Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1910-10-20

Generally, great men succeed
through having first secured a bust
ness education. The Mankato, (Aiinn)
Commercial College helps you to rub
shoulders with the best. Write for
free Year Book.
w. G. Mathieson of Fort Pierre,
has returned from a trip to the far
northwest, He went to location
1900 miles northwest of Edmonton,
Alberta. Nowhere in all his travels
did he see section that pleased his
! eve so we'll as the landscape of South |
| Dakota.
Farmers attention: No other
local market will pay you what
we will for your wheat of milling
varieties, we also are paying the
highest for durum wheat, corn, oats
and speltz. If in need of seeds of
any kind see us before purchasing
elsewhere. We can save you money.
Capitol Milling Co.
Congressman E. w. Martin is on a
campaigning trip, by automobile,
which will take him into the eastern
part of the state, where under the d.
rection of the republican state COM
mittee, he will be engaged in speech
making until few days before cleo
ton, when he will return to the Black
Hills to finish the campaign. Mr..
Martin reports a most successful
campaigning tour through the north
ern counties.
A ruling which will undoubtedly
prove unpopular with many home
steaders has just been made by the
secretary of the interior to the effect
that in cases where homesteaders
take leave of absence they must,
upon the expiration of the same, re-
side upon their claim for fourteen
consecutive months. So if home
steader lived on his claim for ten
months and obtained a leave of alb
sence he must, upon his return, live
upon it for fourteen months.
The past year has shown large in
crease in the financial and CONNER
cial lines throughout the state. Many
new banking institutions nave been
incorporated, which shows that, al
though the past summer has not been
very promising, the men of capital
are not afraid to invest. The secre-
tary of state reports that 119 new
banks have received charters, and
, commercial corporations other than
, banks number 1 ,643. There were A.
962 auto licenses granted 1,769 notar-
ial commissions were issued, 11S
churches incorporated and "a social
and benevolent societies received
charters.
The state land department is keep
ing it's field force busy in the Black
Hills selecting the lands which the
expects to take in lieu of sections six
teen and thirty-six, which lie in the
government forest reserve. The state
will surrender all these sections to
the government and take it's lands on
the border of reserve, where the gov
eminent will release like amount of
land to the state, and each will hand
4. lie his own timber in a compact body
: without in any way clashing as to au-
: thority orpowers. Commissioner Dok.
' ken, following the work of his IRE.
decessor, is the man who finally
brought the proposition down to
+ something definite, and is pushing to
! clear the work before the end of his
term as commissioner.
8 1t will be three weeks from Tues.
: day of this week when the electors of
South Dakota will be called upon to
deposit their ballots and end the long
. campaign of the BIENNIAL contest. 1t
is commonly reported that the voters
are appethetic, but that is hardly
true. 1t might be properly stated
that they have had enough of the sub
ject, interesting as it is and know ex-
: actly how they want to vote. There
Y will be no question about con.
a vincing republican victory, if the
a party is representa- at the polls
2 Republicans are asked by the manag
ing committee not to forget their duty
on election day, the contest now in
progress being one Of the most i'm.
> portant in the history of The party
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