Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1911-07-06

PIERRE. SOUTH DAKOT
Some peoples wishes are. never sat
isfied. Their desires go faster than
any accomplishment.
Every time the mercury goes above
Sc iii Washington the prospect fey an
early August adjournment of con-
gress brightens.
Nebraska, New Jersey and Oregon
now have laws providing for an ex-
preston of presidential preference
in primary elections.
Congressman who are complaining
about having to work during the
summer are not resigning their jobs
on that account, however.
At least it is to be said TO its credit
that no American boy ever had to be
hired to take part in the old kind of
Fourth of July celebration.
Indemnity has always been the
great terrible word used by the pow
ers against China. Now this coun-
try has started on the indemnity plan
itself asking Mexico to pay fifty mil
lion dollars for the Chinese killed
during the Instruction.
A cablegram has been received at
Harvard College Observatory from
Kiel stating that VOLTS Periodic
Comet was observed by Prof. Max
Wolf at Heidelberg, 1911. June 10.
1872 in r. A. 10 h. AS m. 16s., Dec.
1928 degrees. The comet is Visible
in large telescope.
On the recommendation of Major
General Leonard Wood, Chief of
Staff, the Secretary of War has or
dered that anti-typhoid vaccination,
which for more than a year has been
voluntary in the army, shall be adj
ministered to all recruits except
those over So years of age.
Last week the supreme court sus-
tanned the decision of the lower court
III granting ;,;;lig;, s.: 600 IN s".s
cases against the Milwaukee for the
death at Flandreau of Thomas Wha-
ley and wife. Mr.. and Mrs. Whealey
were about to pass over the track of
the Milwaukee company, when struck
by through freight train; both were
killed.
The decision of the referee in the
railroad rate case for South Dakota
means that the people of the state
will not ride for cents a mile for a
few years to come. Possibly, the
referee intimates, the road can stand
at 215 cent rate. 1t is likely, how
ever, that cents mile will prevail
| for some time to come.
| Congressman Burke said last wee
that he had no doubt the bill dividing
the state into three congressional dis.
tricts would pass the senate, il being
already through the house. He also
said he had not yet determined
whether or not to be candidate fol
the senate He has been much talked
of in the capacity of senatorial
candidate and has a large following
who will be glad to give him support
Deadwood Pioneer: There are
more outside men in the Hills today
looking for legitimate mining invest
ments than there has been at any
time since the latter seventies or the
early eighties. There is plenty idle
money for investment IN enterprises
that promise to be safe and profitable
| But the old fellows who have held or
to their prospects for thirty or more
years should not become too strongly
imbued with the idea that they cal
sell their holdings at prices beyonG
their actual value.
Some Of thu big Florjls land co NJ
/ panies are under investigation by the
postoffice inspectors in Chicago OF
complaint of people who tried to live
on the land they bought through
GLOWING magazine advertisements
Great tracts of land have been sole
III Jiiis way III i've anu voi sOTo pioo5S
i at DriceS five and six times its cost