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the pelltentlary, the board or charities
and corrections has been looking up
some other proposition to keep the con-
victs employed. w. e. Upton. secretary
of the board, has arrived home from a
trip to Indiana, where he visited the pen
itentiary Of that state to make some in
vestigations of the shirt factory which is
in successful operation there. Mr.. Tip
ton stated that some kind of employment
must be secured for the convicts. and
that for about $4,000 a plant for the
manufacture of shirts can be put in that
will give employment to 100 men. An
eastern firm, Mr.. Upton stated, offers
to furnish capital and take the output of
the peaitentiary, the state to get pay for
the labor. The board of charities looks
favorably upon the proposition and will
recommend it to the legislature for adop-
ton. This plant can be put into opera
ton within a few months and 100 men
set to work at an outlay Of only a few
thousand dollars, while a single system
Irvine plant that would employ but sixty
five men would cost $275.000. and it
would take two years to establish the
plant. The profits from both would be
about the same.
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Sioux Falls and vicinity take a keen in
terest in the game laws of the state, and
in an effort to improve the present game
laws will in the near future send to the
state capital a number of proposed
amendments which will be introduced in
the state legislature. There are many
who believe the law regarding the ship
ping Of game birds from one part of the
state IN another iS too Strin0nDt anl
should be amended. For example, a par
ty Of hunters from one part Of the state
who visit another part for the purpose
of shooting prairie chickens and other
birds protected by law are permitted to
ship only fifteen birds home at one time.
1t is believed that this number should
be increased. 1t is said a Sioux Falls
attorney is drawing up an entirely new
game law which will be presented for the
consideration Of the legislature.
Emil Branch, oil Inspector for the
southeastern district of the state, in his
annual report to Gov. Elrod, shows the
amount of oil and gasoline inspected for
the year, and the disposal of funds. He
has inspected 1,1SS,445 gallons of gaso-
line, and 300,395 gallons of refined oil,
the inspection fees amounting to &c.
711.45. OF this amount $2,925.59 was
taken up in the way Of salary and ex-
penses of collection. and $3,S47.S6 was
turned into the state treasury. Mr..
Branch gives the present oil law Il
strong Endorsement, and asks the legisla-
ture to stand by the law as it is, and not
open up the matter and allow changes to
creep in. He says he has been impor-
tuned a number of times to recommend
slight changes, but believes that the law
should stand just as it is, regardless of
the requests of the oil companies, it be-
inc one of the best laws in any state Of
the northwest.
The state railroad commissioners nave
for some little time been considering the
application of the people Of Springfield
for better railroad faciities. Owing TO
a dispute in early days between the peo-
pie Of Springfield and the Milwaukee
Railroad Company the depot of the com
pany was located one and one-half miles
from the town, where it has since re-
manned, to the great inconvenience OF
the travelling public. President Earling.
of the Milwaukee Company, is now i'm
Cuba. AS soon as he returns to Chica-
go the railroad commissioners together
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proceed to that city to lay the matter be-
fore him and ascertain what can bedone
to give the people Of Springfield the
better railroad facilities they desire. The
members of the board will use every en-
deavor to secure an improvement in the
station facilities.
The matter Of a Irvine plant at the
state penitentiary, after being discussed
BILE extent, broke out virulently in both
houses, two different bills being intro
duced in the house for that purpose, one
by Thoreson, of Minnehaua, asking for
an appropriation of $4,000 for the pur-
pose of constructing the plant, while He
bal, of Deuel., started a bill for the same
purpose. in which he asked for $780, OO.
Anderson, of Deuel., also introduced a
senate bill which asks for $3.50, 600.
There is a general belief that something
should be done toward providing en-
ployment for the c~onvicts, but the Irvine
plant matter has been discussed at so
many sessions, and always has been
abandoned on account of the expense at
tached.
The bills in which live stock affairs are
concerned will soon be up for action in
the legislature. The bills which have so
far been introduced to affect these inter-
ests are the dipping bill, the one to in
crease wolf bounties, and to allow coun-
mes to offer rewards for the capture OF