Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1919-03-15

nlngton county hackers in the winning
class
In the last end of the session Repre-.
sentative Clark, Of Lawrence, made a
hot fight for the bill authorizing licensed
boxing matches in the state, and bad
the backing Of his delegation and many
Of the other members, but it failed in
the House for the lack of one additional
vote
Other matters which were finally set
tied were the ones which finally trans
fer the state forest reserve from the state
school lands department to state park
board, which will mean in the end that
the park will be made permanent and
not be left in the school land list subject
TO sale. In addition a bill was passed to
reimburse settlers for damages to crops
| within the reserve and to continue road
building within the tract If the Ma
tional government will add the Harney
Peak range to the park as requested by
the resolution of the two houses Of the
legislature, South Dakota will be on the
Park circuit of the northwest with a
park equal to any.
The county hospital bill which was
pushed by Representative Cock, of
Butte, was one of the last minute meas
ures which got past both Houses but it
hung in the balance until the last day,
and was passed after striking off the
emergency clause, and does not 90 into
effect until after the first ofJuly.
The bills for state appropriations for
live stock pavlions at Belle Fourche,
Fort Pierre, Dallas and Lennon went
down in the general round up, and the
new bill to authorize counties and cities
to assist in the construction of such
paviions was killed by the House the
last day, as not satisfactory in its provi-
sions.
The House bill to require each county
west of the Missouri to appropriate
81, 800 90 annually for special wolf boun-
ties, was passed by the Senate late in the
last day with Senator Helm voting no,
on the ground that the Wyoming wolves
| did not pay any attention to the state
line, and his constituency were too close
to that state to take a chance along that
line.
The Soldiers Land Settlement Act
which was passed the last week is of
especial interest to the residents of the
western part of the state, especially in
the irrigated section, as it provides for
the purchase of land and the placing of
Improvements upon the same for the
benefit of returning soldiers who desire
to take up farming, and will be limited
to small starts in that direction, as it is
not the intent to aid those who are able
to start in large way for themselves,
and many will no doubt desire to take
up farming in small way where they
can get the advantage of irrigated tracts.
The bill to start new office building
on the state grounds to meet the neces-
sites of the crowded conditions of state
departments went down to practical
defeat in the start, but was finally pulled
out of the wreck, and an appropriation
of 500, 10000 direct was secured along
with bond issue of the same amount.
and the state capitol lands were pledged
for the balance of two hundred thous-
and by that means four hundred thous-
and dollars was provided tor in the bill
which finally got past both houses, and
the work of construction will be started
as soon as possible, but it is hardly
probable that the building will be com
pleted by the time of the coming of the
next legislative session when the condi-
tions will be more crowded than they
are at the present time.
The session has taken steps along lines
which WILL according to the results
either give it a standing as one of the
most progressive and forward stepping
sessions ever held in the state, or con-
demn it as one which is to be forever
pointed to as the ultimate of things
which should be avoided, according to
the outcome of the general plans of state
development which have been laid out.
The resolutions for commissions to take
the first steps toward development of
the hydro electric possibilities of the
might of the Missouri river when turned
to that end; that for the development
of the cement possibilities of the state
and for the opening of state owned
and operated coal mine in the northern
part of the state, all mean that the peo-
pie of the state will reap a benefit which
will help in its upbuilding or in the
| fact that money can be wasted in that