Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1913-09-04

PIERRE. SOUTH DAKOI
Tho senate is considering the wool
schedule which must be pretty warm
work these days.
Dick Richards opened the ball for
the office-seekers and announcements
are expected to come thick and fast
from now on,
Americans in Mexico are generally
needing the presidents advice and
are leaving that country in crowds.
About 1000 need help to get out of
Mexico, financial help.
By a vote of 4S to 20, Glynn was
recognized as acting governor by the
legislature of New York at an early
hour last Thursday morning, after q
long and bitter debate.
AS q reminder to those who imagine
that the United States is becoming
crowded, attention is directed to the
fact that Ada county. Idaho, has a
school district embracing 324 square
miles.
Judge Carpenter has concluded to
not run against E. w. Martin for
congress in the Third District next
year. Pretty hard to beat that man
Martin, we are thinking. Dakota
Republican.
| Under the new plan to let the print
ing for the state for the lowest bid
the state is saying lot of money, but
there are lot of fool printers going
to the wall this year and that may
prove blessing in disguise.
Representative McDermott, of Illi-
nois, under charges by Mulhall, de-
MED that he had been given, money by
outside influences, though he admit
ted wholesale borrowing.
1t looks as though Harry Thaw se-
lected an inopportune time for escape
as he has two governors, instead of
one, bending every effort to secure
his return to New York State.
| Edward Payson Weston, the cele-
braued long distance pedestrian, an
nounces he will retire to farm he
has recently purchased in the North
west. MT. Weston should not find
following the plow exhausting.
| According to late reports, the rail
ways have had bigger profit the
past year than ever before in their
history. Yet South Dakota is still
the feedstore of their unsatiated ra-
pacity.
The worlds work will be done in
four hours day when every man is
fitted into his proper place and when
the machinery is properly oiled to
prevent friction. Vice President
Marshall.
| Hog cholera has broken out in sew
eral parts of South Dakota, notably
in the Russian settlements of Hanson
county where the plague has wiped
out number of herds of swine, some
of them numbering as high as 100
head.
Many of the ablest legal minds in
the State are agreed that, under the
law, township clerks and city audi
tors are required to make q systema-
tic registration of voters and can
collect $3.50 per day from the county
for time actually spent in such en-
rollment.
Chas. G. Haas. Lawrence county.
has recently filled an order for a
1 quantity of alfalfa seed and plants to
60 to the government experiment
farms in Alaska. The u. S. Dept. of
Agriculture evidently appreciates the
great hardness of Dakota grown al
falfa that has withstood the rigors of
our climate for twenty years or more.
Before the close of the year candi-
dates for nominations through the
primary election must have filed their
biographical sketches and their pic
lures with the secretary of state for
insertion in the publicity pamphlet.
This is new deal, designed, perhaps,
to ease off the strain on the newspap-