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Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1909-12-16
TWO CENT RATE.

Deadwood, Dec. 13, George Rice of
Flandreau and W. G. Smith of Srurgis
two of the state railroad commission
ers spent the day in looking over the
scene of the recent railroad wreck on
the Burlington railroad near Englewood
in which Miss Ethel Logan of Pukwana
met her death and also the death of Mr..
j. Miller near Rockford on the same
road The commissioners were inauir-
ing into the fact of the deaths not to
lay any blame but rather. to prevent
such deaths in the future Mr.. Rice
was quoted as saying in regard to the
tWo-cent rate in South Dakota that it
had resolved into a question of fact and
that if it can be shown that the earn
ings of the roads warrant the cheaper
rate it will be recommended by the rail-
road commission The commission still
has experts at work on the books and
data secured and expects to go tc
Chicago in the near future to take ad-
ditlonal evidence and expect to prepare
their report early in TIE coming year.
Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1909-12-16
LIE BEAU HOPES TO GET IT.

One of the Gamble bills now before
the senate provides for the opening Of
1 200, 900 acres in the Cheyenne river
reservation, Immediately adjacent 10
lie Beau. The bill also contains a
clause designating LeBeau as the
place for the establishment of a neW
land office. That the new land office
should be established there is regard
ed as almost certain for the reason
that the location will prove q great
convenience to the homesteaders Wha
will make their filings next spring il
connection with the recent land open-
ing, as we'll as for those who file on
land in the new territory to be open
ed as provided for by the Gamble bill.
1t is the desire of the interior Depart
ment to make filing as easy as pos
sible for settlers, and 1T is believed
the department will consent to the
esta blishment of the new Office At Lee
Beau on account of it's central loca-
|tion.
Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1909-12-16
A NEW DEPARTURE.

The Chicago & North Western
Railroad Company has recently pur-
chased from the Western Electric
Company apparatus for complete
telephone train dispatching circuit
extending from Chadron, Nebraska,
to Long Pine, Nebraska, a distance
of 1913 miles. The circuit will be
very complete and the line itself has
been constructed entirely of new
material.
The telephone method of handling
trains is of special value in sections
such as that between Chadron and
Long Pine, owing to the fact that
during certain seasons of the year a
great many of the stations consist
simply of sidings. These stations,
however, during large portion of
the year are important shipping
points for the ranchers in that vicin-
ity. In many places there are no
telegraph stations and at such points
telephones will be installed, render
ing is possible for any authorized
person to obtain stock cars or other
freight accommodations much more
rapidly than would be possible if it
were necessary to handle the bust
ness through the nearest telegraph
office.
Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1909-12-16
INVESTMENT IN LAND.

Louisville Courier-J Journal: Land
brokers in some of the big cities are
carrying Oh systematic boosting
campaign. Many of them are offer
ing land on the installment plan and
selling it, in some instances, at ex-
ilorbitant prices. The sy-payment
method appeals to persons who are
working on small salaries. These
persons are moved thereby to under
take purchases that they may never
be able to coDsammate. If they sue
ceed in buying tract they probably
have paid more than it is worth. AS
a speculation their investment fails,
and as they are not farmers, the land
Is not likely to betof great value to
them.
Land is good thing to have, but
land values increase slowly and the
forcing OF prices for speculative pur-
poses inevitably is followed by re-
action. 1t takes practical farming,
hard work and lots of it to make
money out of farm. The policy Of
buying sight unseen" as boys some
times trade knives, is not to be com
mended. The man who is purchasing
should be thoroughly familiar with
what he is buying.
Those who are intenet on such in
vestment should buy close at home.
where they may see and know what
they are doing; where titles may be
more thoroughly and easily investi-
gated and where advantages and dis
advantages may be more satisfactor-
lily weighed. If a man is bent OH go
ing west it is all right for him to buy
western land. If he is in doubt as
to change of location it probably
will be to his advantage to settle the
doubt by making no change. IT he
is not disposed to remove his habita-
tion it is not likely to profit him to
buy land in a faraway state. Land
requires close guardianship, Other
wise it's complacent owner is apt to
find some day that he has neither pro-
fit nor land
Those who make money in such
speculatlons are, for the most part,
those who are familiar with the husi-
ness. 1t is their speciality to separate
men and money, and they naturally
select for the separating process men
who are less familiar with the bnsi-.
ness than themselves.
Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1909-12-16
MORE PROSPEROUS.

