Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1911-02-02

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special election, as now provided. They
have but one representative when they
are entitled TO two, and want quick
relief
\ The lobby book continues to gather a
few names as time goes along, the lat
est addition being g. NJ Bowers. rep
resenting the Farmers Grain Dealers
Association; c. b. Brown. representing
the interests of San Francisco in rela-
ton to the Panama exposition; Geo. p.
Wilmarth and A. X. Kent, representing
the order of railway conductors.
New election ideas were started on
their way in both houses Monday. The
Bigelow bill in the house provides for
the holding of the primary and general
elections both the anne day, and on the
be gaining friends, as it is studied, on
account of the features of cutting out
one campaign and preventing voters of
one party voting the primary ballot of
another party.
/ Romeren in the house has started a
/ bill which seeks to allow corporations
organized for benevolent purposes to
create school districts within themselves
under. certain conditions, and when they
can show proper'membership of pupils
! for that purpose This bill is evidently
to assist asylums for the care of child
rem to secure funds from the public
purse for the proper education of their
charges.
Senator Ross f. Parks, of Day county,
was obliged on account of illness to
return to his home at Lily Saturday
and it is now reported that he is dan
gerously i'll with typhoid fever, Mr..
Parks is one of the active members of
the senate, and is greatly missed by
his colleagues, who hope that he will
soon recover and return to his duties.
His illness at this time is most lament
able. A number of bills in which he is
deeply interested will soon be up for
consideration and it will be quite blow
to Mr. Parks to be compelled to remain
inactive.
The members of the Legislature are
playing shuttle cock with the resolution
memoralizing congress concerning the
holding of the Panama exposition at
New Orleans. The joint resolution
passed in favor of New Orleans, was
no sooner passed and transmitted to
Washington than the members began
to forward kilograms to the senators
that they favored the holding of the
exposition at San Francisco, and now a
majority of both houses have joined in
a telegram to this effect. Consistency
is certainly stranger in legislative
body.
The farmers of the house, led by
Swanson of Brown, who was backed by
Larson, Slade, Whiting, Tyler and
Boreson, got what they wanted in their
bill, which allows county mutual insur-
companies to write cyclone insurance in
case they desire to take up that branch
of the work. The principal opponents
were Van Camp and Kaas, with others
making side remarks in regard to the
proposed plan. This bill was unfavor-
ably reported by the insurance commit
tee, but their report was overturned,
and the bill went on the calendar, and
on final action passed by a vote of
more than two-thirds of the house
members.
Senator Candy says that his bill pro-
viding for the conservation of the coal
of the state needs early action, as in
the coal regions of the state many men
are taking coal from state lands. They
will not attempt to locate coal on their
own lands, for to show that coal exists
on the tracts means that they cannot
get title from the government. But
they can get coal on the state lands and
they are willing to take chance on
being called up for trespass on state
lands, rather than to take chance of
losing anything through the govern
ment by testing on their own lands.
On account of the court house fire at
Winner few days ago, j. L. Brown
and Edward Brown, county commission
ers of Trip county, are in Pierre seek
ing legislation which will extend the
time of tax delinquency for their county
They have the assessors books intact,
and it will take them about six weeks
to make up another tax roll to take the
place of the one destroyed by fire, and
by that time all taxes will be delinquent
and those who desire to pay object to
delinquent penalties when they are not
to blame.
The many friends of Congressman
Burke will regret to learn that he has
had return of his old trouble rheuma-
tism, and it has been found necessary
to take him to either Blue Lick, Indi-
ana, or Hot Springs Va. As mentioned
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