Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1910-06-09
Those desiring taller timbers can
find it in the state of Washington,

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Some people seems to think the rail-
roads are in luck when they don ge
legally lynched.
The primary election in South Da-
kota developed a considerable amount
OF frontier politics.
Let us cheerfully remember that
June is generally one Of our mildest
winter months.
1t was the comet. If it hadn't been
for the influence of the late Mr.. Hal
ley's discovery, Egan would never
have polled the vote he did.
Private FortnyI, troop, Fourth cav
airy, at Fort Meade, was shot by an
unknown party Saturday night in
Sturgis. He is in critical condition.
Now we will have five months of
politics before election day. And i'm
mediately after election day the cam
paign of 1912 will begin.
Frank Davis, stranger of Mithell
arrested on the charge of forgery,
and was bound over to the circuit
court. Davis claimed that he was
representative of the Sioux Falls
Press.
The department Of agriculture is
experimenting with some varieties of
corn from China, which seem we'll
adapted to the hot and dry condition of
certain portions of the southwest.
Mr.. Bryan seems not to have re-
covered entirely from the hallucina-
tion that the Bryan rainbow is the
only one equipped with real bag of
gold-or is it silver?-Bt the end.
Taking for granted the correctness
of the estimate that the average salary
Of preacher in this country is 1868 it
is an open question whether preaching
as well as a pitching.
Good general rain all over this part
of the state Thursday night, which was
beginning to be badly needed This
will give all crops boost and re-
fresh the praries, which was needing
it worse than the grain.
The Nebraska woman who refused
to tell her age to the census enumer-
ator was find $40 and she considers
the investment good one. No one
can look her in the face and tell her
that he knows officially how old she
is.
Robert F. Kerr. editor of the Min
nesota and Dakota Farmer, has been
selected as a member Of the advisory
committee of the South Dakota con-
servation and development congess
which will meet at Pierre the last :of
the month.
If we should use searching light of
$50, 100000 candle power, and the
Martians should look at it with a tele-
scope magnifying 10000 times, they
might see it. In these circumstances,
we move that the country decline to
engage in the Martian signaling bust
ness rhis year.
Reinforced concrete continues to
widen the range Of its application.
The Western railroads are preparing
to build this summer long stretches of
reinforced concrete snow sheds. These
will not only be stronger than the
present timber structures, but they
will be entirely safe from the menace
of fire.
Uncle Jim Hill is the cheeriest op-
timist in the country, just now. While
all the other railroad managers are
wearing long faces, Hill is smiling
broadly and telling them to be of good
cheer for the country isn't going to the
bowwows, Notwithstanding the perm
icious activity of President Taft and
that man Wickersham. But twas not
always thus. There have been times
when no railroad man in the United
States was handler in predicting woe
than Jim Hill.
No more important gathering Of
South Dakotans has been undertak.
en- than the Conservation and De-
velopment Congress which will meet
at Pierre, June 20, 80 and July 1st.
The conservation of the soil. water
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