Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1909-07-29

A. THURSDAY, JULY %.
Capt. Mossman, who purchased 500
head OF horses in the locality during
the month. for the government, is
now experimenting the issue of horses
at the Cheyenne Agency, to Indians.
Grover Cleveland was censured
when president for his exercise of the
veto power, but great many people
will admit now that Cleveland was
bigger than his party. History may
repeat itself.
The appearances of railroad sur
veycrs ten or fifteen miles north of
Miller is causing some excitement.
1t is supposed to be in the interest of
the Northwestern line from Onida to
Hitchcock.
The old saying that few persons
die while holding official positions,
and none design, is not quite true.
James Fl. Bosher, postmaster at
Rapid City, has forwarded his resig-
nation to Washington.
Sioux Falls Press: Congress has
approved bill permitting the con
struction of railroad bridge at Lee
Beau, S. D. the expected crossing Of
the M. & St. L. railroad, bit of legis-
lation that may be as important to
South Dakota as the whole tariff bill.
The Forest City Press says that
G. B. Ingham of Miles City, Mont,
subcontractor, arrived Monday with
900 head of mares which are being al
lotted to the Indians at the rate of
about 200 day. Another bunch of
about 100 was brought in from sully
county and taken across the river.
The people of Pierre who joined in
the construction of a summer lodge"
in Rapid gulch, are generally taking
advantage of this means for an in
expensive summer outing. The
families of the members go out for
stay of several weeks, and the heads
of the families run out for over Sun
day.
1t is probable that secretary
treasurer Of the Missouri River Navi-
cation congress will be elected by. q
mail vote among the members of the
executive council. Omaha, which
has the next convention, has been
allowed tc name the candidate, and
it is generally understood that Will
liam A. Campbell Of Sioux City, will
be the man.
Harvesting has commenced gener-
ally in the central part of the state.
and the crop returns promise to be
the best the farmers Of this section
have ever reaped. This section, while
having plenty of rain this year to
mature magnificent crop, has not
been troubled with an oversupply, as
has the eastern portion.
The interests on state funds for the
month of June amounted to 81, sos, SO,
which If it were an average month
would make the interest for a year
come to $4,000. This pretty good
showing in view of the fact that the
amount of money in the treasury is
not so great as it has been sometimes,
for Treasurer Johns on has been clean
ing up the state debts as rapidly as
possible.
That colony of Sioux Indians will
remove from the Da kotas to an I'M
!
settled tract of land i'm Nicaragua is
declared by Little Bison, Sioux
chief, just back from bluefelds. He
went to Nicaragua to arrange for the
land with President Zelaya. Little
Bison declares he will Immediately
take 100 Indian families to Nicaragua
and that his COLONY will soon be in
creased by the addition of several
hundred other families of North
American Indians.
South Dakota IS public schools cost
annually in the neighborhood of 3d.
500, 900 and about one-ifth of that
amount comes from the state school
fund. With 100000 acres of land
gradually coming on the market at
$40 an acre average, it is easy to see
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