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red by 37,710 votes to 3,414......May 14, 1889 Sioux Falls constitution amended and adopted by a convention at Sioux Falls, July 4, which adjourns......Aug. 5, 1889 Charles A. Foster, of Ohio, William Warner, of Missouri, and Gen. George A. Cook, a committee appointed by the President, arrive at the Sioux reservation early in June, and secure the consent of threefourths of the Indians to open for settlement 26,751,105 acres of their land in the northwestern part of South Dakota......August, 1889 Arthur C. Mellette, Republican, elected governor of South Dakota, the Sioux Falls constitution adopted by 70,131 to 3,267; the article prohibiting the manufacture and sale of intoxicating liquors adopted by 40,234 to 34,510, and Pierre chosen as the temporary capital......Oct. 1, 1889 First State legislature convenes at Pierre......Oct. 15, 1889 South Dakota admitted into the Union with the northern boundary the seventh standard parallel......Nov. 2, 1889 Proclamation by Presi