That the farmers OF the nation have
enjoyed the most prosperous year in
the history Of agriculture is stated by
Secretary of Agriculture Wilson in
thirteenth annual report. He places
the revenue received by farmers for
their products for the year passed at
So. ITO, 200, 900. This revenue says
Secretary Wilson, has paid off mort
cages; it has established banks; il
has helped to make the farmer G citi-5
zen Of the world; it has provided him
with means for Improving the soil
and making it more productive. 81
One Of the most interesting sections
of Secretary Wilson'S report is that:
dealing with the increases in pricee
OF foodstuffs. AS compared with the
average for the period from 1896 To-
1900, the relative price Of all commo-.
dities, he says. il looo was a 1874 .etos
IQOA
Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1909-12-16
PUBLIC GETS WORST OF 1T.

In the storm of criticism that for
some years has been directed against
corporations, the express companies
have heretofore managed to escape.
Nobody wrote magazine articles
about the profits Of the express COM
panies. The policy most of them
adopted was to declare moderate diyi
dends of from s to 10 per cent, and
carry the remainder of the sum
available for distribution to the sur
plus account. When stockholders
complained about this, asking for Il
greater dividend to which they be-
lleyed themselves entitled, they were
told that the control of dividends
rested entirely with the board of
directors, and If they did not like the
way the directors directed, they
might elect new ones. This the stock
holders could not do, because the
ones who objected never could COM
mand majority Of votes.
The Wells Fargo Express company,
as result OF this style of business,
has just cut one of the iuciest
melons" of which there Is any
record. AS a result of its ability to
collect a profit of So per cent, the
company is shown to have accumu-
lated a surplus Of S24 900 900 ons
capital Of $4,000, 900 and the directors.
having reached the conclusion that
it was about time to divide, lately
notified the stockholders that they
were to receive three times the
amount of their original investment,
one third in cash, two thirds in full
paid stock.
The first conclusion that will be
drawn from these figures is that the
public was overcharged for the SER
vice rendered by the express com
pany. The dividends previously de-
clared OH the stock were normal bust
ness profits, without this extra melon-
cutting. This large fortune came
from the pockets OF the public, and
a comparatively few privileged per-
sons benefit at the expense of the
majority.
Such excessive profits give force to
the arguments of those who favor a
cheap parcels post aud the extension
of the rural free delivery system,
both of which have been opposed by
the express companies, for the rea-
son that such public conveniences
would the express business.
Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1909-12-16
WILL THEY LEARN 1T?

Madison Outlook: Corgressman
Martin is considerably wrathy be-
cause Speaker Cannon placed him
nearly at the bottom of the commit
tee on public lands, disregardine a
promis-. Mr.. Martin claims iup
speaker made to place him in his old
position near the head Of the commit
tee AS result Mr. Martin has de-
clined to accept the assignment
When will our congressman learn
that they must absolutely kowtow to
to august speaker if they expect to
receive any consideration at all?
Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1909-12-16
HOW ABOUT THE COMET?

