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Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1909-02-04
NEW LAND DISTRICT.

Representative Martins bill creating
the Belle Fourche land district was
passed by the senate Monday, and now
goes to the president for his signature.
In addition to establishing the new
government LAND ollie at Belle Fourche
the bill authorizes the president to APP
point a register and receiver for that
office with the consent of the senate.
On the passage of the Martin bill,
Senator Gamble had his own measure,
which was somewhat different as to
boundary lines, indefinitely postponed
thougnlt had been fayorably reported
by the senate committee. This cleared
the way for the creation of the new
land district this session.
Martins bill. as passed by congress
provides that.the boundary OF BELLE
Fourche district shall begin where the
line between, townships Is and 10 north
intersects the Montana line; thence east
on said township line to the northeast
5eotuei VI township 10 lorln, range y
east; thence south on the line between
ranges 8 and 10 to inEersect the 3rd par
allel north; thence east on said parallel
TO the northeast corner of township 12
north, range II east; thence south along
the line between ranges II and IL, to
intersect the west line between town
ships 6 ard 7 north; thence west on the
line between said townships to the Wy
oming boundary; thence north on the
state line to the beginning point. This
includes about 100000 acres.
Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1909-02-04
SALES OF LANDS AND LOTS.

Real estate movement ia Hughes
county January 20 to February 3,
1909:
NJ. l.. Hegglund to VIM, Schooner IT,,
SW qr-20-11l-77.
John o. Henl1el to Henry r. Fitzger-
aid, lot 4 in block, 5 original Blunt.
Ralph G. Greer to John S. Edger, W
half of NV Or 25-112-77.
Josephine Marx to Wasam Sc 81
12-112-90.
Nettie V Beebe to Charles johnson
Sc or 19-112-76.
Clayton E Zook and G G Babel tc
Charles johnson NE or & w al
11s-1a- 1926.
John l. Newell to Della f. Shank
the rear 33ft. off of lots 81 aa55-3 81
blk IA, 1st Ry. Add. to Pierre.
Phebe A Repine to Joseph B Repine
a part Of the NV or of the NV q
32-111-79, being IS rods square.
The Iowa Land Co. Ltd. to a. f Hand
ley, lot A in blk 81 of the 9Th Ry
Add. to Pierre.
Charles d MCGOWAN to Margaret 1
MCGOWAN, the SW Or 22-112-74.
VIM S Mundt to Albert e Ward, lots
IL and E half Of NV or 1s-111-7s.
Capital Land & Investment Co. tt
VIM. L. Reinsh, NV or and Sc q
7-11l-77.
Chas l. Hyde to T G Duckwall, lot;
1-2-9-12-13-14 in blk G of Hyde's 3rC
Add. to Pierre.
Chas L Hyde 10 & Kent, lots 1881
s2-SS-34, blk . of Euclid Add. t.
Pierre.
Chas L Hyde TO the Cityaoi Pierre
2oft off from the So1therly. cr rear
end of lot s in blk 6 of the list Ry
Add. to Pierre, being a tract 0,
ground 20x5O. fronting on Crane
Az, same to be used for the loca.
ton of hose house, decided free.
Else Land Co. to John Stopperan, al
undivided x interest in the Sc al
13-111-77.
Gas Belt Land Abst. Co. to j II Cory
NE or 3o-112-so.
Warner FL Gray to Grant Phinney
NE Or 30-l12-I5.
Carrie NJ Pierpont to Capital Land &
Investment Co., SW or e-111-76.
Walter 4 Blake to A G Brink and W
d Inman, SW or 19-11O-74.
= NJ Wanbaugh to David Quick, lots
IL nblkT, Yaple's Add. to Pierre
Clarence w Lake to Walter Mel enzie
lots 2-s-l6-17 blk 5 and lots so ii
blk 10 of Fheall's Add. to Pierre.
NJ ID Everest to Marc J Love. lots q.
10 in blk 5, Yaple's Add. to Pierre
Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1909-02-04
OFFICIAL SALARIES.

