Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1912-04-25
Arbor day. Did you plant a tree?


The moisture now in the ground,
properly conserved, will mature
wheat, oats, flax and garden vegeta-
bles.
The Pigg family of Madison 90 not
desire to hog it any longer and some
dozen strong are in court asking to
have the family cognomen changed to
Page.
The Northwestern is rushing the
extension of its line from Winner to
Carer, a distance of twenty miles
and will have it in operation by mid
summer.
Col. Roosevelt has now 2l3 dele
gates to the national convention as
against 50 for Taft, eliminating the
contested delegates the latter is count
ing in his column.
OF the eight Vermont delegates to
the republican convention at Chicago,
two district delegates will go instruct
ed for Taft and two for Roosevelt.
The four delegates at large are un
pledged.
In commenting upon the fact that
of "a tn, ! 10
wet at the recent municipal elections,
the Sioux City Journal says that pos
sibly last years extra dry drouth had
something to do with 1t.
From the time the republican party
was started until its death, Abraham
Lincoln was simply, genuinely, a
regular republican. There were al
ways some in the party who thought
he was not progressive enough, but
ablest historians are of a different
opinion.
Clarence S. Darrow, who defended
the Mcnamara brothers, and is now
facing charges of alleged jury bribery
before Los Angeles tribunal, with
out funds, sill not receive financial
assistance which he has requested
from the American Federation OF
Labor.
Owing to apparent conflict in sew
eral statutes, enacted in as many
years, the people of Bennett county
have been in doubt as to whether
they were in the fifth or eleventh
judicial district. Attorney General
johnson held that Bennett is in the
eleventh judicial circuit.
Moreover, it would be very incon-
slderate to take nice man like Jus
tice Hughes from a life job on the
supreme bench to take what would
be coming to the nominee Of the re-
publican party after the party had
repudiated its own record for the last
four years.
The grass on all of the range coun-
try of the state never had finer
start or gave better promise than
this spring. Already 1T is two inches
high, and coming as thick as ever.
The rest of last year, which was the
first in twenty years, evidently did it
great good. The whole of the range
country is thoroughly saturated with
water, so much SO in fact that travel
is very difficult in some sections.
A new land of promise for the land
hungry and the home~seekers was
opened Monday when the government
offered to settlers the lands embraced
in the fourth unit of the Shoshone
irrigation project, lying to the north
and west of Powell, Wyo. The farms
are mostly eighty acres each and con-
tain some of the finest land on the
Shoshone project, which eventually
will reclaim 100000 acres east of the
Yellowstone National Park in north
ern Wyoming.
The nominating petitions which
We're filed Saturday were those Of
Frank p. Glasner, Asher F. Pay and
John Hepperle, as candidates for sec
rotary of state; j Howard Gates of
Sioux Falls as candidate for the
supreme bench; Royal C. Johnson of
Highmore as candidate for attorney
general; F. F. Brirker as a candidate
for state land commissioner; G. G.
Lawrence as candidate for state
superintendent of instruction. All
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