The Miller sun. (Miller, Hand County, S.D.) 190?-19??, 1905-08-16

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the action brought in the Beadle county
circuit court by l.. III. Deeters and 10
other cattle owners and stockmen to
prevent, by injunction, the enforcement
of an order recently promulgated by the
state board for the dipping of cattle
whether affected by scabies or not. The
decision sustains the contention of the
stockmen and places injunctional order
against state board and the county in-
spector to be continued during the pend
ency of this action or until such time as
upon actual inspection it is found that the
cattle of the plaintiff are found to be
infected or have been exposed and such
exposure is Of such recent date that it
can not be determined whether they have
contracted the disease or not" The
statement of his findings and conclusions
is al exhaustive one and goes thorough
ly into the details of cattle conditions,
the nature Of the disease and the benefits
of dipping. The decision is one of great
Importance and has been awaited with
interest and anxiety by stockmen
throughout South Dakota.
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Prof. Il. G. Chilcott, formerly Of the
state agricultural college, ROW of the gov
eminent agricultural bureau, and DR.. L..
j.. Briggs, Of that department; accom-
panied by Prof. w. A. Wheeler, of the
agricultural college force, were in Pierre
recently on matters connected with the
work of the government in its expert
ments in drouth resisting grains and
grasses. The particular work in which
they are engaged at the present is that
Of establishing stations in a chain across
the country from Texas to the British
possessions, for the making Of such tests.
Where it is practical the government
bureau works with the state stations,
in the case of this state, the Highmor2
experimental farm being used. In other
cases they attempt to work with expert
mental farmers, who are willing to take
up the work for the government; and
in case this can not be done stations
under charge of a government agent
are established. The work in South Da-
kota will be confined to the HighmOre
station. and another to be established
somewhere between Pierre and the Black
Hills.
SportSmen throughout the state are
Interesting themselves in the prairie
chicken question. inasmuch as it will be
only a few weeks until the shooting Of
these birds commences. In many To-
c~alities it is stated the prairie chickens
are as numerous as usual, but in the
state in general it is probable there will
be a shortage in the crop. Prior to the
heavy rains of June and the early part
Of July young chickens were plentiful
and the coveys were large, but they had
not reached such n growth as to be able
to withstand the deluge of rain to which
they were subjected during a period Of
several weeks, and thousands of the lit
tie birds were killed. In some localities
it is estimated that fully 80 per cent
of the birds were drowned, the coyeysnow
containing only from one TO seven and
eight of the chickens. This estimate
applies to low, fiat land. Where the
country is rolling more chickens are re-
ported and the coveys are larger. And
yet, Notwithstanding these unfavorable
conditions, prairie chicken shooting will
be as interesting as usual this fall, as
there will be enough birds to so around.
The meeting of the National Railway
Commissioners Association, which will
DC held in Deadwood and in Lead on
August II and Is, will be the most i'm
portant in the history of the association.
Dr.. w. g. Smith, one of the state rail
road commissioners, has just been as
sured by the secretary of the association
hat the attendance this year will exceed
hat of the last meeting, when it num-
oered almost $50. The members of the
interstate commission will
pc present and participate in the pro.
,eedings. and all states in the union will
De represented by one or more COM
a~issioners. The Pacific coast members
will come to Deadwood to attend the
meeting and then accompany the mem
! oers on their jaunt to the coast.
The state land department has iii the
irst six months of the present year placed
1854 ,S61 of the permanent school fund,
the greater part of it-$31S, 111-being
IN farm loans, and the remainder on
school and municipal bonds. School dis
tricts of the state took $50, 100, and the
municipal corporations S11, 000. The
county auditors over the state who are
looked to by the department to keep the
opportunities of thei: counties bearing
interest are keeping the ~uninyested per-
manent fund down to bed rock under
The present laws. Loans have been
made in all the counties of the state
for the first six months in the year with
the exception of Custer, Hughes, Me-
Cook and Stanley.
Fred Durfee, of the Northeastern road,
has just returned from a trip over the
country west of Pierre looking over the
situation in regard to the dams which
had been put in by the railroad company
to furnish water to stock which was be-
ing driven in for shipment. He reports
every dam save one gone, at many places
not a vestige Of the embankment being
left. The company will at once put q
force at work r-econstructing the lam
aged property.
Gov. Elrod has selected as delegates to