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mary ballots with the secretary OF
state at Pierre are the Republican and
Democratic parties, the former having
designated white as the color Of their
official ballot, and the Democrats hav-
ing selected yellow. The prohibition
lists and socialists have not as yet COM
piled with that provision of the pri-
mary law, and in the published no
| tees sent out by the county auditors,
colors are not designated by the two
minority parties. 1t is probable though
that they will carry out that provision
of the law before an election is held.
Superintendent House, of the United
States Indian school at Rapid City,
has received word from Washington
that the congressional committee hav-
ing in charge the $21, 900 appropriation
for additional improvements at the
school there, has acted favorably and
in all probabilities the money will be
available for starting work this sum-
mer. The contemplated improvements
include $4,000 for a domestic science
course, $4,000 for general repairs, in
Guiding cement walks; $4,000 for per-
fecting private water system and
$4,000 for installing a sewerage tank.
The improvements mentioned were
personally advocated at Washington
by superintendent House on a recent
visit to the national capital.
Beginning with the first of April the
boundaries of the Pierre land district
will be widely extended. By the wip-
ing out out of the Huron land dis
trict the counties of Beadle, Sphinx,
Faulk, Potter Hand and Hyde will
be added to the Pierre district. But
the addition of the territory will not
mean any great addition to the busi-
ness. About all which was left for the
! Huron district to look after was in
the southern parts of Hand and Hyde
counties, with few scattered tracts
in Faulk and Potter. The eastern part
of the district having been practically
cleared of the government lands, prob
| ably few quarters scattered about
being yet to probe up and wipe out the
government connection with any of
| the counties in the Jim river valley.
| The next offices which will probably
be abolished are those of Mitchell and
| Watertown, which will leave Aberdeen
| the only office east of the Missouri riv-
| er towns of Pierre and Chamberlain.
The Pierre office will probably be the
| last in the state to be abolished, as
| those at the state capitals are general
| ly left for the clearing up work after
/ the others are no longer paying ex-
penses, the one at Des Moines for
| Iowa clear up work now being in the
list to be abolished.
The preliminary report Of the SUPER
lntendent Of vital statistics, which has
just been issued on marriages Of the
state for 1907, shows 4,390 ceremonies
| for that year, a record of practically a
| dozen a day through the year. The
ages Of the brides were given at from
l5, at which two were married, to 50,
| at which age three women were mar
| rfed. The most popular age appears
| to have been 20, as 500 girls were
married at that age, and 10 was close
with 502; and 499 were brides at 1S.
The average age of the brides was
1873 years. The ages of the grooms
| ranged from Is to 73, the average
| marrying age for men being 1872 years,
| with the greatest number taking brides
at the age Of %, 465 having married at
| that age. The figures compiled show
that the chances for women marrying
decreases after they pass 20, and that
of the men after they have passed 23.
| which does not hold out the theory of
late marriages on the part of either
sex in this state. Last year a num-
ber of marriages were reported where
aged men took very young wives, but
the report this year is strongly in con-
trast to that as in nearly all the mar
ri q hn Nf l.
parties were near the same figure.
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The report of the bureau of vital
STATISTICS on divorces in the state for
1907 shows that $50 mismated cou-
pies were granted legal separation by
the courts of the state for the year.
Out of the whole number the resi-
| dence of the defendant was given in
the state in 1S3 cases. while in $40 the
residence was given in some other
state, and in A cases it was given as
unknown, and the sum of the last two
figures probable shows the sum total
of the colony business in the state
for the year. Out of the total. 255
were asked on the grounds of deser-
ton and 153 on pleas Of cruelty. Fiji
ty were granted for non-support. "a
for willful neglect, 80 for intemper-
ance. u for adultery, for immo raj
habits, for abandonment for
fraud and l each for insanity and un
controllable temper Minnehaha
county, the home of the Industry" in
the state, leads them all in the num-
Der with 154; Lincoln, a near neighbor,
which probably gets some of the
Sioux Falls overflow, is next with Al;
Brown had "a, Lawrence 20 and PEN
nington 30.
A group of leading Democrats of
Hughes county met at Pierre and af
ter discussing the situation decided
that they would name a delegation to
the state convention to select delegates
to Denver, without the formality of