The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1905-04-14
- In ano About the State -
KEEPING EYE ON TREsPAssERs.
state Land Department Has Been
Busy the Past Year.

otAte Lana department Has Been
Busy the Past Year.
Til state land department has been
for the past year keeping one man
: busy looking after trespass cases, and
has in this ann collected a large
amount for the school fund. In Faulk
county there were numerous cases,
and all were settled except one, that
against William Krom, which was
taken into court, and the state defeat
ed when 1t alleged trespass on endow-
ment lands, when in fact the trespass
was on the indemnity lands.
In mentioning 1t locally the Faulk
county papers say it was a test to see
II a cattle owner must herd his cattle
of state lands and not allow them to
roam at will, which is the usual GUS
TOM" Commissioner Beck smilingly
admits defeat in that particular suit,
custom is concerned. it will have to
give way when it runs up against a
determination OF the state commits
sioner to enforce section 53S of the Pc
nal code, which refuses to recognize
that custom. 1t provides that any at.
tempt to illegally pasture or remove
hay from any of the state lands is a
misdemeanor and punishable as such,
nsol th@ az To- Ian I~~- t.... ~ ---A
year in seeing that the section is en-
forced. While it met defeat in that
particular case on a technicality, that
in no way deters the work which has
been carried on and will be kept up in
every section Of the state.
The state land department has
completed a three-year lease of the old
Fort Sisseton military reservation to
a Sisseton firm at the rate of S275 a
year, which goes to the state militia
fund to help out the difference in the
appropriation between this year and
last year. And in that relation the
newly formed Fourth regiment will
not be so badly off. The legislature
appropriated at the rate of $4,000 a
year, and the state will draw about
$500 in cash from the national govern
ment this year instead of taking II in
supplies as for the past two years, the
regimen. being thoroughly supplied.
This will give the II regiment over
$40, 900 for the year, while two regi-
ments divided $4,000 between them
last year. While the legislature re-
duced the amount from the state by
reducing the organization, it is better
of than the combined organization in
the past.
The old saying, "a story never loses
in the telling" is we'll exempliied in
regard to the White River Valley Rail-
a organization, incorporated unde
the laws of South Dakota. The gen.
eral run Of comment at the present
time is that with $50, 000, 900 of CAPT
talization it certainly means more
than a stub line west OF the river"
The articles as filed, and as they are
now in the office of the secretary o.
state, show a capitalization Of 100000
After the incorporation begun to be
discussed it first rose to $5,00O,0 00,
and from that rose to $4,000, 600, and
a few went as high as $500, 100000,
which is 1000 times the amount OF
the real figures in the articles filed.
The fees in the office of the secre-
tary of state for the month of March
were heavier than for any former
month in the history of the office, in.
fact going to almost double what it
has been for many months, the March
receipts going to $3,106.S5, at which
rate for a year the department would
be going a long way in helping out
state revenues.
l.. M. Simons, secretary Of the late
session of the senate, was in the city
looking after matters in relation to the
closing up of the work Of the journal
OF that body.
The probability is that a meeting OF
the capitol commission viii be called
within a few days to discuss matters
In relation to beginning the work which
was outlined for them under the pro-
visions of the capitol bill.