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Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1908-12-31
TEN r AL ROADS
South Dakota Has Ten Diff
ferent Big Systems of
Railroads.
All Pointing Toward Pierre,
The Capitol.

Pierre RustIer, for January
Ten Of the largest railway systems
in the west are now in South Dakota
and all are pointing in the direction
Of Pierre. 1t seems practically GER
tain that at least one-half Of these
will build into Pierre within the next
5 years, possibly sooner.
The Northwestern system is making
this place it's principal headquarters
for the vast region west of Minnea-
polls and are making extensive i'm
provements here. Their new depot
just completed has roof 3s4 feet long
and the center portion three stories
high. This company has lately bought
and paid for over 400 lots in Pierre
and are talking great things for this
city. They undoubtedly expect to
have several branches radiating from
this point.
The Great Milwaukee and st. Paul
system have the largest mileage of
any railroad company in South Dako-
ia and are wanting to get into Pierre
and may bring three different lines i'll
here in the near future.
The Great Northern railroad com
pany has for several years been talk
ing Of building to Pierre and will not
delay much longer.
The Burlington road has planned to
build into Pierre from the west accord
ing to the most reliable sources of
information.
The Illinois Central surveyed in
here some years ago and are likely
to build in whenever they start build
ing in the west.
The Minneapolis & st. Louis rail
way are planning TO build into Pierre
and are likely to beat the Great
Northern here. This is very enter
prising, pushing system.
The Sioux Line is also looking into
this territory and is likely to surprise
some of the other systems during the
next 1s months.
q rs
The South Dakota Central has late
ly built into WATERFOWL and are show
ing a plan with a line running from
Sioux Falls to Pierre.
The Rock Island company and the
Northern Pacific are both looking in
this direction and anxious to pre-empt
their share of these great productive
prairies of South Dakota.
This place will soon become a very
important railway center and a large
city will grow up here, owing to the
4 expansion of wholesaling and manu-
4 featuring that is certain to follow
II the forming Of a railway center here,
j situated upon a nayigable water.
This is a most opportune time to
Il secure real estate Investments in a
4; comparatively small city that will
ii surely make very large place.
Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1908-12-31
find their Investment will be most
adyantageously affected by all future
growth.
s42 AN ACRE CROP ON soc LAND.

$42 AN ACRE CROP ON soc LAND.
Talk about profit, well here is a
sample of It, Miss Helen Zeigler had
four acres of her homestead broke
and put into oats on shares. Off the
four acres 1886 bushels were raised, of
which she received one-half or l6s
bushels which she sold for fifty cents
per bushel, netting s21 per acre.
Lennon News.
This is land which people can get
for fifty cents an acre and fourteen
months residence. Is it any wonder
that the northwest part of South Da-
kota is becoming filled with thousands
of people?
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1908-11-03

Men who, standing or walking, og1e
women or make comments about
them audible to the victims should
be sent to the workhouse. It may be
well to try the fine as remedy at
first, but workhouse sentence is
what culprit of this kind deserves,
insists the Washington Star. The Of
Tense is so contemplate that those
who commit it should be publicly de-
graded, if that is possible. Care
ought to be exercised to avoid injus-
tice to the harmless loiterer, but the
masher should be shown no mercy.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1908-11-03
Embarrassing.

Some little while ago a popular
writer visited jail in order to take
notes for a magazine article on pris-
on life. On returning homo he de-
scribed the horrors he had seen, and
his description made deep impress
sion on the mind of his little dapgh-
ter Mary. The writer and his Off
spring, a week later, were in a train
together, which stopped at station
near gloomy building. A man
asked:
What place is that?"
1.-The county JAIL another an
swered promptly.
Whereupon Mary embarrassed her
father and aroused the suspicion OF
the other occupants of the carriage
by asking, in a loud, shrill voice:
''Is that the Jail you were in.
father ?"-Judge's Library.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1908-11-03
mo- thoughtful Observer Of D

