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Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1907-04-25
Masons to Meet at Lead

George A, Pettigrew, of Sioux Falls,
grand secretary of the Masonic order of
South Dakota, has issued an official no.
tice to the effect that the grand Ma
sonic and Templar bodies and grand
chapter o. E. s., of South Dakota, will
hold their annual meetings at Lead,
commencing on Tuesday, June II, and
continue for several days.
This years meeting will be the thirty
third annual communication of the
grand lodge, A. f. and A. M; the eight.
zenith annual convocation of the grand
chapter Royal Arch Masons; the
twenty-fourth annual conclave of grand
commandery, Knights Templar and the
nineteenth annual session of the grand
chapter, Order of the Eastern Star.
Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1907-04-25
A Dangerous Fellow.


Britt Tribune: A man in western
Iowa was trying to blow through sy-
phon when it began to work and filled
his lungs with pint of gasoline. 1t
delayed his marriage for several days
as they did not dare to apull the match"
until the gasoline evaporated. He had
a hot temper, but they kept him cool
with ice. He had to wear spectacles
for fear his eyes would blaze. His hair
was flaming red, but he wore a night
cap to ward off danger; they kept him
in the cellar for fear the light would
atouch him off They took tiashy
iRecktie away from him, and tied him SO
he couldn't lightout; he did not dare
CRATE his teeth for fear of an explosion.
They finally attached him to gasoline
engine and pumped him out gradually.
He furnished q tank that lasted nearly
all day and they ran paper off and did
quite little job work before he went
dry. 1t was q very close call and etrict.
II illegal. as he was not painted red.
Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1907-04-25
The Building Commission.

Sioux Falls Press Governor Coe. T.
Crawford said to reporter for The
Press yesterday before his return for
Huron, that the capitol building com
mission which is to award and super
wise the contract for erecting the capitol
building for this state, had visited the
Black Hills and inspected the building
stone there, that it had visited the Per-
ry quarries at East Sioux Falls, and
that it would probably VISIT Ortonvile,
Mimi, and take a look at the stone
there before deciding anything about
the material to be used in the building
The commission is allowed a prefer.
entail Of five per cent in making the
contract, but it is up to the contractors
to use whatever stone they see fit after
the commission decides what stone to
admit to competition.
The commission went to Huron yes
terday, and may go to Ortonville from
there.
Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1907-04-25
Harvesting Flax in April.

Sioux Falls Press: Harvesting flax
in April is not the usual order Of affairs
on farm in this part of the world, but
it is being done in Potter county.
early SHOWS prevented harvesting
last fall, and when the snow which lay
on the ground all winter had disappear
ed, and the field was hard enough to
work, it was found that enough of the
flax was left to make it worth while to
harvest it. While large part of the
crop was lost by Smelling, the owners
figure that they made profit by this
April harvest.
A large amount of corn which was
covered by snow before it could be gat .
nered last year and remained in the
field all winter, has been husked this
spring.
Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1907-04-25
A MIGHTY ''LAND GRABBER. j"
Chenonceaua Built at the Bidding Of
nisna n psait

