Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1912-08-15

Worlds News
City. N. j.. Sept. 80 to Oct. 6. The
American Association For Highway
improvement, the American Automo-
bile association and numerous atIiliat
ed bodies of road builders and users
will be represented.
ut will be the largest convention of
the sort ever held in this country" said
Logan W. Hague chief of the govern
ment's good roads bureau, land the
exhibition of road building machipery
will be the finest ever brought to
gether"
ICE FROM GLACIERS
Reports from the interior coastal belt
of Alaska say that the residents of the
towns there have been compelled to
get their summer ice supply largely
from the glaciers. This condition was
due to the vagaries Of the Japan cur
rent, which last winter took sheer
toward the coast Of Alaska and re-
NAMED there all winter, with the re-
suit that the crop of ice from the local
streams, rivers and lakes was fail-
ure. The ice that is being used and
which Is averting famine Is being
taken from Miles glacier, live glacier
that Is, 1t Is constantly in motion.
There are number Of dead" or mo-
tionless glaciers along the route, gla-
ciers that have been dead for millions
OF years and for that reason there is a
general prejudice against utilizing their
refrigerated waters.
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BUDAPEST INNOVATION
For the first time In the history Of
Budapest, Hungary, three women have
been elected to the school board, the
law prohibiting the election of women
to such Office having been repealed.
Budapest is the city chosen for the
next convention Of the International
Woman Suffrage alliance, June 1920,
1913.
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RESEARCH IN NEVADA
A lot of fun was pokea ut a theory
few years ago that the tracks of a
mammoth had been found in the yard
Of the state penitentiary at Carson
City, New, and more so when the
Smithsonian institution sent an expe-
dit1on there which failed to find any
conclusive evidence that this prehis-
toric animal had inhabited that region.
Now, however, serious consideration is
beink given Nevada as a field for re-
scare In view of the discoveries on
the site Of big tropical lake in the
Nevada desert near Nina. and investi-
gators are busy with the explorations
OF Professor Lawrence Baker of the
University of California.
An eastern syndicate took over a
bed OF almost pure magnesia that was
found about thirty miles from Nina
and also set prospectors to work to
look for gold. From these men came
information Of huge fossils, and these
attracted the attention of Professor
Baker and resulted In explorations by
himsc and an assistant. They found
fossil remains eighteen feet high stick
ing up in the desert.
One good relic is that of a three toed
horse about the size of a lamb with
tie teeth well preserved. Another Is
OF dog with characteristics different
from any noted heretofore. A camel
OF the miocene period was surpris-
Ing find. 1t Is estimated by P. ofessor
Baker that these animals lived 5OOO,-
600 or 100000 years ago.
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100 MILES AN HOUR
p. w. Kearney, inventor Of the high
speed monorail system, announced at
q denomination In London that he will
begin the construction OF mono rail-
way between Nice and Monte Carlo
next fall. The first section will be
ready for traffic by the end of next
year. The inventor Gays the speed Of
the trains will be between 100 and $50
miles an hour, reducing the trip be-
tween the towns to twenty minutes.
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AN AID OF ROOSEVELT
One OF Colonel Roosevelt's chief lieu
tenants in the cause of the former
presidents third party is James Ru-
dolph Garfield, son of President Car
field and secretary OF the interior in
President Roosevelt's cabinet. Mr..
Garfield was talked az as a presidential