Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1911-04-28
NEARLY: A MILLION
SALE OF SCHOOL LANDS SHOWS
r ADVANCE OVER ORIG.
INAL VALUATION.
OTHER ITEMS OF INTEREST
From the Capital City, the Various
State Institutions and Diff
ferent Parts of the
State.

Pierre.-The state land department
has completed it's sales of state schoo
lands for this year. While the acreage
sold was not so large as last year, the
average price was far above that OF
any other year in which sales have
been al
The sales reached 1907 acres,
brin ging a total Of $9SS,052 to the fund.
of which 25 per cent must be paid IN
cash. Many of the purchasers paid the
full amount, and the permanent tund
will be in shape to supply demands
for many of the loans pending.
BY counties the sales were: DaVl-
son, 1900 acres at az average OF
S54.3O; Hanson, 1855 acres, average
S56.64; Hutchinson, 2,193 acres, at an
average of $54.SS; Codington, 3,l93
acres, average $56.34; Deuel., 1853
acres, average s27.34; Hamlin, Also
acres, average $54.93; Day, 1,49S acres,
average $3.50; Brown, 759 acres, av-
erage $56.3S, making the general aver
age for the state, $52.03.
Most of this land was purchased by
owners of adjacent tracts and was not
speculative buying. Some of the tracts
went above 500 an acre. At such
prices the school fund of the state will
run into many millions more than the
founders of the state ever dreamed Of
when they placed the minimum selling
price at $40 an acre, with doubts in the
minds of many of them whether much
of it would ever sell at that price.
Mothers Day in Dakota.-Gov. YES
sey has designated Sunday, May IA, to
be observed as mothers day in this
state.
Insurance Company Suspends.-The
Northern Casualty company of
Aberdeen has, by order of the insur-
ance commission, suspended business
until a consolidation Of their accident
and casualty departments is effected.
Titus is Pardoned.DGov. Wesley has
granted a pardon to Charales E. Titus,
sent from Sanborn county on a charge
of grand larceny. Titus has been out
on parole for some time and has now
been granted complete clemency.
Case Attracts Interest.-Judge San
born's sensational decision in the Min
nesota rate case has aroused deep in
terest throughout South Dakota, as
this state has pending in the federal
courts two very important cases in
volving both freight and passenger
rates.
Issues Report.-Public Examiner
John L. Jones has just issued
his report on the banks of the
state, other than national, for
March Z as compared with January 7.
Deposits subject to check are $780,
SS2, which is ar increase of $2,04S,169
Savings deposits are $~1,912,923, al in
crease of 1 5000. The total
amount to $%65,O34,961, an increase of
s179,5 9S.
Attack Rate statuAe.-The Wells
Fargo, American and Great Northern
Express companies have representa-
tives here at the hearing on the rate
law passed by the last session of the
legislature. They all make the same
plea: that they are operating at a loss
on their business which both origin
ates and ends in South Dakota, and
that they cannot stand the proposed
reduction. In this as in their state
ments for taxation, they base all their
figures on state business" and de-
cline to include interstate business in
their estimates.
How Divorce Law Works.-The ef-
feet OF the divorce law of 1908
is becoming apparent in the divorce
statistics and hat industry is approx
mately in a normal condition. The state
has now compiled the divorce Stats
tics for a period of five years, during
the first three of which the old laws
we're in effect.
The table shows the number OF d.
vorces granted in the state each year
and the number of cases in which the
defendant was a nonresident.
Year. Cases. Des.
1906 sos 292
1907 ........ ............5o 5o4
1908 .......... ..........6b5 42O
1909 261
1910 .446 230
Desertion continues to be the pre-
vailing cause of divorce, about so per
cent of all cases being brought upon
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