Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1909-02-18

.ERRE. SOUTH DAKOTA.
Murdo has voted sl2 900 waterworks
bonds.
The cautious man would always win
out it the unexpected didn't happen
SO often.
The airship operated by wireless
electricity looks like the last word,
. but one can't be sure.
Taft, 32l; Bryan, l62-lt looks bad i,
but the democrats should cheer up.
Mr. Bryan says the democratic pros
| pect for success in 1912 is brighter
than ever before.
A warm south wind, sunny sky
and the thermometer about 40 degrees
above zero. Wasn't that fine: That
was the sort of Il wave which blew
over this section yesterday.
A bulletin from the Lick observa-
tory warns the world of the presence
of the deadly poison, cyanogen gas,
in the tail of the Morehouse comet.
Persons out at night should avoid
breathing the tail of this comet.
Up at Mellette in Sphinx county the
old SETTLERS celebrate with a picnic
every winter. This year the celebra-
ton occurred on the 10th and was a
pleasant out door affair with shirt
waists, shirt sleeves and other sum
merry attractions.
Between the senatorial deadlock
and the contested gubernatorial cleo
tion the Illinois legislature is not go
ing to have much time for legislation.
| Maybe this is why the Illinois public
is accepting the existing situation
with such apparent resignation.
Excuse all mistakes in this week S
paper, says the Ritzville News, as the
editor is sick and the Office devil did
the writing. We will try and have a
better sheet next week, as by that
time the editor will be either better
or dead.
The senate has passed the bill for
the election of county commissioners
by districts as we used to do. We do
not know as it makes much difference
but commissioner is likely to be Il
bit more independent and to consider
the interests of the whole county
rather than of his own little baliwicl
when elected at large.
The people in the vicinity of San
sarc, in Stanley county, northwest of
Fort Pierre, have raised the necessary
funds for creamery, and the mater
la Tor the structure is being hauled
out. The settlers in that section il
they stick to the COW and the hen as
factor i'll their agricultural opera
tlons can be assured Of steady in
come.
At the head of the Roosevelt club
OF st. Paul, one of the foremost po-
lltlcal organizations of the country.
the Fourth Infantry band, South Da-
kota National guard, of Watsrtown,
Will march in the inaugural parade
at Washington, D. c., March 4, the
day Oh which William Howard Taft
will succeed Theodore Roosevelt as
president Of the United States.
supporters of tine state wide nerd
law, which was defeated in the senate
Monday by vote OF 20 ayes to "a
nays, claim to have discovered an
error in the count by the secretary
Oh roll call, and are row asserting
that the vote was a tie. Led by Hare
they will try quietly for reconsider
alton to correct the error. Failing in
this they will demand an inyestiga-
ton.
Homesteaders will not be in SO
great haste to sell their claim shanties
after proving up as they have been in
the past. 1t is said that it has not
been unusual for one shanty to prove
up several claims in succession Here
after patents will not issue until
special agent has visited the home
stead to discover what evidences of
good faith exist. 1t is assumed that
house to live in will be deemed
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