Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1913-12-18

PIERRE. SOUTH DAKO7
Now is the time to propose-to the
proposalman.
The Byrne machine will shortly
come to show down.
Sleighing doesn't amount to much
yet, but blowing is still fine.
AT least these fair December morns
get by without anyone raising an OBJ
lection.
The suffragetts and the drys 6nd
Washington an excellent place for
the display of styles.
The present Mexican congress ap.
pears to believe it better to agree
with Huerta than to be jammed into
Jail.
Prospects of government ownership
of telegraph lines loom up in time to
check the rush of job -chasers to
Panama.
Every politician in the country ad-
vises other men to keep out of poll
tics. This is one way of minimizing
competition.
Unfortunately the gayly colored
banners of the snffragists were not
met with flag of the same hue as
the White House.
Even the professional calamity
bowler is almost tongue-tied in the
face of this magnificent South Dako.
to December weather.
A few South Dakota democrats.
who have been shaking the patronage
tree for postotfice fruit, gathered
plums during the past week.
Every week day of January is filled
with a farmers institute in some
town in South Dakota. Twenty six
different towns are having them.
During gun club hunt in the vi
cinity of Ottumwa few days ago,
].176 jackrabbits and 56 cottontails
were the fruits of an afternoon hunt.
The lively little debate between
Senator'S Owen and Gallinger may
not have FASTENED legislation, but it
busted quorum in the cloakroom all
right.
| The granite possibilities of the
veins, near Rapid City are being in
vestigated by men from Gordon,
Neb., with the view of opening up
quarries.
Still there are quite few fourth
class postmasters on the anxious seat
who feel that Great Britain's 100, ,O00
dissatisfied employees don't know
when they are we'll off.
Early day packers in Sioux City
used to give away spareribs, and the
early day markets used to give away
liver. The science of trade has elm
mated all that. Sioux City Journal.
A newspaper in neighboring city
srys husband at that place fingered
SO long at deaths door that the wife
was led to remark that she supposed
he was having his usual trouble find
ing the key hole.-Hot Springs Star.
4 A wild man ls reported to be at
large in Maryland. If 1t were in
South Carolina they'd round him up,
trim his beard, cut bis hair, elect
| him governor and threaten the Unit.
ed States senate with him.
AS against the general complaint
may be set the statement that il
costs the United States government
only IL cents a day to feed a soldier
in garrison and to feed him we'll. A
lot of explaining is necessary in a
case of this kind.
The state tax commission promises
to be one of the burning issues of the
next campaign. The burning is
expected to appear upon the ears of
the commission when they hear what
the people have to say about them.
Brookings Register.
The right Of the state to tax the
personal property of Indians holding
Hands under allotment is to be rails
ed by Walter Swift Bird, an Indian
resident Of Dewey county, and it is
lexpected that the. case will 20 to the
United States supreme court before
lit is settled.
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