1t is likely that Senator DoIliver is
well supported in Iowa in his vote
against doubling the salary of the
president, and increasing the pay of
speaker and federal judges. Within
easy recollection the pay of5the presi-
dent has been doubled, and most sal
aries raised. Congress gave itself a
50 per cent rise recently. The tenden-
cy has been in recent years not mere
ly to bunch along up in salary fixing,
but to boost by leaps and bounds OF
course, there is plenty to say in favor
of the boosting-the dignity of the
public service, the personal sacrifice
required of big men who take office,
the increased cost of living, and so on.
One way of thinking, dignity suffers
when men take Office because of the
pay and not inlspite of it. Many men
ambitions for Office can make SO much
money in private life they ought to
stay there. The'chief increase in cost
of Living in official life9is' not in food
or raiment or shelter, but in social
and icaltendencies that cast re-
preach upon the national life. Some
salaries ought to be raised. Butsince
it is SO much easier to raise than to
lower public pay lawmakers should
go very careful in the process of ele-
walton.
Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1909-02-04
GOOD COMPANY FOR 1909.

You are careful what choice of
friends the young people Of your
household make. You do not open
wide the door to those whose speech
and behavior betray ill-breeding and
lax morals. Are you as careful to
shut it against books and periodicals
that present vulgar and demoralizing
pictures of life and it's purpose? Per
haps you are among those who have
found that The Youths Companion
occupies the same place in the family
reading that the high-minded young
man or woman holds among your as.
sociates. The Companion is good
without being "goody goody". 1t is
entertaining, it is informing. In its
stories it depicts the truly, but il
chooses those phases of life in which
duty, honor, loyalty are the guiding
motives.
A full description of the current
volume will be sent with sample
copies OF the paper to any address OF
request. The new subscriber who al
once sends $1.75 for a years sub
scription will receive free the The
Companions new calendar for 1909
"In Grandmother's Garden,' litho.
graphed in thirteen colors.
The YOUTHS COMPANION,
IA Berkeley st. Boston, Mass.
Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1909-02-04

The annual report of the Secretary
OF Agriculture sketches the farmer s
enviable condition thus:
The farm value of all farm pro.
ducts of 1908 reaches the most extra
ordinary total in the nations history
81, IT'S 200, 900.
THE gain in value Of farm pro-
ducts in 1908 over 1907 is $500, ZOO, 900
and would have been much larger had
not the prices of cotton and hay been
low. The value of products in 1899,
the census year, being taken at 100,
the value of 1908 stands at 1875; for
1904, at 1871; for 1905. ST 1874; for 1907,
at 1853; and for 1905 at 1865. During
the last ten years the wealth produc-
tion on the farms of this country has
exceeded the fabulous sum of $780,
4ooo, 900, 900.
THE exports of agricultural pro-
ducts in the fiscal year 1908 were
valued at 81 OFT 900, 900, an amount
greater than for any year.
Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1909-02-04
The Pierre ss. { : Free Press + ress
BY A. g. SA.TTERLEE.
COUNTY oFFIoIAL PAPER
Entered in the postoiiice az Pierre, ). L
as second class matter.


A bill is to be introduced in the
legisl allure providing for an increase
in the membership of the board of
charities and corrections to five. 1t
is proposed to take in the secretary Of
the board and also parole officer,
which position is TO be created by the
indetefminate sentence law which is
expected to get through the two
houses at this session. 1T is claimed
in behalf of the bill that the work of
the secretary and parole officer can be
done best If they are recognized as
members of the board ard that since
these offices exist any way, no ques-
tion of increased expense is involved
With this statement it is difficult to
understand what argument can be
made against the proposed measure.
Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1909-02-04
Chas L Hyde to w G Cahoon, lots 5

Chas L Hyde to w G Cahoon, lots s.
6 in blk 3, Hyde's 3rd Add, Pierre
Chas L Hyde to Jennie | Keith, lots
5-6 in blk ? Of Hyde's 1st Add. tc
Pierre
Mrs j l. Bro okins ct al to N B Steel
lots 2-3-4 in blk 2, lots 17-1S-19 il
blk 8, lots 1920 in blk 4, lots 1-2-s
in blk 10, all in Prentice and Oar.
ling's subdivision of Hathaway &
Prentice's Add. to Pierre.
81 r Tarbell and A r Potter to j
Irwin lot in blk 10 of Stebbin s
End Add. to Blunt.
j. j. Jackley to G L Bergerson, lots
4 l-2-3-4 in blk 16 Of Prentice & Oar.
ling's subdivision Of Hathaway &
Prentice's Add. to Pierre.
Herman Wieting to E H Linkart,
NV or 24-112-7S.
Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1909-02-04
TENTH ANNIVERSARY TODAY.

