Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1906-07-20

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Sic second a~pportionment for the year
Of the income fund to the various en-
dowed state institutions. This funo Is
as it accumulates, anu
there will be other distributions pc
fore the close of the year. ms
amount due to each institution TOT the
present apportionment is: Asricul-
tural college, $4,335.77; Aberdeen
normal, $343.75; state UNIVERSITY
s1,175.99; deaf and dumb schooi'
s53s.2O: reform school, $701.67;
Spearfish normal, s49S.62; Madison
normal, s49S; Springfield norma
s431.71; northern hospital, $5Ss.3s;
blind asylum, S343.96; school or mines,
s257.39. The amount of the present
distribution is s9,425.OS, and that of
April 5 this year was s2o,5s1.s9, mah-
ing a total so far this year of $3O,l2.-
az: which is about $2,7O0 more than
for the same period last year. Inc
fund which goes to the support or
these institutions is growing every
year, and will 500 be a decided factor
in the question Of the maintenance OF
the state institutions.
Articles of incorporation have been
filed for the Prtsburg Oil and Mining
Company, with headquarters at Pierre,
with a capitol of $4,000. This COM
pany has been organized with the al
legged purpose of sinking a deep we'll at
Pierre to test the question OF Whac
can be found below the arteslan well
basin. Ever since the finding of gas
in the artesian flow at Pierre there mas
been a strong belief that if a we'll was
sent deeper than the flow, either dry
or oil would be secured, the pres
ence of gas in the water being consld-
cred evidence of one Of the others.
Up to the present no II cared to ad-
vance the necessary capital to make
the test, as 1t VIII be rather an eXpen-
sive proposition. But the promoters
of the company formed have been for
the past year quietly securing oil
leases on lands in the vicinity of
Pierre, and now they are ready to
make a test.
A large number of the Yankton
Sioux Indians residing in Charles Mix
County are preparing to take adVan-
tage Of the recent act of congress au-
thorizing the secretary of the interior
to issue patents (titles) in fee simple
to Indians having allotments Of land.
Under the act Indians who are shown
to be self-supporting and capable Of
managing their own affairs can obtain
@ patent to their land free and clear
of all restrictions. Under the former
laws Indians who had aiken their al
lotments of land could not secure title
to their tracts from the government
until the expiration of twenty years
from the time the allotments had
been given to them. Practically all of
the Yankton Sioux Indians have taken
allotnents.
The summary of the vital statistic
report for the month of Hay shows
the birth of SGT children iii the state
for tina month. OF these 444 We're
boys and 43S girls. The deaths num-
bered 1926, of which so occurred from
heart allure, % each from pneu-
monia and tuberculosis, s were acct
Identally killed and 1 was drowned.
There were 253 marriages and 60 di-
~vorces, of which 46 were granted to
non-residents. The state gained 256
new citizens through naturalization
Gov. Elrod granted an ~extradition
warrant to Deputy Sheriff D.. P. Ba-
ker, of Boyd County, Neb., for Harry
Rodgers, who is under arrest at Fair
fax on a charge OF assault with a dan
gerous weapon Rodgers, who is al
legged to be mixed up with a cattle
rustlfng gang which works along the
state~line, got into trouble with an
other man over the possession of
some cattle, n made the attack for
which he is wanted.
State Land Commissioner Bach and
State Auditor Halliday were in Greg
DRY County to go over the line of the
new Northwestern extension in that
county to appraise the state lands
which the line is to cross. They were
obliged to give up the trip along the
Minneapolis and st. Louis line on &C
count of the condition of the roads,
and will make that trip as well as the
season. E.
Insurance Commissioner Perkins
sends out a warning to implement
dealers over the state, and especially
to agents for the Advance T%hreshing
Machine Company. against taking APP
plications for insurance on threshing
outfits, for N. S. Head & Son, of Min
neapolis, as the application blanks
furnished by that firm do not contain
the name Of the company which is to
issue the policy when secured.
The matron of the Pierre Indian
school escorted a bunch of thirty In
dian boys and girls who lave just fin
tshed a three years course back to
their homes in North Dakota and
Canada. They were a bright appear
ing, we'll dressed, quick spoken lot
comparing favorably with white chill
dren graduates in these particulars.
The receipts of state taxes ton the
al for the quarter ending June 1
brought in a total of $131,99S, of
which $50,567 belonged to the state
general fund and S5O,49S to the def
cheney fund, which is available for
taking up general fund warrants. The
balance is insane maintenance fund,
with the exception of about $500 of
bond interest fund from old 1evies.
Bids for state printing were opened
by Secretary Wipf June 81. The sue
cessful bidders were the Nipple Print
ing Company, OF Pierre, for the .legis-
lative bills; the State Publishing Com
pany, of Pierre, for the daily and per-
manent legislative journals; John
Longstaff, of Huron, for the state re-
ports, and the News Printing Com
pany, Of Aberdeen, for the session
laws. Other bidders were Brown &
Satenger, Of Sioux Falls; Press and
Dakotan, of Yankton; Kelly Company,
and the Aberdeen Publishing Com
pany, at Aberdeen.
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