The Miller sun. (Miller, Hand County, S.D.) 190?-19??, 1905-10-25

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While the law requiring surety COM
panies doing business in South Dakota
to deposit securities in a sum not less
thar $4,000 with the state treasurer
has been in effect since the LIST OF July,
up to date but -four companies have COM
piled with its provisions. Two of these
are home companies and two foreign.
Companies which have not complied with
the law are writing surety bends in the
state, regardless of the law. The penal
ty for such writing is n fine of not less
than 500 nor more than $500 for each
offense on the part OF either the principal
or agent. A number of the companies
doing business in the state without COM
pliance with the deposit provision claim
the right to do SO on the ground that they
last January secured from the insurance
department a license for the year 1903.
Under an opinion from Attorney General
Hall they are all liable to the penalty
which is provided in section 6, chapter
I'll, laws of 1905, unless they have COM
piled with the law requiring the deposits
Of securities.
Among the statistical figures worked
up by the state census bureau, il is shown
that there are in South Dakota $3.50
unmarried men, and 24,S3l unmarried
women over the age of Is. The married
men number 1921, exceeding the mar
ried women by nearly 5000, that class
numbering 73,023. There are 1904 wild
overs and 1880 widows. The divorced
men in the state number ga, and the
women 6T2. Besides these classified
ones, 1850 men and 2,640 women are re-
turned by the enumerators as unknown
as to their matrimonial status. The
blind people Of the state number 300, Of
which 1876 are males, and 80 females. The
deaf and dumb are 517 in number. 300
males and 21S females. The two classes
include the pupils in the blind school at
Gary, and the deaf andedumb school at
Sioux Falls. Outside the institutions
provided for their care, there are $50
idiotic, 17S male and 102 female. The
insane numbering $50, &c males, and CT
females.
The latest among the Northwestern
Railroad officials in Pierre in regard to
the proposed extension work, was Assist
ant General Manager Ashton. He gave
it out that a large force of men would
be put to work at once to extend the
yard trackage to enable the company to
handle the bridge and extension material
which has already begun to arrive. The
yards as they are at present constituted
have several times this fall, as they have
in other years, been more thar crowded
with the regular business from this point,
and when it comes to handling the large
amount Of material which will be requir-
ed at Pierre for the next two years in
the extension work, and bridge building,
the trackage must be largely increased.
AS soon as track room is secured, ma
terial will be rushed in as rapidly as pos
sible.
The State Independent Telephone Com
pany, which was incorporated at Pierre
Tuesday, with. such men as II. +. Petit
grew, Geo. w. Burnside, Coe !. Craw-
ford, G. S. Hutchinson and Andrew II.
Lee back of it, is not a wild jump into the
telephone field, but is the completion Of
months of work in the consolidation Of
the different independent systems oper-
ating in the state into one complete CEN
trail company, which will contend for bus
mess with the companies already doing
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the beginning, to, with d few connect
ing lines, open up with a pretty good sys-
ten of its own. The work has been under
way for several months, and the filing Of
the articles would indicate that the diff
ferent companies have practically all got
into line.
While the law requiring surety compa-
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post with the state treasurer securities
not less than $4,000 in amount, went
into effect last July, up to the present
but four companies have complied. or
these two are state companies, and the
others foreign. Companies which rave
not complied with the law are writing
surety bonds in the state regardless of the
law which requires the filing Of such Sc
curities. The penalty for such writing is
a fine of not less than $10O nor more
than $500 for each offense on the part
Of either the principal or agent.
The live stock traffic out OF Pierre the
past week has been very heavy in cattle.
sheep and horses. Hundreds Of cars Of
cattle and sheep have been sent out and
recently the first shipment of hogs ever
sent from Pierre was started for the
market. While this is the beginning of
hog shipping, with the immense amount
of corn which has been raised in that Sec
ton Of the state this year, other ship
ments of these animals may be expected
In the future to add to the live stock ship
ments from that point.
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ton, an institution now comprised of