Chenonceau1 Built at the Bidding al
Diam of Poitiers.
Chenonceauy was one of the earliest
chateaux that represented the new spir-
1t. 1t was built on the site OF the OLD
feudal fortress in a sort of freak OF the
sense of opportunity. 1t was meant to
give room and verge enough to 1, gen
GRAFTON bent on having good time iii
hall and bower. 1t was still Il fortress
of kind, but this only as an after
thought. In the main it was a palace
Tor sport and festival. 1t might have
stood on dry land; it preferred to
bridge river. There was no want of
space In other directions, but this seem.
ed best as stroke OF constructive inn
pudence. The architect ut the bidding
of Diana of Poitiers jumped the Cher
as schoolboy would Lave jumped a
brook. The huge arches never carried
anything of use to mankind at large,
not even right of way
AT first most Of them had no super
structure, and the bridge might have
been called "Diana's folly" But she
knew what she was about. She was a
mighty man subduer, with heart as
cold as the stone Of her new dwelling
and face and form kept beautiful for
ever by the studious avoidance Of ey-
cry pang-a wonderful creature with
al, for she cOntrived to die in her bed,
though She crossed the path of Gather
inc de- Medici She ruled king by the
usual methods and by studious defer
ence to him kept him her obedient, hum
bic servant to the day of his death. She
inspired one Of the greatest sculptors
of her time in his creation of a Venus
that rivaled the antique.
She was one of the mightiest land
grabbers Of history, adding chateau to
chateau with a purpose that never fall
tered and by methods of smooth, I'M
emotional persistence that never failed
She started with everything against
her in that epoch of the worship OF
youth when she began her siege of the
heart Of the dauphin Of France. She
was widow, and widow with a
family, yet she knew no pause in her
triumphant career till she had married
and lowered them all and provided
herself with choice Of palaces for her
old age. She never made an enemy or
which was quite as much to the pur-
pose-a friend who was not likely to be
OF USE She died in the sanctity OF
faultless manners and an unrutfled.
brow. Her heart Of ice kept her a
Venus to the last. Had her prototype
been anything but a goddess Diana
might have given her points in the wise
avoidance Of the ravages of tempera-
ment--Century
Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1907-04-25
Purely Original.

Sioux Falls Press: South Dakotans
are usually pretty complacent and as a
rule take life with smile, but there
are some things that are too much for
us to bear up under. One of them has
just come to light.
There's all easterner and he wants a
divorce. There's not so much that's in
teresting SO far, but here's where the
funny part comes in. That easterner
has heard all about us somewhere, and
he writes to confirm information hehas
received that if one sends ones wash
ing to be done within the limits If
South Dakota one is constrnctively a
resident; and he wants to know it he
can't send us his dirty clothes for few
months ana then slide up to the judge
with the receipted laundry bills.
As has been once before intimated,
there is a limit to all things we here
BY protest.
Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1907-04-25
Memory Revived

1t is long time since yoke of cat
tie was seen in Pierre, but out west the
cowboys are rounding up their big
steers and breaking them in for yoke
cattle, which they sell readily to the
homesteaders at good prices. Buck
and Bright may be a bit slow but for
the homesteader in his first years they
are unequaled for breaking the sod and
getting things settled. They live and
work upon the native grazing, without
any grain, and in every way are service
able and satisfactory 1t may be noted
that at one time more work cattle rem
devouzed at Fort Pierre than any point
on the American continent Many
thousand were used upon the trail to
DeadWood. -Dakotan.
Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1907-04-25
Why not Visit California.

This winter? Low round trip rates
are now III effect from all points on
the North Western Line, and there
will be an especially low one way rate
during March and April for colonists'
second class tickets.
Daily and personally conducted
tours offer many advantages to the
traveller, among which is service
of Pullman Tourist Sleeping Cars to
San Francisco. Los Angeles or Port.
land, for only $500.
For free copy of folders, with large
map of California, Oregon and Wash.
ington and full information regarding
rates and schedules, apply to ticket
agents Chicago y Northwestern BY.
Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1907-04-25
RANGE OR FARM
Capitalist Between Cattle Men and
Plow Men.

