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

Prosperity has arrived, according tc
The figures furnished by the depart
4 nent Of commerce and labor.
1 Premier Asquith announced In the
house of commons that on November
he would move for the rejection en-.
|hrely of the house of lords amend
ments to the Irish land bill.
The vacancy left by the death of E.
Il. Hartman in the directorate of the
/ Delaware & Hudson company was
filled by the election of Former Judge
Robert s. Lovett.
!! Modern Greece is apparently in
/ LANCER from the rapid emigration to
the United States on the part Of the
young men.
Believing that prohibition in the
south is beneficial, Congressman wy
att F. Aiken of South Carolina, de-
clared he would introduce a bill for
prohibition in the District of Colum-
bia at the next session of congress.
Rev. Frederick H. Ward. pastor of
the Baptist church at Freewater.
Ore, pleaded guilty of bigamy and
was sentenced to five years in the
/ washington penltentlary.
| The Prince and Princess Kuni of
Japan have communicated through
Mr.. Matsui, the Japanese charge
d'affaires, their thanks to the Amer
lean people for the generous hospital
lily which they received while in this
country to attend the Hudson-Fulton
celebration in New York.
| The late Senator Patrick H. McCar-
rem, in his will leaves all his property,
real estate and personal, to his aged
mother. Mrs. Mary McCarren. The
estate is estimated at $4,000.
A dinner attended by about 500 per-
sons was rendered at Philadelphia by
the Manufacturers club, under whose
auspices the visitors came to Phila-
delphia.
Resolutions eulogizing Professor
Ferrer and condemning the officials re-
sponsible for his execution in Spain
t were adopted at mass meeting in
Detroit.
Ex-President Roosevelt has sent a
story of his exploits in killing wild
beasts of East Africa.
hS odlC VI Iuc SullSIldu SIdulpS
furnished by the Red Cross society
will begin about the middle of Novem-
Der, and it is expected that several
thousand dollars will be realized by
the Nebraska Society for the Study
and Prevention of Tuberculosis.
VIM. Engle won first chance at the
Aberdeen land drawing. His chance
was worth $4,000. But Engle had
thought so little of his luck that he
filed on some land in Trip county,
thereby losing his right to the Aber-
deem land.
Daniel Edwin Hurley, an actor and
singer connected with the Dolly Var.
den company, New York, insane over
religion, built circle of fire on the
street and stood in the center of it
to burn to death.
Washington.
Lieutenant Frank P. Lahm, who
gained international fame by winning
the James Gordon Bennett cup in
Europe last year for the longest fights
in a dirigible balloon, has been re-
lieved from detail in the signal corps
and ordered to report to his cavalry
regiment
Lieutenant Frank p. Lahm, who
gained international fame by winning
the James Gordon Bennett cup in Eu.
rope in 1906 for the longest flights
in dirgible balloon, has been re,
lieved from detail in the signal corps
and ordered to reoprt to his cavalry
regiment.
Break up the importers graft" is
the slogan Of the treasury department
and it's customs collectors just now.
With the school OF aeronautics at
Omaha, Neb., closed for the winter,
three sof the officers who were in at
tendance have been ordered back to
their commands in other branches of
the army.
Frank Valley Perkins, acting SUI
|perintendent OF the United States
coast and geodotic survey, was sus-
pended without pay and John j.. Gil
bert, inspector of photography and
topography, reduced from $4,000 to
$4,000 a year as the result Of charges
of administrative irregularities.
- oSSASkdAy glAodsllu6SAirf SASSiSAeitSu,a DIS
being subject ta aDosition under the
enlarged home G..., approximately 1885,
$40 acres OF land in Sun Dance dis
trict, Wyoming. This makes a total
Of IL, 145,280 acres thus designated in
this state. Under the enlarged home
stead bill, settlers are given the right
to 800 instead Of a60 acres.
The secretary Of the interior has
designated approximately s. 9,44O
acres in townships So to 5s. north,
range 60 to 60 west, in Wyoming. as
subject to disposition under the en-.
larged homestead law. This makes a
total Sof I2,145.2SO acres in wyoming
designated 70 date.
Personal
Judge Gaynor was elected mayor OF
New York. with Barnard second and
Hearst bringing in the rear.
Judge Lurton is rewarded as the
most likely man to succeed Justice