The Dakota chief. (Gann Valley, Buffalo County, S.D.) 18??-1913, 1908-01-09
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| railroad commissioners has just for
wardcd 70 Gov. Crawford the eigh-
teenth annual report Of the board.
which covers matters which came un-
der the Jurisdiction Of the board dur
ing the past year. The report is very
voluminons, 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 sc last was 3S.049.3S miles, an
| increase over the. mileage owned for
the year 1906 Of S71.25 miles. The to-
\ tai mileage actually owned and oper-
ated during the year within the boun-
| dariss of South Dakota was 3,636.6r
miles, an increase over the year 1905
of 421.7o miles. Thus nearly ene-
| half Of the total new mileage Of the
| roads operating lines in South Dako-
| to was constructed within the limits Of
| South Dakota. It 10 shown by the re-
| port that the railroads operating lines
within South Dakota reported acci-
| 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, %; postal clerks
injured. 3; other persons killed, %;
| injured, 20, or total Of 33 killed and
SIS injured during the year.
|
The recent financial furry II it con.
tinues over until spring may cut off
some of the sales Of state building
1 To-
| such negotiations have been halted to
| wait 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. Gen
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. Commissioner 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
! state any longer at the rate, and there
| was 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 fill
The reports flied by the insurance
companies dsing business in this state
for 1906 show that they incurred fire
losses for that year in the amount of
S425,O5S.63. 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 ef-
fect-of S263.223. Twice that amount
would be a grea+sr sum than the loss
es of last sear, but in some Of the
cases reported there was no insurance,
insurance, and it 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.
The Free Press, Of Pierre, intimates
that L. A. Munson, former deputy
state treasurer, will announce hinself
az 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 up for head
quarters for a permanent postal in
spector. who will be located there.
Inspector Mullen will be in Pierre in
a 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 $s05,000, making the call
OF this date. With these warrants taxi
en up there are yet outstanding ap-
proximately 100000 of such war
ants
| Gov. Crawford has selected dele
gates to the meeting of the TRANSMITS
souri, Dry Farming congress-. which is
to meet in Salt Lake Ciry Jan. 1895.
The list is composed OF James Philip.
tC. L. Millett and J. d. Carr, of Fort
Pierre; Henry Hudson and Dan Bier
wagen. OF Leslie: C. ". t'ardner. of
Piedmont, and ]. ID. Saddler, Of
!Tama.