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Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1901-02-21
BILLS PASSED BY HOUSE.

No. 225, by Price-Allowing foreign
executors and administrators to bring
suits in this state
No. 226. by Bras-To prevent fraud
upon hotel keepers.
No. 227, by Kinsley-To take away
from witnesses the plea OF self-incrim-
ination as an excuse not to testify in
liquor cases. .
No. 22S, by Gerhard-A general act
to define state printing and the nan
ner Of publication and distribution OF
reports of state officers.
No. 229, by Burgess-Fixing the
salary Of county ~treasurers at $500
per year and at $4,000 per year in
counties having more than Is 1000 pop
ulation.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1901-02-21
NEW SENATE BILLS.

The following bills were introduced
in the senate:
No. l6S, by Oyerseth-Regulating
building and loan associations and fix
ing their charges and providing rates
for repayments.
No. 169, by Loomis-Providing SUI
rervision for mutual insurance compa-
MES, requiring the statement 10 be
made under oath.
No. III, by Gilmore-Providing for a
state library board-same "a bill for
same purpose killed in The house.
No. 172, by Lawson - Providing
penalties for %tampering with telegraph
and telephone wires.
No. 173, by Lawson-Providing that
owners of steam threshers shall be liza
BILE on their bonds for damages done to
telephone and telegraph companies.
No. ia, by the Committee on Edu-
cation-A general school law.
No. It's, by Johnson Of Minnehaha-
Relating TO settlements for support OF
families of deceased persons in pro-
bate proceedings.
No. 176, by Stoddard, by request
Requiring that the humane treatment
Of animals be taught in the public
schools. y
No. 1T, by Cooper-Appropriating
5 $500 for a boys dormitory at Spear
fish normal.
No. 17S, by Lawson-Empowering
cities to purchase, erect and maintain
electric and other lighting plants.
No. 179-A substitute committee bill
regulating the construction of drains
and bitches.
No. $50, by Johnston - Relieving
travelling statesmen taking orders fol-
wholesalers from retailers from the op-
erations of the bill to tax transient
merchants and peddlers.
No. 1S1-Appropriating 81 900 for the
expenses of the investigating com
mittee.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1901-02-21

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candidates for office from treating with
liquor, candies, gum Or any other al
lurement, and prescribing a fine OF 500
for each offense.
No. 2l1, by Omdahl-Amending the
insurance law with reference to the Sc
lection Of officers by mutual companies.
No. 212. by Everett-Making the
theft OF live stock valued at $40 grand
larceny.
No. 2l3, by Moore-Providing for a
state board of charities and corrections
consisting of five men and two women.
No. PA, by MISUNDERSTANDING the
driving of live stock of their accus-
toned range, by others than the owner
or his representative, a misdemeanor.
No. 2l5, by Price-Legalizing the in
c~o-Ecration of the town of Irene in the
counties of Turner, Clay and Yankton.
No. 2I6, by Anderson-Duplicate OF
l67. which vas passed without the en-
acting clause, repeating the law pro-
hibiting citizens OF South Dakota sell
ing firearms to Indians and hall
breeds.
No. PIT, by Misunderstanding the
saloon license 10 $500 for a general sa-
loon and to $500 for saloons that sell
beer only.
No. 2ls. by Gross-Reducing the in
terest on tax certificates from 10 TO Il
per cent
No. 2ls, by Anderson-Providing for
the appointment of states attorneys
in certain ases
No. 300, by Peterson-Proyiding that
| the continued use of a tract OF land
| for that purpose makes it a highway
| 40 time specified.
No. 22l, by misunderstanding town
ships 10 keep up repairs on bridges
when the repairs do not cost to exceed
500 and requiring the county TO make
repairs in excess of that sum-.
No. 222, py Stark-To repeal the act
OF 1895, requiring counties to establish
uniform system of text books and to
keep the same on sale.
No. 223, by Larson-Providing fol
scale inspection by the mayors OF
cities and the chairman Of the board
Of supervisors.
No. 224, by Fossum-To repeal the
law of 1890 relative to the destruction
of noxious weeds.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1901-02-21

