Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1907-04-12
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The state land department Is send
,,o ont circulars fixing the dates for
sales Of capitol building lahus' III an
Of the counties east Of the river III
which such lands are loca'eu' Ah'
sales will be made in May, ana the IL
fer,nes at prices set by the state APP
rraisement board, which work mas not
got heen completed. The sales Will Ne
FOR HYDE county. May l3; Hand, May
IA: Faulk, May Is; Potter May ~
Edmunds, May p; McPherson, M's
%: and Sully, May 20. The oHerlhss
viii all be made at the county seats or
the various counties. The terms "
sale will be one-third cash' ohe-s'A'h
Dec. l next, and the oalahce Oh "
fve-year mortgage bearing bR per
cont interest. At the time of the ale
a contract for a deed Will De liiaoe'
and the deed will be delivered to the
purchaser ar the time of making the
second payment and the execution OF
the mortgage for the last half or the
payments. The mortgages are to run
five years, with annual interest pay
ments. but bearing a provision tha'
the purchaser can paT $loo or any
multiple of that amount on the prlhci-
pal at the time of any interest pay
ment date after the second year. Inc
lands are to be offered in forty-acre
tracts, with the commission reserVlhg
the right to offer them in any slzed
tracts thought to be best above the
minimum. Under the law of last win
ter the SO minimum on such lands
was removed, and the appraisement
board can fix a minimum at any price
which they think the lands will bring.
Attorney General Clark has held in
a case which was referred to him from
Walworth county that the county
commissioners cannot legally grant a
license to sell liquors in an unincor-
porated village where there has been
no favorable vote on the question. The
village is not within an Incorporated
township and the question or u vote
would be a difficult one to settle. Al
torney General Clark has the same
question before him in a case which
is before the supreme court from Ly-
man county, and until the court passes
upon it he holds it as his opinion that
no legal license can be granted. HE
contention is on the ground that the
present state liquor law is in effect a
prohibition measure, with local option
features, and is in force as Il prohib-
itory law where a vote cannot be Sc
cured, or where on a vote it is decided
not to allow licenses. To sum up, the
present law is absolutely prohibitory
in counties where there are no organ
lied townships or towns in which to
secure a vote.
The new law in regard to the clerk
Of the supreme court and the fees to
be charged for cases in the court is
not a popular proposition with attor-
neyS of the state. The law requires
them to advance $40 before they can
have a case filed in the court. This
takes the place of all other fees in the
cases in that court, but when a client
does not pay his fees in advance the
attorney must either do the advance
act himself or allow the case of his
client to lag. A number of cases which
were before the court come under this
class, and attorneys were called upon
to advance the required fees in these
cases before they could proceed. TAX
ing the average number of cases filed
in the court, the fees will just about
pay the salary of the clerk and an
assistant, and the state will not be
gamer to any great extent by changing
the office from a fee to a salary basis.
The county auditors in session with
the state board of equalization went
over schedules of assessment for the
coming year. The figures on personal
property for the coming year were lett
practically as for the last year but
there was a general raise in real es-
tate prices. Most of the counties are
affected by the change, although in
some cases where the board consider
ed the amount too strong last year.
the change is very slight. While
auditors paid their own expen.
those who We're present feel hat they
proited by the trip. The Black Hills
was well represented considering the
distance they have to travel, every
county in that section except Custer
and Pennington being represented.
The delegation of Cheyenne river
Indians who went to Washington to
look up matters in that city of inter
est to the reds, nave returned, and re-
port their agreement to the plan to
lease a portion of their reservation
to the band of Utes, which has been
held at Fort Meade all winter. They
get in return concessions which they
desired. The Utes will probably be
located somewhere along the west line
of the reservation, and if they keep UP
their reputation, trouble between them
and white settlers in the way of rows
and quarrels can be expected at any
time.
A number of the irrigation states
are preparing to take extensive exhib-
its to the national irrigation conven-
ton which meets at San Francisco in
September. This state has been ask
ed to join in that work but has not
yet reached a stage in irrigation work
which will warrant such action, but
as soon as the Belle Fourche project is
completed, will be found with as good
products in a line as any of the
states.
The appointment by Gov. Craw-
ford of c. n. M%cIlvaine, of Huron, to
be immigration commissioner and sec
rotary of the state board of agricul-
ture, meets the approval of friends
throughout the state. Mr.. McIlvaine
is of the Richards Trust
company, of Huron, one of the Oldest
and best known real estate firms in the
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