Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1906-05-11

investigations of the large computes
and charges of mismanaSernehl "h
we're generally made. Inc ioreis" Ho
companies doing business IN inc s'a''
for the last year wrote ne" II
reved old risks to the amount or soo'-
275,Sl2. and received premiums 20 inc
amount of S932,565: and pald iosse'
to s464.O31. the increase
in premiums received was sZ4s.ool'
and the increase in losses paiu was
.o1s343 The excess of premiums
over losses paid as shown by the l'oo
renort was s433,99O: and as shown by
the 1906 report, is shown at S4oS'o-''
The foreign life insurance companies
doipp business in the state show
risks written and renewed for the past
wear to have been ~$S.405.262. while'for
the preceding year they exceeded thal
amount by S141,1S6. h premiums
received for the past year were w.
2O5,792, an increase OF S55,4oo over
such receipts for the previous year.
The losses paid for the year
to $210,5O4, an increase OF $4',so9
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companies have withdrawn from the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 nave
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 end Of
the roundup and the range. The bust
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 n have dot
ted it with gardens and small patches
of crop to such an extent that to at
tempt to work cattle oVer h terri
tory would mean a large amour OF
damage and trouble, and as the home
steaders are a farl larger number than
the cattlemen the roundup is to be no
more. The Butte County country Will
probably be worked for a 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. a~
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
Ssh. There were 81 deaths reported,
of which AZ were frem pneumonia; IS
from heart failure; "a from tuberculo-
sis, and II from cancer. Eleven acct
dental deaths 4 two suicides arc &c
ported. The record shows 32S mar
riages for the month: and 81 divorces
were granted. of which 81 were to
non-residents. The state secured 35I
new citizens through naturalization.
The supreme court has admitted
William Jacobs, OF Bradley, and
Frank C. 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 owe the applications which
have been made to him for water
rights under the irrigation law. He
expects to return to Pierre ready FOX
work in his Office as soon as he COM
pIetes the work waiting for him. and
will be back in about two weeks.
The Northw estern road a filed in
the Pierre and office plats for two OF
it's towns west of the Missouri. One
is on section 27. township 2 north,
range Is east. in Lyman County. sew
sraI miles west of Bovine. and the
/ other on the line between sections 5
and s, in township 3 north. range IS
east, near Leon. in Stanley County.
The rock cut at For Pierre on ths
I Northwestern extension has beer
completed. and rails are being laid
through the town The first tive
bridges across Bad River are com.
pfeted. and the next two well along
n rail laying will be pushed a
rapidly Is possible up the valley q
the Bad River from this time on
Gov. Eirod has appointed DR.. Ste
phen D. Ofney. OF Sioux Falls, to rep
resent South Dakota at the annua
conference Of the American Medfcai
Association which meets in Chicago
Saturday May ~
Arbor day was generally observ-
I ed In Pierre. the schools carrying out
appropriate exercises. and planting
trees on the school grounds Mem
bers Of the Opportunity Club, conn
! pssed OF young men Of the city. p5aat-
ed trees on the state house grounds.
South Dakota banking methods are
exempIiied in the articles of fneor-
poratien which were fled for the
Grand River State Bank. at Stem,
Butte County. with a capital Of sIg.-
600 The incorporates Of the venture
being T. W. Harris and +. K Clark of
Evarts. and Henry Duncan j. NJ.
ErumIey, Peter Given md Austin Jos
Field, of Stem The location Of the
bank is at the forks of Grand River
In northeastern Butte County, a hum
dred miles from any railroad
The wolf bounty claims which have
been fled with the state auditor up to
the present date amount to sg.g1g,