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SOUTH DAKOTA. 



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shall be protected by the official bond of the judge, 

 and shall be held for the legatee subject to the or- 

 der of the probate court or any court of competent 

 jurisdiction. 



Other enactments were : 



Allowing county auditors to destroy original tax 

 returns after five years. 



Allowing cities and towns to collect taxes in in- 

 stallments. 



Requiring emigrant agents to pay $500 annually 

 for license to operate in any county. 



Amending the laws relating to distress for rent. 



Providing that contracts secured by mortgages 

 on real property in the State must be governed by 

 the laws of the State without regard to the place 

 named for their execution. 



Allowing only 25 cents a day for dieting prison- 

 ers in jail in Charleston and Aiken Counties. 



Providing a penalty for the manufacture or sale 

 of adulterated drugs, food, or drinks ; the Board of 

 Health may exempt articles and is to appoint in- 

 spectors and chemists to enforce the law. 



Amending the law on fertilizers so that they are 

 to be branded high, low, or standard grade, accord- 

 ing to the percentage of certain ingredients con- 

 tained. 



Authorizing the Secretary of State to renew char- 

 ters, except of railway, canal, and turnpike corpo- 

 rations, granted by special acts. 



Amending the antitrust law so as to make it 

 cover tariffs, tolls, rates, premiums, and prices, in- 

 stead of prices only. 



Making it unlawful to manufacture liquor within 

 two miles of any chui'ch or school. 



Giving power to the colleges of the State to con- 

 fer the degree of licentiate of instruction for a 

 course of study approved by the Board of Educa- 

 tion, which shall entitle the student to a certificate 

 as teacher for public schools. 



Requiring (instead of empowering as heretofore) 

 county boards of education to set aside not more 

 than $500 to provide text-books at cost. No edu- 

 cational institution receiving money from the Free 

 School fund may use a text-book disapproved by the 

 State board. 



Setting aside the third Friday of November as 

 Arbor Day. 



Making the law relative to outlawing of liens on 

 real estate apply also to mortgages executed prior 

 to 1879. 



Requiring jurors to be drawn publicly. 



Providing that sheriffs and their deputies may 

 arrest without warrant for violation of criminal 

 laws, committed in their view, at the time of viola- 

 tion or immediately thereafter ; and any person may 

 arrest on view of a larceny committed. 



Making the embezzlement of public funds a fel- 

 ony and prescribing a penalty. 



Declaring June 3, the birthday of Jefferson Davis, 

 a public holiday. 



Political. State officers were to be elected in 

 November, but the interest centered in the Demo- 

 cratic primaries, which practically settled the whote 

 result. In the first primary there were seven can- 

 didates for the nomination for Governor Messrs. 

 Ellerbe, P'eathsrstone, Till man, Schumpert, Watson, 

 Archer, and Whitman. The contest in the second 

 primary, Sept. 13, was between the two standing 

 highest in the first Gov. Ellerbe and C. C. Feath- 

 erstone and resulted in the choice of Gov. Ellerbe 

 by a vote of 37,723 to 33,271. This was a victory 

 for the dispensary system, which Gov. P]llerbe favors. 

 Mr. Featherstone being in favor of prohibition. The 

 other State officers placed upon the Democratic 

 ticket by the result of the primaries were : Comp- 

 troller General, John P. Derham : Secretary of State, 

 Marion R. Cooper; Adjutant General, J. W. Floyd; 



Attorney-General, G. D. Billinger; Superintendent 

 of Education, J. J. McMahan ; Railroad ( i-nniii>- 

 sioner, C. W. Garris. The Lieutenant <;<.vrnn,r 

 and the Treasurer were renominated without oppo- 

 sition. 



All these officers were elected in November. Tin- 

 seven members of Congress from the State are all 

 Democrats, as are all the members of the State 

 Legislature except one member of the House, who 

 is a Republican. 



SOUTH DAKOTA, a Western State, admitted 

 to the Union Nov. 3, 1889 ; area, 77,650 square 

 miles; population, according to the census of 1890, 

 328.808. Capital, Pierre. 



Government. The following were the State 

 officers during the year: Governor, Andrew E. Lee, 

 Populist: Lieutenant Governor, Daniel T. Hind- 

 man, Republican ; Secretary of State, William II. 

 Roddle, Republican ; Treasurer, K. G. Phillips, 

 Republican ; Auditor, Henry E. Mayhew, Repub- 

 lican ; Attorney-General, >lelvin Grigsby, Popu- 

 list ; Superintendent of Public Instruction, Frank 

 Crane, Republican ; Commissioner of Public Lands. 

 John L. Lockhart ; Railroad Commissioners, W. T. 

 La Follette, Alexander Kirkpatrick, W. H. Tomp- 

 kins ; Insurance Commissioner, J. H. Kipp, suc- 

 ceeded temporarily in February by T. H. Avers, 

 and in March by L. C. Campbell ; Oil Inspectors. 

 Messrs. De Woody and Dowdell ; Chief Justice of 

 the Supreme Court, Dighton Corson, Republican ; 

 Associate Justices, Dick Haney and Howard G. 

 Fuller, Republicans; Clerk. Miss Jessie Fuller. 



Finances. The State debt Jan. 1, 1897, was 

 $1,238,300 ; July 1, 1898, it was $862,300. It was 

 still further reduced by the end of the year. 



The Legislature of 1897 made appropriations 

 aggregating $96,175 less than those of the preced- 

 ing one ; and the income from license, insurance, 

 and oil-inspection fees was $140,420 greater. 



The tax levy this year was fixed at 3 mills. 2 

 for the general fund and 1 for the bond interest 

 and sinking funds. A levy of 3.2 mills was made 

 on telegraph, telephone, express, and sleeping-car 

 companies, which is in lieu of all other taxes in the 

 State. 



Valuations. The total valuation of the State 

 for assessment was placed by the board in August 

 at $118,580,582, of which $9,639,814 is corporation 

 property. The number of cattle returned was an 

 increase over the returns of 1897, as were also the 

 numbers of horses and sheep ; there was a small 

 decrease in the number of hogs. The values of the 

 different kinds of personal property by classes are : 

 Cattle, $6,923,678: horses, $802.407; sheep, $503,- 

 084; hogs, $384,325; mules, $71,412; vehicles. 

 $671,086 ; money and credits, $726,170 : household 

 furniture, $722,873 ; stocks and shares, $1,202.854 ; 

 all other, $2,780,209. The valuation of corporation 

 property is thus divided among the different 

 classes : Railroads. $,328,053 ; telegraph, $150,140 ; 

 telephone, $72,221; express companies, $78,400; 

 sleeping ears, $11,000. 



Military. The strength of the National Guard 

 of the State in April was 1,100. Under the first 

 call for volunteers, the State's quota, as apportioned 

 by the War Department, was 780 ; but it furnished 

 a" regiment of infantry and five companies of 

 Grigsby's cowboy cavalry regiment about 1,350 in 

 all. The cost of raising" and mobilizing the First 

 Regiment was given as about $14,000. The quota 

 under the second call was 1,110. Men were already 

 enrolled in twelve companies, a part of which were 

 drilled and ready to respond to t he call. The First 

 Regiment was sent to Manila. 



Banks. At the close of business, Feb. 15, a 

 statement of the condition of the 26 national banks 

 snowed that they had increased their loans and 