Under the decision of the supreme
court today the stock interests evident.
ly stole a march on the homesteaders in
the last legislative session when they
proposed compromise measure be-
tween the wiping out of the range and
the continuance of it. The compromise
requires the question to be submitted to
the voters of the different connties the
free range to be cut off on a vote to
that effect. If the homesteaders had
.'stood att they might have been de-
feated on their law to wipe out the free
range; but now, under the court decis-
ion, they would be in control. The
stock interests were advised by their
attorneys that their case was not very
favorable one for them, and got the
compromise.
The opinion of the court was based
on provision of the statutes which
was not raised by the attorney in the
case They brought up the case on
constitutional grounds and on the val
idity of discriminatory statute. which
did not apply with equal force to the
whole state The holding of the court
is that the old free range law could not
apply to Lyman county, as it was meyer
specifically mentioned in any of the
statutes relating to range. The attempt
to cover Lyman, Stanley and portions
of Meade and Pennington counties was
to amend the existing law to cover ter
ritory in unorganized counties general
ly, and in all counties organized after
1885. The court holds on this that so
long as Lyman county was not spe6cal-
ly named the law cannot be made to
apply to that county. The same provis-
ion would apply with equal force to
other counties not specifically named.
Stockmen say the homesteaders are
keeping their stock on the run by the
aid of dogs and cutting all the profit
from them, and while the law is in fay
or of the stockmen the facts as they
actually exist are against them. In
Lyman county petitions are being cir
culated to try a vote under the provis-
ions OF the new law and regardless of
legislation or no legislation on the sub
ject the country will have to change
from range stock to the dairy COW and
farmer.
Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1907-04-25
Great Progress Made.

The people of San Francisco are
making holiday, in celebration Of
what? OF the first anniversary of the
great earthquake and fire-one of the
greatest catastrophes in history.
a year ago the fire was raging. Be.
fore it was checked eight or nine
square miles in the heart of the city lay
In the shapless ruin. There were those
who believed that the loss was utterly
irretrleyable. These, however, were
mostly outsid ars. Not so the San
Franciscans And, while outsiders
were wiping their weeping eyes the
most magnificent city on the continent
has been builded
Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1907-04-25
Useful Life Ended.

Mrs. Nary Ellis Wilson, widow Of
John r. Wilson, a we'll known member
Of the Lawrence county bar, is dead.
Mrs Wilson was one of the best known
and most brilliant women in 1.-THE state
She graduated in law from the Uniyer.
sity OF New York several years age, and
although she never practiced, yet was
well read in her profession Mrs. VIII
son was member Of the board Of lady
managers Of the Worlds fair, and was
said to be the most beautiful woman on
the board q;
Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1907-04-25
a Grand Jury Called

just what is wanted Of a grand jury.
~ this county at the May term 81.
court remains to be revealed when the
jury meets No such demand has
been made IN this county for quite i.
long period Of years, but such d request
has been made for the May term 81
circuit court, and . grand jury has been
drawn for that term. The men selected
are q. a. Iimmerm z. Halyerson, =.
Ramsey, George u I ~, M. Il. Feltys
Frank. Putnam and Ole Mextl,an So
Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1907-04-25
Soldiers Going Home.

The Russian and Japanese troops
have now completely evacuated Man
churla, according to the terms Of the
treaty Of Portsmouth, retaining only 3
certain number of railway guards, All
military movements have ceased and
the Manchurian towns which were UNI
der Russian aid Japanese control have
been returned to the Chinese authorit.
les. Since the handing over of Mukden
to The Chinese the evacuation of Man.
churla by the Japanese has been going
on gradually, the Chinese local authori
ties stepping in and taking over the ad.
Hmlnlstration Of the places evacuated
by the Japanese. Chinese troops have
already departed from Heilung Kang
to replace the garrisons of the towns
evacuated by the Russians. 1t is in
tended to have a considerable number
OF disciplined Chinese troops in three
Manchurlan provinces, and it is under.
stood that the administration of Man.
churia will be recognized.
State Superlndent Ustrud in an in
terylew in the Sioux Fails Press states
that It is little too early to give any
thought Of his becoming a candidate
Tor governor, his name having been
mentioned in that connection recently,
lie believed that il the people demand
II chat Governor Crawford should serve
another term, but admitted that the
governor would make an ideal United
States senator, and that a worthy. sue.
cessor could be found to carry out the
policies OF the new administration.
Mr.. Ustrud said further that if nj,
conduct OF the Office OF state superin.1
tendent of schools met with support Of
the people that he would be glad to
seryel IN the position again. 1t does
seem to De rather early to pick out
candidates for a year and half hence
Mitchell Republican. L
Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1907-04-25
A False Report.

