Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1910-11-24
Six persons were killed and twenty.
six injured in a wreck at Kalamazoo.

Mich.
The Illinois state tax commission
has fixed the rate of state taxes fol
(! next year at 80 cents on each 500 Of
assessed property valuation.
National banks Of the country must
soon make showing of their condi
ton.
The lower house of the next con
gress will have a democratic majority
OF about forty.
Plnchot asks the president for leave
to file brief concerning the Gun
bingham claims.
It is figured at this time that AL
! drlclls majority for governor in Ne
braska will reach $4,000.
Aldrich has money bill which IL
is said he will push at the coming
short session of congress.
Trenton, N. j., has population OF
96,S15 inhabitants, according to the
thirteenth census statistics.
Because 1t was fined for infractior
of law, the window glass trust has
retaliated by reducing wages.
\ A movement is on to deprive the
next speaker of the national house
Of the committee appointing power.
| All contests for the patenting OF
lands in the oil country Of California
are being held up by the government
Doctors at their Baltimore meeting
scored medical schools for their fail
ure to train students on care of in
fants
Charles w. Armour believes high
prices have reached their climax, and
from now on will be on the down
grade.
The supreme court of the United
States has adjourned for it's Thanks
giving recess. 1t will reconvene No
vember 49,
Latest returns from the Nebraska
election show that Wait, republican,
for secretary of state, will have about
ESQ majority.
Fhe Nobel prize committee has
awarded the prize for literature for
1910 to Paul Johann / ludwig Heyse,
the German poet and novelist.
The successful campaign of Eugene
N. Foss, the democratic candidate
Tor governor of Massachusetts cost
him $4,000, according to his sworn
return
The New York state department of
health is seeking the cooperation of
various railroades operating in the
state in abolishing the common drink
ing cup from trains and railroad sta
tions.
Complete returns indicate that the
Wyoming legislature will be repub.
lican by a majority of eleven on joint
ballot, insuring the return of Senator
c. d. Clark to the United States
senate.
Governor B. F. Carroll announced
the appointment of Lafayette Young
editor and publisher of the Des
Moines Capital, to be United States
senator succeeding the late Senator
Dolliver.
Mayor Gaynor said he would not
favor a bill proposing to change the
power of appointing public service
commissioners for the First district
from the governor to the mayor of
New York.
Exports out of this country in Oc-
tober were larger than in any pre-
vlous month in the history vi the
United States while imports were
about $4,00O,000 less than in the same
month last year.
Five hundred pounds more of docu
mentary evidence records of the Chi
cago & Western Illinois railroad were
brought into court to aid the govern
ment In its suit against the Standard
Oil company of Indiana.
Belated returns on Tuesdays cleo
ton continue to increase the plurality
of James IT. Hawley, democratic can
didate for governor of Idaho. 1t is
now estimated he will lead Governor
Brady about 1000 votes.
Long and short haul problems in.
volved in the fourth section of the
amended law for the regulation of in
terstate commerce will be discussed
at conference at the interstate com.
merce commission headquarters in
Washington on November %.
A letter was made public from
Woodraw Wilson, governor-elect of
New Jersey, in which he said he had
decided to resign as professor of poll.
tics and jurisprudence in Princeton
university. thereby seyerng all con.
nection with the teaching body Of the
institution.
Census Director Durand has been
having more trouble of late than any
officer Of the government. Census di-
rectors, always have trouble and al
ways expect 1t. Aspiring commune
ties of the urban sort are seldom sat
sisfied with the result Of the federal;
enumeration of population.
Personal.
Gov. Saunders. of Louisiana. win