Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1912-02-08
Minnesota beat Nebraska at basket

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!, Rutherford Page, making his first
flight since receiving his license. was
killed at the Los Angeles meet.
Henry Watterson is disguised with
both Harvey and Wilson.
Men behind the Roosevelt move.
ment are going right ahead at Chi
cago.
The steel corporation and individu-
al defendants filed answer to the gov
ernment's dissolution suit.
The Rockefellers, father and son,
Joined in a disclaimer Of government
charges in the steel suit.
| Testimony of witnesses went to
show that the minds of packers on
prices were remarkably alike.
In q speech at Pittsburg Senator
Penrose predicted disaster with demo-
Gratis in control of the country.
The senate passed the Borah bill to
create a children's bureau in the De-
partment Of Commerce and Labor.
William r. Hearst has accepted an
invitation to address the general as
sembly of Kentucky on February Ia.
s. s. Semmes, eldest son of the late
Admiral Raphael Semmes, Of the con-
federate navy, died at Osceola, Ark.
The Indiana Republican Editorial
association at its business session in
dorsed. President Taft and his adj
ministration.
President Taft has written Cover
nor Aldrich of Nebraska in behalf of
the Red Cross making an appeal for
the Chinese sufferers.
Mrs. W. e. Bailey of Chicago, wife
OF the general auditor Of the Atchison,
Topeka & Santa Fe railroad, died at
Castle Hot Springs, Ariz.
The English admiralty has ordered
from Vickers Sons & Maxim three
submarines bigger than any existing
type and capable of long voyages.
Walter j. Johnson, one of the pion-
GERS and best known specialists in
X-ray work in the world, died in a
sanitarium at Rochester, N. Y.
The pension appropriation bill. car
rying $152.579,000 for the coming
year, was reported to the house and
debate on the measure began at once.
The state of Minnesota will expert
ment with oleomargarine to deter
mine whether 1t can be given the
color of butter without adding color
ing matter.
The Ogden division Of the Union Pa
cific railroad has been abolished, and
the 500 miles of railroad from Chey-
orro 20 nodo,, To 70 ho kpoun 40 tho
Wyoming division.
The annual convention of the inter-
national association of factory inspec-
tors, which is to be held this year in
Washington, will be on June 4 and
continue until June 8.
Fourteen cars of Minneapolis &
st. Louis railway northboInd freight
plunged through a bridge one mile
north Of Ackley, Ia, ESQ feet to the
bottom Of ravine.
Six American built biplanes are
carried by the revolutionary army adj
.vancing on Picking, according to a
cablegram received by the Chinese
press at San Francisco.
Colonel Charles Norton, member Of
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out the civil war, q former member
Of the Minnesota state senate and
pioneer of North Dakota, died at
Fargo.
The senate refused by a vote Of II
to 80 to pass a bill authorizing the
sale Of 100000 acres of fertile unal-
lotted land in the standing Rock re-
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kota.
The Steel tariff revision bill was
referred to the finance committee OF
the senate without discussion Sen
ator Reed withdrawing his demand
that the committee report within
twenty days.
III President Dearborn Of the Ameri-
can-Haawiian Steamship company, be-
fore the Interstate commerce commits
sion. opposed government ownership
OF the proposed steamship line through
the Panama canal.
Tho partly devoured remains of an
unknown hunter and his two dogs
were found near Eagle Grove, Mich.
There were evidences Of a terrific
struggle, as nearby were the bodies
OF four wolves.
Inquiry into the rates, classified
tions, regulations and practices Of ex-
press companies. begun by the Inter-
state Commerce commission several
weeks ago in New York, will be re-
sumed In Washington at once.
Operation Of the pure food decision
the use Of saccharine in
food stuffs which was to have become
elective February 4, after two post
again has been extended
to March 4.
Men In all walks Of life and Of vary
Ing religious beliefs rendered a din
ner Ia New York to Cardinal Farley
% . token Of esteem in which the /
new member Of the sacred college ID
held BY the non-C Catholic population.
4 Federal Judge Angel in Detroit
denied . motion Of the attorneys for
The hath tub trust to compel the Cow
ernment to elect which Of the two
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