Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1909-04-29
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The Tennessee state senate has
passed a bill prohibiting the sale of in
toxicating liquors on railroad trains.
Good crops are already being pre-
dicted for North Dakota before they
are planted There is noting that can
beat the N. D. optimist.
Col. James w. Caperton, personal
friend of Abraham Lincoln, lawyer
and banker, died at his home at Rich
mond, KY, aged eighty-five years.
Former Vice President Charles W.
Fairbanks, accompanied by Mrs. Fair
banks, sailed for tho Orient from San
Francisco last week on the Japanese
liner Chiyo Maru.
Stephen Barho, Brooklyn house
painter, whose back was broken by a
fall of twenty feet in White Plains on
April /, is rapidly recovering. Barno
was paralyzed from the hips down.
The Denver professional women
passed resolution denouncing the
police force for an order prohibiting
restaurants with liquor licenses from
serving unescorted women after 8
p. m.
Farmers throughout the Canadian
west are becoming alarmed at the
continued cold weather, which is seri-
ously interfering with the commence
ment of wheat seeding operations.
Seeding is undeniably late.
The New York Aeronautical society
of New York has voted to offer prizes
aggregating $4,000 for distance and
speed, to be competed for at an aero
plane tournament on the Norris Park
race track the latter part Of May.
Northeastern Iowa millers in con-
vention at Waterloo to plan way for
i bringing Iowa into the wheat raising
Industry. That state was once the
great Middle West wheat center, but
now ocorn takes the preference. The
flour men will cooperate with the ag,
Iricultural college in bringing about
this condition.
| When Henry Seltner, German
| farmer of the western outskirts OF
Chicago was presented with three
baby boys by his wife a few days age
/ he decided to perpetuate the glory OF
1 the Republican leaders and named the
iEoys Theodore Roosevelt Seltner, VIII
/ liam Howard Taft Seltner and Charles
S., Deneen Seltner.
From present Indications it is ap
4 parent that any move the Iowa Cen
/ trail expects to take regarding the
moving of its general shops from Mar
sllalltown to Oskaloosa or enlargins
the plant there has been indefjnitel.
i postponed. Master Mechanic Gosset
has received orders to work the shop:
i to their fullest capacity.
Gov. George Leavens Lilley died a
Hartford after battling with disease
4 for four weeks. The governar die
mot regain consciousness from thu
coma In which he laid for many hours
The attending physicians announce
/ that the Immediate cause Of death wa:
i toxi-senlia, the result of acute nephri
i tbs, with valvular disease and hyper
| trophy.
i Owing to the long drouth In the fa
4 western part of Texas hundred of cat
| tie are dying on the ranges, TIL,
4 grass has all been eaten and tn,
/ plains for many miles appear as /;
barren waste, no rain having fallel
i for Ave months in some localities.
i satisfied that the foot and mouth dis
ease in cattle, sheep, other ruminant
and swine has been completely eradi
lcated in the United States, Secrctar.
LOT Agriculture Wilson has issued d,
slorder releasing the entire countr,
i from the federal quarantine on accoun
I OF that disease.