The Miller sun. (Miller, Hand County, S.D.) 190?-19??, 1905-05-31
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Il is c~onservatively estimated that
about IS per cent of the corn crop Of
South Dakota is now in the ground, and
that a continuance Of favorable weather
until the middle Of this week will see the
remainder Of the crop planted by that
time. Farmers generally, owing to the
lateness of the season, have, during the
past few days, vigorously pushed the
work Of corn planting. In many in.
stances the women Of the households
have gone to the aid Of the men and as
sisted them in corn planting during such
time as the work was not made impossi.
BILE by the frequent rains. While corn
is being put into the ground somewhat
late, the excellent condition Of the soil,
due to the unusually heavy and soaking
rains Of the past few weeks, will make
this and other crops grow very fast with
warmer weather. Because of this there
Is every reason to believe that corn, as
well as other crops will be as far adj
vanced by the middle Of June as they
usually are.
At a meeting of the state board of
charities and correction, held in Sioux
Falls, the contract was awarded for the
machinery needed in the operation Of a
shirt factory at the Sioux Falls peniten-
tiary, for which the last legislature pro-
yided. 1t is expected the factory will
be placed in operation within the next
six weeks. The factory will employ about
100 ~convicts, and the state has entered
into a contract 10 furnish this number
FOR Gva ware II tS aatiplofal fhat O1n
dozen shirts will be manufactured daily,
and that the factory will mean IN add.
ton Of from $1,000 to $4,000 a year to
freight payments to the railroads. 1t 10
figured that the state will make a profit
of about $4,000 per year from the oper-
alton Of the factory. o. S. Swenson,
who last week retired from the position
of warden of the penitentiary, has bees
appointed manager of the shirt factory
by the Chicago concern which has enter
ed into a contract to take the product of
the factory.
Because about 1000 men of all ages
from every state in the union want to
marry the 120 women who are eligible
for matrimony and drew homesteads on
the Rosebud Indian reservation, the
women have formed a mutual protective
society. The man who marries into the
family must show he is able to work n
farm and must put in a whole season at
blowing, sowing and harvesting. After
he does all this work, for which the OBJ.
ject of his affections receives the re-
ward, the applicant may be rejected il
he does not please the owner of the
homestead. But if his work has been
well done, if there has been no grum-
bling, If the burrows have been straight
and even, then the man may possibly be-
come the possessor of a wife and a quar-
ter section of good Rosebud land. Miss
Ruth Pyrtle, formerly Of Lincoln, Neb.,
is president Of the society, and Miss Es-
telle Sale, formerly of Mexico, No., is
vice president.
L. E. Blanchard and G. c. Barney, of
the state land department, have returned
from Rapid City, where they went with
Attorney General Hall to push cases in
regard to the department in that section
of the state. Two classes were consid-
cred, on which hinges Il large amount OF
state lands in the Black Hills. One was
in regard to squatters' filings on school
land in the forest reserve and the other
was in relation to mineral lands on the
state tracts.
The following appointments have been
made as colonies and eids-de-camp ON
the staff of Gov. Elrod: Capt. Gee. D.
Gueyer, of U. S. army, Bookings; A. L.
Abbott, Vermillion; G. NJ. Daley, HUI
ron; Christopher Mentor, Faulkton: Maui
rice A. Hockman; Howard Case, Water
town; W. II. Stokes, Jr., WATERFOWL;
L. G. McNamee, Brookings; Carl d.
Johnson, WATERFOWL; Charles Carpenter,
WATERFOWL.
Insurance Commissioner Perkins has
ordered the South Dakota grand lodge
A. o. Z. w. to cease payments of the
guarantee fund to the supreme lodge on
the grounds that the South Dakota order
is q domestic corporation and cannot be
assessed to assist in payment of losses OF
the order in other states. The order was
issued on complaint of members Of the
Sioux Falls lodge of that order.
The number Of old warrants for wolf
bounty which are unclaimed in the Office
Of the state auditor include a large part
OF the state, the greatest number being
in the western portion Of the state,
Eighty-three such warrants ~aggregating
several hundred dollars are in the office
and an attempt will be made to find the
wner
State Superintendent Nash has pre-
pared a list of institute dates with name.
of the conductors for all the counties