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Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1893-08-24
Readiness to Help GERMANY,

We are happy to give assurance to
Germany that we shall be pleased to sup
ply her with all tho breadstutfs she may
need this year. We shall ask only fair
price for them. We can also supply her
with other kinds of agricultural prod
ucts, quantities of them We have some
Indian meal to spare, and it can be fed
to the army horses, as the kaiser has
ordered. We have yet some hay left.
If Germany needs fruits or wines, we
have them for sale. We can supply her
with the best pork and bacon in the
world, besides other meats, fresh or salt,
i'll cold storage or otherwise. This is the
market to Which Germany ought to
come whenever she needs anything,
whatever it may be.
We must trust that Russia will not
feel badly because we stand ready to
supply Germany with food for man and
beast. We stand thus ready at this time
and nearly always. When once the Ger
man people and their cattle get accus-
toned to American products, we are
sure that it will be hard to induce them
to feed upon anything else.-New York
Sun IL
Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1893-08-24
curinus NcMsnancr Hen,s.

One of the biggest newspaper beats
in 20 years was achieved by La
Nacion. a little newspaper published III
the Argentine Republic. This news
paper published the news Of theaccident
to the Victoria a day ahead of every
other paper in the world. and the news
of the disaster was known in Buenos
Ayres before it was in London The
dispatch to the British government an
nouncing the disaster lay l2 hours
i unopened in the admiralty office. Mean
while the news had been stolen off the
wires and sent by a friend of the Argen-
tine paper to La Nacion. which was
able to publish it in advance of all its
contemporaries. Such at any rate is
the story of the beat" as it is related
here in newspaper row. 1t is safe to
say that any Of the leading American
newspapers would have given thousands
of dollars to have obtained exclusive
intelligence of the Victoria disaster, en-
.abling it to beat the world with the
news. La Nacion's beat seems to
have been a case not of enterprise. but
of good luck.-New York Letter
Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1893-08-24
Founding a Western Magazine.

We know some very ambitious and
very worthy gentlemen who would like
to be put into communication with those
capitalists who have the money for a
magazine enterprise. These gentlemen
possess everything necessary to success
except that essential vulgarly called 1.-The
stuff" And it is 1.-THE stuff" that is
mighty hard to be got at just now
Our opinion is that the way to the
founding of great magazine in the west
must be made clear by and with week.
ly publication that shall faithfully rep.
resent the west and honestly reflect west
ern sentiment: that shall wage merci
less war upon the intellectual hermaph
rodites and dawdllng perverts and petit
coated clay eaters who. on little tinsel
thrones along the eastern coast. presume
to set themselves up as dictators in the
great realm of American literature
Wea not for any skirmish with those
humbngs. We are for war OF exter-
mination. That war is bound to come
sooner or later. 1t must not be begun
however, on the part of the west until
the west is fully prepared to sail into and
disembowcl every last mothers son of
those twiddling twaddling squirts and
their queer little parasites. = Eugene
Field in Chicago News Record
Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1893-08-24
a StRte Soda Fountain.

1t may sound like a Munchausen yarn,
but it is an actual fact that i'll the squint
eyed little burg of Sodaville. i'll Linn
county. in block 8 of the town plat,
there is a soda spring, and that the last
legislature, in its infinite wisdom, pro-
vided that "inasmuch as there is great
and growing demand on the part of the
public for the waters of said spring" the
state would spend $500 to improve it..
This is at last the fond realization of the
long felt want which has been loafing
around the country like the ghost of
boyhood's happy days in quest of q
watermelon patch where haply fingered
no vicious dog. 1t is grand and i'm
posing sight to see the legislative fancy
rising from the sordid contemplation of
cold and unresponsive hog law and
lowering on halcyon wings over the soft
murmur of an idyllic state soda foun-
tain.-Astoria (Or.) Budget.
Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1893-08-24
An nilderlnan Was Referee.

