Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1906-01-11

Press has always been an honest friend
OF union labor; the other two printing
offices III Pierre have not. The Free
Press is willing to again renew its allie
glance to the principles whenever the
typographical union may be organized
in the future, with new blood.
Ex-Governor Herreid came down
form Aberdeen Monday to represent
the Bangor interests in the Walworth
county seat fight. He succeeded in get
ting an order from the circuit court
which killed the scheme of Selby to
annex strip of land two miles wide
and six miles long, by which Bangor
might become a part of the incorporated
town of Selby, and thus giving the
latter the county seat This scheme
must have originated in the fertile
brain OF Fred Griffin, the leading citi-
zen, postmaster editor, etc, of Selby,
who has a large stock of brains ready
for any original move that is calculated
to surprise everybody. Selby has long
desired the county seat and has de-
pended upon MIR. Grilfin's genius to get
| it.
| In connection with an item appear
ing elsewhere regarding the disband-
ment OF the local printers organization,
| II. l.. Williamson, now with the Free
fn No J,ot
he has not severed his connection with
the International Typographical Union,
through any action OF the local concern
| whatsoever Mr. Williamson has held
responsible positions in some of the
best union offices OF the larger eastern
cities and in order to protect his right
to again secure employment in such
offices, he retains membership in the
sovereign body by withdrawing from
the Pierre association prior to its death.
| Washington news conveys the in
formation that the commissioner of
the general land office has recommended
that the Watertown land office be non-
| solidated with the Aberdeen land office,
and that the land Office at Huron also
| be discontinued and the business be
transferred to the Pierre land office.
Ii these changes are effected the land
offices at Aberdeen and Pierre will
| have charge Of all the government land
| business of the northern part of the
state, and the jurisdiction of the Pierre
office will reach from the eastern bor-
der of the state to the western side of
Stanley county.
| Major Cramer, the superintendent Of
| construction Of the federal building,
states as his belief that the structure
| will be ready to turn over completed to
the government by July l. This state
ment is backed by w. III. Maxwell, the
contractor who is hustling the work
Oh the interior of the building every
day as hard as he can In view of his
contracts at Deadwood Laramie, and
elsehwere, Mr.. Maxwell is anxious to
| finish up the Pierre building and look
| after other contracts.
| Mrs. b. +. Horn, who has been Sc
rlously sick with pneumonia for the
| past week is on the road to recovery.
| Her son, Albert, who was over a hun
dred miles west on the range, was no.
| tilted of his mothers illness by special
messenger and made record breaking
ride the entire distance on horse. back,
without stopping, to see his mother, as
he supposed before she died. He is
feeling very grateful that the mother
will recover.
| Miss Bessie Blackburn has departed
TOR Anderson, 5. G., to meet and visit
her brother, Rev. Charles Blackburn.
VINO is back from an eight years mis-
| slonary experience in Euromia Persia.
Many people in Pierre would like to
have Rev. Blackburn again visit this
city, which was his Doyhood home, and
where his distinguished father, Rev.
DR.. Blackburn. and faithful wife, lived
the last years of their lives and now
/ lie buried.
! 1t is said that in the next month or
two the city will be full Of real estate
men drawn here by the allnring pros
poets of a good-sized boom in city and
farm property, as we'll as homesteads
in Stanley county. Not the least by
any means, of these real estate men, it
is said that Col John 81. King, of HUI.
ron, will soon hang out his single in
!. Pierre.
Clint r. Buell,of Wolsey, well known
to many Of our people during the years
| he ran in here as clerk on the Tracy
and Pierre Il. 7. O., and Will Miner.
/ editor OF the Huron Herald Democrat,
/ have decided to open real estate office
in the upper floor Of the Bartlett block,
Oh Pierre street. They Will move here
1 and become permanent residents.
Il Chief Engineer Carter, of the North.
western road, came out from Chicago