Have you arranged your affairs
against the day in May next when the
earth will be in the tolls Of Halley's
comet? Or are you afraid? Or do
you haye confidence that the archi-#
tect of the universe knows nis busi-
ness and will keep the earth in safety
The world has many agnOstics but
there is not an agnostic on the planet
who does not think Of the supreme
power when he thinks Of the near ap-
proach of The comet to the earth pre-.
dicted for next May. The earth will
not be harmed. 1t has not vet fulfilled
its mission and purpose. Therefore
it will continue. 1t is now emerging
into q higher civilization. Its moat
GLORIOUS part is the future, Il To-
comparatively in it's infancy, and it
will work out the purpose Of its max
ing.
The astronomers say that the body
of the comet is of great brtll1Rncy,
surrounded by nebulous something,
and as it approaches the earth In the
early spring months Venus and Jupi-
ter will pale and the moon herself be
reduced in shining power. Passing
between the earth and the sun at g.
distance of only l4,O0O,OaO miles from
the earth. the tail will enyelop us in
it's expanding width, but without evid
consequences, the astronomers say.
A few years ago the earth passed
through a thick haze of unknown
source, and it was not until some
time later that the scientists surmised
that we had gone through the shadow
of an invisible comet.
Halley's comet is not an entire
stranger, as our grandfathers were.
favored with visitabout seventy-five
years ago. Owing to it's periodical
character the same fears and super.
stitions do not cluster around it's ap-5
pearance in the heavens as attach to
the coming of the celestial stranger.
A comet popularity is associated with
war, pestilence, and destruction and
hence is regarded as a forerunnero of
of clamitous events. When Donati's
great comet came in 1858 the gather
clouds of the civil war led the people
to look upon it as a prophesy Of evil.
For once superstitions was Fight but
the sign has failed SO many times Of
late years notably as to the comet of
1881 that the discovery Of the new
comet has lost much of its conduct
yeness to goosehesh and spinal chilis.
Halley's comet is now approximately
202 900, 900 miles from the sun and
1875 900, 900 miles from the earth. 1t
travels about $50 900 miles day.
a moderate rate of speed that will be
materially increased as 1t nears the
sun. In any event the earth seems to
be booked for a very interesting spec
tacle next spring.
Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1909-12-16
- - -
FROZEN TODEATH.

Rapid City, S. D., Dec. 10. w Word
was received here today that Harry
Light, a jewish nomesteader was fro
zen to death near the ford Of the Belle
Fourche river fifty miles northeast Of
this city. He was driving a team
home when his wagon upset and he
was pinned under the Load.
Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1909-12-16
MURDER ATLE BEAU.

lie Bean, Dec. 11.--Dode Mackenzie,
son of Murdo Mackenzie, the million
aire cattle king Of Trinidad Col, was
shot and killed here today shortly be-
fore noon.
The man who did the killing, Bud
Stephens, is under arrest. The ar
rest caused great excitement and it is
difficult to get at the details at this
time.
Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1909-12-16

Farm machinery and automobiles
are to advance in price. This seems
to be double blow at the farmer, as
he is buying most OF the autos nowa-
days.
Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1909-12-16

In choosing gifts of holiday liter
ture, don't overlook the president s
message.
Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1909-12-16

The sun will make desperate ef-
fort to get out from the clouds today
for the purpose Of warming things up
The snow was melting yesterday aud
it is predicted by the mercury will
not drop for at least a day or two.
The cold wave has passed over this
section and for the next few days
there will be fair, warmer weather
Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1909-12-16

Mrs. Reeve of Miller celebrated her
Tooth birthday on Saturday. She is the
oldest person in this section although
she has close second in Mrs. Sweet
land who is 81.
Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1909-12-16

1t used to be SO that when the farm
ers grew 3 record crop prices We're
adjusted accordingly This year,
which good stuff produced than ever
before, prices are holding higher and
still going up. No wonder every
body IS wanting to buy land,
Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1909-12-16

The per capita supply Of cash in
this county is s34 90. Speaking indi-
vidually we can account for the 9S
cents, but the rest of it must be in
circulation somewhere.
Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1909-12-16

General Englesby has the authorize
tion of a new company of infantry at
Mitchell which will be known as separ-
ate company A. The new company
will be composed of sixty regular men.
The equipment will be shipped from
the permanent barracks at Watertown
within short time and it will but the
matter of few days before the COM
pany is regularly mustered into the SER
vice.
Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1909-12-16

Congressman Burke has appointed
RS. Person secretary of the house
committee on Indian affairs. of which
Mr.. Burke is the chairman.
Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1909-12-16

Horrors! Suppose Santa Clans has
the hookworm!
Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1909-12-16

The Monday evening edition of the
Argus-Leader of Sioux Falls was a
sixty four-page affair and was designa-
ted as the Progressive Trade" edition.
1t Was big undertaking for the publi-
shers but it was a winner.
Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1909-12-16
HEAVY FIRE LOSS.