This week marks the tenth annlyer-
Sary Of the outbreak Of the Filipino
instruction, during which the IA
NOUS First regiment. South Dakota
volunteers, made record for valor
which added undying fame to the
members of the regiment and the
state from which they came.
Impatient over the garrison duty
which they had been required to per-
form, the South Dakota soldiers.
when the war with the Filipinos had
once opened, entered the campaign
with the firm determinationto see the
matter through to theSbitter end-un-
til the Americans had trumphed and
the insurgents had been completely
subjuted. They remained IN the field
until this object was accomplished
and they were in the forefront of all
the lighting.
There were numerous cases of in
dlyldual bravery, would fill several
volumes. The detailed story of
the part which the South Dakota re-
giment took in the Filipino insurrec-
ton, together with the details of
cases Of individual heroism on the
part of members.
All acquitted themselves nobly, and
the people of South Dakota are ex-
ceedingly proud of the record made
by them during the time they were
actively in the field against the
enemies of their country.
Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1909-02-04
The house has passed the druggis,

The house has passed the druggists
bill, but Pierre dispatch says that
Commissioners Wheaton is still trying
to defeat the adoption of the fedora
law and to induce the senate to accept
his own view of what pure drugs
and food law should be. The legisla.
tive committees are against him, anG
II those committees should be turned
down by the members, it would be 9
clear case Of sacrificing the interests
of the people Of the state to hatter {
petty aaa chesty official.
Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1909-02-04
MIRAGEs ARE SEEN.

The mirages that appear north OF
Miller, this state, are attracting much
attention. About sunrise or after
is the time when these optical illu-
sions SHOW Off the best. Looking
to8the north to a distance of probably
twenty miles on mornings when the
mirage is on one sees what appears
70 be quite a steep mountain slope,
dotted on it's side with roads, forests,
farm buildings, lakes, ETC., and the
mountain slope seems to be several
miles long as it stretches along over
the prairie that in a few hours becomes
again the flat country it actually is.
Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1909-02-04

The long talked Of, looked for, two.
cent passenger fare bill is a law. The
governor signed it yesterday at 3;35p
m. And yet it ism t q law in effect,
for at 4:Sop. m. U. S. Judge Garland
in the federal court room at Sioux
Falls, granted d temporary restrain.
ing order, enjoining the attorney gen
eral OF the state, and the states at
torneys of each county of the state
from any attempt to enforce the law
and also enjolned the railways OF the
state from selling transportation, as
contemplated by the law.
Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1909-02-04
ON THE FRONTIER.

The Giarian Company vino appear
at the Grand opera house, Thursday,
Feb II, are offering a splendid melo-
drama that has some of the most
thrilling climaxes that any one could
wish for. Evangeline Claman plays
the part of the western girl who is
afraid of nothing and nobody: and
Beu Claman is the tenderfoot hero
whose common sense helps him out OF
some pretty tight corners. Mr.. Clamar
carries a splendid band and orchestra
and before each performance there is
a concert in front of the theater
Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1909-02-04
The senate has passed a joint resol

The senate has passed joint resolu
ton authorizing the state hea::,s;. CT CT 8
gents to accept donation of $4,000
from Andrew Carnegie for a library
at the state university. There was
siderable objection to the measure,
but the desire Of the senate to gel
something for nothing prevailed
against good horse sense, and the re-
solution obtained by one vote. Under
the provisions of the resolution the
state incurs an annual expense of So
500 and infinitum.
Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1909-02-04
MILWAUKEE ROAD TO BUILD.

a report is galloping around TO the
effect that the Milwaukee road has
prepared plans for the construction of
a spur Of their line from Lennon
south early in the spring to get line
into that part ofathe state which it is
expected viii be opened to settlement
on the Standing Rock and Cheyenne
River River Indian reservation some
time the latter part of this year.
Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1909-02-04
Life is a battle, the harder the tigh

Life is battle, the harder the fight
the sweeter the victory.
When Napoleon found the alps were
In his way he didn't give up. He
crossed the Alps.
When the odds are against us we
put our shoulders to the wheel and
push. And that is the kind of
pushing that counts.
~ That very opposition is an incen-
tive to greater effort, and that effort
is often the keynote of ones success.
american Republic,
Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1909-02-04

After the Nebraska legislature gets
the lenghth Of the bedsheets properly
sdjusted, let it be made penal of
Tense for any landlord to harbor with
IN his premises members of the genus
described by the poet as having no
wings at all, but getting there just
the same. Sioux City Journal.
Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1909-02-04

.Fhe Gamble bill providing fora mon
unent OF Sitting Bull has passed the
senate. Hurrah for Gamblel Now
) let him introduce bill provid-
ing for appropriations to Booth,
Guitteau and Czolgosz and thereby
complete his fame Hnronite.
Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1909-02-04
TO TRADE.

