Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1911-03-30

hat addltl0nal rural routes VIII Oe |
established in the state.
Express companies OF the state !
have served notice on State Treasurer |
ohnson that they will test the new
rates established by the general as
sembly at the last session.
1t is binted that the seventeen-year
locust may visit us tins summer.
These are about the most conspicuous
tourists that do not depend upon
good roads to attract them to our
Recruiting for the infantry is going
forward, the instructions to the re-
cruiting officers being to accept
every available man. 1t isn't stat
ed that this is for the purpose of
more maneuyers.
Marching across Texas and Ari-
zona if such thing comes to pass,
the Japs will find one terrific job.
The cry, "We are from Port Arthur"
will avail nothing against the ough-
erns armed with the .t5.
Dispositions were taken last week
before Frank Crane, as referee, in
the suit brought by the express com
panies operating in this state in OPP
position TO the law OF the last session
fixing rates for such companies.
A Mexican insurrecto saws he will
order his men to fire if Americans
cross the border, and adds that "it
will be a quick way to end the mat
ter, /" which is undoubtedly true as
far as that particular insurrecto
command is concerned.
John Holman of Yankton, who for
the past year or more has been as
sistant United States attorney for
South Dakota, has rendered his resig-
nation, 1t is reported that he viii be
succeeded by Frank Anderson, q
prominent attorney of Webster.
While the automobile becomes
more numerous each year, yet tht
business of buying and selling horses
in this section is said to be getting to
/ be even & better business than ever
and it is reported that some of thf
horse dealers in this section are get
ting rich.
A movement has been inaugurateG
to erect handsome and costly mon
ument to the memory of Captain
Jack Foster, a former Texas cow
boy, who was a pioneer of Dakota
territory, and who gained fame as {
frontiersman and frontier peace of
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North Dakota is having one of those
rare experiences known as impeach
ment proceedings. The subject is
the Judge of the second judicial dis
trict, who is charged with habitua
drunkenness, immortality ana NAL
feasance in office and several othel
irregularities. The trial is now OF
In the legislature.
President Taft gets at least ont
vindication in the decision Of the su
preme court Of the United states il
sustaining the corporation tax. This
act and the approval OF it by TIM
court is the foundation stone upor
which the ultimate solution of th,
trust and corporation problem viii
be based.
H Colonel Roosevelt continues tt
speak with an authoritative voice il
behalf of the United States. Evel
though the authority be questioned
the wisdom of his remarks cannot
when he says all we require of Mexi
co is order, justice and independence
In fact, that state of mind on the par
Of this country has been suspected
for some time.
A number of the new towns in tn
western portion of the state believ
in taking time by the foreloek, an
are already announcing that they vii
give the people of their part of th
state a grand, whooping Fourth Q
July celebration this year, and put
ting themselves in line to foresta!
the declarations of other ambition
towns along that line.
Easter this year will fall on Apr
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