Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1905-12-28


funeral was held OH the following
Tuesday, being delayed to allow son
III Montana time to arrive Rev Not
son preached the funeral sermon and
the remains were inferred in Riverside
cemetry. The deceased has been a
resident of Pierre for the past ten
years or more.
subcontractors who have taken
pieces OF grading on the new line up
Bad river are shipping their outfits of
| wheel scrapers and horses through the
city every day and stringing out UP the
valley as far as Midland, sixty miles.
Before spring grading will be under
way on every mile of the track to Rapid
CITY, and lots of it completed.
Onida Waterman, which was recently
| sold, is in the city on his way to Stan
ley county, where he contemplates
| starting a paper at one of the new
towns to grow up on the line of the
Northwestern extension. He is a prac-
tical newspaper man and printer and
| will make it succeed.
Jas. r. Mcknight, cashier of the
Pierre National bank, has applied to
the comptroller of the treasury for
charter for a new national bank to be
known as the Fort Pierre National
| bank. 1t will be started when the
time is ripe, which may be soon, and
| will probably have a capital of $4,000
| to begin with.
More miles Of railroad will undoubt
edly be laid in South Dakota in the
next twelve months than ever before
were laid in the state in the same length
of time. There are those who wildly
recall what followed the wake of the
railroad building in the old boom DAYS.
There are great times in store for South
Dakota.
Miss Florence Carroll, of Watertown,
who has been staying on her homestead
near the Cheyenne for several months,
with her mother, arrived Tuesday. She
enJoyes life on the claim, !and is getting
| quite a number of cattle under her
ownership. Miss Carroll was formerly
IN the life insurance business.
Freight trains in great numbers are
now going back and forth, which:is on
account of the ailroadssimprovement
| at Pierre and on west f.the river. We
| like to see this AS it means much for
| this part OF the state, and our own
county must he benefited thereby
Highmore Herald.
Midland Star: Miss Grace EARL came
down from Philip last Saturday, having
| closed her school until spring. She
will spend the holiday season in Mid
land, after which she expects to go out
to Pierre to visit with her uncle, POST
master and Editor S. q. DewelI and
wife,
Col 2. f. Mcclure has received
letter from f. Ketchum, who had
charge OF the first train ever run into
Pierre. Mr.. ketchum is now conductor
and sends his regards to all the pion-
GERS in Pierre whom he formerly knew.
The material for the new transfe r
boat which will ferry cars across the
river next year until the steel bridge is
completed is arriving in car load lots.
Capt. Dotterweich will have charge of
the force OF carpenters who will con
struct the new boat.
The wild hop crop in western and
central South Dakota is attracting a
great deal of attention and,it isuthought
within ve.y little time it will prove
a source OF wealth and profit of the
state. American Investment.
Everybody is renlarking on and
praising Che iine warm weather which
has held Oh since December 1, except
possibly the coal dealers. 1t will make
short winter Of it now, no matter
how bad the weather gets.
/ The stockmen of South Dakota have
shipped about seven hundred thousand
j range cattle to eastern markets, real
/ izing $60,OO0,O0O as the proceeds OF the
unparalleled harvest of livestock
American Investment.
! Jay r. Murphy. who has been clerk
| in the traders store at Cheyenne agency
/ for some time, is now day clerk at the
Locke. Jay is a son of Il. e. Murphy,
chief clerk at the agency, and well
1 known here.
| The Keeney Stock company is billed
to play at the opera house all of next
/ week. This company has good repu-
tation and will give the amusement
loving public a good treat during their
! stay.
/ The borings tor hard pan for the Gals
son work Of the new steel bridge show
that a hard shale strong enough for
/ foundations can be had at forty feet
1 at the location of the bridge.