II have been told" said Mrs Old
castle, that your daughter has been
doing some wonderful things in l.yrog
raphy."
ooh, no. replied her hostess, "she
amt been there at all. The last letter
we had from her she was in Pittsburg
and thought she'd go right through to
Washington * Chicago Record Herald.
Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1907-04-25
Killed by a Hammer

William Scoggins, foreman Of one 81
the pile driving crews out on the west
END OF the Northwestern extension, was
killed by the hammer OF the pile driver
falling upon him. The body was taken
to his old home in Madison for burial.
MT. Scoggins was brother-in law Of
! FL, Mease Of the Madison Daily SEN
.tinel. AZ; .Ss
Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1907-04-25
Enormous Increase

The statement of business Of the ma.
tional banks of South Dakota for the
call of March %, shows total individu-
al deposits at this date to be $19.947-
1888, gain of $I,752,46051 since the
call on January 26. In the same time
time there has been an addition of one
to the national banks of the state, ma
king the total eighty.
Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1907-04-25
Drowned Near FIandreau

The body of Jake Taylor of Egan,
was found in a creek near that place,
Monday. A coroner's inquest was held
but no marks of violence were found
on the body, nor were there any suspi-
cious circumstances connected with his
disappearance. Of late he had been
acting in strange manner. He was
the Oldest member of the Taylor
family.
Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1907-04-25

Forecaster Welsh is anxious for the
base ball season to open, for then the
umpire Will take part of the ambasting.
Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1907-04-25
The Pocketless Woman,

1t is said the women do not want
pockets. OF course they don't. They
are loyal to style. They don't make
themselves unhappy thinking what
ought to be. They take the fashions
as they come and make themselves as
happy and beautiful as it is possible to
BIS, and they succeed wonderfully. But
when Jennie comes home and tells
William that she doesn't know where
she left her pocket book and says there
was $21 45 in it he arises in state Of
submerged wrath and goes up into the
bath room and denounces M. Blanc and
all his Persian gang in words almost
profanG. But does that do any good !?
Not particle. The world swims along
as before, and in the swim is the pock-
etless woman, as radiant and serene as
if there were no husbands in the world
to cross their howery paths. So what's
the use -the birds sing their own tunes
the flowers breath their own !. fragrance
and the women go without pockets just
the same.
April weather is all right in March,
but when it comes to dishing up March
weather in April we are led to believe
that the coal trust has hand in the
matter.
Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1907-04-25

A man in Tennessee 1o1 years old, is
to marry a woman of 100. If late mar
riages are the safest, this couple has all
others beaten a mile and half.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1907-09-28

To forecast the future of copper is
 impossible. says a writer in the Engi-
 neering magazine. It is safe to pre- dict that. if no substitute iS discov- cred and the demand for the meta. increases as it has done during the modern industrial era.the supply will fall short of the demand and the value Of the metal will rise. The same is true of all the mineral prod nets that are consumed in the arts. The experience of the last fcw years in the United States illustrates. how ever. the sensitive connection be- tween demand and price. Sudden ex- cess Of demand is generally followed by augmentation Of price. because production does not as quickly re- spond. While such spasmodie varia- tions are transitory. there can be 70 doubt that if the demand grows and no very important new discoveries are made. the metal will beooFas sczrcer and wilI command T higher price than the average price of the past One consequence. which will also be a corrective. will be that the metal will oease to bs used for pur- poses which 1t Is turnea to-day. and
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1907-09-28
HEARST THIRD PARTY STARTS
National Scheme Under Way as Re.
 suit of Biz Conference.


 New York, Sept. 2S.-Hearst's new third party movement, which had been in process of incubation for the last three years, was formally started in this city when a national confer. ence" of the Independent league was held in Carnegie hall. The advertised purpose of the conference was to give homogeneity and cohesiveness to the scattered state organizations of the league, and in furtherance of that plan declaration of principles" was adopt. ed, which will be issued as an address to voters of the country in a few days.
 The idea is to have this declaration of principles stand as a common party platform for the Independence league in the different states where it already has been or is to be organized. W. R. Hearst by a unanimous vote of the conference was chosen to be chairman of a provisional national committee, the members of which he was author ized to appoint until such time as a national convention shall be held. That, it was understood, will be early next year, fin plenty of time to have the league participate in the presiden- tial campaign.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1907-09-28
HEARD IN PASSING.