No thoughtful observer Of the
progress claimed for the conquest
of the air" can have failed to keep in
mind that the maintenance of equili-
brium, alpha and omega of "man-
flight" is subject to numberless poten-
tial disabilities, remarks the Provi-
dence Journal. There need be no re-
straint on the thrilling performances
of jealous inventors; but the War
Department should no longer permit
any of it's accomplished young officers
to take such obvious risks which have
no warrant in any probable value to
the service.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1908-11-03

| THANK you" was all she said, but
the words were real expression of
gratitude. What she thought, how
ever, was: "He shouldn't tell stories.
He doesn't do it at all well. 1t is my
business that is his business, / know;
and he knows / know it, SO where is
the use? 1 suppose, though, ! should
have refused to let him come If he
had put it in any other way. Well,
his delicacy, at all events, makes up
for his little fib."
The two gentlemen rose, and as
they did so the horror of being left
alone occurred to her.
ooh, do not leave mel" she said,
so earnestly that they hesitated; Eat
least-I mean" she faltered-- if
you have nothing better to do, will
you stay and dine with me?"
And she wrung her hands, and
then she laughed; it was such fun
ny way to ask any one to dinner.
You must think me very weak
minded" she explained. st can
help it; I am afraid to be alone. If l
have leisure to think / shall break
down before the servants, and then
they will know that something must
be wrong"
There was now an end of all cere-
mony between them. DR.. Mansell
sent a boat off to the yacht with
orders to send what Lord Wartle-
bury required to meet him at the sta
ton, and then the three spent the
evening together--a quiet evening
certainly, but not unpleasant for the
gentlemen, for their brave little
hostess put off her sadness as a duty
and talked enough to have deceived
them, let alone the servants, had they
not known of the cruel anxiety which
was gnawing at her heart.
And even they never suspected the
sharp physical pain caused by those
cutting cords and her frantic strug-
giles, which was adding the fear of
being disabled to her other miseries,
though she strove not to admit the
possibility of such a thing even to
herself. Her wounded arms might
burn and her wretched body might
stiffen, but be with her husband be-
fore morning she would, if she kept
her consciousness at all.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1908-11-03
Maintaining Discipline.

1t is evident. by an anecdote taken
from the London Mirror. that there
are some persons who regard discip-
line as an end and not as means,
Not even the seed Of INSTRUMENTATION
had chance under the eye Of Ser
geant Day.
'Tention!" he cried to his squad,
"Quick March! Left wheel! Halt!
Take Murphy's name for talking in
the ranks"
"But he wasn't talking" protested
a corporal, who was standing near.
Wasn't he?" roared Sergeant Day.
Then cross it out and put him in the
guard-room for deceiying me. "
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1908-11-03

The alien who disembarks on our
shores and remains alien is one of
the perils of the Republic, AYERS the
Boston Transcript. Ignorant of our
language and of our institutions,
brought up at home under conditions
naturally embittering him and maxi
ing him the foe Of society, it is too
often that in spite of all present re-
sources for patriotic work for aliens,
he is kept down to be the more cas-
lily herded by INSCRIPTIONS bosses of
his own land both in labor and poll
ties, in conditions which produce in
him a spirit of anarchy and hatred
instead OF loyalty towards our insti-
buttons Here is the fertile breeding
ground OF desperadoes such as plot
led recent acts Of violence in and
about Boston which spread some
thing like panic Tor awhile among
ne police authorities.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1908-11-03

If the government expert is right
in his estimate that our forests fires
infiict loss of million dollars a
day, it is evident enough that the
country would come off cheaply by
expending sufficient money to secure
efficient protection. 1t must be re-
membered, assumes the New Haven
Courant, that these autumn fires,
while burning up all the dead wood
on hand when they start, kill enough
growing timber to provide ample
kindling wood for the fires of the
next autumn. A little money used
under an efficient system to clear our
forests Of this finder like material
would reduce many of these fires to
manageable proportions.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1908-11-03

Charging that they had forgotten
20 remove a sponge and pieces of alb.
soFbent cotton after an operation and
had sewed them up inside him, Chas
r. Chase, of Council Bluffs, Iowa
sued two Omaha physicians for $50.
900. He said the absorbents were
found after he had recovered from.
an operation for appendicitis and that
another Omaha physician had to re-
open the wound to remove the sponge
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1908-11-03
Women IN the Days News.

