Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1908-01-10
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r~'ory of the South Dakota board OF
road commissioners, has Just Tor
warded to Gov. Crawford the elgn-
tenth annual report OF the poaru'
which covers matters which came un-
der the Jurisdiction of the board dur
ing the past year. The report Is very
ycluminous, as the business of the
board during the year has been great
err 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
o~perating line in South Dakota on
June 80 last was 3S,O49.3S miles, an
increase over the mileage owned for
the wear 1906 Of S71.25 miles. The to-
tai mileage actually owned and oper-
ated during the year within the boun-
daries of South Dakota was 3,636.67
miles. an increase over the y9ar 1915
OF 431.79 miles. Thus nearly one
? half of the total new mileage of the
roads operating lines in South Dako-
Ia 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, vi; injured, 2t2;
! passengers injured. 90; postal clerks
( injured, 3: other persons killed.. %;
| Injured, 20, or a total Of SO killed and
! 31S injured during the year.
The recent financial furry if it con-
! tinues over until spring may cut OF
some of the sales of state building
lands which have been pending, as all
| such negotiations have been halted to
| wait the outcome of the money situa-
| ten. 1t is likely to ave the same
| results on sales of school lands in the
| different counties next spring. Cen
orally before this there is pressure
brought to Deal 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 or
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 If
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 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 fill.
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
$~425,O5S.63. While there is no way
to learn what their losses were fol
1907 until they make their annua re.
ports sent to the state fire marshal by
chiefs of fire departments and towr
clerks show losses for the last half OF
the year-since the law went into ef-
rect-of $263.223. Twice hat amount
would be a greater sun than the loss
es Of last year, but in some Of thu
cases reported there was no insurance
and in others the loss exceeded the
insurance, and it is likely that wher
the final footings are shown by thu
companies for the year just passed
they will be somewhere near wha'
they were for the previous year.
The Free Press, Of Pierre, intimates
that L.. A. Munson, former deputy
state treasurer, will announce hilnsel
as a candidate for secretary of state
Mr.. Munson goes so far as to admit
that there is a strong probability that
he will enter the race, but declines yet
to make his statement positive. Such
a 10Y would place two candidates
!! for state offices in Hughes county, C.
H. Burke for mgr and Munson for
Lsecretary.
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 $3O5, 900, making the call
of this date. With these warrants TAX
on UP there are vet outstanding ap-
P"0obVoN SUM- "OA
rants.
Gov. Crawford has selected dele
gates to the meeting Of the TRANSMITS
souri, Dry Farming congress-, which is
to meet in Salt Lake City Jan. 1926.
The list is composed Of James Philip.
G. L. Millett and J. D. Carr, of Fort
Pierre; Henry Hudson and Dan Bier
wagon. of Leslie; G. v. Gardner. of
Piedmont, and j. D. Saddler, OF
Tama.
The state permanent school fund
has received from the general govern
ment a draft for s19,012,25 which is
5 per cent from the sales of govern
ment lands within the state for the
year ending June 80 last.
Self-Evident. 7
Weary-Dat judge wuz a fool7
Plodder-W'y wuz he?
Weary-He fined me $25 for bein'
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