Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1910-08-25
There Is fear of loss OF life in the
forest fires of Idaho

/
ed by the insurgents in Kansas.
Uncle Joe Cannon says he will
again be candidate for the speaker
| ship.
Lawyers have reaped harvest at
the expense of Oklahoma Indians.
| The mayor Of Ell Paso, Tex, was
| killed by falling wall during a fire. E
| Exposition buildings at Brussels
| burned, entailing loss Of $6,000,000
to $10,00O,00O.
President Taft is to get rid of his
political Jonahs, beginning with Bal
| linger September Is.
Great Brtains new battleship, the
Lion, is to be the biggest and fastest
naval fighter in the world.
If Mayor Gaynor RECEIVERS he will
probably be the democratic nominee
| for governor of New York.
| Fire in the warehouse district Of
Jersey City, New York, caused dam
age estimated at s1,000,000.
| Fire in the warehouse district Of
Jersey City, New York, caused dam
| age estimated at $1,000,000.
| The speech of Speaker Cannon at
Cissta Park, ILL.,, contained little of
| his oldtime vigorous statements.
| President Taft is determined that
| Speaker Cannon be srelegated and
Vice President Sherman comedies.
Moissant, the American aviator,
made daring flight across the Eng
fish channel, carrying a passenger
David Rankin, jr., who recently
gave away his fortune estimated at
more than 100000 died at Atlantic
City.
! Colonel Joseph B. Hughes, former
head of the Continental Tobacco Co.,
was declared insane by sheriff S
jury.
The population of Canada on March
81, last was 7,4S9,7S1, according to
the estimate of the census depart
ment.
The interior department is prepar-
ing data for President Taft in regard
to the five civilized tribes of Okla
| homa
The independent democratic state
committee of Tennessee has called a
convention of the party to be held in
| Nashville on September IA.
The governmental naval bill to be
laid before the Reichstag this autumn
will ask for an appropriation to build
three battleships and one battleship
| cruiser.
Four hundred Punjabis and Hindus
have sailed from Calcutta for San
Francisco according to advices which
reached the department Of commerce
and labor.
Deputy Sheriff Fred Heiseke of
Granite City, Ill.,, shot and killed
Samuel Morgan, a man whom he had
arrested by mistake in an attempt to
quell a disturbance.
The population of Pittsburg, Pa, is
533,9O5, an increase of S2,393, or 1872
| per cent, as compared with the com
bined population of Pittsburg and Al
legheny of 451,512 in 1900.
j American trade with Japan may be
seriously affected, in part at least
when the duties in the new japanese
tariff law will go into effect. This
fear was expressed in statement by
the state department.
The coal lands in North and South
Dakota, amounting to about million
acres, which were recently with
drawn from the public domain by
/ President Taft, have been opened to
homestead settlement.
One of the principal reasons for the
slump in the sale of automobiles in
the rural districts is that the farm.
ers begin to realize that the upkeep
1 of machines is many times more than
what was represented by statesmen
and dealers, and only recently rubber
tires have advanced 20 per cent and
the promise of still another advance
in fact there is no limit scarcely ex
cept prohibitive ono to what tires
can be advanced under the Rubber
Trust. One agent says, II venture tc
say we will not again sell to the farm
ers to any extent until prices of ma
chimes and supplies, in the manner
Of upkeep, tires, etc, are greatly re
4 duced"
4 Four persons were killed and three
4 were seriously injured when south
bound passenger train on the, Lake
Erie & Western railroad struck al
automobile at crossing one mile
east of Rochester, Indiana.
4 Mrs. Judith Ellen Horton Foster
noted throughout the country as {
temperance lecturer and writer ant
advocate of missions and philanthro
q ply. died in Garfield hospital II
4 Washington.
4 All the indictments returned las
year against Jafet Ltndberg. the
q Alaska and California mining mil
q lionaire in connection with an alleged
false aff1davit made by one Of hi
miners, have been dismissed.
For nearly three hours Presiden
4 Taft and Vice President Sherman
talked over the defeat of Col. Theo
dore Roosevelt by the New Yorl
state republican committee and The
+, selection of Mr.. Sherman as tenn