Mrs. Luther @. Tillotson, of New
York City, bequeathed about $780,
900 to charitable and educational in
stitutions.
Miss Laura Gordon Root. niece Of
the Secretary of State was married
to Stanley Gilbert, OF New York City,
at Clinton, N. Y.
The Films evidently have not
found woman suffrage failure.
Nineteen women were elected to
their first Parliament Now twenty
i've have Just been elected to the
second.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1908-11-03

A New Yorker who has occasion
to frequently use all of the railways
terminating at New York City asks:
why do the railways have time
tables giving the arrivals of their
trains in New York City? In the
last three months l have reached the
city fifty-nine times, and only twice
was my train on time, have fire.
quently been late as much as eighty
minutes, and the average has been
thirty-four minutes"
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1908-11-03
Man VINO Caused Riota Hanged.

Joseph James, the eighteen-year-
old negro murderer of G. A. Ballard,
was hanged in the county jail at
Springfield, ILL., James confessed,
and prayed before he went to the
scaffold. Ballard was a railway en-
gineer, and was killed by James on
the night Of July 80, the murder pre-
cipitating the riots which State troops
quelled.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1908-11-03
Says the Columbus Dispatch: Til

Says the Columbus Dispatch: The
need will now be to build up public
sentiment, or rather to make effective
that which already exists, to prevent
further degrading use of convicts
whose labor may be in excess Of pub
lie requirements. The vigor of the
campaign for reform seems to indi-
cate that this will be very easily
acquired supplement of the action of
the Legislature.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1908-11-03

The new Japanese minister of
finance has outlined for his govern
ment program Of rigid economy,
which does not, presumably, include
a cheap war with the United States,
thinks the Dallas News
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1908-11-03

Sometimes, said Uncle Eben, in
the Washington Star, it pears to me
like de public was composed of people
hangin' round wantin' to be fooled.
An dars allus mo or less competition
among de smaht men of de country
bout who's gwineter had de pleasure
of tendin to de job"
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1908-11-03
Know 10 NIornhia Trnle

Minister Rockhill, at Pekin, China.
cables that all the treaty Powers have
assented to prohibit the importation
Of morphia and the instruments used
for its injection. This action OF the
treaty Powers is regarded as signifi.
can't, as number Of them had With
held their assent.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1908-11-03
a Bumper Crop.

"ya-as, said the man from South
ern Kansas. II reckon that year was
what you might call a banner year
with d bumper wheat crop. WY, do
you know that Silo neigh
Dor 0 mine. Sile was-had SIGH a
stand O. wheat on ten-acre field O.
hisn'n that he had t. rent tn field
next t. i'm t shock about half of it--
wasn't room fer tn shocks on tn
ground it growed on. Judge.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1908-11-03

Rome may at last be made a sea-
port, announces the Argonaut. The
Idea of building canal from Rome
to the sea like that at Manchester,
England, has been abandoned and in
stead it is probable that the channel
Of the Tiber will be dredged so that
ships can come up to Rome from FL
nmicino on the sea.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1908-11-03

A Baltimore undertaken advertises
"a free grave with every SIS fun
eral." Inducements to die in Balti-
more are great-but not attractive,
observes the Richmond Times-Dis-
match.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1908-11-03

Tin the realm of higher scholar
ship" muses. the New York Press,
women have the ability to stand on
a common footing with men" Also
in the realm of the city traction car.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1908-11-03

Union County, South Carolina,
again voted for prohibition by about
800 majority out of 1900 votes cast.
During the past three years of prohi-
bition the arrests for drunkenness de-
creased fifty per cent, and property
valuations in the county are said to
have increased $4,000. 900.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1908-11-03

Well, anyhow. muses. the Indian
apolis News, a decreased number Of
immigrants ought to reduce the vol
ume of the naturalization frauds.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1908-11-03

The German Emperor has more
servants in his employ than any other
monarch. Altogether they number
over 5000, about two-thirds of them
being women.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1908-11-03
bulgaria Compensates Turkey.

