Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1906-01-11

has just brought to the Hills the first
herd of registered Durhams ever
brought to that section. He purchased
twenty head during his recent trip to
Iowa, and paid as much for them as he
would have paid for 100 scrubs 3.year-
Odds. Now that the days of range cat
tie have passed. ranchers are beginning
to realize that their money lies in
blooded stock.
The state auditor reports the appro-
prlation for the National Guard for the
fiscal year ending June 30 to be
exhausted, with the year but half gone,
and no further funds are available
for that time. Another $1,000 will be
available after July l, but up tn that
time the guard will have to get along
without funds unless they have a sur
plus in the amount paid them by the
general government, which does not
come through the hands of the state
officials,
AS the proposition of breaking prairie
next spring is discussed, the question of
the scarcity of horses comes up For
years eastern buyers have taken the big
horses at fancy prices around Miller. 1t
is said by a man who investigated that
pavement worn horses from the cities
hardly can be bought low enough to
ship west to any advantage. Some
farmers who cannot get good horses are
talking of using oxen or steam. A few
years ago a man had to be a diplomat
if he offered a neighbor a horse as a
gift.
The annual meeting of the South
Dakota Bar association at Sioux Falls,
after a two days session concluded Fri
day evening with the annual banquet,
of the association. AT a business ses-
sion the following officers were elected
for the coming year: President, A. w.
Burt, Huron; first vice president, Judge
j. w. Jones, Sioux Falls; second vice
president, w. l. Mclaughlin, Dead
wood; secretary, John III. Voorhees,
Sioux Falls; treasurer, I. w. Goodner,
Pierre. Pierre was selected as the
place for holding the next annual meet
ing of the association.
The state land department is making
a record for the schools which will keep
any successor of Commissioner Bach
busy to exceed. AT the close of the
year there was but 81, 682. 73 past due
interest on deferred payments for
school lands to the amount of 81 ,643, 776
Since the first of the year a large part
of this past due interest has been paid
and the amount yet out is very small.
Besides keeping after the interest due,
the department is continually adding to
the school fund as well as the various
endowment funds by collecting from
t~respassers on the different state lands
Charges of mismanagement and
alleged graft in connection with city
affairs of Sioux Falls resulted in the
employment of an expert accountant to
make an examination of some OF the
city records. The accountant was
selected by a committee appointed by
Mayor Burnside IL is now announced
that the accountant has completed his
report, and in accordance with the
announcement, the committee having
charge of the Investigation has called
a mass meeting of citizens, at which
time the report of the accountant will
be read for the information of the resi-
dents Of Sioux Falls.
The supreme court has just handed
down two opinions in tax cases which
are of more than passing interest. In
one that of the Fremont, Elkhorn
and Missouri Valley railway VS.. Pen
nington county, the court in an opinion
by Justice Haney holds that the limita
ton of tax levies at eight mills for all
county purposes, which was fixed by
the legislative action Of 1899, is uncon'
stitutional and of no force, but that the
limitations that were fixed prior to that
time are in force so far as they do not
effects contracts made by the county
in which case the necessary levy must
be made to meet such contracts.
On New Years day thirty-one travel
worn Russians comprising twelve
families arrived in Aberdeen direct
from Odessa. They expect to take ur
their permanen residence in that CITY
and the immediate neighborhood, with
the exception Of two families, who
expect to locate at Eureka. The
families are German-R Russians, and
appear to be of more than average
intelligence. With the exception of
two families having three and four
children respectively, the new immi.
grants are all newly married couples,
who left Odessa Immediately after the
ceremony to start life in a couptr '