Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1913-05-15

PIERRE. SOUTH DAKO1
The primary system for postmas-
terships seems to haAe multiplied
troubles as we'll as shifting them.
The Missouri supreme court issued
an order prohibiting 1872 FIRE insurance
companies from canceling their con-
tracts in that state.
1t is an accommodating world. In
one way or another the men who do
not have to pay the income tax will
help out the men who do.
Parker Press Leader: Who, in
South Dakota, is afraid of the money
trust, when every farmer has money
mint on every quarter section of
land?
We consume more sugar per capita
in America than any country on
earth. Our predominant character
istics "a sweet tooth and sweet wo-
men.
The survey of the Fairmont s.
Veblen railroad has been completed
and construction work will be started
Immediately. The shops will be
built at Veblen.
Hymen has gone out of business
in Faulk countys temporarily, at
least, for during the month of April
not marriage license was issued in
the county.
The operatives of the Scotland Yard
detective agency place the estimate
of the value of the property destroyed
by the suffragette of England, in the
last three months at $5 ,0OO, 900.
TIE supreme court of the United
States held that reorganized corpora
tions are responsible for the debts
of the original company in the case
against the Northern Pacific Rail-
road company.
Oil has been discovered in Lyman
county in extensive quantity in the
water of an artesian we'll that lis be-
ing drilled for the waterworks of the
town of Murdo. The oil becomes
greater in quantity as the drill goes
down.
Bill pending in Kansas legislature
providing that when two trains ap-
proach crossing both shall stop, and
neither shall go ahead until the other
has passed by" could hardly be call
cd progressive legislation.-W
Street journal.
| New Mexico has brought $2,000,.
90 0 boundary trespass suit against
Texas, which shows that land hung
or is something not entirely confined
to individuals. Either state coull
give the other nice strip of border
country without missing it.
The town of Harold is in Turmoil
over the recent license election an(
the case has been taken into th,
courts. The anti-saloon elemen
base theil claims, on failure to com
ply with the stringent regulation
covering petition signers passed b,
the last legislature.
The gold production of the Blacl
Hills since 1875 including 191
amounts to $163, ,92e, ,567. The larges
amount produced in one year was i,
1908 which was s7,742, 200. Othe
mineral products of THIS famous sec
tion will swell the total revenue t,
many millions more.
1t is the intention of Gompers
Mitchell and Morrison to appeal t,
the supreme court of the nation from
the court of appeals of the district o
Columbia the issue of contempt, Will
which they stand convicted and the,
have asked for stay of the mandate
Of the court below.
A tour of the Indian reservations o
the country by the senate committe,
on Indian affairs is part of plan o
general investigation that is to b.
undertaken after the tariff is out O
the way. There are charges of crook
edness to Investigate and these viii
be looked after by the committee o
= portion of the committee.
Sioux Valley News: The newspap
ers may make fun of Bryan's littl,
grape episode but if more America,
people would indulge in the .Bryal
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