Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1908-01-24

The losses aggregate about $250,00O.
greatest number of losses are
shown to nave been from fires OF un-
known origin, Sc being given in that
classification. Defective stoves and
chimneys come next, with 81; gasoline
is credited with 10; carelessness with
matches, II; lightning, 10; kerosene,
IL. and sparks from trains, 10. Nine
caught from other buildings, five from
gas leaks and four from candles. Three
each are credited to hot ashes, sr1ok-
ing hot grease, fireworks and incen-
diaries. Two each are charged TO
thawing pipes, electric wires and burn
ing grass, while tramps are charged
with one. The fires charged to gaso-
line caused a loss of $4,000, with IN
surance of S15,700. Many of these
losses were to contents of gnei bulld-
ings, where the damage 10 IT, buuo"
ing W." spthing or nominal. VIE loss
es trCrn the carelAss use of matches
footed Up to $4,000, With insurance
amounting TO $3,950. In many of these
cases the losses were caused by child
rem playing with matches, and the loss
was confined 10 hay and small pulld~
ings where no insurance was carried.
h department has authorized the
Northwestern Life Insurance compa-
nay, of Aberdeen, to do business in the
state. This is a new company organ
lied under the laws OF this state.
states Attorney Williamson, of Ly-
man county, was in Pierre recently
locking after the matter of disputed
boundary between Stanley and Lyman
counties, and expects the matter to
get into the courts for settlement. The
tract in dispute covers nearly Two
townships, of which about half is yet
in an indian reservation. When the
boundaries of Lyman county We're de-
scribed at the time the counties west
of the river were consolidated, the
boundary as fixed, cuts through a tier
of sections for a distance Of about
twenty-five miles, throwing farms
partly into Stanley county and partly
into Lyman county. The discrepancy
was made by extending the boundary
to the river along one Of the! lines of
the Black Hills survey, while as a mat
ter of fact part Of the country west
oe the river was surveyed from the
same base as that used east of the riv-
err, and where the two surveys joined,
they lacked nearly two miles of meet
ing on the township lines. Thus ito
run the county line to conform to
township lines would mean a jog of
nearly two miles to the north at the
place Of meeting of the two surveys,
which is the cause of the present diff
ference of opinion between the two
counties, Lyman being a portion OF
what is included in Stanley when the
law creating the county is construed
just as it reads.
The state land board, at a recen'
session, considered the matter o
where state lands would be Offered
this year under the provisions of tn
law which requires them to place upo1
the market fifty thousaE ! acres O
state and endowment lands each year
The particular counties in which thu
lands will be offered have not yet beef
selected, but generally the offering.
will be in the Jim valley counties, an
in the northern part of the state. In
quiries sent out to people living il
many parts of the countiessin which
| offerings will be made, show that tn,
estimates of home people places tn,
| values of the state lands from $40 tt
$40 per acre, with an occasional trac
placed down to the minimum of SO al
acre, and an occasional one put a:
high rs $50 an acre. While there were
very few requests for sale coming into
the department up to the first of the
year they are now coming rapidly
showing that there is a desire to nur-
chase the lands. The improved money
conditions probably are accountable
for the requests which are coming In
rapidly, and the indications at present
are that a large amount of the so, 900
acres will be taken, if the minimum
price is not placed at too high a fig
ure.
Articles of Incorporation have beer
ale with the secretary of state fol
the st. Paul, Minneapolis and Seattle
Electric railway company, with a cap
iital Of $4,000 900 and headquarters
at st. Paul. The incorporates are
William c. Weber, Rochester, Mimi;
David Phillips. Mazeppa, Mimi;
Samuel Philips and James w. Mos
o st. Paul, and Glenn w. Martens
Pierre.
The report of the state treasurer for
the first Of the yea shows a reduc-
ton in the funds on hand on account
Of payments the past month. On the
first Of the year the general fund
contained $~13,544.19; the permanent
school fund contained $~21,478.92, but
most of that has vanished since the
first.
The Missouri Valley Investment
company at Blunt is one Of the newly
incorporated companies in this sec
ton Of the state. 1t is capitalized at
100000, and Incorporated by L. A.
Tommy, J. w. Kruger and Thos
Quale. Its purpose is to provide homes
fitted up for usiness 10 those who de-
sire to farm.
The Free Press of this {. says that
1t Is authorized to announce that L A.
Munson, of Pierre. will become an
active candidate for the position of
secretary of state in the coming pri-
maries
Out and In.
Mrs White (sympathetically) - So
vOi1r hnShopH iS in fror,b1a