You have read in the yellow covered
story BOOK of the solitary horseman
who migha have been seen," etc. Well,
this wasn't a horseman. Last night
after the tireinvestigation had adjourned
a group OF aldermen might have seen on
the sidewalk on Nicollet gathered around
a bright spot under an arc light watch
ing a prize fight between two beetles,
one of the big. vicious looking variety
that futtsrs around the street lamps
every night and another of a smaller
kind. One of the members of the coun-
Gil was acting as referee, and the Others
occupied reserved seats on an area rail.
These aldermen must have relaxation
from their arduous duties in these days
of Investigations and things
lis Journal.
Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1893-08-24
Chinese Pirates Successful.

The Shanghai papers contain a report
obtained from native advices from Can
ton of a serious conflict between some
pilatical craft and gunboats at a place
midway between Shaochow and Canton
1t appears that while three sunboats be-
longing to the customs were escorting
two boats laden with sycee' valued Mt
10000 teals. belonging to the Hollow
Likin customs, on their way to Canton.
they We're attacked by a numerous fleet
of pirates numbering, it is reported. over
500 men. and aftera desperate fight, dnr-
ing which the government men lost near
ly GO in killed and wounded, the pirates
madeaway with their booty. The reason
given for the inability of the gunboats
to protect their convoy was that they
We're all aground at the point where they
had anchored for the night, and the
pirates, being in shallow bottomed boats.
Unanswered etfectually around the gun
boats, which, being completely raked
fore and aft, We're compelled at last to
strike their colors. and there was a gen
eral cry of sauve qui peut. leaving the
pirates on the field.
Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1893-08-24
4 Murderer PensiOner.

Ambassador Bayard has been in
structed to make inquiries in regard to
whether Captain ". G. Minor is still
alive. or whether the government is pay
ing a salary to Il dead officer. Captain
Minor is u retired officer of the medical
corps. his retirement being due to brain
trouble consequent upon Il sunstroke re-
ceived in the line of duty in Florida in
1870, and he was sentenced for life in an
English asylum for shooting man on
English soil II Years ago. 1t is the only
case on record of Il murderer borne on
the rolls of the army and drawing the
regular pay of his grade. His pay is
drawn by Richard E. Rice of New Ha-
ven, the appointed conservator. who files
quarterly certificates bearing the sig
nature of the superintendent of the
Broadmere Criminal Luna1ic asylum to
the effect that Captain Minor is living.
The last report from the superintendent
read: "He was confined in the asylum
April II, 1872. His offense consisted of
shooting with Il revolver and killing a
man in the Belvidere road, Lambeth. =
The relatives of Captain Minor have re-
peatedly made strenuous efforts through
the state department to secure his re-
lease.-Albany Express.
Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1893-08-24
The Chicago Fairs Bad Management.

Either the blood sucking parasites at
the fairm be dispensed with, the dead
head leak stopped and expenses cut down,
or there must be a default on the bonds
which the corporation owes. The direct
ors have outstanding five millions of
bonds and floating debt, and they have
not yet dollar to apply on the bond
payment. They have not yet paid the
floating debt by perhaps million, and
from present appearances will not until
late in August.
The fair is costing 5000, 900 month for
operating expenses. The army of dead
heads who enter its gates is steadily in
creasing. Friday more than third of
those in attendance went in on passes
The deadheads ought to be cut down at
least one-half. At least half of the police
force at the fair ought to be mustered
out and taken off the payrolls. The ex-
penses of operating the fair ought not to
be over 100000 per month at the very
outside. The directors must face the
music Chicago Tribune.
Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1893-08-24
4 FracMs In tho House.

There was personal encounter OH the
floor of the house of representatives
Feb. 10, 179S, between Roger Griswold
of Connecticut and Matthew Lyon of
Vermont, editor of The Scourge of Aris-
tocracy and Repository of Important Po-
litical Truth and one of the few victims
of the sedition law, under which he
served a term in Jail and paid fine of
$1,000.
An old time cut represents the two
congressman hammering each other with
cudgel and tongs. Under gross provo
cation Lyon had spit in Griswold's face,
but at,the time of the fracas the house
had not been called to order, though
prayer had been offered by the chaplain
Buffalo Courier.
Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1893-08-24
Exiled Socialists In Siberia