Sofia, Bulgaria. The decision Of
Bulgaria to disband its reserves and
make a financial compensation to
Turkey was brought about by the
presentation of what was practically
an ,ultimatum to the Parliament by
Great Britain, France and Russia.
which we're supported by Germany
and Italy.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1908-11-03

The seventeen Methodist churches
Of Toledo. Ohio, are to form a. social
service branch for the aid Of unfor-
Inmates.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1908-11-03
Bank Near 81. GOO. 600 Short.

The Cosmopolitan National Bank
of Pittsburg. which is now in the
hands of a receiver, appears to be
short something like $1,000,000
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1908-11-03

The correct diagnosis of the New
York Press is that: A disease known
Is half cured.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1908-11-03
LATEST NEWS
BY WIRE.
Moonslliners Escape Revenue Men.

INCONSISTENCIES Escape Revenue Men.
Harrisonburg, Va.After raiding
and destroying moonshine brandy
distillery in Page County and allow
ing the operators to escape, Deputy
Collector A.. A. Lewis returned here.
Since the recent passage of stringent
laws governing distilleries, revenue
Officers declare, there are more Illicit
distilleries now in Virginia than at
any time during the past twenty-five
years.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1908-11-03

A Frenchmsn is said to have dis
covered d means of firing torpedoes
ny wireless electric power.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1908-11-03
Germans Prefer rye Bread.

More rye is used than Nheat fonN
,read-making in Germany.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1908-11-03
BY CABLE.
cold. hin. Cooper in Congo.

Gold, Tin, Copper in Congo.
Brussels Reports received from
r. d. Mohun, leader of the American
expedition in the Congo, state that he
has discovered rich deposits of gold,
tin and copper in the Manyema dis
trict.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1908-11-03
Honor General Lee in China.

Annoy, China.-In 1898 a slip Of
ivy from General Lees grave was
planted in the grounds of the Annoy
Club, and recently bronze tablet
was set in an adjacent rock by Amer
lean residents of Annoy. The tablet
is inscribed: This ivy was taken
from the grave of General Rober5 q.
Lee and planted by Vice-Consul Car
rington in 1898"
Boycott Leaders Greet Fleet.
Shanghai, China. The Chinese
Chamber of Commerce, of Shanghai.
has sent message to Admiral SperTy
welcoming the American fleet to
China The chamber led the boycott
against American goods three years
ago.
Greece May Get Crete.
Canea, Crete. The four Powers
protecting this island have notified
the Cretan Government that they are
willing to consider the demand for
the annexation Of the island to
Greece.
King Alfonso Unveils Monument.
Saragossa, Spain. King Alfonso
unveiled a monument to the defend
ers of Saragossa in 1908 He was
warmly greeted by the populace.
Jap Admiral Dead.
Toxic, Japan Baron Yamamoto,
one of Japan's leading admirals in the
Russo-Jap War, died here.
Polish Private Schools Closed.
Warsaw, Poland All the private
Polish schools have been closed by
the governors ia retaliation for the
dents in the streets.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1908-11-03
DR.. Shirley Bragg Kills Himself.

Montgomery, Ala. DR.. Shirley
Bragg, State Jail inspector and a
nephew of General Braxton Bragg,
shot and killed himself. 1t is not
known il the shooting was intention.
al or accidental. He was fifty-fve
years old
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1908-11-03
Wants Female Army.

