Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1908-08-27

PIERRE. SOUTH =DAKOT4
The final figures of the state vaua-
! ton as fixed by the state board is
s2S3, 696,26s. This is an increase of
s23, O66, 191 over last year.
Now that the two big conventions
have had their innings, we will soon
be told which is the worse, to Der
over by taft steam roller or crushed
by Bryan pile driver.
4 Vacation time will soon be over and
school days will soon begin again.
After having such a good time, be
ready when the bell rings to do: your
part and do it we'll. Wasting school
day opportunity is like yesterday-it
is gone forever.
What are you going to do when
they ask you fora campaign contribu-
tion?''
It's problem" answered Mr.
eff l don't give they'll say I'm
penurious, and if DO give they'll say
I'm al easy mark.
Captain Seth Bullock, United States
marshal, returned last week week
from Ft. Leavenworth, Kan, where
he had consigned Banker Horras to
serve term Of five years for embezzle-
ment. There are now twenty-five
bankers at Fit. Leavenworth.
The state wide primary has been
tried recently in Kansas and Illinois.
AS a result it has strengthened the
hold of Messrs. Deneen, Hopkins and
Bristow on public Office, while it has
checked the political aspirations of
Messrs. l,.sus, Yates and Long.
i Governor Crawford has appointed
as delegates to the Lakes to the Gulf
Deep Waterway convention to be held
at Chicago October to 8: Robert j F.
Gamble, Yankton; Adolph w. Ewart,
Pierre; Edward Mcbride, LeBeau;
S. x. Way, WatertoWn; Joseph Leah
Running Water.
Rev. Ambrose Mattingly at Stephan
Mission on the Grow Greek Indian
reservation, is publishing letter in
the papers of this part Of the state in
which he deplores the "war dances y
which are arranged as a part of cele-
brations by whites, claiming that they
keep such customs alive among the
Indians, and tend to hold back civil
lizing influences.
Does advertising. pay? Well, we
should calculate! Here is a man
bounded by creditors, aud advertises
that he will shoot himself unless he
gets $500 with i'm ga given time. A
sympathetic sucker sends him $3.50
Immediately. Having received only
half the amount, we presume he will
get only half shot-but is it not proof
that advertising pays?
If Jack Frost had any designs on
the flower Deds or tomato vines, as
predicted by the weather man, he was
thwarted in his contemplated depre-
dations by S. Pluvius, who turned on
the sprinkler shortly after midnight
and kept up drilling rain until
nearly daybreak Sunday morning. 1t
wasn't much Of rain, but it served
to warm up the atmosphere and elimi-
nate all danger of a frost.
Governor Crawford went to the
anthrax infected district in Clay and
Yankton counties to personally look
over the situation to decide upon of
fetal action. Owners of blooded stock
in these counties are asking for "a
modification of the quarantine to al
low them to put the stock on exhibit
ton at the fairs but nothing will be
done unless it is recommended by the
government authorities who are ;. at
tempting to stamp out the disease.
Unless there is an upheaval in fl
nancial conditions this fall of unpre-
cedented proportions there will be no
bargain counter prices for range cat
tie and sheep. The range is better
than it has been any summer for
several years, and if prices are not
fairly satisfactory the stock will be
held over for another year. Stockmen
are thoroughly convinced that there
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