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| Bad School I:Onds-Sout: ID lkota Farmers
Should Not Part w tn Sheep-Relative
Profit In Raising Ducks and Chickens-
Other Interesting State Items.
The farmers of Hand county have
oil been supplied with seed grain.
The postoffice at Blenden, Dawson
county, has been discontinued. Mail
will go to Victory.
The late legislative session appro-
2riated Ss.3OO.3a less than the body
lid two years ago.
At Vermillion . few nights ago
cramps set fire to some freight cars
two OF which together with q feed mill
we're destroyed.
The old episcopal church at Elk
burned recently and the fire dam
aged the new church to the extent of
5 90. The loss is covered by insur.
lnce.
A bill to have all appropriations ex-
pire sixty days after fiscal years, or
1t the meeting of the NEXT legislature,
vas presented this winter-but it did
lot pass.
While the children of Mr.. and Mrs.
Boohr, living near B,jou Hills, South
Dakota, were playin. vii q shotgun
WIS accidently discharge /, blowing
otf the top OF the head OF the little
laughter.
A billto allow constitutional amend-
ments to be submitted on separate
ballots, and one to allow an investi.:.-
zion o! sales OF school land where mis-.
approximations have been made, inil.
ed to pass.
The bill extending the time Of tax
payments applies only to personal
property taxes. 1t provides that the
srea surer> shall not proceed to collect
by distress Till October first, Instead
ri July first.
Mortimer Butler and Fred Bennett,
who we're before commissioner Pat
tison at Pierre on cha ee OF cutting
government timber, have been bound
over for appearance before the United
States grand jury.
The officials in tine United States
land Offices in this state have received
notices that at the suggestion of Sen.
ater Kyle, 1000 packages Of garden
seeds have been forwarded to each
land Office for distribution.
Lee Powell, who was one OF several
alleged cattle rustlers captured some
weeks ago by v;gilants from Keyap.
apa county, Neb., and taken 10
chamberlain for trial, has been SEN
tened to two years imprisonment.
The residents OF Walshtown. Yank-
ton county, have given out that they
intend TO stop petty thieving going
OIL in that place by the use OF shot.
guns. Thethreat that a person caught
stealing there will be shot is said to
be backed by the nerve to execute it.
While a terrific gale was blowing ut
Ipswich few days ago hinge prairie
fire swept down upon the place, and
it was only by concerted action on
the part OF the population that the
town was saved from complete des-
truction. Numerous buildings caught
fire but were quenched before there
was much damage done.
Redtield College Oratorical Associ-
alton held its seventeenth annual
contest few days ago. There were
tour orations. The successful orator
won n prize and represents the COL
ege at the state intercollegiate con-
test. which is to be held at VermilIion
in May next. The orators ranked;
Ranny B. Hall, first; G. 8. Towne,
second.
About the only bill in the last legis-
Iature which would have directly bene-
fitted the farmers, was house bill fifty
EIGHT, which provided that live stock
under six months old should not be
assessed. This bill passed the house,
passed the senate and went to the
governor. 1t was then found to con-
tain some error and was recalled
about two weeks before adjournment
Tor correction and the enrolled bill
died with those cast out.