Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1911-06-01


June rs. Ten bands will furnish
music for the occasion.
The advance sheets of the Depart
ment of Agriculture yearbook are cut,
and they show that the rising author,
James Wilson, has done the best liter
airy work of his career.
Edward Fl. Kerner, editor of the
Ash Greek Pilot, Stanley county,
died in Deadwood on Friday. The
primary cause of death was injuries
fsustained by being thrown from We
hlcle.
| Both houses of the Wisconsin legisla-
ture have passed bill granting suf-
frage to women. The bill will be sub
mitted to the voters of the state for
approval, and if endorsed will go into
effect in 1918.
| The wages of the trainmen employ
ed in the United States have been in
creased by 81 millions of dollars dur
| ing the last year which indicates that
] the wage-earners are getting their
share of prosperity.
| Senator Cummins of Iowa declared
before graduating class of the
Washington College of Law, "that we
are facing today and the one upon
which the American republic will be
wrecked, if it is ever wrecked, is the
question of distribution of the vast
wealth of the nation
One of the largest real estate sales
recorded in Brule county was the
transfer of 400 acres of land lying in
Wilbur township, to locol real estate
dealers. The land was heirship lands
and was sold by 4. E. Andrews of
Lake Andes, administrator. 1t
brought S22 per acre, or total of
over $50, 600 for the tract.
Clarence o. Nash, former post.
master at Marietta, Stanley county,
has been indicted by the federal
grand jury al Deadwood, for making
a false report to the postmaster gen.
eral in order to secure an increased
salary and for the enlightenment of
81 ,076. The case has been continued
until the October term of the federal
court.
Theodore Roosevelt, in a newspaper
article, advocates the recall of judges.
He says: ''They (the people) must have
power to act, y" and they should exercise
this power whenever they have been
forced to come to the conclusion that
any judge, no matter how upright and
well-intentioned, is fundamentally out
of sympathy with righteous popular
movement. -
| The attempt of the Aberdeen News
to make itself out reform paper
comes perilously near being joke.
The News is fighting to keep the old
high tariff law intact. 1t quakes at
the prospect of an entering wedge,
the first sign of disintegration, If
it be reform, d. Webster wouldn't
recognize his own dictionary.-W
| tertown Opinion.
President Taft has settled the mat
ter of the selection of federal Judge
for South Dakota by bestowlng the
position upon James d. Elliott of Alb
erdeen. Ever since the vacancy &C.
CURED Mr.. Elliott has had the en-
dorsement of the two South Dakota
senators and with that sort of back
ing the president could not, with def
erence to party custom, refuse to APP
point him.
| The yearly addition of freight cars
since 1907 has not kept pace with
the annual retirement of cars and
though the country has increased
much in population and business in
the four years, there are no more
freight cars now than in 1907. That
big crops this year will reveal car
famine in the fall-a situation which
railroad managers realize but which
they are doing very little to meet.
Hot Springs, this state, which IL
the only resort of its kind in the state,
or in the west for that matter, has
started a campaign of advertising its
resort in the papers Of the state. OF
course the place is not able to pay
for the amount of matterFit is getting
but the town is making q right start
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