The Miller sun. (Miller, Hand County, S.D.) 190?-19??, 1906-05-09
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The advance sheets Of the forth
coming report Of the state insurance
commissioner are out and show sub
stantial growth in IRE insurance bust
ness in the state for the past year, and
slight decrease in life insurance, no
doubt caused by the agitation over the
Investigations of the large companies,
and charges of mismanagement which
were generally made. The foreign fire
companies doing business in the state
for the last year wrote new and re-
newed old risks to the amount of $751;
5,S12, and received premiums to the
amount of S9S2,565; and paid losses
amounting to $464,037. The increase
in premiums received was S24S,SS1,
and the increase in losses paid was
$216,343. The excess of premiums
over losses paid as shown by the 1905
report was $433,990; and as shown by
the 1906 report, is shown at S46S,52S.
The foreign life insurance companies
doing business in the state show
risks written and renewed for Sle past
year to have been $S,405,262, while for
the preceding year they exceeded that
amount by $141,1S6. The premiums
received for the past year were ST.
205,792, an increase of $55,4 over
such receipts for the previous year.
The losses paid for the year amounted
to $210,504, an increase of $47,85
over those OF the previous year. The
excess receipts over losses paid for the
last year were $995,29S; and for the
previous year $1,017,742. Several
companies have withdrawn from the
state the past year and others have
been admitted, showing the same
number of companies doing business
in the state at the present as for the
past year. ..
The action of the Missouri River
Stockmen'S Association at its annual
meeting this year marks the Npd of
the roundup and the range. The~usi
ness of this annual meeting has al
ways been to arrange for the annual
roundup work; fixing the boundaries
of the territory to be worked by each
outfit, and the selection of foremen
for each outfit. But this year about
the only business transacted was to
decide to hold no roundup. The new
settlers have so closely occupied the
territory to be worked, and have dot
| ted it with gardens and small patches
| of crop to such an extent that to at
| tempt to work cattle over the terri
| tory would mean a large amount of
| damage and trouble, and as the home
| steaders are q far larger number than
| the cattlemen the roundup is to be no
more. The Butte County country will
! probably be worked for year or two
more, but not for long, and the pictur
| esque feature of stock raising SO far as
| South Dakota is concerned has ended,
| to give way to the pillow and the small
| herds.
The report of the bureau of vital
| statistics for the month of March
| shows a greater number of births re-
| ported than for any other month stree
| the bureau was established, showing
| SS1. There were 317 deaths reported,
of which AZ were frem pneumonia; %
| from heart failure; "a from tuberculo-
sis, and II from cancer. Eleven acci-
| dental deaths and two suicides are rc-
| ported. The record shows 328 mar
riages for the month; and 81 divorces
| were granted, of which 81 were To
| non-reSidents. The state secured 357
| new citizens through naturalization.
| The supreme court has admitted
| William Jacobs, of Bradley, and
| Frank G. Wederath, of Presho, on eX-
! animation before the court. Weder-
| ath, in his determination to take the
examination walked from Presho to
| Pierre for lack of cash to pay fare,
and after a successful examination re-
| turned to his home by the same mode
of transportation" to await the COM
| ing of his authority to write himself
as an attorney.
State Engineer Lea has been in
Pierre preparing to open up his Of
flee in the state house and has return
ed to Belle Fourche for the purpose
of looking over the applications which
have been made to him for water
rights under the irrigation law. He
expects to return to Pierre ready for
work in his Office as soon as he COM
pletes the work waiting for him, and
will be back in about two weeks
The Northwestern road has filed in
the Pierre land office plats for two OF
it's towns west of the Missouri One
is on section 81, township 2 north,
range 26 east, in Lyman County, sew
eral miles west of Bovine, and the
other on the line between sections 5
and 6, in township north, range 20
east, near Leon, in Stanley County.
The rock cut at Fort Pierre on the
Northwestern extension has been
completed, and rails are being laid
through the town. The first two
bridges across Bad River are COM
pleted, and the next two well along,
and the rail laying will be pushed as
rapidly as possible up the valley Of
the Bad River from this time on.