Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1913-10-09

away. SauuiuateS SOOul0 Degll TO
stir up the dust, if they expect to be-
come conspicuous in the. fray
Hayes Homestead: A petition is
being circulated by the west-enders
asking for the removal of the county
seat from Fort Pierre to Philip.
The average small boy will hail with
genuine delight the announcement by
an expert that dead leaves must not
be raked from the lawns in the fall.
Nobody will object very strenuous
ly if Uncle Sam finds some way to
further popularize the parcel post
system. that is 40 one but the express
companies.
The Methodist conference in session
at Redfield voted to merge the Black
Hills district with the rest of the
state district, thus adding 10000
square miles to the field.
The government has just let to the
Lanpher Hinrichs company, of Rapid
City, the contract to remove II ,O0O,-
900 feet of yellow pine timber from
the Black Hills National forest.
Judge James w. McCarter, of Ed
munds county, is announcing his
candidacy for governor on the demo-
cratic ticket, has issued q statement
in which he calls Gov. Byrne fail.
ure.
In compliance with his program,
President Wilson signed the new tar
if bill last Friday ushering into ex-
istence the most far reaching tariff
revision produced in many years.
Nearly all of the provisions of the
law go into immediate effect.
George w. Egan, not stranger to
South Dakota politics, has won one
libel suit and has another pending. If
be wins the pending suit he will con-
slider himself lucky enough to take
chances with candidacy for con-
gress. ss.-Sioux City Journal.
The Cedar Rapids Republican says
that whatever farm credits may do in
some of the forlorn eastern states.
the farmers out this way have credits
that are equal to those of the business
men in the cities and they borrow
money for as low rates of interest, if
not lower.
BY the Hudson Hudsonite it is said
that. while some of the papers poke
fun at Mr.. Richards. they will be
surprise at his strength, for he has
many staunch followers everywhere
in the state, bunch of them being
right down here in this neighbor-
hood"
Brookings Press: The South Da-
kota climate is certainly incompar-
able. We doubt if Italy, in her most
beautiful moods, ever equaled-the
charm and iiveliness of the Indian
summer which is now delighting our
people with its wondrous shadings of
green and gold and scarlet.
The struggle to save the commerce
court from annihilation ended yester-
day, when the senate adopted the
house provision abolishing the court
placed in the urgent deficiency bis.
The senate gives the members OF the
court until the 31st of December to
prepare for their retirement. Judge
Garland Of South Dakota, falls with
the rest.
The European countries are organ
izing their athletics on the American
plan and are straining every nerve to
get men who will beat out.the United
States team at the Olympic athletic
games in 1916 The chances are good !,
however, that Uncle Sans boys will
show their heels to the rest of the
world. just as they have always done.
The republican national committee
will meet in Washington on Decem-
ber 16 ito confer on party matters
and to take any action which may be
deemed advisable" A formal call
has been issued. The meeting was
decided upon at : conference Of
Chairman Charles d. Hilles and Sec
rstary Charles B. Reynolds.