 and 36. You
will find that section SO is FOUR MILES
away Center to CENTER while section I6
is three miles north and one mile east
Icenter to center). But her system of
fraudulent distortions as shown by her
map puts both these pieces squareeiy up
against her village line. when In one
poiut of fact witch can be proven by
witnesses there is not house within two
MILES OF either of them. And when to
this We add the fact tnat neither one of
the pieces can ever be cultivated owing
TO being nothing but pure bare gumbo
and covered with millions OF rock and
boulders" as civil engineer Butler of
Aberdeen says. who has been all over
them and is willing to make oath to that
fact, it only shows Pierre's total and un.
restrained prostitution OF all deeeucy in
foisting such an outrageous imposition
upon the people OF the state as a bid for
their votes.
II you now have the plat. count NJ the
square miles OF territory il her limits
touch both sections SO and l6. Saying
nothing about nearly FIVE square miles she
claims In the township next south ll0-79D
you can see that in the townships plat
before Ehe has spread herself cut over I2
square miles. THINK OF THAT! And
wheh 1t is remembered that she has only
about 2OOO souls in her midst, aud only
about 400 houses, empty and all. IL will
take you only few moments % figure
out what Il monstrosity she makes of her.
self in perpetrating this last, and most
palpable fInud OF them all. And then, as
IL ts cap the climax OF her swindline pro
pensities she tacks onto her west side
over in Stanley county fractional sec.
ton OF gumbo bluffs. west Of the river as
her sch ,ol section number three, mum.
oered In her map l6), and by making the
mile wide Missouri, mere hair line. she
brings that up against her western limit
like the others On her north and east. II
she We're not insanely jealous Of Huron's
smooth, level and close abutting school
section she would not have done this. fer
every body knows that the Missouri river
is nom threc-fourths Of a mule to mile
wide, aud besides all that Stanley county
IS not even surveyed yet. hence how can
she or her Board OF Trade, or her Daily
Capital tell whether that patch Of gumbo,
knobs and bluffs will be section I6 or 30 (?
ieu see she's gone daft over the rich
heritage to the school fund which Huron's s
school section will bequeath to our chill. i.
dren. and hesitates not moment at faI.
sifying every thing and any thing which
VIII neutralize its effect on the voters.
But having now shown her up in her true
light, we leave her, where We picked her
up, .smirche J, scorned aud despised for
this her latest and most glarng subter-
fuge and swindle.