Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1909-06-03

rust controlled statesmen have been
Dad actors from the beginning.
Yankton proposes to erect S25, ly
100 auditorium in which to hold con- tie
Jentions and other public gatherings be
which will meet there. M
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The Missouri river has shown q ice
rise Of over two feet here in the past b,
lwenty-four hours and is yet coming he
up, and is over the S-foot mark this Sc
evening. fo
The fall OF rain west Of the river ~
''''s week was nothing sllofV oi IRE. di
mendous. A portion of the city of -,
Deadwood was inundated during
Monday. -
1t will take seven million of dollars al
to fortify the Panama canal after we N
get it built, but this is sum Of mon u
ely we will not have to spend for some pr
years to come. al
William Jennings Bryan will open III
the Chautauqua season at Watertown OF
July /, with an address unusual Ell
ly good program has been arranged
for the Chautauqua this year. Ell
The Fourth Of July is now only four I'll
weeks aWay-though the furnace fires II
are not yet out-and it is about time CT
to start up the campaign in behalf of
another sane and sensible celebration OF
Gov. Hughes, of New York, can
express an opinion about as clearly as
any public man in the country. Fur. q,
thermore, he can hold to it as valiant
ly. AS Hughes goes, SO go host of ~
people.
The trial of Mrs Emma Kaufman,
with the murder of her do
nestle, Agnes Polreis, has been com
at E'landreau. Judge William -,
G. Rice, Of Deadwood, will preside at ~
the new trial. 40
Where does the consumer come ec
in! inquiries the Dayton News. The u
LIST OF the month, when the bills come III
in. That's when the consumer looms M
up IN his solitary grandeur, the big al
gest man in the country I'll
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The town of Farmingdale, this
state, was struck by tornado Friday ~,
evening. Many buildings were wreck -
ed and Geographic and telephone lines g.
were blown down. No reports Of in -
juries have been received.
We will know more about the tariff n
bill next year than we do at this time. ",
Manitestly it is being revised chiefly cs
with the view of assisting special in of
terests both north and south. Selfish IL
ness is at the root of the movement. ia
bt
We visited the capital city this in
week and beheld it just as spring is
forth in all it's loneliness
That Pierre is going to be the pride
OF South Dakota in a short time can tt
not be doubted if you go and look it 81
over at this time.-Capa Hustler. A
The press dispatches announce that
the governor of Oklahoma has ap- lC
pointed former Sioux Falls gentle b.
f, | q
the supreme bench of that state Mr.. Ell
Smith left some years ago and now
hobs up as one of the supreme court al
judges Of the new state of Oklahoma. II
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We have known of else elections in Vi
the past, but the A. O. U. W. of p
South Dakota certainly has all re-" Il
cords beaten. The master workman
was elected by one majority out of *
1 200 votes cast. The victor thus re- Il
ceived one-tenth Of one per cent more .
votes than his defeated rival. la
international arbitration seems to L
be some distance in the future, if in 8
fact it is ever realized Last week
the British cabinet decided to build u
four more dreadnaughts, and France y
adopted naval program which will =
insure her fourth place among the
naval powers Of the world.
In the course of his remarks at the Il
Alaska Y oukon-Pacitic exposition on G
Monday, discussing the recent wheat r
corner, j. j Hill Of the Great North t.
ern, said: "It is mistake to say
James a. Patten cornered the wheat d
market. Here is merely case of s.
man taking advantage of an oppor- Il
tunity. 1t has been but few years
since it was estimated that the aver e
age consumption Of wheat per annum r