Who ordered the Fairbanks cock. tails seems to excite the Indianapolis Methodist brethren more than who drank them. Nobody denies that the president got his share.
 It is not a very edifying spectacle to see still another republican United States senator indicted and tried on charges of being concerned in timber land frauds, but we have become used to it of late.
 Some one will find himself in the Ananias class over that Fairbanks Roosevelt cocktail bout, and from the affidavit of the reporter who inter- viewed Bishop Berry, the bishop stands in peril of obtaining that dis tinction.
 Congressman Broussard of Louis jana, thinks MT Bryan cannot be elected president, and says, ''our folks are growing very weary of chucking away their ballots for is- sues and candidates that have lost us all the debatable states"
 Frank S. Katzenbach, of Trenton, who as mayor reformed that city, whom the democrats of New Jersey have nominated for governor, is forty years old, and has served two terms as mayor of Trenton. The democrats hope to carry New Jersey this year.
 The democrats of Oklahoma are naturally rejoicing over the result of the recent election in that great new state. It was glorious victory for them. and a great addition to the strength of the national democratic party. Welcome Oklahoma.
 Henry II. Whitney. the nominee of the democrats of Massachusetts for governor. will make tariff reform the issue. and the republican leaders are already calling on the protected trusts to down with the dough" ," and are preparing to fry the fat" out of the members of the Home Market club.
 The Charleston News and Courier says: Tt would be very much like a new heaven and a new earth. if Henry Watterson were placed in the White House Well. yes. There would then be an end of this ever lasting wrangle and jangle about mint tuleps. and decent manners would be revised.
 Editor Troup of the New Haven Union. who is the close personal friend of Mr Bryan. and head of his press bureau. is trying to switch the boom for president to that nf vioe-president Mr Troup evident ly thinks that the Chanler boom is worth looking after. and the easiest way to suppress it Is to switch it on 10 the viee-president track before it gets too much headway.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1907-09-28

The republican mud singers under
 the nom de plume of "Germania,"
 Fair Play" Square Deal" backed
 by the campaign committee, have a few things to think about now that
 Mayor Thoms's speech of acceptance i is out They can also peruse Tax Collector Reeves's masterful speech
 of acceptance. The democratic party
 last evening performed good worX
 when it renominated Mayor Thoms
 and the other office holders who have
 given the city such a good admins tratton of affairs for the past two
 years. We are willing to stand
 upon our record" says Mayor
 Thoms. The workers for Sewell and
 the others may say this, that and the other, but as a well known hu- morous writer once said, facts is
 facts" The attacks made on Mayor
 Thoms have all fallen fiat, and the
 people will, we are sure, on election
 day, show that they have no sympa- thy with such methods as are being
 used by office seekers, who, it seems, will not stop at anything to try and
 gain point for themselves. Let us have plenty of the square deal that we hear so much about and John E. Sewell will not even have a look in. Mayor Thoms's record in Waterbury is as an open book, and his admins tration of city affairs the past two years will compare favorably with any mayor we have ever had. The closing paragraph of the mayors speech of acceptance is worth read ing and remembering by democrats as well as republicans. He says: We have gone forward in the last two years-not backward Water bury is cleaner, handsomer and more comfortable city to live in than it was two years ago. The people will entrust us again with the ad- ministration of city affairs, because we have given them clean, efficient, economical and progressive govern ment. Not dollar of the taxpayers money has been squandered, or gone into unlawful channels. Taxes are lower, improvements more wide spread. The democratic city gov ernment stands upon its record" If the present office holders have done all this they surely deserve reelection, and unless all the signs of the times fail, the whole demo- cratic ticket will receive much larger majority than was given 1t two years ago.