Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1908-02-27

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ton owing TO the fact that the Crouch
line has been securing supplies for oper-
alton for some time from the Burling-
ton and has become indebted TO the
older road for over $40, 900, which, it is
declared, it is unable to pay. The
Crouch line runs but thirty miles
and il known as the road of curves. lie
has been twice washed out, had several
bad wrecks aud damage suits as result,
and nm unusually uphill fight ever
since il was opened, nearly two years
ago 1t has always been the popular
superstition that the road was owned by
the Milwaukee and would some day
become strategic factor in that lines
western progress. Agents TO. the road
at Rapid City deny the report of the
sale. but it is generally credited through
out the Hills.
Under the provision OF one of the
statutes of the last Legislative session,
the state land board is required annually
to offer not less than $1,000 acres OF
state lands for sale, until certain
stated portion OF such lands in the state
are disposed Of. Under the provisions
of this act the board has selected the
counties in which they will make offer
ings this spring, and has set the dates
when lands will be offered The dates
in counties are principally in April, for
the different counties being: Beadle l6,
Kingsbnry II, Lake IS, Miner 20, David
SON 81, Hanson %, Hutchinson %, Bon
Homme "a, Turner rs. Hamlin ~,
Brown %, Marshall 20, Edmunds 30,
Mcpherson May /, Sphinx May The
unsold lands in these counties will be
offered for lease on the days following
the sales except where the following
day is Sunday, in which case the lease
books will be opened by the county
auditor on Monday. In the counties of
Marshall. Edmunds and MCPHERSON,
about IL 900 acres of endowment land
will be offered, while in tn. other coun-
ties the offerings will be of state school
land
Judge Hute, of the Brown county
court caused mild sensation, when he
announced that he had been digging
into the records of his Office for the last
fourteen years aud had found many
guardianship cases where guardians
have made no report of their charges in
/ he let a. larf thar INDIA
Hute has had circular printed and sent
out to the neglected guardians. During
the course of his probing Judge Hute
sent letters to some guardians who had
not reported, bat the number became
so numerous that IL was necessary to
print circulars. A good many replies
have been received to the letters, and
some Of them are amusing. One man
who has had in charge something over
$500 told the court in his letter that he
believed no report was necessary; that
he understood he was entitled TO the
amount anyway. Judge Hute has
informed him that he was in error, and
for the use of money through quite
term of years he would be charged
to about $3.50 Another guardian who
lives at Duluth, Mimi, has been using
$6, 600 for about six years, and while he
always has had the money ready to pay
over, he has failed to make any report.
His interest bill will cause him 70 gasp
The court expects the reports that will
be received In the next week or two will
be more numerous than those received
during the entire period covered in the
Investigation.
The Hurley Herald is in error il
stating that the raise in the valuations
OF farm lands in Turner county is not
chargeable to the state board of assess
ment and equalization but to the assess
ors, and citing the proceedings of the
August meeting of the board as author
ity for it's statement. AT the March
meeting of the board held in connection
with the county auditors Of the state,
the state board decided 10 raise land
valuations and instructed the officers to
that effect. A schedule for each county
in the state was agreed upon by the
state board and the state auditor, as
secretary of the board, notified the
county officials intending all assessors,
at what price land and all other classes
of property, must be assessed at. The
assessors followed these instructions,
assessing farm lands at the valuations
placed upon them by the state board.
The state board raised the valuation In
March and the assessors and county
boards made returns in accordance with
their instructions from all counties,
excepting nine, and these were changed
by the state board to conform to the
valuations agreed upon at the March
meeting As the Chief has stated before
/ the state board did not raise the valua.
ton Of farm lands in August for the
very good reason that il had already
raised them in March. The Herald may
not have intended to misrepresent the
facts but other newspapers THAI knew
better have endeavored 10 fool the peo-
| pls wish similar slalsmspts -1roquois
Chief.