Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1909-11-18

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November report of treasurer puts
state debt at $766, 900.
Another land opening in prospect
in Pine Ridge reservation.
State department won't meddle with
the North Pole controversy, Another
signal example of clean diplomacy.
Roar of Cannon Welcome Taft
reads the headline Up this way the
roar of Cannon is regarded as welcome
to anybody.
The interest collections on public
funds for October amount to $8l5. so,
which has been returned into the state
general fund.
That Thanksgiving turkey will
taste all the better because you had
been led to believe you couldn't buy
it on account of prohibitive prices.
The simpleton who rocks the boat to
frighten the girls has ended his season
for this year-but the fellow who
'"thoughtit it was deer" will soon be
at large.
Safe blowers nave just robbed a
steamship safe. Very likely the mis-
creants first broke into the boiler room
to get a crowbar, and made their es-
cape in the captains gig.
Austria has invented an aerial tor
pedo that will smash a balloon 1000
feet in the air. Now up to someone to
invent torpedo net for balloons or an
armor plated parachute.
The Gettysburg News tells of Sully
county farmer, H. A. Brooking, who
came down town last week with nine
wagons heavily loaded with grain to
which he hitched gasoline eugine.
The net proceeds of the wagon train
amounted to $1,000
There is a feeling in the United
States. which is growing very rapidly
in the last few years, that notwith-
standing all that has been done to
build up manufacturing the farmer
runs, after all, the best end OF it;
that not only the health but the
money is i'll the country; and many a
toWnsman, regrettlng that he cast
his lot in the city, is now trying to
get back to the land.
South Dakota, at least the greater
part OF 1T, is just as good farm land as
Iowa or Illinois, while it can be bought
at only half the price and the Hawkeyes
and the Suckers are finding it out and
selling their $4,000 per acre land and
investing it here. This season at least,
South Dakota's big corn crop was out of
the way of frost two or three weeks
ahead of Iowa. Only kind Providence
saved Iowa this season though as a
rule she gets ahead of Jack Frost.
South Dakota land is bound to double
and that very soon. Son The Cars"
Many people will be surprised to hear
that John Tyler, the tenth President
OF the United States, has surviving
son in the president of the ancient COL
lege of William and Mary in Virginia
DR.. G. Tyler. The Tyler estate was on
the James River, and the farmer Pre-
.sident fancifully called it Sherwood
Forest and himself Robin Hood. In an
article soon to appear in the Youths
Companion Doctor Tyler gives some
charming reminiscenion of him, and
pictures the bright DAYS of Virginia be-
fore the war.-Youths Companion.
An exchange puts it this way: 1--WE
live in a land of high mountains and
high taxes, low valleys and low
wages, big crooked rivers and big
crooked statesmen, big lakes, big
pumpkins, big men with pumpkin
heads, silver streams that gambol in
the mountains, and pions politicians
that gamble in the night, roaring
cataracts and roaring orators, fast
trains, fast horses, fast young men,
sharp lawyers, sharp financiers, and
sharp toed shoes, noisy children, fer
tile plains that lie like a sheet OF
water, and a thousand newspapers
that lie like thunder
Congressman Burke has gone out
into the country along White river in