Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1905-12-21

while Horsnell gets $500 fine and six
An application for new trial
was denied by the federal court.
The Daily Capital claims the Missouri
river is a preceding waterway" meanS
ing thereby that the volume of water
in the stream is constantly growing
less. This statement can well be dis
puted. Event r.two and twenty three
years ago the writer was an empioye Of
a government survey boat that ran on
the Missouri river, and the same diff
culties in navigation were encountered
then as now, iii the way of snags and
sand-bars. In those days, and before
the navigation Of the Missouri was a
necessity, because no railroads had en-
tered in competition with the river
trade. Now the freight boats have dis
appeared because of the railroads, but
if the necessity should arise it would
be just as easy to nayigrate the s'Old
Muddy" any month of the year that it
is open as it was twenty, thirty, forty
or fifty years ago. Its safe to say that
the volume of water which annually
rolls down the channel of the Missouri
is as large now as it has been during a
hundred years past,
The first passenger coach attached to
an engine went across the river last
Thursday noon, on the temporary
bridge. The coach contained number
of railroad officials and local news
paper men, but the Free Press was not
represented through not getting the
invitation in time. 1t might be con-
sidered and is-quite an honor to be a
| passenger on the first car across the
Missouri river at the state capital. The
| editor of the Free Press has lived at
Pierre and vicinity twenty-three years,
conductinga newspaper nearly all this
time, and has waited all these years for
Just such AN event. When it came he
was not notified in time Others of
the newspaper profession in TIE city,
| all of whom are recent corners, were,
however, and are delighted with the ex-
| perience.
One of the outlay buffalo bulls that
4 have been running OH the range since
Scotty Philips bought the Dr1pree herd
and confined them in his pasture, was
killed and brought to town yesterday
making a good sized wagon load The
meat of the buffalo has been bought 10y
IG I'll. .Jaynes, who will put it on the
4 block for his Christmas trade. The
i incident excited considerable curiosity
4 while the dead buffalo was being un-
4 loaded before the meat market, a crowd
Of people gathering about, and the
whole scene being photographed by r
l.. Kelly.
s An accident in the Capital City Mills
happened not long since, which let {
lot of smutty wheat into the tloul
ground out 1t was not discovered IN
q til some of the flour thus damaged wa.
4 put OIL the market, and a kick was thu
Il
result. The damage to the machinery
. has been remedied and the mills ar,
now turning out the flour that has be
4 come so popular wherever used, AM
which every one will use if he can ge
.Fit, in preference to any ether make
Il The -four from our city mills will here
after be- guaranteed to be the best OF
n the market.
Next Monday being Christmas and
II legal holiday, the program at the post
, office will be as follows The carrier
s. will make a forenoon delivery, will b
4 at the carrier window for one-half hou
LATTER the distribution Of the Afternoon
!, mail, and will make the afternoon col
lection The postoffice will be open
half hour after the distribution OF th
I afternoon mail, and all mail will be re
Il eeiyed and dispatched as usual. 4
Aberdeen News: j ack Purcell thi
"a II
i man after spending nearly six month
!, ] III Jail waiting for his trial fer man,