One of the best speed stations in
Nebraska for town property in Pierre.
S. D. Residence property preferred,
Address,. P. Hasden, Wakefield,
Nebraska, Box al. J7-4t.
Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1909-02-04

The Fitch bill in the house proyid-
ing for g o'clock closing Of saloons
was defeated. only receiving A affir-
NATIVE votes
Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1909-02-04

The South Dakota 2-centfare law
has been held up. Whether it will
be upheld is another qeustion.
Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1909-02-04

hat we need 10 this world is fewer
women who play bridge and more
who play Bridget
The Wenatchee daily world. [volume] (Wenatchee, Wash.) 1905-1971, 1909-03-31
AFTER THE LAND SHARKS
w. r. Prowell Returned Last Night
from Spokane Where He Was a
Witness Against Them.

w. R. Prowell spent Monday and
Tuesday in Spokane this week, going
Their in civil case instituted by a
man named Boyd, who was invelgled
into buying some bluff land south of
Malaga from Miller Bros, who work
ed off half section of worthless
stuff on the unsuspecting public. The
man Boyd transferred some $500
worth of furniture for his equity in
the land and is now suing to have
the sale set aside. Mr.. Prowell was
on the stand most all yesterday
afternoon. Today is practically a
legal holiday in the courts of Spokane
and Mr.. Prowell was excused. Fur
Their testimony in the case will be
taken tomorrow, but Mr.. Prowell
stated that the presiding judge said
it was evident that this case should
be in the criminal department and
not in his, that men who would sell
bluff land as fruit land should be
in the penitentiary.
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Appointed Deputy Bank Examiner.

Ex-senator H. M. Boone, of Whit
man county, but for the past few
months resident of Spokane, has
been appointed one of the deputy
state bank examiners. Mr.. Boone
was in this city last week on bust
ness matters. He was a candidate
for the primary nomination for con
gress last fall and has a wide &C
quaintance here Virgil Hayden, OF
Tacoma, was the other deputy APP
pointed by State Bank Examiner
Mohundro.
Each deputy will have charge of
the work in his section of the. state
doing the field work in connection
with Mr.. Mohundro.
Mr.. Boone was state senator for
two years from Whitman county
where for six years he owned and
The Wenatchee daily world. [volume] (Wenatchee, Wash.) 1905-1971, 1909-03-31
BETWEEN HILL
AND HARTMAN
BATTLE ROYAL IN THIS STATE
F6R BUSINESS BETWEEN RAIL-
ROAD MAGNATES OF GREAT
ROADS.

