

UNITED STATES OF AMERICA. (SOUTH DAKOTA.) 



799 



General, W. F. Stevenson, U. X. Gunter, Jr.; 

 State Treasurer, R. H. Jennings; Secretary of 

 State, J. T. Gantt, J. H. Wilson, J. Thomas Aus- 

 tin; Superintendent of Education, O. B. Martin, 

 J. J. McMahan; Comptroller-General, W. H. 

 Sharpe, A. W. Jones, G. L. Walker, N. W. Brook- 

 er; Adjutant- and Inspector-General, J. D. Frost, 

 G. D. House, Paul E. Ayer, J. M. Patrick, J. C. 

 Boyd; Railroad Commissioner, James Cansler, 

 A. C. Jepson, B. L. Caughman, H. J. Kinard, J. G. 

 Wolling, W. B. Evans, J. G. Mobley, H. H. Prince, 

 Thomas N. Berry, J. C. Wilborn. 



The candidate for Treasurer had no opposition. 

 Mr. Gunter was chosen for Attorney-General and 

 Mr. Martin for Superintendent of Education. 

 For the other offices none received majorities, 

 and a second primary was held in September to 

 decide between the highest two in each case. 



In November the following votes were cast: 

 For Governor, Heyward, 31,608; Lieutenant-Gov- 

 ernor, Sloan, 30,200; Secretary of State, Gantt, 

 30,704; Attorney-General, Gunter, 30,607; Treas- 

 urer, Jennings, 30,653; Comptroller-General, 

 Jones, 30,653; Superintendent of Education, Mar- 

 tin, 30,653; Adjutant- and Inspector-General, 

 Frost, 30,654 ; Railroad Commissioner, Caughman, 



30,667. The proposed constitutional amendment 



b a 

 nays. 



was carried by a vote of 26,454 yeas to 1,365 



The highest vote was only about one-third of 

 the total vote in the primary. 



SOUTH DAKOTA, a Western State, admitted 

 to the Union Nov. 2, 1889; area, 77,650 square 

 miles. The population was 328,808 in 1890 and 

 401,570 in 1900. Capital, Pierre. 



Government. The following were the State 

 officers in 1902: Governor, Charles N. Herreid; 

 Lieutenant-Governor, George W. Snow; Secretary 

 of State, O. C. Berg; Treasurer, John Schamber; 

 Auditor, J. D. Reeves; Attorney-General, John L. 

 Pyle, who died Feb. 22, and was succeeded by A. 

 W. Burtt; Superintendent of Public Instruction, 

 E. E. Collins; Commissioner of School and Public 

 Lands, David Eastman; Adjutant-General, S. J. 

 Conklin ; Insurance Commissioner, H. C. Shober; 

 Public Examiner, Henry M. Cooper; Oil Inspect- 

 or, Emil Brauch; Railroad Commission, Messrs. 

 Kirkpatrick, Smith, and Le Cocq; President of 

 the State Board of Agriculture, John Armstrong; 

 Secretary of the Historical Society, Doane Rob- 

 inson; Veterinarian, Dr. Foster; Chief Justice of 

 the Supreme Court, Dick Haney; Associate Jus- 

 tices, Dighton Corson, H. G. Fuller; Clerk, Miss 

 Jessie Fuller. All are Republicans. 



State officers are elected for terms of two years 

 in November of the even-numbered years. The 

 Legislature meets biennially in January of the 

 odd-numbered years. 



Population. The census of the counties, which 

 has not before been given here, is as follows: 

 Armstrong, 8; Aurora, 4,011; Beadle; 8,081; Bon 

 Homme, 10,379; Brookings, 12,561; Brown, 15,286; 

 Brulg, 5,401; Buffalo, 1,790; Butte, 2.907; Camp- 

 bell, 4,527; Charles Mix, 8,498; Clark, 6,942; Cod- 

 dington, 8,770; Custer, 2,728; Davidson, 7,483; 

 Day, 12,254; Deuel, 6,656; Douglas, 5,012; Ed- 

 munds, 4,916; Fall River, 3,541; Faulk, 3,547; 

 Grant, 9,103; Gregory, 2,211; Hamlin, 5,945; 

 Hand, 4,525; Hanson, 4,947; Hughes, 3,684; 

