SOUTH DAKOTA. 



SPAIN. 



721 



million, which was burned in 1893, has been re- 

 built by Clay County and the city of Vermillion, 

 at an expense of $45,000. The student enroll- 

 ment there for 1892-93 was 310; for 1893-'94 

 it was 327. The other educational institutions 

 of the State are also flourishing. The Govern- 

 or's message supplies the following statistics: 

 Enrollment at the Agricultural College, 243; 

 appropriation for its support, $14,430.01 ; ex- 

 penditures, $14,402.09; value of realty, $81,- 

 380 ; value of personalty, $25,902 ; Madison Nor- 

 mal School enrollment, 302; appropriation, $26,- 

 212.94; expenditures, $26,205.63; value of 

 realty, $59,000 ; of personalty, $6,375 ; School 

 of Mines enrollment, 30 ; appropriation, $20,- 

 800.18; expenditures, $13,464.84; value of 

 realty, $22,125 ; of personalty, $14,258 ; Spear- 

 fish Normal School enrollment, 170; appropria- 

 tion, $25,481.30; expenditures, $25,447.70; value 

 of realty, $43,500; of personalty, $13,175; Uni- 

 versity realty is value, at $99,000 ; personalty, at 

 $12,300. 



The total value of State school property is 

 about $377,000. 



Reform School. During the past two years 

 the Board of Charities and Corrections has 

 bought for the Reform School 320 acres of land, 

 for which they agreed to pay $3,200 ; $1,000 has 

 been paid out of the farm products which were 

 sold. The institution now has 640 acres of good 

 land. On June 30, 1894, it had in its charge 87 

 persons, 65 boys and 22 girls, an increase of 19 

 during the last two years. A shop has been 

 erected, under an appropriation of $3,000, by the 

 last Legislature. The total amount expended 

 for 1892-'93 was $14,052.63 ; total for 1893-'94, 

 $19,849.58. 



School for Deaf Mutes. This school ex- 

 pended in the past two years $26,684.48 ; of this, 

 $12,387.77 was expended during 1893-'94, and 

 $1,512.23 remained on hand at the end of the 

 year. During the year there were 47 pupils in 

 attendance, 29 boys and 18 girls. 



For the maintenance ;and tuition of the blind 

 an appropriation of $1,000 was made, of which 

 sum $332.40 was paid for South Dakota pupils 

 to the Iowa College for the Blind. 



Insane Hospital. For the fiscal year ending 

 June 30, 1893, there was $69,875.64 available for 

 the expenses of the insane aslyurn at Yankton, 

 and of this $68,020.73 was expended. For the 

 next fiscal year $80,000 was appropriated, and 

 of this $76,766.29 was expended. There were 

 311 patients in the hospital July 1, 1893, and 

 361 July 1, 1894. A new building has been con- 

 structed, of Sioux Falls stone, 50 feet square, 

 with 2 stories above a high basement. 



Soldiers' Home. The cost of maintaining 

 the home, the year was $24,725.19. Of this sum, 

 $789.25 was required for the burial of soldiers 

 and seamen. 



Penitentiary. The amount on hand for 

 Penitentiary purposes July 1, 1892, was $20,733.- 

 97, and there was $9,119.24 additional appro- 

 priated. Of this, $28,689.03 was expended. 

 For the fiscal year ending July 1, 1894, $32.966 

 was appropriated and $31,627.30 expended. 

 There were 82 prisoners confined July 1, 1892, 

 and 117 July 1, 1894. The repealing of the pa- 

 role law by the last Legislature is considered a 

 step backward. The attempt to make binding 

 vou xxxiv. 46 A 



twine in the Penitentiary has been abandoned. 

 A piece of land containing 160 acres, convenient 

 to the prison, has been paid for out of the prison 

 earnings. 



Irrigation. Since the drilling of the first 

 artesian well at Aberdeen, in the winter of 1880 

 and 1881, 137 deep wells have been constructed 

 in the State, 24 of which are public wells. Un- 

 derlying a great part of the State is what is 

 known as the artesian basin, with subterranean 

 water in great volume. 



A bounty of $958 was paid for trees planted 

 during the year. 



Fort Randall Reservation. The State has 

 formally accepted the Fort Randall military 

 reservation. It was ceded to the State under 

 the indemnity act by an amendment of the sun- 

 dry civil appropriation bill passed March 3, 



1893. This reservation comprises about 96,000 

 acres of farming and grazing lands in South 

 Dakota and Nebraska, fully three fourths lying 

 within the boundaries of this State. It has a 

 river frontage of 27 miles. 



Census Statistics. The statistics of manu- 

 factures in South Dakota, taken from the census 

 bureau report dated Feb. 20, 1894, are as follow : 

 Number of establishments, 499 ; value of land, 

 $322,855 ; of buildings, $512,142 ; of machinery, 

 etc., $1,329,023 ; of live assets, $1,043,776 ; aver- 

 age number of employees, $2,422 ; total wages, 

 $1,098,418; cost of materials used, $3,523,840; 

 value of products, including receipts from cus- 

 tom work and repairing, $5,682,748. 



Political. The Republican Convention was 

 held at Yankton, Aug. 23, 1894. The platform 

 declared in favor of protection : of the use of 

 gold and silver as money at a ratio of 16 to 1 ; 

 and of legislation against trusts. It urged legis- 

 lation against the immigration of paupers and 

 criminals, and advocated libei'ality in the grant- 

 ing of pensions. 



The Democratic Convention was held Sept. 5, 



1894. The platform declared for free trade and 

 for a coinage of gold and silver at such a ratio 

 as will maintain the parity of the two metals. 

 It demanded the enactment of laws to curb the 

 extension and power of trusts ; the election of 

 United States Senators by a direct vote of the 

 people, and liberality in the granting of pen- 

 sions. It favored a law prohibiting Cabinet 

 officers and all persons holding official positions 

 in the national Legislature from holding any 

 stocks, shares, or interest in any concerns affected 

 by national legislation, and also a law prohibit- 

 ing national or State officials from accepting a 

 railway or sleeping-car pass. 



At the election in November Repiiblican, 

 Democratic, Independent, and Prohibition can- 

 didates were voted for. The entire Republican 

 ticket was elected, the Governor, Lieutenant- 

 Governor, Secretary of State, and Auditor being 

 re-elected. 



A proposed amendment to the State Constitu- 

 tion, giving women the right to vote for school 

 officers, was rejected, as were also two other pro- 

 posed amendments, one relating to the superin- 

 tendent of schools, and one limiting exemptions. 



SPAIN, a constitutional monarchy in south- 

 western Europe. The Cortes consists of 2 houses. 

 The Senate has 180 members, 123 of whom are 

 appointed for life and 57 are hereditary or of- 



