The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1903-01-30
HARD ON RUSTLERS.
stockmen Want to Make Stealing Of q
Single Head of Stock Grand
Larceny.

Single Head of Stock Grand
Larceny.
Pierre. S. D.. Jan. 22.-The adjournment
today and the senatorial election makes;
the work of this week simply formal.
There Is 3 general expectation that the
real life will begin next week.
The onslaught which has been made up
On quail during the last three years has:
aroused the apprehension of sportsmen'
est the little birds become extinct. Koe-
mig of Bon Homme, which is the best.
quail grounds in the state, has a bill to-
absolutely protect ther- from March L
next until March l, 1908.
The bill presented by Mr.. Hale or
Meade on behalf of the ~stockmen's assoc1-
alton, making it grand larceny to steal
any single head of live stock, regardless
Of the value of the animal, is being OPP
posed by Bromley and others. The stock
men want the bill because they frequent
ly are able to prove the theft of a single
animal against some one of the band of
thieves which infest the range, but are
not able to show that more than the sim
gle beast was taken and upon conviction
can only impose nominal punishment.
With a grand larceny definition of such
crimes they hope to break up much of
the thieving. Bromley's objection is the
Ollc NC .lldS always maintained ~
distinction between grand and petty lar
ceny.
Under the general municipal i~ncOrpora-
ton act village justices are permitted to-
impose fines for the violation of ordi-
nances in sums not exceeding $40. Allen
Of Moody has a bill to remove the limit
and permit fines in the discretion of the
court .| " . .l
Dillon Bill Under Consideration.
The Dillon bill for creating a special
maintenance fund for Yankton asylum,
which passed the senate without dissent
is being ''stood up in the house. The
counties pay for the maintenance of the
insane 81 per week for each patient. This
produces a fund of about 500, 600 per year.
For care and maintenance proper 1t costs
the state about $50, 600 per year., but the
pay roll and fuel bill brings the total up
to about the amour of the counties
contributions. The appropriations bill has
always distinguished between care and
maintenance fuel and lights and sal
aries of officers and employees" The DIE
Ion bill provides that all the money re-
s!eived from the counties, as well as all of
fheassAsntngs of the hospital, shall be set
aside for she care and maintenance of the
Insane andYsSshall be diverted to no other
Interpreted is Wit AsaNf it is intended and
otist y NA'oS NiSEZ%4.fh tiN'iSt IuSl oiiSA
lights and paysrolf%N from this
special fund there # Nas,
although it is poi
stifutionsis now be-
insane are comfor
maintained for a 6s sun,
AND Sthat it is oQgs# |. the coun-
tie&,E which eniag tie benefit of the hos
pita1 III dfsSroportionate degrees-that is,
counties have much greater num-
hare: Of insane tbarn in pro,or+in, -, ,,o, f.
ulation than ~others-should contribute
to the large sums annually ex-
pended for additions and repairs. But if
it is construed that the bill means care
and maintenance" in the sense of the for
mer appropriation bills then it will be
strongly opposed and defeated. ID
Shall the school lands be sold or leased?
This is one of the burning questions which
is likely to become a real issue. The Did
plan of long time leases-from twenty to
forty years-is again being agitated. The
safety of the plan, the rapid growth in
the price of land, the steady flow of rev.
enue from it, the constant and perma-
nent investment Of all the school money
all of the time, are some of the argu-
ments for it. A state %tenantry, living in
cheap, inadequate and temporary homes
unattached to the soil, a consequent low
ering standard of citizenship are the argu-
ments against. The subject has been de-
bated here since Charley Mcleod and
General Beadle fought it out in the con-
stitutional convention of 1885. Land Com
missioner Bach is inclined to favor it. 1t
may any day take tangible form in a bill
before the legislature.
The biennial meeting of the State His
torical society will be held at the capitol
this evening. Bishop O'Gorman will de-
liver an address upon the life and ac-
complishment of the grand old mission
airy, Father De Smet, who worked so
long and faithfully in the Dakota field in
the early 4os. The society is prospecting
and doing excellent work.
TIL difficulties between Watertown and
Huron relating to the permanent location
Of the militia camp are likely to BE hap-
PLY adjusted by giving WatertoWn the
camp and Huron the state fair for a.
period to begin after the expiration Of
Yankton's contract in 1905.