Paris--Dr. Madeline Pelletier, one
Of the leaders of the French women's
political movement, is heading a petit
tion to Parliament to pass law en-
abling women to do military service.
1t will teach them the necessity for
violence, in which alone their victory
lies. Gymnastics and marching will
do them good.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1908-11-03

Milwaukee. The steam barge
Adam Cornelius left Milwaukee for
Buffalo with a cargo of 27O,750 bush
els of wheat. This is the largest boat
/, load of grain in one consignment to
leave Milwaukee in the history of
navigation on the great lakes.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1908-11-03
Killed by Hiccoughs.

Killed by HiccOughs.
Cumberland, Md Charles Van
meter, aged twenty-four, who was re
covering from typhoid fever, died il
Cresaptown, following four days O
hiccoughs.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1908-11-03
Doctor Dropped Dead.

Spokane, Wash. Apparently in
good health, and in the act of making
medical examination, DR.. Edwin E..
Hutchins dropped dead from heart
failure beside the operating table in
his Office The patient who was on
the operating table rushed out and
summoned druggist, but the physi-
clan was dead.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1908-11-03
Banana Kills Twin Boys.

Lockhart, Miss.-Frank and Fred
Clayton. five-year-old twins, sons of
Frank Clayton, died few minutes
apart of ptomaine poisoning from
eating partly decayed banana. The
children were playing house" with
two little girl neighhors when they
found the banana. The boys drew
lots for it and Frank won, but he
shared it with the others. The little
girls, it appears, did not get any of
the decayed portion.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1908-11-03
Champion Cow Puncher Killed.

Fort Worth, Texas.-H. Bruce"
Norton, of Quanah, Texas, champion
bronco buster" of the world, was
found unconscious in the street here.
and was taken to the Medical College
Hospital, where he died on the oper-
ating table. Norton's skull was frac-
tured, and the physicians think he
was sandbagged
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1908-11-03
Gets w. 6. T. U. Convention

Denver, Col.-The executive council
of the National Woman's Christian
Temperance Union decided to hold
next years convention in Omaha,
Neb.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1908-11-03
Head Cut of by Wire.

Cleveland, Ohio. -Erick Els was
decapitated at the American Steel and
Wire Company mills. Els was a wire
drawer While drawing the red-hot
wire 1t broke. The end struck him
about the neck and the wire, released
from the tension, suddenly coiled
about his neck. His neck was burned
through in a few seconds by the hot
wire, completely severing his head
from the body.
The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1908-10-02

ceived a message to come on to the
Front at once, just after arriving at
Elko from another trip; took the first
train out, which happened to be the
iron train; did telegraphing at Toano
that used up my dinner time, and
you know the rest"
Esther detected growing weakness
in his voice. II must get you some
supper-breakfast l guess it will be-"
she said decisively.
He laughed. From were?"
From our larder." she answered
jauntily. Fortunately, II is full, and
raw cabbage is digestible."
She pulled open a head, and
shredded some of the crisp center into
the hollow of a large leaf. Now, you
are to be full of faith-'faith is the
substance of things hoped for'-you
must believe this an elegant repast.
Also be sentimental, fancy the touch
Of my-supply your own adjectives-
the touch of my fingers adds most
piquant flavor. No; shall feed YOU"
'1ll behave If you'll tuck me in
again." he said with mock humility,
taking the white bits from her fingers.
why, it's good"
Certainly. I intended you to say
that. Don't be in haste. You were
very hungry. I've dessert, also; this
is to be course dinner" She sur
prised him with a box of candy from
one of her bags. Uncle Billy's gift,
and right from Sacramento" she ex-
planned.
She laid the several kinds on differ
ent cabbage leaves, and leased him
tantalizingly as she wisely dallied with
her serving.
This is the third time you've pre-
sided at my early morning table; the
first as my desert rose, next as Juliet,
now"
"As Railroad Bridget"