Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1911-02-10


The committee on roads and high
ways in the house has combined the
best features of the Issenhuth and
the Bruce balls aud Incorporated them
Into . committee bill Theefeature In
the county unit system on all projects
costing more than $500 and all under
that sum to he constructed under the
supervision Of the township super
visors. The once OF the road over
seer is abolished. The tax levy can
not exceed, Ave mills unless by spe-
cial vote Of the people and the poll
tax, placed at two dollars per year
must be paid In cash. Local residents
are given first opportunity to do he
| work. but 1t must be done under the
supervision Of the county or town
| ship board.
The easur covers the : recon-
mendations of the state good roads
! league and also has embodied in it
! the features of the Wolzmuth bilf
pertaining to the employment by the
county commissioners of an experfenc-
ed engineer to supervise the construc-
ton OF roads in mountainous counties,
| where the roads cannot follow the
section lines. This latter feature is
! of particular interest to the Black
| Hills. Where drainage bitches have
to CROSS private lands. both benefits
and damages r provided
Every possible condition that might:
arise would seem to be covered. A
I special provision made is that should
the people of a county desire to sub
NIT the question Of tn adoption of
the system as outlined in the bill,
to a vote Of the electors they ma do
so by petition signed by tp per cent;
OF the tr%eeholders.
A delegation of business men from
Watertown has been in the capitaF
advocating an appropriation bill for
the preparation of the state land In
the city Of WATERFOWL, for the build
ing Of a northern hospital for the in
sane.
DR.. Mead of the Yankton asylum. in
his report, recommends that b state"
begin preparations for the construc-
ton of another institution and is
lacking the Watertown delegation in
their contention. It has been tacitly
understood that when the Yankton
asylum reached its reasonable limit
of a thousand inmates that a second
institution should re constructed and
maintained on the state property at
w%aertown. This property is that turn
ed over to the state by former COVER
Eor Mellette at the time of the Tay-
lor defalcation.
There are now nearly nine hundred
patients in the Yankton hospital and
considerig the rate Of increase in the
past, there would be about thirteen
hundred before the northern insti-
tuition would be In running order, If
the state were to begin IN it now
Ten thousand dollars are asked and
it is very probable that the legisla-
ture will grant the necessary appro-
priation to begin the fixing up of the
grounds at once, preparatory to the
construction of a hospital there.
The committee appointed by the
legislature to Investigate conditions
at the Soldiers Home arrived in the
capital from Hot Springs this morn
ing. 1t will probably be some days
before they will make Their report
Over a hundred witnesses were ex-
amined and it will take several days;
for the stenogsapher to t~ranscribe-
the notes of the hearing. A m
was floating about the capital todaS
10 the effect that the committee would
turn in a report completely wildcat
ing Col. Geddes, that che witnesses
examined failed to ~substantiate any
of the charges brought against the
management of the institution. This.
could not be verified, however. There
is great demand for full publicity OF
the evidence brought before the COM
mittee and there is a possibility hat
the state will order the complete notes
of the hearing published.
With an amendment making closing
hour 9 o'clock, the daylight saloon
bill passed the house by a vote of
70 to "a. The debates which proceed
ed the final vote were long and rous-
ing, but the temperance element clear
ly had the advantage from the open
ing, and passed the bill with an,
emergency clause. In case the meas
ure passes the senate, which is likely,
it will go into effect at once.
NOTES.
Gregory county some time ago had
great difficulty locating a county seat.
There were so many towns after it
that none received a majority vote in
the election. The house Judiciary
committee would remedy such condi-
tons with H. B. No. 1862. 1t provides
that where a county seat is not chosen
at an election, at the subsequent cleo
ton, only the two leading towns for
the place, caa enter the race.
Representative Sutley's bill for an
experimental farm at Vivian in Ly-
man county will be reported ~favorably
by the agricultural committee of the
house. 1t is understood that the Mil
waukee railroad company has offered
the state a permanent gratuitious
lease Of and suitable for a cite, which,
the state may keep as long as an ex-
detrimental farm is maintained there.
Representative Bufington's bill mo.
1881 relating to the payment of taxes'
in cases where the tax records are
destroyed, was prompted by the burn
ing of the Trip county court house
which destroyed their tax records The
bill provides that in such cases taxes.
shall not become delinquent until
July ].
James Glass, a barber. in the 0
dier's Home, at Hot Springs, who In