Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1908-12-31
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council of Scotland has arranged for
the construction and operation of an
electric light system.
Three hundred and fifty have pro-
fessed conversion in the last two
weeks of the evangelistic meetings be-
ing conducted at Watertown by Rev.
Oscar Lowry and Prof. George Moody.
The department of legislative refer
nece, which was provided for by the
last legislative session, is a busy de-
partment just at present, as many of
! the members-elect are sending in
quiries in regard to proposed bills,
| which they expect to introduce.
|
| Edward Prue, representing the
| Northwestern Insurance company of
! Pierre, committed suicide at hotel
at Huron. He fasteend one end of
| strap to the headboard of his bed;
the cher end he tied about his neck,
! and then rolled out of bed. Most of
his body was resting on the floor when
| discovered
1t has been decided by the Dead
wood fire department to organize and
equip band. The department con-
tains many professional musicians who
| belong to various orchestras and these
will be Joined in one band that will
furnish music for meetings and par
AIDES. The department numbers owe
IT'S active members
Through the action of Gov. Craw-
ford, on the recommendation of the
board of pardons, two more inmates Of
the penitentiary were allowed to eat
their Christmas dinners in freedom
They were Frank Taylor, who was
sentenced from Codington county on
a charge of burglary, and Ed Lynch,
sent from Hutchinson county On a
charge of larceny.
A destructive fire occurred at Ash
ton, Sphinx county. 1t started in a va
cant building and burned George
SmalI's hardware and furniture store,
the loss there being $4,000. The
Hamm Brewing company sustained
loss of $4,000 and the loss OIL the
O'Connell building was $500, and on
the Fielder building $500. Absence of
wind saved the town from destruction.
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Some of the queries are SO wide
spreading in their scope that it takes
several days work of the office force
to properly handle them. The depart
viii a tbrp oh no.
Legislative session, as it was used to-
a large extent during the closing days
of the session two years ago to save
the members personal work along the
lines OF which they desired informa.
tiou
1t is announced that changes in the
train service to Deadwood are shortly
to be made by the Northwestern rail-
road. Chief among these is the short
ening of the time Of the run between
Deadwood and Pierre, the time of
which is to be cut about one hour.
Trains will be re-established between
Deadwood and Belle Fourche, as at
present connections only are made on
the regular Eastern passenger trains
at Whftewood.
:: d..
Paul Thompson and Fred Hollands
were convicted in the federal court
at Aberdeen of cling Intoxicating
liquors without government license,
and received a fine of 500 and thirty
days in Jail. The men have just fin
ished serving the Jail sentence and
they were taken to Sioux Falls to ap-
pear before United States Commits
sioner Conway to take the poor
debtors oath, which relieved them
from paying the fine.
Reorganization has been effected IN
the Golden Star club, social AMI
athletic association at Lead and new
life infused by the addition of some
thirty members. The new officers are:
President, T.. D. Murrin; vice presi-
dent, John O'Malley; treasurer, DR..
Bickford; secretary, Will Peters. The
club rooms are to be enlarged and re-
modelled and series of social enter
tainments have been arranged for the
balance of the winter.
To go out upon the prairie entirely
ahead of civilization to organize a
bank is going little farther than the
prospectors who are organizing at To-
cations on the Indian reservation in
Trip county.The latest proposition
brought to the secretary of state for
a bank charter is the Trip County
State bank, which is to, be located on
the northwest quarter of the south
west quarter Of section 20, township
80, range 76. 1t Is capitalized at $4,000
and the incorporators are Charles Bur-
bingham, A. T. Winehart, Buel Evans,
R. o. Grover and ]. H. Davis. The ap-
plication for the charter states that
there is no population at the proposed
location of the bank. This is certain
| ly a record for a banking venture.
Alonzo Buck, fifty years and single,