Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1909-12-09

The Sioux Falls papers are quarreling
over the postmastership.
Central America revolutionists should
always have dead American or two on
their side
Now that Patten has corner in
cotton, people are beginning to boil
him out again.
And now President Taft has con-
gress on his hands again and Uncle
Joe has the insurgents on his hands
If Jas. ]. Hill hasn't warned us
against something, will that something
please stand up and move that the warm
ing be made unanimous.
The Indianapolis News says that the
intelligence of the country is behind
the insurgents however much Mr. Aid
rich may explain or Mr. Cannon rage
The Wright brothers are starting an
aeroplane factory. If the time ever
comes to make it advisable. the stock
will not be watered-it will be aerated.
In the past few, very few, of those
who have lived their lives and ac-
CURED their wealth in this city have
left any thing to Pierre by which
they will be remembered.
Lords who are almost strangers in
parliment repaired thither to vote a.
gainst the budget If the Liberals have
their way these lords will retire to OBJ
security permanently.
IT'S said the Italians invented news
papers, Were probably brought into
being as a medium to chronicle Marco
Polo's big game stunts in far-off lands
at a ducat word.
The United States government has
370,064 employees, as against 3o6, l4l in
1907, an increase in the two years of
about64, OO0persons, or about 20 per cent
The number employed in the city of
Washington is %, 974.
Spain is an old nation, but appar-
emily she has not yet learned the old
lesson that when you shoot down one
honest complainer against conditions
you raise up 20 in his place. Vir-
glnia hanged John Brown and raised
up two armies for civil war.
It's an i'll wind that blows nobody
good. Missouri game Wardens seized
in three days 5000 ducks which were
killed in southern Missouri and Arkan-
sas and consigned to commission firms
and market men in st. Louis and turn ed
them over to the hospitals and chart
table institutions of that city.
The railroad strike reminds US again
how good the good old farm is, where a
man can plant enough seed in day to
keep his family in farm produce for a
year. Of course he must get his ground |
ready first and cultivate and harry est |
the crop afterwards = butnever- the less
it is an independent and reliable way to
get food.
The house committee has returned |
from Panama with wonderful story of |
progress in the digging Of the bgg est
and costliest waterway in history. It's
successful completion will mark Col |
Goethal S as a hydraulic engineer of the |
first rank and deserving Of the fame
that will cling to him as long as this |
great work is remembered.
There are some strong hints that the
trouble IN Nicaragua is mainly a fruit |
trust war between the Nicaraguan Fruit |
company, native enterprise and the
United Fruit company, controlled by |
citizens of the United States. Pres-
dentZelaya gave an important concess-
ion which both parties wanted to the
native company and forthwith there was
a revolution"
An Omaha flour mill has been ship
ping -four to Minneapolis. Those
Minneapolis millers must be doing
some funny stunts with their local