3Y mower to remove constltutionai oN
other officers OF the state who are moi
subject to impeachment :,
No. lo2, imposing a prohibitive IL
cense ON transient merchants.
No. 1874, prescribing that the state
shall care for insane patients whose
homes are unknown.
Extending the jurisdiction OF town,
shin supervisors over unincorporateu
villages within their borders.
Defining the duties OF inspector oi
mines. ~
Defining how ballots must be marx
ed where two candidates u for the
same Office. ro,
Allowing husband or wife to control
nroperty in case of desertion, INSANITY
or IMPRISONMENT of the other.
Regulating criminal practice regaro-
ing the selection Of jurors.
Senate bill regulating the ineorpora-
ton of towns. u
providing the manner OF dividing
cities into wards where they are not
now so organized.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1901-02-21

Were the protection Of our forests
carried to the full extent, there would
be no offender to come under the con
domination which Phillips Brooks thus
expressed: There is something wrong
about a man that needlessly plucks of
a new leaf-bud from a forest tree, even
IL he be where no human steps would
have been sheltered by its shade and
no human eye charmed with its
beauty"
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1901-02-21

It is contemplated to construct a
similar to the Jungfrau line
% the summit Of Mont Blanc. M.
the director of the Mont Blanc
observatory. and NJ. Deperet, professor
( mineralogy at the Lyons university,
j conjunction with M. Fabre, a French
,ngineer, have been engaged for some
me past In surveying the sides of the
fountain to ascertain a suitable route
nd the atmospheric conditions. The
,sult of these investigations is the
rejection of a line probably starting
om the village Of Houehes, on the
avoy side. to the summit. to have a
/ ,tal length OF eleven miles.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1901-02-21
CAME OF FIGHTING STOCK.
Capt. y. 9. yanderburgh. Soldier ana
Pioneer. Is Dead.

Capt. j. S. Vanderburgh OF HurOa
one OF the best known men in tnai pan
of the state, died recently OF phea'
monia after an illness Of but a lev
days. He was seventy-fve years w
on the day of his death, and has pen
a resident of Beadle county since is-
He was a native Of Jefferson couhu,
New York, was captain OF a COMPANY
in the Tenth New York Heavy artins'
and participated In numerous ensass
ments in the War OF the Rebellion ny
came of fighting stock, his ~grandfasne,
serving I'm the Revolutionary war; anu
his father in the War of 1872.
On coming Il South Dakota gay.
vanderburgh began the improVeinen
Of a farm, and was n of the nrs' me
In that part of the country 10 pa"
trees. He did more to Wy
growing and fruit raising than on
other person in Beadle county, -
death will be deeply regretted In 'hA
part Of South Dakota.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1901-02-21
GROWTH IS NORMAL
y-.cr~.,e for the Decade I'm south Da-
kota's Population.

L..f- kUk0a
South Dakota's population. accord
ing 10 the bulletin Just issued py zen
eus Director Merriam, IL 4Ol,750. as
compared with 1928. sos in 1880, an IN
crease of 72.722, or 22.1 per cent. The
Bulletin says:
.In 1870 the population OF that part
Of he territory which subsequently be-
came the State of South Dakota was
.u77s. and in 1880, 81 ,26S, shown a n in
crease for the decade of Sc, 1872. or 734.5
per cent. Ten years later, at the CEN
sus of 1890. the population Of the state
was found to be 1928, sos. representing
an increase during the decade OF 23o,54o
or 234.6 per cent. The growth of the
state during the asst decade has been
normal.
'sThe total land surface Of South Da-
kota is, approximately, 1880 square
miles. the average number OF persons
10 the square mile at the censuses OF
1890 and 1900 being: In 1890, 49,; in
1900, SO.
OF the seventy-eight counties In
South Dakota in 1890. fifteen have nee
then been annexed to h counties
leaving the state divided at present in
TO sixty-three counties. OF these. all
but sixteen have increased in popula-
ton during the decade, those showing
the largest percentages Of increase be-
ing Lyman, 1926 per cent; Gregory,
649.5 per cent; Roberts, 5l1.7 per cent;
Butte. 1903 per cent; Charles Mix,
1884 per cent; Buffalo, S0.3 per cent;
walworth, 1873 per cent; Lawrence,
1913 per cent. and Deuel.. 45.4 per cent.
OF the foregoing. the counties of Ly-
man, Gregory and Butte have also re-
! ceived material accessions OF territory
through the annexation OF other corn-
ties.
1.-THE counties which ave decreased
In population are Armstrong, Aurora,
Beadle, Brown, Brule. Custer, Fan
River, Faux. Hand. Hughes. Hyde,
Jerauld. Pennington, Sanborn, Sphinx
and Sully.
There are 1874 Incorporated cities.
towns, and villages in South Dakota,
for which the population is separately
returned. The population of cities
with 1000 or more inhabitants has
heretofore been published. Cities hav-
ing less hat 1000 population follow"
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1901-02-21
COLLEGE
Yankton and Dakota L Teams !"
Meet To-Day.