 Hutchinson, 11,897; Hyde, 1,492; Jeratild, 

 2.798; Kingsbury, 9,866; Lake, 9,137; Lawrence, 

 17,897; Lincoln, 12,161; Lyman, 2,632; Mc- 

 Cook, 8,689; McPherson, 6,327; Marshall, 5,942; 

 Mf-ade, 4.907; Meyer, 26; Miner, 5,864; Minne- 

 haha, 23.926; Moody, 8,326; Pennington, 5,610; 

 Potter, 2,988; Roberts, 12,216; Sanborn, 4,464; 

 Spink, 9,487; Stanley, 1,341; Sully, 1,715; 



Turner, 13,175; Union, 11,153; Walworth, 3,839;. 

 Yankton, 12,649; Cheyenne River Indian Reser- 

 vation, 2,357; Pine Ridge Indian Reservation, 

 6,287 ; Rosebud Indian Reservation, 5,201 ; Stand- 

 ing Rock Indian Reservation (part of), 1,658; to- 

 tal, 401,570. 



The census returns of bachelors and spinsters 

 of twenty years and upward gives: Bachelors, 39,- 

 704; spinsters, 13,475. 



Finances. The bonded debt of the State is 

 $588,300. The rate of taxation is $3.20 on the- 

 $1,000. The State tax collections for the last 

 quarter of 1902 were $148,623.95, exceeding those 

 of the year before by $12,000. 



The liabilities of all the counties at the close of 

 the last fiscal year was $4,432,568, an increase of 

 $121,899 in one year. 



The assets and resources of all the counties, con- 

 sisting of county property, unpaid taxes, and cash 

 on hand, is $4,939,462 an increase of $63,492 in 

 one year. 



The expenditures of all the counties for the year 

 amounted to $1,376,655, an expenditure of $218,- 

 609 greater than that of the previous year. 



Valuations. The total valuation of the State, 

 as left by the Board of Assessment and Equaliza- 

 tion, is $187,531,381, which is an increase of $14,- 

 324,648 over the final returns of 1901. 



This is said to be much too low; a law passed 

 some years ago restrains the Board of Equaliza- 

 tion from raising the valuations beyond a certain 

 amount over the county returns. Consequently, 

 the revenues are insufficient to meet the growing 

 needs of the State. 



The assessment rolls show the acreage of real 

 estate listed for assessment to be 19,247,746 acres, 

 an increase from 1901 of 244,276 acres. The val- 

 uation of this is placed at $111,311,994, an in- 

 crease of $10,777,584. The average returned price 

 per acre is $5.78, an increase of 50 cents. The 

 valuation of town lots is returned at $19,093,064, 

 an increase of $1,700,838. 



A total of 1,218,297 cattle were returned for as- 

 sessment, an increase of 139,634, with a valuation 

 of $15,767,412, an increase of $823,814. There is 

 an increase of 27,737 in the number of horses re- 

 turned, making the total 374,361, with a valuation 

 of $7,677,778, an increase of $116,394. The num- 

 ber of sheep returned shows an increase of 61,700, 

 making a total returned of 590,663, with a valua- 

 tion of $1,053,982, an increase of $37,656. The 

 number of hogs returned is 311,980, an increase of 

 83,123. The value is given at $844,596, an in- 

 crease of $115,438. 



Education. The number of illiterates in the 

 State in 1900 was 14,832. In the percentage of 

 children from ten to fourteen able to read and 

 write, South Dakota stood eighteenth in the list, 

 with 99 per cent. 



The December apportionment of the interest 

 and income fund to the schools of the State from 

 the officer of the Commissioner of School and Pub- 

 lic Lands was $70,268.04, or 54 cents per capita 

 on the school population. The June apportion- 

 ment was a total of $270,923.45, or a per capita 

 of $2.54. 



The State has a large surplus of school moneys 

 lying idle, which under the law can only be in- 

 vested in certain bonds. 



In the past two years 129 new country school- 

 houses have been built. For the year ending 

 June 30 the average wages of male teachers in 

 rural schools was $36.07, against $34.70 in 1901, 

 and the average for the female teacher in the 

 rural schools was $32.31, against $31.17 the year 

 before. 



The Aberdeen Normal School had an enrolment 