On Wednesday night of last week
Otis French's barn in Clifton town
ship, Sully county, caught fire from
an overturned lantern and was burned
together with eighty tons of hay, sew
era hundred bushels of grain, six
teen horses, number of calves and
hogs and harnesses, etc.
The barn which was one of the best
in the county was built about five
years ago at a cost of 1000.
1t was insured for S11OO. No in
surance was carried on the stock or
other contents.
Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1909-12-16

An eastern doctor says that peo-
pie ought to chew their soup-which
ought to be easy enough for people
who are in the habit of cracking
hickory nuts with their teeth.
Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1909-12-16

Men have been killed for moose,
deer, rabbits and squirrels, and now
one has been filled full of lead in mis-
take for duck. The only way to
escape is to make noise like fish.
Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1909-12-16

Vice President Sherman is finding
what the fame of vice president
amounts to. A theater employe in
New York didn't know that Sherman
was vice president, and postal en-
ployee at Albany made him identify
himself-and so it is all along the
line. 1t was always SO with vice
presidents, with the possible excep-
tlon of Mr. Roosevelt when he held
that office.
Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1909-12-16
If ship subsidies are beneficial to the

If ship subsidies are beneficial to the
general welfare Of the United States
Of America then we are directly in
favor of ship subsidies. The mere
fact that there are not many ship
owners in South Dakota cuts no ice
with US in in arriving at our conclu-
sion and expressing our sentiments III
the premises.
Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1909-12-16

Why is it that in pictures of hus-
bands and wives on Christmas shop
ping tour together the husband is al
ways smaller than his wife?
Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1909-12-16

1t is reported that 26l deer were
killed in the Black Hills during the
month of November Clearly such q
slaughter cannot indefinitely con
tlnue. The open season should be
reduced to fifteen days and the doe be
absolutely protected permanently.
The next legislature should give its
first attention to this matter if our
natural history is not to be utterly
stripped of this beautiful and harm
less animal.
The Hope pioneer. [volume] (Hope, N.D.) 1882-1964, 1909-07-22
WRiGHTS HAVE RIVAL IN NORTH
DAKOTA.
Driscoli Man Says His Machine Viii
Carry Ten Persons.

Bismarck.-R. N. Metcalf, Driscoll,
is in the city exhibiting a model of the
flying machine, which he has patented
and which he says will put all previ-
Gus efforts Of aviators in the shade.
1t will combine a land conveyance
with an aeroplane, and in case Of it's
descending in water a be navigated
by it's own power to shore. It will
have a plane surface of over 5000 feet
with but 40 horse power motor, and
has devices for simple maintenance of
buoyancy and balance in the air.
He claims his machine will carry
10 persons or their equivalent in
freight. Its propulsive power consist
of eight p%ropellers of new design and
it has a steering gear of original and
simple plan.
In 10 days Metcalf expects to have
a working model large enough to carry
two persons completed at Driscoll
where he has a farm, and is confident
it will be all he claims for. All who
have cen the model are confident Of
it's utility.
The Hope pioneer. [volume] (Hope, N.D.) 1882-1964, 1909-07-22
Successful Ministers.

The successful minister is born, not
made. By the use of whatever tools,
vitalizing though he may be compelled
to- the Oldest and modest conven
lions, he comes to his real work by
virtue of qualities which a theological
education can neither give nor take
away. If he has the soul to endure as
one seeing the invisible, and a heart
to throb in unison with all the varied
humanity about him; and to all this
adds the sense of a high mission and
the burden of a spiritual message, he
need not trouble himself overmuch to
become "socialized." He will find his
true power and WELD it. Into the
striving and sorrow of the world he
will be able to bring something of
peace and comfort; and will be the
better enabled to do it for having
braced his mind by hard study and
fed his spirit by long meditation
while, the fire burns, than by taking
out a card in all the labor unions
from here to California, or running
now here and now there after the
latest sociological fad.-New York
Post.
The Hope pioneer. [volume] (Hope, N.D.) 1882-1964, 1909-07-22
Perhaps from Mars.