number of socialist cxiles have been
located at Chita, Siberia Our CORE
spondent tells us that. though not allowed
to leave the city, they move about freely
enough within it and in various kinds Of
skilled handicraft are earning their own
livelihood. They are in this way quite
an acquisition to the neighborhood. If
you have scientific instrument to be re-
paired or any work to be done in which
delicate manipulation and special inge-
nuity are essential, you must send for one
of the socialists.
They bear an excellent character, and
the superintendent of police i'll Chita
says, "lf all the people in this province
were socialists, there would be nothing
for us to do" Alas for this province, a
large proportion of its people are of a
very different type! What Van Dieman's
land and Botany bay We're to England
half century ago the Transbaikalia is
to Russia nova cesspool for its crime.
Capital punishment is comparatively
rare in Russia, and villains who would
without doubtreceive the death sentence
i'll England or be lynched without Judge
or jury i'll some parts of the United
States are i'll this country condemned to
life Punishment in Transbaikalia. Lon
don News.
Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1893-08-24
B..hias on tho Beach ut Newport.

The creme de lacreme are at Newport.
The nobility have established a new
bathing place called Bailey's beach, at
the end of Bellevue avenue. in the heart
of the millionnires' quarter. 1t is only
about 800 yards in length, but that small
space the cottagers thinl; they can hold
against the assaults of the common herd.
No buses or horse cars are allowed to
land passengers there during the morn
ing hours. A bathing house has been
built, with q granite portico. In this are
little retreats 9 feet by 12, each of which
bears,the initials of the gentleman who
owns II A stranger could no more buy
or hire one Of these bathing houses than
he could engage front seat in the bal
cony ot heaven. Fifteen of the houses
belongto the Vanderbilt family; otltrs
to the Astors, the Stuyvesant Fishes,
the De- eForrests and their clan.
The hours for bathing are from II in
the morning until. At II three guards
make their appearance; one patrols the
beach; two others in lifeboat cruise 100
yards out. It is their business to rescue
swimmers who run danger of drowning
Three young ladies, Miss Clews and the
two Misses Pierson, put their patience
sorely to the test. When Miss Clews'
head appears, the guards take out their
oars as q matter Of course and head for
the open sea. When the bathing begins,
if stranger makes his appearance on
the beach. mon and matrons follow him
with such sad, reproachful glanccs that
he wonders what he has done now and
sneaks out Of the sacred preserve in a
delnoraiized condit dition.-Cor. San Fran
cisco Argonant.
Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1893-08-24
Wall Streets Narrow Escape.

Wall street barely escaped something
worse than Black Friday on July IS. It
came pretty near to being black Tues
day. Scores of men on and off the ex-
change will remember it as long as they
live in the way that one remembers a
great peril, and even the men who made
hundreds of thousands through that days
awful drop in values will always look
back upon it with a twinge of terror.
Some time, when these troublous times
have passed and Wall street has chance
to pause for a bit of gossip again, great
story will be told about that Tuesday,
story that will astound everybody ex-
cept few of the country's greatest spec
ulators, and story that will make many
people in this and other cities turn pale
and catch their breaths.
They will show then how frightfully
narrow was the escape from financial
catastrophe of crushing magnitude.
They will know that the fate of the
street, and with it the fate of scores of
tributaries to the street, legitimate and
otherwise, of bankers. merchants and
manufacturers, too numerous to stop to
count, hung i'll the balance. and that a
fingers touch from any one of three
men would have turned the scale ruin
ward. And when they learn this they
will probably come as near to really
thanking God as their religion or lack
of religion will let them, because instead
of the one mans finger touch weighing
the scale down with disaster there was a
sturdy shoulder push from all three of
that days destinies of the street to force
it up into safety.-New York Press.
Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1893-08-24
Cest of the Borden Case.

!. The cost to the county of tho trial of
{ Lizzie Borden in Fall River, Mass, is
now estimated at $4,000. What Miss
Borden's counsel's fees were may only
"A be inferred, but the pecuniary rewards
sof successful practitioners in New Eng
land are as rule-outside of Boston at
sleast-not more than one-third of what
they are in the big cities. For defending
Lizzie Borden in q New York court anS
Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1893-08-24
Miraculous Image ut Milan.

