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w. H. Stanley, OF Sioux Falls. Sec
rotary of the South Dakota board OF
railroad commissioners, has just for
warded to Gov Crawford the eigh-
tesnth annual report of the board.
which covers matters which came UNI
der the Jurisdiction OF the board dur
ing the past year. The report is very
yoluminous, as the business OF the
board during the year has been great
er than during any former year since
| the board was established by an act
OF the legislature. The report shows
that the total mileage of the railroads
operating line in South Dakota on
June 80 last was 38,e49.2S miles, an
Increase over the mileage owned for
the year 1895 OF S71fs miles. The to-
tai mileage actually owned and oper-
ated during the year within the boun-
miles, an increase over the ysar 1906
Of 43179 miles. Thus nearly one
half Of the total new mileage OF the
roads operating lines La South Dako-
tn was constructed within the limits Of
South Dakota. 1t is shown by the re-
| port that the railroads operating lines
within South Dakota reported acct
dents to persons on their lines within
the state Of South Dakota during the
year just closed AS follows: Railroad
| employees killed, IL; injured, 272;
passengers injured, rs; postal clerks
| injured, 8; other persons killed, %;
injured, 20, or total Of IS killed and
31S injured during the year.
The recent financial furry II II con-
tinues over until spring may cut off
some of the sales OF state. building
lands which have been pending, as all
such negotiations have been halted to
walt the outcome of the money situa-
ton. 1t is likely to have the same
results on sales Of school lands in the
different counties next spring. Cen
orally before this there is pressure
brought to bear from different coun-
ties where would-be purchasers desire
to secure school lands, but up to the
present there is nothing doing in that
line this winter CommiS sioner Dok-
ken has been securing estimates of
values Of the school lands in the diff
ferent counties from bankers and real
estate men, and getting into shape to
fix minimum values for the sales IL
they are considered to be desirable in
March. The cash receipts from pay
ments on lands already sold have
fallen off materially from the past few
years. For the last five or six years,
toward the close Of the year there
have been a number OF payments on
the part OF purchasers who did not
care to carry their indebtedness to the
Of. - 4, - -
was a good sized fund to distribute to
points where loans were desired, but
this year they are not coming in with
the payments and the demands for
loans are far beyond the ABILITY Of
the department to Ill.
The reports filed by the insurance
companies doing business In this state
for 1906 show that they incurred fire
losses for that year in the amount of
s425,05e63. While there is no way
to learn what their losses were for
1907 until they make their annual re-
ports sent to the state fire marshal by
chiefs OF fire departments and town
clerks show losses for the last half Of
the year-since the law went into eff
fect-of s263.223. Twice that amount
would be greater sum than the loss
es of last year, but in some of the
cases reported there was no insurance,
and in others the loss exceeded the
| insurance, and 1t is likely that when
the final footings are shown by the
companies for the year just passed
they will be somewhere near what
they were for the previous year.
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The Free Press. of Pierre, intimates
that l.. A. Munson, former deputy
state treasurer will announce himself
as a candidate for secretary of state.
Mr.. Munson goes so far as to admit
that there is strong probability that
he will enter the race, but declines yet
to make his statement positive. Such
move would place two candidates
for state Offices In Hughes county, c.
| H. Burke for congress and Munson for
| secretary.
A room at the federal building in
Pierre is being fitted mp for head
| quarters for a permanent postal in
spector who will be located there.
! Inspector Mullen viii be In Pierre In
few days and get located in his new
| quarters, he having been working
western and central South Dakota In
| the past from Sioux Falls, but will
| work from Pierre In the future
| The state treasury has called in
state general fund warrants to the
amount OF c305,0o0. making the call
of this date. With these warrants talk
en- up there are yet outstanding APP
proximately 100000 OF such war
| ants.
Gov. Crawford has selected dele