Kingsbury County independent. (DeSmet, Kingsbury County, S.D.) 1894-1929, 1909-03-05
railroad commissioners: the reports

Of conditions of counties and Of in
dividual banks, except in cases where
irregularities have been discovered,
ter; the accumulated election returns
from statehood from tie report of the
secretary of state AL some twenty
minor officers are limited to twenty
pages of printed matter In their re-
ports. Finally. providing that it shall
be a misdemeanor for any officer,
board or institution to create a de-
ficiency without the written approval
of the governor. Mr.. Cable has la
bored most diligently and effectively
to discover the weak points In our
system of disbursing public money
and to correct them.
Good roads got it's quietus in the
house Wednesday. The senate had
already passed a bill which would no
doubt have much improved the pres
ent conditions, but it was not favor
ably received by the farmer element
in the house and a new bill was pre-
sented there by the committee on
highways and applies only to coun
ties not organized into civil town.
ships, that is, to Yankton county east
of the river. 1t Is a fairly good road
measure within its limitations of ap-
plication. This leaves the present con
ditions practically unchanged in the
state generally. Friends of good
roads hope that under this bill Yank.
ton will within a few years present
such an object lesson to the remain
der of the state as to insure the adop-
tion of statewide good roads legisla-
ton.
Dillon's bills regulating the officers
and employees of the legislature and
requiring the entire clerical force to
pass a competitive examination, that
bills be engrossed and enrolled by ex-
pert typewriters and that the long
hand permanent journals of the re
have become laws. In effect they
should secure much better service and
save a very large sum of money now
paid for useless clerks and employees.
1t is argued that the bill regulating
the officers and employees Is unconsti.
%tutional, but if that be true no legis-
lature will be likely to care to test
the matter. As it is the members will
be protected from the always great
pressure pom them for sinecures.
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The general appropriations bill will
carry about $1,S25,000 for the two
years, or $800,000 more than ever be-
fore. Most of the excess is in the
maintenance of the institutions. The
total appropriations of the session, in
the capitol, will aggregate
about $4,000, 900. about 100000 great
er than at the last session.
The county of Corson has been Gre I
ated out of the Standing Rock reserva-
ton in South Dakota and will be or
at once. 1t contains about ,
eighty townships. The Pacific extern
sion of the Milwaukee runs entirely
1t and a tier of townships
the south side and about twenty |
ownships in the west end will be
opened to settlement this year. There
S quite a large population of Indian
and a good many white peo-
lie already in the county, the latter
,eing chiefly at the stations along the
Milwaukee,
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A good deal of a sensation was
sprung early in the week when a re-
,ort became public that the public
Examiner had found a shortage in the
accounts of former Secretary of State
J. ID. Wipf and all sorts of rumors
lew about, but an investigation re-
vealed that only a dispute existed
'ver the ownership of $43 in brand
ees, which Mr.. Wipf believes under
he law belongs to him, while the pub
ic examiner is of the opinion that the
um is state property. The statute In
will be submitted to the at
orney general for Interpretation and
10Th parties will abide by his opinion.
Mr.. Ranum's bill allowing counties
o levy 3 mills bridge tax has passed
10Th houses. This is necessary by
eason of the fencing of the farm and
.onfining travel to the narrow high
Ways and the necessity Is increased
W the large number of drainage
which are being made In
some counties, greatly increasing the
of bridges required.
4 + 4.
Two bills of much interest to farm
IT'S have become laws. One, the par
.ition fence bill, by which every own
sr of agricultural lands from which
le derives beneficial use is compelled
o join in building line fences separat-
ng his land from his neighbors. Any
agreed upon is a partition fence,
but in the absence of agreement a