Curious scenes Of religious fanaticism
our Rome correspondent says, are tax.
ing place in the Milan cathedral. Fo,
several days an excited crowd has
thronged around a marble Madonna, q
rough work of the fourteenth century
which is said to have recently performed
miracles by healing blind and lame peo.
pie. The crush around the Madonna is
SO great that the police have had to in.
terfere for fear of accidents happening.
London News.
Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1893-08-24

securing ner acqulttal her leading coun-
sci would not have asked less than $685.
600. The items of the bill of costs to the
county include $500 to Assistant Dis
trict Attorney William II. Moody, 81 400
to Professor Wood of Harvard, So STA to
other medical experts, S1.5S7 to stenog-
raphers, Sl,375 to jury fees and Sl.76O to
deputy sheriffs.
Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1893-08-24
A Way to Keep Butter without Ice.

A suggestion to campers or other folk
who are really roughing it is how to se-
cure cool butter without ice. Fill a box
with sand to within an inch or two of the
top Sink the butter jars in the sand;
then thoroughly wet the sand with cold
water. Cover the box as nearly alright
as possible
Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1893-08-24
Seeing the Fair In One Day.

Four young women from Sangamon
county made their first visit to jackson
park last Wednesday. They walked
through the Fisheries, Government,
Manufactures, Electricity, Mining, Ag-
ricultnral and Transportation buildings.
and the Illinois. California and Wash
ington state buildings, and left for home
the same night. They said they didn't
think it was much of a Chicago
Tribune
Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1893-08-24
Trout Killed by Disinfectants In Drains

Trout Killed by Dtsinfectants In Drains.
The heavy storm which visited Slea-
ford on Monday thoroughly flushed the
drains, and the storm water carried the
carbolic acid with which the drains had
been disinfected into the Slea trout pre-
serves, killing almost every fish they
contained On Tuesday Superintendent
Richdale took out IS beauties, weighing
from ! pound to 81 pounds, and it is
feared that scarcely single trout will
be left alive.-Wastminstar Gazette.
Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1893-08-24

French arch;rologists are going to
England to study her antiquities The
members of the French Archaeological
society intend to visit Dover. Battle Ab.
hey and Hastings i'll order to discuss the
Norman conquest Of England
Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1893-08-24

From present indications the oyster
set along the Connecticut shore this year
will be one of the largest in many years.
Police ON the Wheel.
The proposal to mount part Of the
park police on bicycles is timely though
tardy. Already the worll's sarlnies have
organize dtheir bicycle service, and it
can hardly be contendcd tl,at this mode
of locomotion is more appropriate there
than i'll the police service or likely to he
SO useful. In the event of the wheels
adoption by the police authority the
public may assume that the men will be
required 10 sit it properly. They will
not offend the eye by contributing to
the monkey on a gridiron exhibition.
In fact, their martial appearance could
sse expected to contribute by its example
to diminish that depressing practice.
1t is certain that the seat of the mounted
police has stimulated perception of the
ridiculous in equestrians bobbing from
the saddle like cockney tailors ont for a
holiday.
The extension of the use of the wheel
is among the interesting phenomena of
the day. The French postal service has
adopted it extensively i'll rural service.
Even the stolid Briton has proposed the
reform. In England, however. the mag
nitude of the mail offers some difficult
ties. Its growing extension in the col
onies is marked. The export of bicycles
now cuts respectable figure in board
OF trade returns. During the past year
the valne has nearly doubled.-New
York Evening Sun.
Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1893-08-24
The State of the Case.

It is New York news that the Duke of
Veragua would accept SHOULD Ameri-
can gratitude for the services of Christie:
pher Columbus take the shape of a
fund" In Chicago his grace's accept
ance has not for a moment been doubt
ed. 1t has only been question of fund
or no fund, with preponderance of
sentiment in the negative Chicago
Journal1
A snake is reported to have climbed a
pole to martins box at Breezy Heights.
w. Va, q short time ago, and swallowed
two birds before being discovered.
Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1893-08-24

From present indications the oyster
will be one of the largest in many years.
The daily morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1883-1899, 1893-09-05
MADE MISERABLE FOR LIFE.

