Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1910-06-02

ladies who were drowned in boating
accident there last week.
Mr.. Halley's comet is now moving
through the constellation of Pisces, but
going at the speed Of about 1900 miles
a minute cannot stop and fish.
George Mcclure Of Pierre. who has
been through the western section Of
the state, reports crops lnstine coudi-
tion, except ia the river bottoms.
The candidacy of John w. Laughlin
for sheriff is meeting with favor in all
parts of the county, and it looks as
though his nomination was assured.
George w. Egan, independent candi-
| date for governor, was the speaker at
the Memorial day exercises at Vernlil-
ion, where great crowd assembled.
| The hope for a large vote at the
primary of June can be based only
on the theory that it may catch the
farmers between corn planting and
corn blowing.
The belief is growing that the farm
/ was cheated out of lazy manure boy
when Billingshurst broke into the
print shop. But. he is going there
! from next week.
| Governor Vessey has appointed
August Frieberg, of Union county
as member of the state board of
regents Of education, to fill the vaca-
ncy caused by the death of E. G.
Erickson, of Elk Point.
The senate two weeks ago passed the
house bill instructing the war depart
ment to raise the battleship Maine from
Havana harbor. All bodies found to be
inferred at Arlington, and the mast to
be placed near the graves.
If the population of your town shows
a loss instead of a gain by the census
which is now being completed, do not
be too sure the enumerators are at
fault. Perhaps the enumerators of ten
years ago were inaccurate.
The wireless telegraph apparatus of
the army has been perfected to such
a stage that a squad Of soldiers can
unload it from wagon, erect pole
and send message 25 miles in less
than a minute and half.
It's no getting around the fact that
we got "a sbargain when we bought
Alaska at 81 200, 900 for the Guggen-
helms. They ought to be able to real
ize la handsome profit when they sell
it back to us few years hence.
The cnly way that CLAWS lawyer
will be able to satisfy Senator Nelson
apparently will be to cease asking
Ballinger's witnesses embarrassing
questions and thus avoid any possi-
bility of insulting the committee by
confronting it with the truth.
A meteorite fell through the roof of
building at Topeka, Kan, May IS.
The stone was red hot and just missed
the desk of manager j. w. Going of
the Shawnee Insurance company, and
put fifty clerks in panic. The visitor
is supposed to have been from the tail
of Haley's comet.
W. S. Glass of Watertown saws he
will be candidate for United States
senator two years hence. Glass is ever
riding some hobby in the direction of a
political job having fat salary attach
ment, under some pretense. 1t is often
well to look long at .lobster-he NAV
be clam. .
The report of the Northern Baptist
convention, which recently convened in
Chicago, says that Rev ::s:a; 6. 6 sei1i Ti1oi11s
of Vermillion, and widely known in
Pierre, was made one of the general
managers of the American Baptist For
eign Mission Society. This is distinct
honor conferred upon DR.. Thoms. The
society named is the great mission So
ciety of the Baptist denomination, and
has mission fields all over the world