Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1903-01-29

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Roscoe Herreid, son of Governor
and Mrs. Herreid. The young man
was taken with appendicitis and soon
developed SO seriously thas an oper-
alton was deemed the only means of
saving his life. DR.. Mayo, of the
Rochester hospital, Rochester, Mimi,
DR.. Foxton, Of Huron, and DR., Rob
%inson, of Pierre, performed the
operation last Thursday at the Ben
edictine hospital. The operation
was successfully performed and the
petient is getting along as we'll as
couldbe expected with splendid pros
poets for his ultimate recovery.
Representative Reese's bill which
provides that the warden of the pen
itetiary at Sioux Falls pat the con
victs at work cutting stone for a new
capitol building at once is the first of
the bills providing for a new capitol
building to be introduced. The
opinion seems to be unanimous that
the state take all steps possible
toward the erection of a suitable
building between now and the time
that the voters of the state decide
between Pierre and Mitchell so that
building operations can be pushed
rapidly when the permant location is
finally settled.
The general cen of opinion
in Pierre is that the Carroll assess
ment bill making, in effect, the
assessors simply enumerators of tax
able property upon which the state
board of equalization and assessment
shall fix the value, has touched the
vital point in the ven problem.
The bill is proposed as an amend
ment to the revised codes of 1908
and as the best opinion is that the
legality of an act is predicated back
to the introduction of the bill, he
withdrew his bill until the codes
were formally passed by both houses
but will introduce it again later dur
ing the present session.
Blackstone tells us that the days
of grace originated from a view held
by our ancestors that it was undig-
nified 70 perform an obligation upon
the very day specified in the bond.
Senator Abel, of McCook county,
believes that the time has come
when without injury to our dignity
we can recede from this antiquated
position. Therefore his bill abolish
ing days of grace. Abel is secretary
of the state bankers association, and
he says that the report that the uni
form negotiable instrument bill of
last session will be reintroduced is
an error. His argument for the
adjustment of days of grace is that
the custom leads to constant annoy
ance in determining when a bill shall
be protested.
Representative Kribs' bill for the
inspection of illuminating oil pro-
vides for an inspector who shall
receive a sala ny of $500 and his
expenses, and such deputies as he
may require for theprompt perform
egce of the duties of the Office at
$1,000 and expenses, provided the
salaries and expenses of deputies
shall not exceed the sum of the fees
collected. The vital provision of thebill
lies in section 6, which provides that
no oil shall be knowingly sold in this
state which shall at 100 degrees
fahrenheit ignite and burn, or which
shall have a lower gravity test than
46 per cent. The Standard Oil peo-
pie have a representative here who
is making a hard fight to kill this
bill, but as the company has dumped
anything that wouldd 10 for oil ontothe
people Of this state for years it has
forced from the people a cry for
relief and the legislature cannot fail
to take a fall out of the Standard
Oil Company, and it is a safe predic-
ton that the Krib's bill or n even
more radical will pass,
There is under discussion among
the members Of sanats and house a
plan to provide for the permanent
withdrawal from sale the school and