Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1911-09-07

PIERRE, SOUTH DAKOT
The South Dakota State Fair will
get in next week; and the number of
bands that are under engagement in
dicates that the management has
loud time in prospect for every body
Sioux City Journal: If the insur-
gents have been unable to get re-
vision of the tariff to their notion,
they have at least succeeded TO an
extent in getting revision down
ward of the republican party.
Over three hundred race horses at
the State Fair; nearly twenty county
exhibits; machinery displays from
every reputable company; every dis
play building loaded to the doors;
the heaviest entry if livestock in the
history of South Dakota. Some fair!
Admiral Togo has left American
soil and Congressman Hobson may be
expected to agitate another oriental
war. While the Japanese admiral was
here the hero of the Merrimack was
as silent as a bronze statue-but then.
credit should be given him for being "a
gentleman, even if he is an alarmist.
Settlers near Rapid City object to
new land office ruling which does
away with the six months time dur
ing which the homesteader who has
filed on claim may go on the land,
and requiring him to live on the
homestead immediatela after filing.
An effort will be made to have the
| ruling rescinded.
An auto is a large iron and rubber
contrivance for transforming gaso-
line into speed, luxury, excitement
and obituaries. 1t can transport
seven people from the front porch to
the police station, bankruptcy court,
golden gate or hades in less time than
any other method.
Retrenchment on the part of the
railroads in the United States for the
past year shows that they have laid
off $50 men, effecting saving of
S94 100000 in operating expenses.
The roads claim this is done on ac-
count of the opposition to boost
freight rates.
Aberdeen News: President Taft
has indicated desire for fight, and
there appears to be any number of
insurgents and few Democrats,
with sprinkling of regulars who are
willing to accommodate him. The
American people appear to be in a
pugnacious mood, since the president
has set them the example.
After hearing in the complaints
against Logan Fain and B. M. Her
man, on the order to show cause why
their notarial commissions should
not be Cancelled, Governor Vessey
decided last week that the situation
was not such that they should be de-
prived of their rights to act as no.
taries in this state.
b. S. Johnson, formerly of Armour
and lately of Rapid City, has taken
up his home in Yankton. Mr.. John
son is a leading candidate for the
dem mocratic nomination for governor
and so adds to the gaity of the situa-
tion by removing to Yankton county
where reside candidates Gamble, Dill
Ion Van Osdel and McMaster. Of
course there is always room for more.
President Taft is horn mad and
bowling and will put up fight. The
LaFollette boom in the northwest is
Sio"lliS w OIL eAVeuC GHdU dldrmS
Taft and his friends. This part of
the country is really progressive and
Taft has not been quite up to the
standard of progressiveness that suits
them. 1t may take more than swing
around the circle to hold to tie
nomination.
By an arrangement effected last
week by the commissioners of the
two counties, Harding county will
assume the debt of Perkins county
upon the issuing by the latter in
favor of Harding of bond issue in
the sum of s35, 1000. Perkins county
was saddled with a debt in this