The following very interesting
story of the struggle between James
]. Hill and E. H. Hartman for the
freight business of the state of
Washington, in which millions have
been spent, is taken from the Boston
NewslO bserver:
Before E. H. Hartman agreed to
put Union Pacific's Northern Pacific
stock, purchased in 1901, into the
Northern Securities combination, he,
together with J. Pierpont Morgan
and James J. Hill, entered into GER
tain agreements. When the North
ern Securities affair was over, faith
was broken and one of these agree
ments was repudiated. Sometime the
light of history will be thrown upon
this, and it will be a most interest
ing episode in railroad history.
If Hartman ever has a biographer
with full data available, the world
will know that broken pledges with
E. H. Harriman-which that injivid-
ual in his peculiar secretive way has
a1wRs kept closely to himself-have
been the cause of many an uproar in
the financial world.
Some of the heritages today of the
Northern Securities struggle are the
contest between the Hill-Morgan in
terests and Hartman for railroad
dominancy in the state of Washing
ton: the troubles over the Portland
gateway; the building of the expen-
sive Hill line down the northern bank
of the Columbia river; and final re-
course of Hartman to strike at the
citadel of Hill supremacy in the
northwest and the state of Washing
ton, viz, Seattle.
For four years past the Hill-Harri-
man people have been backing and
filling over the Washington situa-
ton. In the past two years the sit
uation has become acute and today
the crisis is at hand.
During the past four years OF ne
gotiation and argument, James j.
Hill and E. II, Hartman have met
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in person to discuss this topic and
their representatives have met on a
hundred occasions. The upshot Of
all this discussion has been that the
Hill people have parted the ques-
ton, have succeeded in making de-
lays, ana have suggested a sort of
compromise which was no compro-
mise at all for the Hartman inter-
ests, and the stand finally taken in
simple language means that there
can be no entrance of Hartman into
Washington over the Hill lines on
terms that the Union Pacific would
have.
Meanwhile, during these negotia-
tions, the Hartman people have laid
their plans for the day, now appar-
emily at hand, when negotiations
must cease and real work begin.
During this time the Hartman peo-
pie have expended $25, 100000
around Puget Sound and elsewhere
in Washington for terminal facili-
ties. They will go ahead and spend
$40, 100000 more to round out termi-
nal projects and proceed to construct
a line of railroad from their termi-
mails in Portland to Puget Sound, a
distance of $50 miles.
While the final step is not yet
taken, orders to push the work will
be given almost any day. Hartman
speaks repeatedly about cooperation
among railroads, and Of reciprocal
agreements, and that sort of thing,
tending to make peace, and If some
agreement could be made between
the Hill-Harriman interests there
would be no necessity for competi-
tive construction in that northwest
territory.
And as all men know, Hartman
is patient, but persistent, in negotia-
tons, and stands out long time in
the hope of agreement. But there
comes a time when negotiations are
hopeless and there must be a fight.
1t is on the verge of this that the
Washington question stands at pres
emit.
Line to Parallel n. p.
The new line which the Hartman
people will build to Puget Sound
will closely parallel the Northern
Pacific, ana for large part of the
way the two lines will be within eye
sight.
The cost of the new line will be
very large. Terminal facilities of
the extensive and finished kind the
Hartman roads require will call for
100000. The new road itself
will be 230 miles in length, and can
be built according to the high stand
ards which prevail throughout the
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Hartman system, for approximately

Hartman system, for approximately
$12, 100000. The whole enterprise
when finished, after applying cost Of
terminals to miles of new road built,
will make the total cost of the line
in the neighborhood Of about $57,-
100000, or $4,000 a mile, and as
such, the most costly railroad for its
size ever built.
Prize Sought is Rich.
But the prize sought for is rich.
1t is probably safe to say that no
state in the Union is progressing so
fast as Washington, and it Is almost
an unanimous opinion among railroad
men in the west, whether or not they
have lines in the state of Washington.
that this particular country has more
prospects for big advancement and
big traffic development in the next
decade than any other state.
| Not only is Washington itself one
of the richest states in the union, but
along the eastern slope where the
Northern Pacific now runs, and
where the Union Pacific will run,
there stand between 370,000,000,000
and 400, 200, 100000 feet of timber.
The Hill lines have received there
in the past more lumber than they
could possibly haul out. During a
large part of the last decade, west
bound business to Washington has
been light. But there has been a
large increase in population and the
state is becoming a great distributing
center for the manufactured product
of the middle west.
Hill Must Divide with Enemy.
| There is no doubt that the Union
Pacific will divide with the Hill line
it's portion of this enormous Wash
ington business. It's new line from
Seattle to Portland and from Port
land along the south bank of the Col
umbia river, over the Oregon Rail-
road Navigation company and south
ward to the main line of the Union
Pacific at Granger, will undoubtedly,
unless operating standards go down,
constitute the cheapest line from the
standpoint of cost to the railroad OF
any of the trans-continental lines;
and judging by operating results TO-
day, there is much more money on
the same volume Of traffic for the
Union Pacific in it's long-haul bust
ness from Washington to the east
and vice versa, than there is for any
other transcontinental railroad en-
gagged in the same business. :
Similarly, Union Pacific, with its
ines through Nevada, Utah, Colorado,
and thence in a network through
out the middle west has distributing
facilities for the products Of Wash
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ington equaled by no other trans
continental line engaged in the same
business. And with its affiliated
and subsidiary lines. it can gather
up, and deliver in Washington equal
ed by no other trnscontinental line
engaged In the same business. And
with its affiliated and subsii diary lines,
it can gather up, and deliver in
Washington, the very products of
manufacturing which that state re-
quires from the middle west and east.
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operated a bank. Virgil Hayden has
been with the Pacific National bank
and other Tacoma banks for twelve
years, and later manager of the clear
ing house.
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c. Swanson of Seattle, who has
been up at Methow for the last sew
eral weeks, returned to his home yes
terday.