Adam and Eve we're not natives OF
this world. Oh, mol They were OF
foreign BIRTH" but when in the full
bloom OF manhood and womanhood
were transplanted to the earth from
another planet. They came at the head
OF a race comprised of ideal types and
coloniZed in the tropical regions.
That was millions of years ago but
how the pioneers Of the human race
ever were carried through space the
author OF the latest theory on the
genesis of man, DR.. Robert Greer OF
haywood, does not state. He said his
knowledge had been revealed to him
in a vision.
adam and Eve and their compan.
ions," he said, come in groups, about
100, 900 in all, and were every one full
grown adults, spirit entities. Their re
ligion was the golden rule" f
DR.. Greer also asserted these first
inhabitants of the earth were di
vinely sent as pioneers, and that they
represented ten different races, five
of which have disappeared by transi
ton.
DR.. Greer said that he was per
fectly willing to give affidavit that he
really had the vision.-New York
Herald.
The Hope pioneer. [volume] (Hope, N.D.) 1882-1964, 1909-07-22
RUSSELL SAGE in HIS OFFICE.
MuItiMillionaire Always. Pleasant
hammered, Except Where Money
Matters Were Concerned.

Russell Sage was VIGOROUSLY mean
in money matters, but the most demo-
cratic of American millionaires, and,
except where his dollars were in
volved, simple and kindly in manner.
At the time of the Northern Pacific
bombshell, in May, 1901, a reporter
called on him to get his explanation of
tn ecorner which ran Northern Pacific
shares of common stock up to $1,000
n day, only to send them crashing
down the next. The reporter called at
his office in Broad street with a letter
OF introduction from a magazine edi-
tor, and, squeezing in the outer office
past a row of implanted dry goods
boxes, which were evidently used for
storing papers in place of a safe, he
found the old millionaire in his rusty
clothes, cheap necktie and frayed
shirt and collar sitting at a little
stand, with nothing before him but a
pencil and a small pad of white paper
scarcely large enough to contain a
trifiing computation in figures. Sage
said he was very busy and asked his
visitor If he could not come to his
house at night.
At the door of the brown stone house
In Fifth avenue, near F~orty-second
street. that night the reporter was
met by Sage himself. He was escort
ed into the back parlor or sitting
room, but was shut off from the front
room by folding doors. At a small ta-
BILE Mrs. Sage sat reading the evening
newspaper, while Sage beckoned the
newspaper man to take a seat beside
him on a low lounge in front of the
folding doors. The springs were
broken OF SO weak that the two fell
close together.
After telling what he knew about
the Northern Pacific panic Sage be-
came reminiscent of his early life, of
the Goulds, Morgan and other men
whose names were on every tongue.
He spoke with the simplicity of a man
accustomed to run a village store. He
told OF Morgan as a young man, who
had introduced into business methods
and ideas that were new and strange
to him and contrary to his early train.
ing, and said he wasn't sure yet,how
it would all come aut. He spoke of
Jay Gould and the journey they had
made together across the continent
Just before Gould completed his pur.
chase of the Missouri Pacific, and ex'
planned that he believed in the semi.
southern route across the continent
rather than the northern one of James
j. Hill because the warmer country
would be more productive and invite
settlers sooner. j.
The Hope pioneer. [volume] (Hope, N.D.) 1882-1964, 1909-07-22
LAUNCH NEW ORGANIZATION,
County Mutual Fire Insurance Com,
panies Make a Good Start.

Devils Lake.-At a meeting of the
representatives of the county mutual
fire insurance companies of the state
the constitution and bylaws which
have been drawn up by the commit
tee appointed last Wednesday, were
adopted.
It was also decided to hold the next
meeting in Devils Lake, July 6 and z,
1910.
The object of the organization is to
further the interests of the mutual
companies throughout the state. The
officers are as follows:
President-M. D. Williams, James
town.
Vice-President-O. G. Nelson, May
Vile.
secretary-Treasurer-M. Magneson,
Souris.
The executive committee is COM
posed of I. Johnson, Of Grand Forks,
and H. Geier, of Pembina, who serve
with the officers Of the association,
they being members ex-officio of the
executive board.
There were fifteen delegates repre-
senting twenty-eight mutual compa-
MES in attendance.