The Miller sun. (Miller, Hand County, S.D.) 190?-19??, 1904-09-28

De submitted TO the voters at the OH
ing election. Three such propositions
will be submitted. One is the capital re-
moval question in which the people OF
the state are called upon to say whether
the capital shall be moved to Mitchell or
left at Pierre, its present location. An
other is to grant to the attorney general
the same salary which is paid to the 9TH
er state officers. In the beginning of
statehood, while the salaries of other
state officials were fixed at 81, 800, that OF
the attorney general was fixed ut 81 1000.
The amendment which is to be submit
ted puts them on equality. The third
amendment is for a change in the loan
ing Of state school funds, allowing loans
up to $1,000 to be made to any one per-
son or company, but limiting the amount
20 be loaned on real estate mortgages to
not exceed one-third the actual value of
the lands on which the loan is made.
These three amendments will be submit
ted ON a separate ballot from that on
which the general ticket is placed and it
is the duty of the election judges to pre-
sent one of the constitutional ballots to
each voter at the same time he is given
his general ballot and by this means the
constitutional questions will receive a
heavier vote than they did many times
while placed on the same ballot with the
general ticket, in which case many of the
questions submitted received less than
80 per cent of the total vote cast, the
voters stopping when they had marked
the general ticket and allowing the con-
stitutional question to go by default.
For several months the mayor of Fort
Pierre, DR.. j.. G. Lavery, has been nav
ing tests made of the raw materials in
the bluffs near that town as to their
qualities for the manufacture of cement.
The reports sent back by the parties who
are making the tests are most gratifying,
and the people of that town expect at
an early date to secure the men with the
necessary capital to fully develop the
cement possibilities which they have in
the natural state. In connection with
this, a short time ago Omaha parties
were at Pierre who are interested in the
manufacture of brick by q process in
which the ingredients are sand shale
and cement, the brick hardening without
being burned. Coloring matter is added
to give the brick any desired color. The
man from Omaha took home samples of
the sane from the eastern side of the riy-
er, and shale from the western side, and
with the cement process manufactured
several brick from the material, which
are as hard and firm as stone with a
smooth, solid surface. He reported the
terial to be OF he best for the work. As
soon as the cement could be secured
cheaply at Pierre the brick industry
would also flourish, as there would be a
ready market for the product all over
the state.
While the game laws of the state nave
probably been better enforced for the
past two years than for a long time,
this has been accomplished largely
through the efforts Of Gov. Herreid, who
has insisted on the county wardens look
Ing after the enforcement. and has re-
moved several wardens who were report
I'd to be lax in their duties. While the
law as it stands at present presumes
that the enforcement of the game laws
Is in the hands Of the county wardens,
it in effect makes the governor a state
warden, putting upon him the duty of
selecting the county officers. In view of
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The different game wardens of the state,
with representatives Of the different gun
clubs, together the first week in January
for the purpose of discussing the game
laws af the state, and to prepare and
present to the legislature a law covering
the defects in the present statutes, which
will probably provide for a state game
warden, as in adjoining states, who will
nave the appointment of deputies, and
who will be the responsible head Of the
protection OF game and fish in the state.
When the law creating the Ninth judi
cial circuit out Of the counties of Kings
bury, Miner, Beadle and Sphinx was pass
ed 1t provided for the appointment of a
Judge for the circuit until his successor
was elected" This brought about a sit
nation which, under the construction Of
O layman, would mean that the appointee
would only hold his office until the votes
had been canvassed for the successor,
when the appointment would no longer
run, leaving the time from that date to
the end of the present term to be filed
either by another appointment, or some
other means. Attorney General Hall
was asked for an opinion on the matter.
He has just filed his opinion with the
secretary of state, in which he holds in
effect that while the statute providing
for the appointment did not specify for
an appointment until a successor was
elected and qualified; mat it in effect
was intended to be so construed, and that
all the judges were supposed to begin
and end their terms at the same time,
and the Sling of the certificate for the
full term beginning July i, 1906, was
all that would be necessary, as the APP
pointment would hold to that date.
from the Water and Gas Company which