The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1902-10-21
SOUTH DAKOTA
CAPITAL REMOVAL in S. D.
Clay County Has an Institution to Guard
p. and Is Not Taking Sides.

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Clay County Has an Institution to Guard
" and Is Not Taking Sides.
= vERMILLION, D. D.-With the open
ing Of the campaign in this state, more
attention is being given to the question
Of capital removal. While Pierre Is near
the center of the state geographically, 1t
Is probably farther from the center OF
population than Is Canton. 1t is pointed
out that the mileage expenses for each
session of the legislature are fully twice
as much as they would be if the capital
We're att Mitchell or Huron. Much more
important than the expenditures for legls-
lative mileage Is the expense for litigants
It Is well known that almost every impor->
tant lawsuit in this state finds It's way to
the supreme court sooner or later. AL
most all Of the litigation arises in the
extreme eastern part Of the state or in the
Black Hills.
Tt is now generally understood that the
Milwaukee will begin the building Of a
line from Chamberlain to the Black Hills
next year. Stone for the piers of a great
railroad bridge is being unloaded at
Chamberlain, surveys to Rapid City have
been made and high officials Of the road
have been over the proposed line. The
construction of that line would give the
people of the Hills a direct line to Mitch
ell, while Huron would be near and Red
field, even would be about twelve hours
closer TO the Hills LIdn TleIio Is HOW.
AS matters stand, Mitchell is seven hours
nearer the Hills, seven hours nearer Sioux
Falls and eleven hours nearer Aberdeen
than is Pierre.
Clay county is making no demand for
a removal Of the capital, and In the event
the legislature should decide to put the
question to a vote Of the people, it is diff
f1cult to say where it's strength would go.
With the university. to look after, the
citizens are in a poor position to promote
a. scrap for capital removal.
~-ABERDEEN, S. D.-Miss Daisy Hutton
is dead Of consumption. She was active
in Christian Science work, and last
spring: went east for treatment by men,
bers of the cult. She returned home
about two months ago and had been con-
fined to her bed, though insisting that she
was getting along finely until her death
suddenly came. She was % years Of age
Some farmers near Bath are wondering
what has become Of man who has been
known for the past few years as Jim
Johnson. He was engaged in keeping tho
accounts for a thresherman there, and
after one farmer had paid him $500 on
account of work done by his employer,
Johnson disappeared. He apparently took
no money belonging to the thresherman,
as he had been paid off and discharged
before the 500 was collected It has not
yet developed Wnetner Otner farmers PAID
him money. He came from Kansas, and
1t is alleged that he had a family there
under another name.-The contracts Tor
the construction of the Aberdeen public
| building under the new fireproof plans
have arrived, and it is learned that the
basement will be built of granite and the
superstructure of Kasota cut stone. The
lobby and corridor floors will be of mosaic
and the trimmings of marble, and the
xxr0r1 Of ho Nffiooc md writ
will be in quarter sawed oak. The exca-
waiting will be done this fall, and the con-
struction work started early in the spring.
! The contract provides that the building
| shall be completed within twenty months
| from the date of signing the contract.
HURON, S. DAT the annual roll call
| of the Baptist church. the following Off
GERS were elected H. J. McGarvey, trus-
! tee; H. S. McEatheron and George H
Starring, deacons; Mrs. R. l.. Walker
! deaconess; G. H. Starring, superintendent
| and Ellsworth Frank, assistant superin.
tendent-George E. McEathron, proprie-
tor of the Tepeeotah stock ranch, sold tc
| Frank Cronk of Tulare, eight Hereford
! COWS, for which he received 81 400; also q
13-months -old bull for $500. The latter
weighed 1,04O pounds and attracted
marked attention at the Central South
Dakota fair.-George Evenson Of Burr OaH
township has purchased a hotel in AL
pena, abandoning farming to become {
| landlord.