The New era-leader. (Wagner, Charles Mix County, S.D.) 1911-1912, 1911-08-11

funds of $l98,685 Of this the gen.
eral fund carried $344, 60e. which is
conrsdered suffi, ent to carry the or
dinary expenses of the state until the
receipts begin to come in from the
September call for taxes from the
different counties. There may be q de-
mand made for part OF the cash bor-
rowed from the twine pant fund, in
which case it would be a close margin
in getting through without registering
warrants. The total debt of the state
is an issue of $500. 900 revenue war
rants. which will be due next April,
and $75, coo Cue the twine plant fund,
which was borrowed for the general
fund when there WIS large surplus
in the twine fund. To balance this
was the amoutn in the general fund of
the treasurer, and the money due the
state general fund from the capitol
building fund. This latter may be
partly wiped ou if some of the deals
for capitol lands now underway 60
through.
Bay it nov NV is tha time to
buy bottle of Chamberlain's Collie,
Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy. 1t is
almost certain to be needed before the
summer is over This remedy has no
superior For sale by all Dealers
Following is snake st-ry with a
pathetic ending which is told in a
letter written by a Mitchell an,
visiting west of the river, to a brother
i in that city. He says s: "The dry
weather has brought ou. the usual run
of rattlesanke stories. Personally,
have not seen a rattler since came
here but heard story from friend
today which gave me thrill of hor-
ror. 1t seems that family living
near Red Owl, in a sod shanty, had
/ been away for few day 8 and upon re-
turning home ne gle ted to search the
house before retiring. Tney had two
little bojs who slept together in q
, small bed. Along in the night the
younger boy cried out to his mother.
that Brother is pin:hing me, mann.
ma. His mother paid no attention
to him at first, but finally told the
older one to stop, an soon after, as he
apparently had not done SO, got up and
gave him spanking. Upon growing
quiet, they all went to sleep, but upon
getting up in the morning they found
the little fellow dead beside the older
boy, with huge rattler coil d around
his leg. This is true story, too
(, true, alas"
If the people of this state ADOPT the
conslitut ional tmeLGn ents providing
for taxing fran chises at the next gen.
eral election, the express companies
doing business in the state will no
doubt get theirs" properly. The only
real estate VIII ich any express COM
pany owns in this state Is lot and
builing at Pierre by the American
company. They have evaded paying
taxes on this property on the ground
that it is part of their equipment
FOR doing business in this state, and
ths t they were paying taxes on their
business. But now they 60 into the
United States court with plea that
they are not subject to taxation except
upon actual property. and that the
stste in assessing them on their bust.
ness" is going outside it's rights, and
the court sustains their contention. II
appears to be case of no taxes
either way on the contentious Of the
company. But on their decision Sc.
Icured in tt e United States court il
appears that this coun ty would havs
cause for action for back taxes on
their real property here for series Of
years. The express companies con.
tinued to pay taxes in this state on
their business so To- & as the state
board accepted thei- reports, which
showed only the business which pott
originated and ended in the state
withuto regard to any business cross.
in & the state line, which " az pro.
badly. about 10 per cent of that ms idt
the state. But the railway companies
are required in their reports to show
their receipts from the express com.
panies and what they. showed was ar
entirely different story. The state
board began to take the figures from
other railway reports for basis o1
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