Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1909-08-05

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The cotton report made on the con-
dition up to July 20 by the national
ginners' association gives the general
average as III.
At the request. of the two govern
ments the secretary of state has au-
thor1zed the American ministers at La
Paz and Buenos Ayres to take charge
respectively Of the interests of Argen-
tina and Bolivia.
for Omaha in 1911 is the object to-
ward which active members of the
local posts have commenced working.
In New York, Deep Sky, a Sioux
chief, obtained license to marry Adele
Rowland, a pretty New York girl,
twenty-one years old. Deep Sky halls
from South Dakota.
Secretary of State Knox is to nego-
tate new naturalization treaties with
foreign governments.
Mrs. Maria Rock, an American, aged
A. dropped dead or board the Red
Star line steamer Kroonland as the
vessel was leaving Antwerp for New
York.
Senator Cummins says it is essen
tial that duties on manufactures be
considerably reduced.
The United States is not likely to
make great progress in aerial naviga-
tion during the next fiscal year as a
result of lack of encouragement Of
fered inventors by congress.
A statement issued by the interior
department of the Dominion govern
ment shows that the total immigra-
ton into Canada for the fiscal year
ending March last was 148,90S, as COM
pared with 262469 during the previous
fiscal year.
Substantial progress in canal con-
struction all. along the line is shown
by reports coming to the Washington
office Of the isthmian canal commits
sion
The cholera situation in ST. Peters
burg now seems 10 be we'll under con-
troll.
That Minneapolis needs 100 women
policemen is the opinion of DR.. Anna
Howard Shaw, president of the Ma
tional Woman's Suffrage association.
Harry Orchard, murder of former
Governor Stunenberg Of Idaho, ac-
cording to his confession, was bap-
tized at the penitentiary.
A falling building in Philadelphia
killed seven people.
In a local option election held
Thursday, Staunton, w. Va, Joined
the ranks of the dry" towns of the
state, voting against saloons by TWEEN
| ty majority.
| The entire collection of specimens
of the Roosevelt expedition now num-
bers 1000, covering mammals and
birds of all sizes, from field mice to
rhinoceroses and from small shrike to
bustards. 1t also includes several
Thousand reptiles and insects.
4 Governor JohnA. Johnson of Mime
sofa has decided to visit the Alaska
Yukon exposition at Seattle and to
postpone undergoing third operation
for appendicitis until his return
Stanislaus Nacquorski, deacon at
Lissewo, died Thursday in Thori,
Prussia, aged 1922 He was the Oldest
Catholic ecclesiastic in the world
i Galveston was visited by terrific Car
1 ribean hurrican with wind at sixty
eight miles an hour. The sea wall
prevented all loss of life.
The cholera situation in st. Peters
burg now seems to be we'll under con
j troll.
i Senator Stone Of Missouri, who as
saulted a negro waiter, was dis
charged in police court.
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Washington.
"Of late the arresting and deportine
of aliens has increased enormously
and a tendency is noted in some cases
{ to sacrifice quality OF work to quaint
ity. This will not do. There must be
no merely superficial inquiry in any
. case. Officers must not submit re
Communications for arrest upon ire
II sponsible, uninvestigated accusations
This was the rebuke administered II
Instruction which have just been sem
Fl out by the bureau Of immigration tt
all commissioners OF immigration anC
inspectors in charge.
Secretary of State Knox will soor
q Initiate proceedings with number Of
!, foreign governments looking to re
reconstruction of treaties. Almost i'm
3 mediately upon his arrival in Con
Istantinople Mr.. Straus, the new am
iibassador, will take UP the question o.
j, q naturalization treaty with Turkey.
President Taft's plans for his west
ern and southern trip in the fa1
/ gradually are taking shape. He has
decided that he will make the triI
t down the Mississippi river from st
L Louis to New Orleans late in October
! as the guest Of the deep waterways
convention.
y The democratic congressional com
mittee will soon begin it's campaign
e work. It's effort will be to win ];
], majority in the next congressional
election. The executive committee
! has Just been announced by Chairman
iLloyd, as follows: Rainey, Illinois
Finley, South Carolina; Johnson, Ken
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