Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1908-07-30

dash for the north pole, but interest
in several dashes for the pennant pole
will not diminish.
The Slim Butte and Cave Hill forest
reserves in the northwest part of this
state have been consolidated and call
ed the Sioux reserve.
England would no doubt gladly ex-
change her pugnacious suffragettes
for the Mexican revnlutionists and
throw in a strong "boot."
There is such great demand for
farm hands in South Dakota now that
the farmers are willing to take col
lege boys, if nothing better can be
secured.
Seth Bullock, United States marshal
for South Dakota, has been invited to
accompany President Roosevelt on his
hunt for big game in Africa next year.
Bullock has accepted.
The soldiers out in Colorado are ex-
perimenting with condensed meat
capsules. With the prevailing meat
prices it won't be long before we'll all
have to do the same thing.
A Minnesota woman having been
divorced five times, is forbidden to
marry. She has probably made up
her mind by this time, without the
law stepping in to break her of the
habit.
There is talk of organizing a band
at Harold in the near future. A band
is great help to town, and should
the organization at that place be per-
fected, the citizns will support it very
literally.
1t has been stated that it is the
plan of Governor Crawford to call
thespecial election to fill the vacancy
occasioned by the death of Congress
man Parker, on the same date as the
regular election, thereby saving much
expense.
The Milwaukee railroad from Mo
bridge to the coast will cost five
million dollars more than the esti-
mated cost, but five million more or
less does not make much difference to
Mr.. Rockefeller, who gets out of the
trap as often as it is sprung on him.
Hon. William w. Soule, democratic
candidate for the short congressional
term, has received notice that a meet
ing of the democratic candidates Oil the
state ticket will be held at Mitchell for
the purpose of selecting the state chair
man for the coming campaign.
Ran chers in Washington, Idaho and
Oregon are deep in the wheat harvest,
and it is estimated the total crop in the
three states will aggregate 4S,5OO0OO
bushels, with a market value Of from
$36,375, 600 to $38.8OOOOO. The last
named figure is for 8O-ce grain.
The town Of Wall, on the Milwaukee
line of railway in the western part of
the State, celebrated its first ami
versary one day last week, three thou
sand people being present. Wall and
Quinn, which are near neighbors, are
the two fiourishing towns which have
attracted SO many colonists to their
immediate vicinity.
And now the provisions of the pure
food law are to ue stringently applied
to patent medicines, and hereafter
catarrh cures will have to cure ca
tarrh, and corn remoyers will be re-
quired to remove. To be sure, it re-
quires a violent stretch of the imag-
ination to put catarrh foods under the
heading food
Put the right sort Of feminity in a
sheath gown, turn her loose and we
prophesy that those who came to
scott will stay to rubber. Those
gowns have not gotten out this way
yet, but an anxious public is awaiting
the excitement to be caused by it's
first appearance. Of course no west
ern women will ever wear one but
someone is likely to stray out this
way with one on.
The county fairs will be numerous
this fall and it is a mighty small and
unpretentious county that does not
have one. The pros porous times, and
the splendid outlook for crops has in
stilled the idea into the minds of mary.
1t may not serve much in many cases
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