Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1909-07-01
The South Dakota State Fair will
be held at Huron September 10 to II.

People talk about the things they
know something Of, and the tariff is
the exception that.goes to prove the
rule.
The Northwestern is to build a new
depot at Aberdeen, and Huron won
ders why it is not entitled to a new
station first.
The predicted thunder showers for
yesterday failed to materialize and
today is picked as second chance for
rain by the weather man.
That Nebraska inventor whose aero
plane failed to work was not the first,
Nebraskan who came down out of
the clouds with bump.
Down south they aren't puzzling
their heads about the question,
What is whiskey? The bothersome
question down there is, Where is
whiskey?
Il Earthquake shocks were felt
through the south of France on the
night of June II. Iii some of the vii
lagos many houses were destroyed
and about 100 persons were killed.
Senator Crawford and Congressman
Burke have secured the pledge of
| Vice-President Sherman that he will
speak at the state fair at Huron, pro-
vided congress adjourns by July Is.
Reports from Chamberlain say that
the Missouri at that place is the high
est it has been for 26 years. Farmers
on the Missouri bottoms below here
stand in grave danger of losing valu-
able crops if that is the case
The largest American flag ever
made has just been completed for use
IN Pittsburg on July 4th. The flag
measures S0x160 feet in size and it
required twelve thousand eight hun
dred square feet of cloth to make it.
Maybe Senator Aldrich thinks the
little fellows are not worth protect
ing, that it is only question of time
befnre they will be swallowed up
anyway, and it might be well to put
them out Of their misery without I'M
necessary delay.
1t is announced that Vice-P President
Sherman will visit the South Dakota
State Fair at Huron this fall and de-
liver an address. 1t is eminently
proper that "Sunny jim" should
come out and mingle with the sunny
hosts of the Sunshine State"
And now it is becoming regretfully
apparent that the fruit crop in this
section will not return SO large divi.
dends as was hoped six weeks ago.
It must be the late frosts affected the
plum, cherry and apple trees more
seriously than appearance indicated
at the time it touched them with it's
chilling blight.
| The state board of railroad com
missioners adopted a new schedule of
express rates for South Dakota. Re
cent meetings held by the board paw
ed the way for the presentation of
new schedules, which were prepared
with view to fully comply with an
act of the legislature last winter,
which requires the railroad commits
sioners to put into effect July / a new
schedule of express rates, which
should be reduction Of 20 per cent
from the rates in effect January
| last.
Farmers in Lyman county are
complaining about the destruction of
a number of horses by the authorities
on account of CHAMBERS. They claim
they should be reimbursed by the
state for the losses they incur on &C
count of the killing Of their horses,
but there is no state law providing
/ for such reimbursement An attempt
was made at the last legislative SEES
sion to secure law to authorize the
county commissioners to pay for
horses killed on account of contag-
ious diseases, but it failed to get
through, and there is no means of col
lecting for such losses.