This you may easily be If you fail to
remedy the Indigestion and non-assini-
lation Of the food, which are the at
tendants and originators of nervous
ness, that ever present ailment which
no narcotic mineral sedative or ner-
vine can ever do more than temporar-
lily relieve. OF course these remedies
have no effect upon the organs Of di-
6estion and assimilation, except to dis
order and enfeeble them, thus aggra-
waiting the original difficulty. Among
the most alarming and dangerous
symptoms Of chronic nervousness Is
insomnia, which is the professional
term for inability to sleep. Where
this exists there is always a tendency
to mental overthrow, paresis and event
ual insanity. Begin at the fountain
head OF all this difficulty with Hos
letters Stomach Bitters and avert evil
consequences No sooner does the
stomach resume its tone, and the sys-
tenn gain in vigor through the aid of
this benign tonic, than sleep returns
and the nerves grow tranquil. Chills
and fever, rheumatism. biliousness, and
constipation yield to the bltters.
The daily morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1883-1899, 1893-09-05
SYLVESTER AND SECESSION.

In the commercial secession" move
mcnt we see another obtrusion of sec
tionaIlsm. 1t comes from some Of the
denagoggas Of this wild and woolly
west, who are so silly as to think that
the East is an oppressor because 1t
has loaned more money than II should
have done on farms, and because rail-
roads have opened vast territories for
agriculture and cheapened food; and
because the national credit has been
maintained by knocking out the fool
ishness of cranks who are croaking
calamity and shouting reform, and pre-
ecribing wads Of paper money for all
the afIlictions of n;--proposing de-
liberately to make money worthless
and repudlate obligations In order to
obliterate capital, which would be
seturn on sharp curve, to the finan-
eial conditions of the Barbary States.
While Gov. Waite, of Colorado, is
merely an old blatherslSite who does
not even mean water when he says
blood, Pennoyer is capable of mischief
and may aspire to sedition. The pres
ident ought to attend to his case in
short order, ana by publicly disgracing
him. confer an lnestimable blessing on
our state. and at the same time re-
venge himself for the cowardly insult
inflicted on him by this unfortunate
Office holder who imagines himself
jehovah the Second.
The daily morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1883-1899, 1893-09-05

The Evening Telegram is screaming
like Il bandicoot once more. This time
the genius wants the people Of Oregon
to rise in a body and shake Off the
yoke of foreign oppression and British
gold that is crushing us into the
ground. Now. in the name of common
sense, what are we to understand by
this new outbreak unless it is another
Of those ailments of childhood just as
unavoidable as prickly-heat and chick
en-pock? If our securities have a good
reputation they irresistibly attract
European capital, and, If we uphold
our credit to the highest notch, we get
the benefit of the money of Europe at
a lower rate That is, high credit
cheapens capital. The two great fact
ors that promote enterprise and offer
opportunity for industry are cheap
capital and cheap power. When we
have power from coal and water at a
low rate, and If we have the best cred
it, capital comes at low rate of in
terest. Then, with protection, the wa
ees Of labor can be maintained above
the European scale, where cheap cap
ital and cheap labor so together.
The daily morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1883-1899, 1893-09-05

Inspector Williams of Ntw York,
made q model speech to crowd of
strikers the other day. They had just
l,naclled down and nearly trampled
! fc out OF poor man, wno had the
hardihood to want work. Williams
stopped the mob and asked for the
leader. He had "just disappeared"
Then said Williams II will talk to
you direct" and so he did, thus;
You have been violating the law
during the past few days. You have
done 1t knowingly and willfully You
have assaulted innocent people, You
have ohstructed the streets. You have
been dlsordcrly. You have disregarded
the law. This must stop right here.
] am here to see that It does stop Any
man has o right to work II he can find
work. Every man has a right to walk
in the streets lf he behaves himself,
We are not here to club capital or
welt labor, but we are here to keep
the peace. and IL any clubbing is done
by any cne,it win be done solely for
that purpose"
The crowd instinctiyely moved back,
Il am soing to clean out South
street" Inspector Williams went on.
"All that have no business here must
get out"
There has been no speech equal to
this made in the United States for a
month"; and that is saying great
deal Williams proceeded to clear the
street, and his absolute hrmness and
devotion to duty was such that 1t was
not necessary to strike many blows.