Arrangements have been conciuues
for a joint debate between studeh.s
Yankton college and Dakota unise !,
ty representatives. to be held earn
May, at some place yet to oe oeci. y
upon. Early In March VIII occur -.
local oratorical contest OF DaKo'a ~
when the orator to represent the u
versity in the intercollegiate coh.es"s,
which will be held in Mitchell ap''
the middle OF May, will be selected.
The Methodist revival at Mi.en.a
has come to an end. 1t was condu.'se
by Evangelist Calfee Of YORK, Ne,,
who expects to return to Mftcheh ean =.
In March and make II his home
was elected to the position OF Coz
spending secretary Of the Dakota "a
ference Twentieth Century fund anu any.
will take the field to raise the mon
for the erection of the university nv
building, upon which, it is exp ~.
work will commence in the spring -
revival was a great success.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1901-02-21

Among the noteworthy requests for
charitable purposes during the past
year was that of a Navajo Indian,
whose estate. valued at over $4,000,
was left for the establishment of a free
medical ~dispensary, as IAN aid in ex-
tinguishing cruel aboriginal supersti-
lions in the tribe" The giver recog-
nized the fact that. in an important
sense. 1t is for the Indian to say what
the future of the Indian shall be.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1901-02-21

A 81 bill bearing only a stamp and
no wrapper for a written communica-
ton on mails from Chicago. The bill
served as a wrapper from a written
communication on a card. and was
Isewed to the card. On the outside OF
the bill was pasted a bit of white pa
per bearing a two-cent stamp and the
address. Question was raised as to the
right Of sending money in this manner
but the bill in the end was allowed to
on it's way.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1901-02-21

After a recent contest 1t came out
at in some instances the struggling
hIetes were sustained by the use OF
senic, strychnine and nitroglycerine.
ne winner in a close trial may tri-
inph because the trainer has been
'dicious in administering tonic drugs.
It does not the pharmaceutical road
victory seem less attractive than
- old way which led through physi-
strength and skill unaided by the
mulants which medicine offers?
ere is a modernness about the pos
ility Of being beaten by a sixtieth
a grain Of strychnine. which tc
slier athletes would have brought
h wonder and regret.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1901-02-21

A curious street car line is that be-
tween Atami and ~Yoshihoma. two
coast towns in the province of Lie.
Japan. The line is seven miles long.
the rolling stock consists of a single
car. and the motive power is furnished
by a couple of muscular coolies, who
push the car along wherever power is
necessary. When the car comes to a
down grade they jump on and ride.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1901-02-21
ESCAPED PRISONER C,rev,
Inverness Fondness for , w..
Leads to His Undoinr

After being at liberty nearly
Lester Luverne, an escaped pras
from the Sioux Falls penitentiary
been recaptured at Bessemer M
Warden Bowler. Of the penitentzr
means of a photograph, has POSITIVE
identified a man under arrest then
Luverne. who, with five other vux
ers, made a sensational escape An
the Sioux Falls penitentiary Arm \
1900.
Luverne was serving a term q tz
years for robbing the postofis
Clark, s. d. His detection and arr3|
was due to a woman residing at NaI
ison, s. ID. 1t was expected that d
Verne would join her at Madison \
elsewhere as soon as II wa safe ii
him TO do SO after his escape, and n
has been under constant surveilass
On one occasion she made a trip TO N
Pacific coast. and, believing that v
had gone there to join Luyerne h
movements were watched. But u
fugitive did not put in an appearasu
She returned to Madison, and a shr
time ago Luverne's whereabouts VI
ascertained by intercepting a lett
from him TO her, and his arrest spec
lily followed.
OF the six prisoners who escaped }
April, Lou Mccormick was recaptur
after being at liberty only about
hour. Within twenty-four hours fs
Shea, another Of the fugitives, was
captured at Hills, Mimi, and return
Harry +. Leroy, William Dcck'
TO the penitentiary. The other fr
William Miller and Lester LuTerT
escaped the officers. 1t is believed
Dockery. Leroy and Miller, sul
large, will also be recaptured.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1901-02-21

