Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1903-02-06

are partly obtained from our "wireless
telegraph" system and partly other
wise:
Representative Peirce telegraphed
last Saturday that the bill ceding the
school section in Battle Mountain Park
had passed.
AGAINST ANTI-FREE RANGE.
The Eastman anti free range bill
came up in committee Saturday after
noon and was the subject of warm
debate between Ex-Land Commission
er Eastman and Secretary Frank
Stewart, of the Western Stock Growers
Association. By majority vote the
committee decided to recommend that
the bill do not pass. In case the mi
nority submits report there will be
warm session Monday, when the bill
comes up in the house. It has been
the sole topic for discussion with many
of the legislators for the past two days,
and the representatives, of the stock in
terests are jubilant. An argument
over the bill took place between Peirce,
of Fall River, known as ''Bear Tracks,"
and Mr.. Eastman, and it became so
earnest that the former took occasion
to tell the latter that his "wires we're
crossed" There we're other earnest
arguments, but the long lease bill is
the only land measure now left for
consideration. In the senate yester-
day Abel's bill abolishing days of grace
was passed.
THE HERD LAW.
The following is the bill introduced
in the legislature which seeks to com.
pei stockmen west of the Missouri
river to lease the school lands, but in
effect would distroy the free range:
Section l. Any person or persons
who shsll knowingly permit any horses,
sheep, cattle or other domestic animals
owned by or under the control of such
person or persons to Craze upon any
part of the school endowment or public
lands belonging to or under the con-
troll of the state, whether such land be
fenced or not fenced, without first
having obtained lease thereof in the
manner provided by law shall be guilty
of q misdemeanor. Provided, that in
passing continuously, along section
lines or highways with any domestic
animals which may feed on the grass,
on or Immediately contiguous to such
section line or highway, on school, en-
dowmsnt or public lands of the state,
shall not, for the purposes of this act,
be deemed grazing such animals there
on.
Section 2. Any person convicted of
a violation of the provisions of this
act shall be punished by a fine of not
less than twenty five dollars nor more
than one hundred dollars, or imprison-
ment in the county Jail for period of
thirty days, or both such fine and i'm
prisonment in the judgment of the
court; and any justice of the peace
within the county where such offense
shall be committed shall have juris-
diction to try and determine all such
cases arising under the provisions of
this Act.
Section 3. Any person or persons
who shall violate any of the provisions
of this act shall, in addition to the
cflmlnal acUlou neFeln PROVIDED lOr De
liable for civil suits for damages re-
sulting from such violation Such
suits may by brought in any compe-
tent tribunal in the name of the State
of South Dakota to recover damages
for such violation.
Section 4. All moneys recovered as
result of such actions shall be paid
into the county treasury of the proper
county and placed to the credit of the
permanent fund of the class of lands
on which the violation occurred.
Section S. Moneys received by coun-
ty treasurers under the provisions of
this act shall be accounted for and re-
mitted to the state treasurer upon
drafts drawn by the commissioners Of
school and public lands in the same
manner as in the case of other like
funds.
Section 6. All acts and parts of acts
in conflict with this act are hereby re-
pealed.
Doc Pierce in sending the STAR a
copy of this bill says: "Here is where
we fight"
RIG pRORrFu For rAwMAKERS