Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1907-08-29

to make conviction probable. He
said he had been gathering evidence
and making every preparation to
bring to justice some of the big
men at the head of corporations
guilty of violating the law. As he
praised it. There is big covey of
game, and it would be a very poor
marksman indeed who could not
land enough to make fine mess
He thought there was sufficient evil
dence to warrant the belief that
several of the trust officials can be
sent to the penitentary for a long
term.
II have been a hunter all my
life" remarked j. w. Hutchinson,
Of Sioux Falls, "but have just
learned something about the game
laws that | never knew before
that there is no law to prevent the
shooting of prairie chicken on
government reservation land at any
and all seasons of the year. The
state laws in no manner apply to
reservation lands and a fellow who
can get permission to do so can bag
all the game he is fortunate enough
to run across. on reservation land.
But there is drawback in this.
While a fellow can shoot the birds
he cannot take them off ste reserva-
ton. The minute he stepped over
the line of the reservation he would
be liable to state laws and could be
arrested for having game in ais
possession. So that the hunter on
reservation land would simply have
the sport of killing the birds, and
could eat as many of them as he
liked, but he could not bring or
shir them home"
A great hullabaloo is made
because the railroads of South
Dakota paid less tax per mile in
1902 than in any other state in the
west. If the same thing doesn't
happen this year it will be due
solely to the fact that our appropria'
tons are at least one third higher
and taxes greater on all classes OF
property than five years ago. A
new state with most of it's trackage
reaching less than half way across
revenue from us railroads than dc
/ states with trunk lines passing
through and carrying many times
} its traffic. While the bulk of its
total taxes paid will be much
A greater the coming year, the rate
: paid per mile is likely t be less
a than for many years to the
n fact that thousand miles of new
r. line. which is always assessed low,
% has been added during he past
5, wear. The campaign OF eception
g does not require that the Vys and
wherefores should ever be yen.
pr A bulletin recently issuedy the
" Census Bureau at Washin9n on
os the printing and publishing austry
r. shows that this line of activI pre-
n. sents a striking exception the
n prevailing tendency toward 'soli-
be dation. The number of eslish-
or ments in 1905 was rs, 422, nber
NO larger than was reported f'any
cir other industry. The lease
to reported from 1900 to l9'was
,ar proportionately greater tharom
1890 to 1900. A notable lure
was the number of pounds otper
W used-more than 100000 or
'ei almost one third of the entirPut
eA of the paper mills of the tied
" States, being used for newers
10 and periodicals. in 1903. Take
: .ar :. this paper required the ser OF
az nearly $1,000 men, who we'd
o, approximately S9,OoO,oOo iges'
70 One million, three hundrtou-
n's sand cords of spruce, poand
'''a. hemlock logs were used, ent-
'oii ing the timber product OF aVo'-
nan 600 acres, exclusive OF raw
material imported from Ca
Ike The terrible indictmennow
edge made against Mr.. Kittreds IN
the 1897 when South Dakota pre-
S OF sented in Washington lon-
ever republicans he was the onwas
hese largely consulted in the OF
,n to patronage. Mr.. Kittwas
III national committeeman, tur-