Potatoes are now being imported
from the Pacific coast to China The
hrst large shipment of potatoes from
this country to the Walled Empire was
reported a short while ago. The car
go left Tacoma, Wash, for Shanghai.
The Chinese have drawn on the Pacific
coast for breadstuffs in recent years,
but this is the first sign that they have
acquired a taste for potatoes.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1901-02-21

Glowing reports come from the
sheepraising district in southern Colo
RADIO. The Arkansas valley is under
irrigation over an area of eighty-five
miles long and ten miles wide, and
will shortly become the greatest lamb
feeding center in the world. At the
present time over $4,000 sheep and
lambs are on feed there. and judging
from the rate of increase there should
be SOC. 900 in another year.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1901-02-21
NEW SENATE BILLS.

The following bills were introduced
in the senate:
No. 1873, by Burke-Appropriating
s136 TO reimburse E. E. Hemingway
for expenses incurred as public exam
liner in 1885.
No. 1S4, by Oyerseth-Requiring ap-
plicants for admission TO practice law
{ show that they have read law for
three years in the Office Of a reputable
attorney or have attended law school
for the same length of time.
No. 1S5, by Gunderson-Attaching
an island in the Missouri river to Clay
county and permitting the people
thereon to organize for school pur-
poses.
No. 1S6, by Gunderson-Proyiding
for calling an election to attach an ad-
jacent island to Clay county.
No. 1877, by Hall-Legalizing the in
corporation of Elkton.
No. 1SS, by Mauch - Authorizing
| cities Of the second class TO contract
Indebtedness to the amount OF 10 per
cent of their assessed valuation for the
purpose Of constructing w~aterworks.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1901-02-21
H~oMEsTtAkE's oRr,.
Belt Development c.
to Tan Ii NJ paly

N0n>
to Tap 1t on n.
The Belt Development
been organized for the s0ss
veloping mining ground
Homestake on the soma
general belief that tho
stake ore lode passes \,
ground. A shaft has hs.. uf
tween Kirk and Lead. vs,'s
sunk GOO or more feet. ,has
depth at which the Homss,s,
is expected to appear. A sa..
been let for a new sba,. a
machinery viii soon ba ~
the Homestake ore lode 70
It is difficult to imagine vss' j
mean to the Black Hills. Thass /
the theory that the Hom.~s
extends southwark several -
the corporation has all n. ~ y
had Should it be shown !. y !,
Development company,s
such Is not the case, but ~. q
belt Of the Homestake eY,s..
there will be no end of act,,,s
distance of twenty mill.
Lead. "
1t is good news that the p,.
Copper company has TO ten y
strike in Copper Reef camn y
west of Rockford. The 4o.s,s.
has been followed down a ana.
which has carried values prar,,
OF the way. The success a, !,
pany will act as a stimulus n
other Michigan companies VI
operating on the ground 10 tina
One OF the liveliest mining
this winter in the Hills Is
Rockford, in Horneblende "a,
district is about four miles 81,
is cut by a greet many veins
milling ore.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1901-02-21

What Booker Washington is saying
to the men of his own race. another
Aclear voice is saying to the white folks:
What the south needs is respect for
work. We must put OF our overalls
and use III hands" There is no sec
tionalism in such a lesson; it is law
and gospel for all ATTITUDES and longi-
tudes. Industrial development offers
both basis and security for all higher
interests.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1901-02-21
Thieves An the Pantheon

Rome, Feb. 1.-THE Patheon, whe,,
the bodies Of King Victor Emmahu.'
II. and King Humbert lie, has been 10.
vaded by thieves. The bodies were ].
disturbed. The thieves o VIA
they thought was the iron crown :
collar OF the Order of the Annunzis.a,
but which were only copies. They a4'0
stole q few sacred objects,
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1901-02-21

Speaking OF the dificulty students
experience In remembering the exact
situation of the mitral and tricuspid
valves of the heart, Prof. Huxley once
remarked that he remembered that the
mitral ESQ called from its resemblance
10 the headgear of che church digni-
sary) must be on the left side. because
q bishop could never be in the right"
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1901-02-21
BILLS PASSED BY SENATE.

