Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1909-04-08


Rapid City.
Mrs. Olson and daughter of Mime
apolis. are visiting friends in the city.
Miss Nina Pettigrew of Belle
Fourche, is guest at the Breeder
home
Forest Eager, who is a student at
the Vermillion University, arrived
home yesterday.
Hon. J l.. Wing6eld, private sec
rotary to Governor Robert S Vessey,
was in the city yesterday on his way to
Hot Springs, on business trip.
State Treasurer Johnson has called
for the fourteenth general warrants
up to and including March 10, being
to register number No. 9.e79, amount
ing to over $500 900.
During the past week there have
been hfty-tive licenses issued to the
owners of automobiles. With the ex-
| ception Of four machines all the licsns-
es were issued to individual owners.
The people of Buffalo county are
attempting to secure pledges from
land owners to pay a certain cash bonus
for an extension of the Milwaukee's
washington Springs line to Pierre. 1t
is purely farmer move.
| Dr.. Stevenson, the VOL. known eye,
ear, nose and throat specialist of Sioux
Falls and assistant, will be in Pierre,
Tuesday, April Goth, to 4 y. M Wed
nesday, Apr. 9th, at the Locke lotsl.
Glasses also fitted correctly
J. d. Deets, accompanied by r. G.
Taylor, Harry Vessey, George Hum
pooh and Guy Rummel, left Tuesday
for Forest City. These men will as
sist Major Deets in the work of al
lotting lands at the Cheyenne Indian
reservation.
Sunday was palm Sunday. the celebra-
ton of the triumphant advent Of Christ
into Jerusalem. Every member of
Immaculate Conception church who
was present at the morning services
was given q palm leaf, a custom long
established in the church.
Governor Robert S. Vessey has ex-
tended an Invita- ton to the people of
North Dakota, through Governor
Burke of that state, to join with the
people of South Dakota in the Dako-
ia homecoming celebration to be held
in Aberdeen June Is, II and IS.
n. M. Hanson, of the state land
: department., returned Saturday from
trip to Meade county with party
who went out to look after state
capital lands. The party took $500
: acres at a price nearly ten dollars an
) acre, the total amounting to 1000
Pierre apitol-Journa
Fred Villas, we'll known and eX.
perienced druggist, has purchased
the Black Hawk drug store, formerly
conducted by G. w. Richardson. Mr.
Villas has been engaged in the drug
!, business at Brookings, and will con
tinue the business here under the
name of the Black Hawk Drug Co.
A prairie fire which burned over a
strip Of country southwest of Pierre
Saturday evening and was driven by
a heavy wind and destroyed the build
ings on ten or dozen claims before
! it was stopped The fire started
from building which caught from .
stovepipe, and was almost impossible
to get under control on account OF
the gale.
Bishop Robt. Mcintyre, one OF
America s greatest orators, will oc
cupy the pulpit at the morning ser
l vices at the Methodist church Apri
$ Is. In the evening he will speak al
! the opera house. On Monday even
: ing, April 10, he will speak at tn,
opera house, taking for his subject
f "Buttoned Up People
: H. A. Ustrud, state superintendent
has issued a call for state meeting
> Of county superintendent, to be hel(
in Pierre, April 26 to Is. Judge G. S
! Whiting, Governor Vessey, NJ. NJ
| Kramer, city superintendent, are pro
= grained for addresses. The state de
y partment will put forth their best en-
deavors to make the meeting full o
n interest to everyone.
K Allottlng Agent j. D. Deets, lef
t this city Tuesday with his force fol
: the summer work on Cheyenne Rive
Reservation. They will first clear III
the work on that portion of the reserve
s which is to be opened this fall, which
n will take about two months. Afte
that they will go upon that portion
of the reserve, which remains to tn,
Indians, and this work will take NOR
than a year to complete, carrying
over into next summer. The fore