Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1909-07-15

A. THURSDAY, JULY IS,
Praying for the eradication. of mo-
squitos will not accomplish a great
deal. You've simply got to hit 'em
and hit 'em hard.
Another cave, filled with natural
wonders, has been discovered four
miles south Of Rapid City, on the
ranch Of H. 81. Brayman. This new
ly discovered cave is said to equal the
famous Wind cave, near Hot Springs
which the government has made a
resort Of natural and national interest
| Once again the bottom lands along
the Vermillion river are covered with
three to six feet Of water, and thous-
ands of acres Of crops are destroyed.
The river is the highest known for
many years, in fact the old settlers
say that the memorable flood of 1881
is the only instance known of the
river being higher than at the present
time.
| Bishop O'Gorman of the Catholic
diocese of Sioux Falls has submitted
a bid of $50, 100 for the Indian school
at Chamberlain, S, D., and his offer
will be accepted. The Indian appro-
priation bill Of last session authorized
the site of this school, as being one
of the non-reservation schools not
needed by the Indian bureau and the
sale will be made in accordance with
that law.
The bill providing the necessary
machinery for taking the next census
was finally agreed to by both house
and senate last week, and went to the
President. The bill providing s10,-
600, 900 for part Of the work had al
ready passed both branches. The
salary of the director is reduced from
$1,000 to $1,000, and that of his assis
tant was fixed at $1,000. The pay of
clerks was finally fixed at 5000.
Many in the trade regard improve
ment in cattle values as likely. Pork
has reached level almost prohibitive
to consumers and the wonder is that
hog yalues could go to such lofty
level without exerting a sympathetic
infuence on beef. However, it is a
long lane that has no turn, and if this
is really the turn the grower is to be
congratulated, as he has been travel
ing along a seemingly interminable
tangent.
There is an apparent feeling all
over the state, that after all the Mrs
Kaufman trial has resulted in no
definite type of Justice. If the wo-
man had have been fully exonerated
the verdict would have been more
acceptable to the people at
large, even though large proportion
of them believe she committed the
deed for which she was tried. The
general opinion is that she is guilty
but that her husbands money has Sc
cured her acquittal.
Several tracts of land, belonging to
the estates of deceased Indian allot-
tees, were offered for sale last Thurs
day at the Cheyenne Agency. But
two tracts were disposed of by th e
government, the bids for other tracts
being below the appraised valuation,
and few were for more than ST per
acre, while no bids were filed for i've
| tracts. j. E. Thorn bought $40 acres
loacated mile from Capa, paying
| $4,000, said to be desirable tract of
agricultural land.
Boston has launched q project for
great world s fair in 1920, to com
memorate the 300th anniversary of
the landing of the Pilgrims and the
founding of New England. The Her
aid, with great enthusiasm, takes up
the movement and says: ''In 1920,
sixteen years will have passed sinc
the preceding great exposition in
this country, that of st. Louis, which
commemorated the Louisiana pur-
chase; twenty years will have. .passed
since the preceding great exposition
in Europe, that of Paris in 1900. The