Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1919-02-08

Pierre, $. d., Feb. 3.-While the
women Of the state have been given the
privilege of expressing their views at the
polls with the same force as have the
men in the past, they ale evidently
cropping somewhat as to just how they
want to align themselves in coming
political conflicts, in the state, and many
Of them took advantage of the opportun-
ity extended to them to attend the Re-
publican Mckinley banquet held in this
city. They made it understood that they
were not attending as representatives Of
any party organizations, but as guests as
a rule 1t fell to Black Hills woman,
Mrs. Paul Rewman, of Deadwood, to be
the first woman of the state to publicly
express her ideas of party affiliation,
when she responded to the toast of why
am republican. She for one was not
appearing merely as guest, but came
as a member of the party giving the
banquet, and did not hesitate to say Just
where she expected to stand politically
in the future political affairs of the
state.
Warren, of Lawrence, who says he
did not feel that anything had come up
in which his views were required, found
the opportunity for his first effort on the
floor when the Lyon publicity pamphlet
bill was up for consideration Friday and
he did not hesitate to state his position
as to that method of scattering the news
by pamphlet, when the press of the
state was called upon to disseminate all
other kinds of news. Other Black Hills
representatives who took a part in this
were Wentzy, of Pennington,
who was not in favor of mail order
methods, and Buell. of the same county
who had not heard any crying demand
from the people of the state for any such
change in the method of spreading in
formation as to what the people were to
vote on at the general elections. When
the smoke had cleared away, the bill was
also put out of sight by vote of about
five to one.
The discussion of extension of the
scope of the School of Mines at Rapid
City will no doubt soon get out onto the
floor through the bills by Bennett of
Pennington, in the senate and Buell. and
Wentzy in the house to appropriate one
hundred thousand dollars for a new en-
gineering building at that school. The
School has the backing of the Budget
board for this improvement, and the
Black Hills delegation have been paying
enough attention to the situation that
they feel confident of success in their
move to get real state school for that
section.
The trouble over the use of brands on
the range is likely to be lessened if the
bill by Cock, of Butte, is passed as a law.
He provides for the elimination of old
dead and unused brands, which have
been on the records for years, in many
cases those originally fling having NOV.
ed their stock to ranges in other states
or have gone out of the cattle business.
This leaves the record with a lot OF
dead" brands, which no one can use,
and which are not protection for any
one. Besides giving the brand commits
sion lot OF worry aud waste of time in
Investigation to find if brand proposed
in any way conflicts with any brand al
ready recorded, If these old brands are
taken of, they will be open for use OF
others and save time and work for the
commission.
The bill by Stoner, of Lawrence, to
place stone quarries and gravel pits un-
der the supervision of the State Mine
Inspector means that that official will
have lot more work to do, than merely
looking after the metal mines of the
Black Hills. He has already been
spreading out his work to include the
coal mines in the northwest part of the
state, but no provision has ever been
provided for Quarries and gravel pits.
Clark, of Lawrence, started two new
bills the past week, one to allow sherffs
at the rate of dollar day for boarding
of prisoners, to meet the high cost OF
living aud allow greater variety in the
tat, as,ft nd A.