Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1898-02-26
NNOWLES AT HOME.
Black Hills Congressman Talks OF
Prospective IepisIation.

Irrespective htSieia'ioH'
D~eadwood, Feb. 19.-Congressman
Freeman Knowles is home from Wash
ington for a few days visit. In an in
terview he says that the Black Hills
has several very important measures
before congress, all of which are to
pass. Mr.. knowles thinks that Dead
wood will get the first appropriation
for a public building, the probable
amount being $500, 900. The appro-
priation for the assay office is available
and is ample for all requirements. The
bill to make Fort Meade a permanent
post has passed the senate. An at
tempt will be made to put this bill in
the general military appropriation
bill, in which case, Mr.. Knowles
thinks, it will pass the house. 1t would
doubtless not pass if put in an indie
pendent bill.
The measure pertaining to the estab-
lishment of n national sanitarium at
Hot Springs has beer presented to the
members and is well understood. The
matter is strongly indorsed by railroad
people and eastern men Of promi-
hence. Mr.. Knowles fears that the
appropriation will not be made this
year, however.
IL NE"i' w NV iplI ~ li'lN a.
Spearfsh, he says that unless the citi-
zens hasten matters themselves and
get the encumbrances removed from
the Johnson property, which the gov
eminent is willing TO buy, the whole
enterprise will fail, since the appro-
priation will elapse on July /. Nothing
new is to be reported on the land Office
removal question and it will, no doubt,
be some time before Commissioner
Hermann will act on the matter. The
Deadwood people are making more of
an effort now to place their claims be-
fore the commission in a favorable
light than n few weeks ago when the
question Of removal was first agitated.
Taylor on the kipp Case.
Huron. Feb. 10.-Maris Taylor, pub
lie examiner, has returned from Pierre,
where he went by direction of Govern
or Lee to examine the books i'm the
office of Insurance Commissioner Kipp.
Mr.. Taylor said hat less than So, 900
had been received by Deputy McClaren
from insurance companies: that Gov
renor Lee bases his authority for the
removal of Kipp from Office upon the
law which provides hat "the governor
shall appoint by and with the consent
of the senate, n commissioner of in
surance who shall hold his Office for
a period of two years, unless sooner
removed by him." Kipp bases his de-
Tense upon the decision i'm the Shan
non case before the supreme court,
and upon article xiv, section 3, of the
constitution, which provides for the
removal of state officers. Mr.. Taylor
says he knows nothing of the sending
out of a large batch OF insurance state
ments by Kipp to republican papers,
and takes no stock in the report. No
bills will be paid unless so ordered by
the new commissioner, Mr.. Ayres.
Aid for Congregational Churches
Huron, Feb. 19.-At a meeting of the
executive committee of Congregational
Home missions for this state, held here
Thursday, the sum of $4,000, allowed
by the parent society, was apportioned
among the 100 Congregational
churches of this state needing aid. Ar
rangements were also made for con-
tinuing missionaries in this field, and
for the supply of churches without
pastors. The work over the state is
progressing and the denomination is
flourishing.