The Miller sun. (Miller, Hand County, S.D.) 190?-19??, 1905-02-01

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The members of the soldiers home
board, which has been in session in
Pierre, have formulated the recommended
tons for the requirements of the home
and will ask about 100000 for new
buildings and repairs of old buildings at
the present session. AS one of the MEM
bers of the board expressed it, THE 9TH
er boards are not asking for much this
year, and we will make hay while the
sun is shining" But the other boards
are not allowing the session to go by
without asking for something, and where
the boards have not asked the friends of
the different institutions are doing their
own asking. 1t will be found that by
the time all the building requests are in
the amounts will reach more than $780,
600 outside of what is being asked for
the mmencem Of work on Il state
capitol. The first individual request to
come to the front is that by Senators
Lawson and Koepsal, Of Brown County,
asking for $4,000 for an industrial
building at the Aberdeen normal and
industrial school, and others are likely
to make their appearance ut any time.
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At the annual meeting of the State
Historical Society held at the state house,
the address was delivered by Rev. J. p.
Williamson, of Greenwood, one of the
oldest active missionaries i'll the Dako-
tas. The subject of his address was the
early settlements of the territory, and
the hardships Of the first settlers. The
society reelected Il. l.. Riggs, Of Oahe;
Rev. II. NJ. Shanafelt, of Huron; DR.. ID.
w. Robinson, of Pierre; and Prof. X. T..
Kerr, OF Rrookings, as members of the
directorate of the association. At a meet
ing Of the directors held at the state
house Thursday morning, Rev. Shanafelt
was selected as president Of the assOcia-
ton, and Il. T.. Kerr as vice president,
Secretary Robinson holding at the pleas
ure of the directors.
The initiative petition for the primary
law evidently comprehends a short cam
paign after the nominations are made,
as it provides for the primary election
the first Tuesday in September, and the
canvass of the returns by the state board
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provides for nominations for United
States senators as well as the state of.
fciaIs. The requirement is 3 per cent of
the party vote on a petition to become
a party nominee, or 1 per cent of the to-
tai vote to become an independent or nom
partisan candidate. Any county is al
lowed to suspend the working of the pri-
mary law so far as county officers are
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feet.
Treasurer Collins has had his attention
called to section 3169 of the civil code,
which requires the state treasurer to
keep in his office standard weights and
measures, from the size Of a bushel to a
gill, from 100 pounds to one ounce and
from the length of a surveyors chain to
one inch. These have never been pro-
vided, and upon a request for a settle
ment of a dispute in Lawrence County
he found what was lacking in the office
to completely equip it for the full carry
ing out of his duties of custodian of the
cash, weights and measures of the state.
Payne introduced a measure in regard
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or. This is brought in by a tender Of
bonds Of the state Of Alabama, which
will, if collected, go to the state univer-
sity. They are about of the same class
as the bonds of North Carolina, which
were presented to the state, and on
which suit was brought, securing a judg-
ment against the defendant state, which
has been made final by the United States
supreme court.
An echo of the old worlds fair COM
mission of early days came up in a bill
to pay l.. G.. Ochsenteier the sum Of
$TS7.70 spent as expenses as one of the
South Dakota commissioners to the
worlds fair at Chicago. 1t is supposable
that within the present generation the
last of the claims of this old fair will
have been presented to the legislature
for action. There has not been a session
since the close of the fair that claims
have not been presented.
Senator Vessey believes that the farm
err who is called out of his fields to act
as a Juror should be paid a greater
amount than it will cost to hire a man to
look after his work. He has introduced
a bill to fix the fee of jurors at SD per
day and actual mileage expenses, in
stead of the present fee of two dollars
and pay his own expenses in getting to
court.
The State horticultural Society closed