Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1909-11-25

| Rapid Creek with million and a
| quarter trout this fall. Out of this
number 10000 will be placed in the
! creek at Hisega, the Pierre summer
camp, promising fishing in the future
1 at that place.
/ Mitchell-The fraternal insurance
which has been carried by the Order
! OF Home Guardians of this city, has
been underwritjen by the Loyal Amer
leans of the Republic, with headquar-
| tiers at Springfield, Ill.
NordenThe Bank of Norden at this
place was burglarized last Friday
morning and all the cash on hand
about $1,000 was taken. There were
at least three members of the gang
and after the robbery they escaped in
an easterly direction.
Lead--A suit was filed in the federal
court of Deadwood for $4,000 dam
i7ages by the Homestake Mining COM
pany against the Lead Miners union,
charging the union with interfering
with the company's employees in eff
forts to organize the workers.
Pierre-State Engineer Lea has
been requested by the district engine
er in Minnesota to furnish him copies
of the water laws Of South Dakota,
| as the state of Minnesota is cortem-
plating legislation looking to the con-
troll and conservation of water power
by the state.
Wakonda-A volunteer fire company
was organized this week and the fol-
lowing officers elected: Fire chief,
Wallace Wright, assistant chief, Joe
Perry; secretary, P. G. Estee. The
many destructive fires have alarmed
the citizens and they propose to be
as we'll prepared as possible.
Presho-The officers of the State
Federation of Commercial clubs. which
holds its third annual meeting at this
place Tuesday, January Ii, have just
had a meeting With the local club for
the purpose OF laying plans to the sue
cess of the coming meeting. Messrs
c. l.. Millet, president and Warren
Young. chairman of the executive
committee and Granville Jones, state
secretary were the visitors.
Pierre-Four years ago, John Olson
of Fort Pierre had the contract for
carving the mail from this city for
west river points, and carried it in
zone lone pouch, on his back from the
postoffice to his boat to ferry it over
In two years he needed drays to
handle it. and the government releas-
ed him from his contract Now it
takes the service of two mail trains
a. day to handle it With the mail
clerks busy all along the line.
. Pierre-Day and kingsbury counties
today made rmeittances to the game
fund which show that the hunting is
a popular pastime in these counties
Day remitted as one-half the collec-
tions for August, September and Cc-
tober, SS2S. kingsbnry RENTED Oc-
tober collections to the amount of
S542. When all the counties report in
full the state will have a good sized
fund to back up that department.
adwood-Hunters are not meet
ing with much success this month In
deer hunting in the Black Hills From
every section comes a. wall that deer
are plentiful but hard to get at and
few are killed. The absence of snow
this fai has made it so dry that the
deer can hear anyone coming for some
distance ana the hunter who gets
within gunshot is fortunate Many of
the regular deer hunters have not
gone out this year on this account.
Pierre-Articles of n incorporation
were filed here for the Doland &
Railway company with a
capital of $4,000 and headquarters at
Huron. The incorporates are Marvin
jHughitt William A. Gardner, John NJ. 4
Whitman, Richard H. Ashton, Josiah
Fl. Cleveland, John D. Caldwell of Chi
cago and A. K Gardnerof Huron The
line is to be forty miles in the, coun-
ties, of Sphinx and Beadle, extending
from Doland to 'Iroqouis.
Sioux Falls-Dr. A. Zetlitz, who
with DR. Stedworthy of Viborg has
been in the Black Hills on a hunting
trip since the first of the month has
reached his home in this city. Each
ofsthe doctors brought with them two
fine deer asia result of their trip, 1
which is the limit allowed by law.
Dr!8Zetl;tz says that they saw a large
number of deer, but at first the ami
mails were mighty shy and it took a
number of days before they could
get within shooting distance.
s Lead-In answer to a lang felt
want, the Lead City. Boosters club
hassdecided TO ask the government to
phuiid a, wagon road across the Black
Hills national forest east and west.
The. farmers and others living along
the4route of the proposed road now
haul their grain and materials from
fifty to sixty miles to a market and
are too scattered to build the road
themselves. Such a road would also
ingress to the fishing and hunting
fields for tourists and a possible stage
and mail route to Newcastle, Wyo. i
H4ronThe organization of a new
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