The senate passed senate bill No. 3S,
providing hat holders of five shares of
the capital stock of state banks may
act as directors:
Also senate bill No. 1876, fixing the
salary of the state veterinarian at
81, 200 a year.
House bill No. 112, transferring the fish
fund to the school fund.
The senate passed senate Joint reso-
luton No. 9, confirming the Hatch and
Morrill, funds to the state agricultural
college, also the following house bills:
No. 80, legaliZing the use of abbrevia-
tions in lists of lands for taxation and
assessment.
No. LOG. ceding to the United States
the right TO prosecute whites and
breeds on the Indian reservations.
No. 161, allowing each senator and
representative to nominate ten free pu-
pills to the educational institutions OF
the state.
No. 1O9. allowing personal service on
non-residents in taking dispositions.
No. 116, making a judgment COM
plete and effective when rendered by
the court, attested by the clerk and
filed in the clerks Office; fixing terms
of court in the Eighth circuit
No 1873, prescribing the form OF chat
tel mortgage sales and fixing times
when same may be held.
No. 81, providing that chattel mort
gage sales may be held In the county
where the chattels may be.
No. 143, defining the scope OF the
Northern Normal and Industrial
| School at Aberdeen.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1901-02-21

'evenge is a kind Of wild justice,
'ch the more mans nature runs to
more ought law to weed out; for
for the first wrong, II doth but Of
4 the law. but the revenge OF that
'ng putteth the law out Of Office.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1901-02-21
pfI1S INTRODUCED.

BY Kinsley, to take away rom
witnesses the right to plead incrlmlna-
ton to themselves as excuse Tor re-
fusing to testify in liquor cases.
A general bill regulating state print
ing and publishing and distribution
of the por OF state officers.
By Burgess, allowing the county
t~reasurers in counties of over $1,000,
a salary of 5 $1,000 per annum.
The district library bill was killed
by failure to adopt the committee re-
port. The bill establishing the ONCE
of chaplain of the ~penitentiary, failed
TO get a majority, but was reconsider
ed and placed on the calendar for to-
morrow.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1901-02-21

. company at Ansonia, Conn, has
{ received the largest order for cop
trolley wire ever placed in this
ntry. The weight is more than
$1,000 pounds and the destination
British India, where the wire will
ised to equip one OF the first trolley
8 in that colony.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1901-02-21
BILLS PASSED BY SENATE.

The senate passed the following SEN
ate bills:
No. los, as amended, requiring state
boards and officers of public institu-
tons to turn ove TO the state treas
urer all fees collected by them, except
the Hatch and Morrill, fund at the
agricultural college, the money to be
held by the treasurer and TO be check
ed out by the state auditor for the
benefit of the respective institutions in
the same manner as funds for which
appointments were made.
No. 167, requiring that apportion-
ment Of dividends from endowment
lands be covered into the state treas
ury and treated as other cash fees.
No. 106, requiring all state and pub
lie oBcers who draw salaries to de-
post their fees with the state treasurer
for the benefit Of the state.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1901-02-21
BILLS PASSED BY HOUSE.

The house also passed senate bill No
124, providing for the construction of
food gates in dams.
The house passed house bill No. 167,
repeating the law prohibiting the sale
of firearms to Indians or mixed bloods
by residents Of the state-this bill,
however, passed without the enacting
clause and had to be repealed.
No. 11S. appropriating money for leg
i~slatiye printing.
No. 126, limiting the publication OF
certificates of nomination to official pa
pers and making the maximum fee $40.
No. 1863. allowing reassessments OF
property for local improvements In
cases when first assessment was de-
clared void, which bill was killed the
day before, but was reconsidered.
No. 127, permitting Incorporated
towns to fund outstanding indebted
ness; appropriating money for adver-
Using. legislative expenses, etc.
No. "A, imposing fines and penalties
for the dissertation of ile American
flag.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1901-02-21

Inc will Of the late Jarvis Ford Of
~ Joseph. No.. leaves $40. 900 for q
1ree memorial library In that place.
q Sl0.0o0sto the municipal hospital.