Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1895-01-24

The report thas representative
EGG, 81 Mnnehaha county, is sen-
ousiT il not ds~n-erously iii az home
and that ne 10 likely not TO be able to
take his s~as at this session has saEls-
ed mach sorrow among the members
where Mr.. Ecee has MAny friends.
He 10 said TO have lung se-~r and TO
haze been critically II, tat . some
what better.
z. s Person. the popular secretary
o. the senate, Who has been i'll at bis
home IN Howard with quinsey. Is ros
expected 20 return for several days
There is considerable complaint that
the poor v~entilsting apparatus pms
la two years $40, Is highly productive
OF colds, and a lsrzs share OF the
members are going around With ysEG-
ous degrees o. chill.
Several days a. tss rspors wss
sen oct from this city that Col
Thomas II. Il Ruth, the o1t going
commi-son sr Of school AMI public
lands, had by dsF-slction or collision
with treasurer Taylor caused the
state q loss of ninety thousand do
larsari that by his usg-cc or rf1s-
al 70 aFportloH the school funds On
tie fifteenth day Of November as il
was s-a-e5 Sc ststnts provided GA
couErj-~ had not had time 10 apf ly
t0r the uacn~y tu7 them b-t0ge as
&c aEca-j1u took pace aud rhaE
oHFGg 20 1t- vl0E rriOu 04 the statute
IN ta'- par icUtar Tsy L0r was enabled
TO G0Jb.e the { nis. Iuj~ statement
VS. ra1IFrfy untrue and IL Is = matt ?
Of I~I-tice TO Col Ruth TO state fully
AMI positively tb4s tAs appointment
OF 1894 uss made according TO SHAT
ute and thai the Commssiol=r can
not be bsll morally or physic~''y ia
bic for the loss. The informs u on
which the story vas sent oHs was
based on = detailed interview with
one o. the clerks III the once OF the
commissions ami on the words Of
several stat1 officials who COW state
that they were mistaken on the stat
ute, and that the commissioner IA the
appor comment of 1894 followed the
law. The following letter from state
auditor Hipple makes this plain.
Thu statsmen Mt that Col Thomas
H Ruth, the commissioner OF school
and public lands sad aided or abetted
w. w. Taylor TO de.raud the state
through violating the statute in re-
gard to sending out vouchers TO late
for the second apportionment Of 1894
OF the permanent school fund is sbso-
iuteiy untrue" Signed J. Z Nipple,
State Auditor.
The prohibitionists have decided TO
carry the var into Africa. Instead
Of standing in a purely negative po-
sition they will from this time out
force the fighting and will keep the
friends of resubmission busy. Il is
hardly likely that they will be able TO
get their bill through the senate, let
alone the house, bu5 they will try
hard. The greatest deteriment TO the
enforcement OF the prohibitory law
in this state has been the drug stores.
Under the law they are allowed TO
sell all kinds Of intoxicating liquors,
presumably for medicinal, mecnani-
cal and sacramental purposes, they
requiring from the purchaser an
affidavit stating the ailment for which
he wishes TO get the intoxicant. AL
that the thirsty need to DO Is 20 state
49, 81 - q NVa@a
trouble and the druggist IL compelled
to sell and ask no further question.
As the thirsty are in the nature of the
ease troubled with their stomschs
this law suggssts its own violation.
As a matter of fact in many, IL not
most localities, the druggists have
srown into the habit Of disregarding
the affidavit altogether, but even
where they do not they freely sell
besr by the bottle and whisky and any
other form o. liquor in bottles to suit
the purchaser, and when he has once
the bottle in his possession he ran do
what he desires with Il, and there is
no az to prevent him. In most
town tins fact has brought about a
cond tIon in which the druggists &c
freely u De uEuHk O9 Eno premises
and il Is difficult to detect
their violation oE the statute. So
long ss his provis on remains there
is little hope OF abolishiug the liquor
traffic even whore there aTe no open
saloons. To obviats this difficulty
the T-OhlbiEionisrs have drawn q Law
which they think. ii they ,an secure
its passage, will stop once for all the
abuse which the drug stores have in
stitG:~t. Under their ball the state
will have a commissioner to be ap-
pointed by the governor, secretary OF
sta md attorney general, who with
his liant, will have full charge oil
intoxIcants. He must be a total ab.
stsner and must make OATH that he
has not violated the prohibitory law.
The county commissioners will in
each county establish dispensariesl
for the sale of intoxicants in origin q
packages for mechanical, medicinal
and sacramental purposes caly, and
they viii be sold for cash to purchas-
ers who must make affidavit etatina
the purposes for which they desire
the Iiouor and the list CT purchasers
and ~ p-,1-u1. FaT u,u.t ba nah.