Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1911-02-16
facilities and the circuits in which they
now lie are crowded with business.

facilities and the circuits in which they
now lie are crowded with business
A bill in the house to prevent official
eitv attorn eys from taking the defense
If criminal cases in the counties IN
which they Ii We, will start the lawyers
to going some.
Fhe latest idea of government by
commission was sprung in the senate
bv the Perley bill for commissioner OF
noxious weeds which he desires 10 see
provided as branch Of the govern
ment.
There is talk OF sitting committee
for the first time in years, on account
of growing house calendar, the talk
ing proclivities of many members max
ing action very slow, and the calendar
growing rapidly.
There is some talk of grating the bee
inspection duties upon those OF the
game warden, but up to the present the
warden is successfully lodging such
new honors which may be thrust upon
him regardless of his wishes.
The house killed the bill requiring
the state to pay for horses which are
killed on order of the state authorities
on account of CHAMBERS. Notice of
reconsideration was given this and it
will be up for threshing out second
time.
The woman suffrage bill, with prop
erty qualifications, went down to
defeat in the house with sixty-nine
votes against it and twenty-six for it.
All such measures at this session must
run the gauntlet of the vote of last fall
and they get the worst of it.
The board of health is asking for an
appropriation of $1,000 this year. The
most they have ever had is $500. and
the most necessary expenses used
S574. 81 in the first three months of the
year, so that 1000 does not seem
excessive, especially when compared
with that spent by other states.
The soldiers home investigating com
mittee presented bills in both houses
for complete change in the method
of control of that institution. provid-
ing for board of three and superin
tendent, none of whom must be old
soldiers-a complete revolution from
the present manner of control.
In the discussion over the 'glander"
bill it was shown that in 1907 the num-
Der of horses killed in the state by order
of the board was 633; IN 1908, it was
246; in 1909, 223, and in 1910, S38. This
would make an average of 356 for each
We ar of that time, and at $50 a head.
which is the maximum allowed for pay
ment in such cases, ii would reach
SIT, $50 year
The new management of the st.
Charles gave a reception and ball Fri
day night in the parlors and ball room
of the hotel, the most brilliant ever
seen in Pierre, with the exception of
the inaugurals. A thousand invitations
had been sent out, and at least six
hundred were in attendance. The Peck
Fourth Regiment orchestra of Water
town furnished high grade of music.
AS the bill creating the new county
of Zieback has been passed and signed.
representatives from that county were
in Pierre asking for the preliminary
steps for the organization of their new
county. The election for that purpose
will be held sometime this winter, and
a new county will be in the list asking
for recognition at an early date.
The members of the soldiers home
board do not take kindl y to the portion
of the report of the committee which
says they expended the appropriation
for sewerage in an illegal manner.
They claim to have been furnished with
an opinion from the attorney general
before they took any acton, and they
expect at present to take their fight
on to the floor of the house and senate
on that part of the committee report.
1t is rumored that Insurance Com
missioner Basford, who has returned
from Washington, has given out infor-
nation to the effect that President
Taft has eliminated Judge Whiting,
Judge Campbell and Jim Elliott as
possible candidates for Judge to sue
coed Judge Garland, There is also
rumor that the appointment will be
Pierre man and perhaps not Judge
Gaffy. If that be SO, it is conceded
that the plum would go to Attorney
H. r. Horner.
notwithstanding the admitted use
fulness and the excellent work of the
superintendent of the farmers insti-
tutes, the senate committee on appro-
priations failed to report favorably q
bill providing funds to continue the
institutes during the balance Of the fis-
cal year. A minority report has been
reported to the senate and it will be