The Miller sun. (Miller, Hand County, S.D.) 190?-19??, 1904-12-21

strenuous meeting in Sioux Falls. The
members of the board have been in that
city for several days. Some of them
arrived on Saturday and the remainder
came On Monday and they have been
In session on and off ever since. When
not in session they have been before the
grand jury in connection with the killing
Of Robert White at the penitentiary last
Saturday. This killing has stirred the
board in the matter of providing steady
work for the inmates OF that institution.
While the members Of the board deplore
the killing of White, they are all of the
opinion that the officials of that institu-
ton are not open to censure for their
course in this matter. Most Of the time
Of the meeting was passed in allowing
bills II transacting routine business,
but some time was given to an investiga-
tion of the killing of White, and more
time was spent in considering plans for
work for the prisoners. Two plans to
provide work have been suggested. One
is to install a Irvine plant and the other
is to install a factory for the manufac-
ture of shirts and overalls. 1t was
learned from one Of the members of the
board that a majority Of that body ia
vors the plan for a shirt and overall fac
tory. AT the forthcoming meeting of the
state legislature this matter will be
brought up and a bill will likely be pass
ed authorizing the establishing of some
sort of a factory which will occupy a
portion of the time of the prisoners at
least. The members did not desire to
discuss the killing of White to any ex-
tent. They thought that it was the part
of wisdom to remain quiet until the
grand jury had made it's report.
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There will be an important assembly
of the South Dakota educators at Dead
wood during the week between Christ
mas and New Years. 1t will be the twen-
ty-second annua convention of the South
Dakota Educational Association, and
will be held Dec. 81, % and 20. Dead
wood educators who are members of the
association or interested in the work.
are beginning to organize a movement
calculated to secure adequate accommo-
dations for the visitors. At each of the
sessions Of this association held during
the past few years the attendance has
been very large. 1t is quite reasonable
to suppose 200 or more teachers will WIS.,
it Deadwood during the coming meet
ing from eastern South Dakota points
and it will be necessary to obtain ac-
commodations for some Of them outside
the hotels and lodging houses. Programs
are being printed Cor the general and de-
partment meetings, and will soon be
ready for distribution. All parts of the
state and all departments of education
are to be represented.
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Arrangements are being made for the
sixth annual exhibition of the South Da-
kota Poultry and Pet Stock Association
which will be held in Mitchell the first
week in February. Eight silver cups
will be given for prizes in the various
departments. A silver cup has been pre-
scented by the Dakota Farmer, Of Aber-
deer, by the Successful Poultry Journal,
of Chicago, and by the White Wyan-
dotte Association, while other cups Will
be presented by local merchants. Two
judges have been secured to score the
birds and this work will be done quicker
than heretofore. On the same dates of
Sle poultry show the annual meeting of
the South Dakota Improved Live Stock
Breeders Association will be held. This
association was organized last January
and has a large representation among the
progressive stockmen Of the state. One
Of the big features of the meeting will
be a sale of horses, cattle, swine and
sheep. A special building will be pro-
vided for this sale by the business men
of Mitchell.
A bill has been introduced in the
house to extend the operation Of the Kill
kaid law, which was put in force in Ne
braska last summer to South Dakota. 1t
provides that entries for GAO acres each,
under the homestead law, may be made
in South Dakota, for lands west of the
Missouri River, except such as are adapt
ed to irrigation> are included in forest
reserves. or lie in coded limits of the
Rosebud reservation. South Dakotans
say that the Kinkaid law has been a sue
cess in that it has caused the settlement
of large tracts of land, which otherwise
would have remained unoccupied. The
chief distinction between the Kinkaid
law and the ordinary homestead law is
that it permits homesteaders to take up
whole sections instead Of quarter sec.
tons Of land.
Articles of incorporation have been
fled for the South Dakota Telephone
Company, with headquarters at Pierre,
and a capital of 100000. The intent of
this company is the construction of a tel
ephone line from Pierre to the Black
Hills, with branch lines to main points
in the section Of country between the
| river and the Hills. The preliminary
arrangements are already under way,
and while it is now too late in the season
to count on doing much construction
work, all the material will be on the
ground for active construction as soon
rs possible in the spring. The line is to
be a copper metallic circuit, and up t.
date in every way, with eastern connec-
tons made at Pierre from Black Hills