Dewey County advocate. [volume] (Timber Lake, S.D.) 1910-1913, 1913-02-21
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Judge Ward, in the federal district
court has sustained the writ o,
habeas corpus in his behalf, over
ruling the immigration authorities
That out in Rapid City they are
circulating petition asking the
legislature to provide a means
whereby a city can throw up its
job of being governed by com
mission form of government and
return to the former system.
That the first primary election
held in the state under the Rich
ards primary electian law for the
selection of a postmaster at Wes-
sington, has resulted in a muddle,
which only the authorities of the
postofice department at Washing
ton can straighten out.
That three members of a con-
crete crew on the Milwaukee road
at Marvin had narrow escape
from death the other day when
some dynamite they we're tfawing
on a redhot stove caught fire and
leg 60" When the men looked
around, after the big noise had sub
sided, they could find no trace of
their shack nor of the tools there
in. Every vestige of the building
had disappeared.
That the ticket office. baggage
and waiting rooms of the North
Western railway, occupying the
building known as the Depot hotel
at Huron, were destroyed by fire a
few days ago, together with an an
mex to the hotel aRd the station Of
flee of the American Express COM
pany. Loss to the railway COM
pany, $4,000; no insurance. F. L.
Holbrook operated the hotel, and.
Will, John Longstaff. owned the
annex and main building Their
loss will reach $I4 900, with $4,000
insurance The express company
saved all the goods.
That at the first meeting of the
creditor OF August Block. Day
county farmer who ran tl1reshing
outfit last year, brought out an in
teresting revelation. Blocks liza
bilities are about $4,000 and his
principal asset an automobile.
When asked by attorneys for his
creditors how he happened to buy
the automobile, Block stated he
was threatened with tuberculosis.
and physician prescribed auto
mobile riding as preventative.
Then, Block said, the physician
had sold him his automobile.
That bill has been introduced
providing for taxation of state
lands for the benefit OF counties.
In most of the counties east of the
river. and in the extreme western
part of the state, the state does not
hold any great amount Of school
land, but along the Missouri and
west, in some cases nearly half the
counties are composed of state
lands. In such cases, they only
got their per cent of the state rev.
enue, with no taxes, and were re-
ceiving a smaller revenue than
their neighbours. Patterson of Pot
ter, has an idea which he incorpo-
rated i'll bill in the house which
would appropriate SIS, 900 to take
care of this.
That in the discussion prior to
the passage of the bill setting forth
regulations for the<letting of bridge
contracts by counties, Senator
Howe of Minnehaha county, re-
lated his experience with the bridge
building concerns in his county
when he was county auditor. show
ing that the county has been taken
advantage of and that there never
was real competition for the work.
The new bill provides that the
state engineer may act in an adj
vlsory capacity for the boards of