Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1913-06-05

PIERRE SOUTH DAKO1
\ 1t will be q long time before q Jap.
or Chink will have the privilege of
an American citizen, and
it is doubtful if that time Will ever
come.
The Howard Press reports Sun
day ball game with minister Of the
gospel officiating as umpire. Surely
that IS new field of endeavor fora
preacher.
The county campaign has already
opened in Brown county. An an
of a candidate for sheriff
was published in the Aberdeen News
last week.
Roadside beauty is something that
all right-thinking automobilists de-
sire, but whether they enjoy it is ad-
equately depends much upon the con.
dition of the road way.
Gardens are looking fine and il one
could keep the weeds out of the streets
and alleys as nicely as they are kept
out of the gardens. we might take
the prize from the city beautiful
league.
Four circus companies travelled over
South Dakota last week, and this may
be taken to mean that prosperity is
with our people. Those circus fell
lows never spread canvass in poverty
stricken localities.
At the rate work is now progressing
it will be possible for the government
to complete the Panama canal suffi-
GENTLY for the passage of the first
ship before October, the time fixed
for sending shipthrough the big cut.
Congressman Burke, in aninterview
given at Sioux Falls, made the state
ment that he has given but little
thought to the senatorial situation in
this state, and has not decided wheth-
err he will be candidate in opposi-
ton to Mr.. Crawford.
The men who expect to attend the
party conventions under the Richards
primary law and be paid mileage and
per diem for doing &c are very liable
to be fooled. Lawyers claim the con-
stitution will not allow a tax to be
made for party purposes, and that is
what this would amount to.
Walker Pilot: While it's true that
you might be able to save a cent on a
box of matches by sending away for
them and paying cash, you mustn't
forget that it's the home merchant
who extends you credit on four dol
lar pair of pants to scratch 'em on.
July l. and thereafter, one will not
be able to purchase parlor matches.
for new federal law prohibiting the
manufacture, storage or sale ofwhite
phosphorus matches goes into effect
on that day. The match that will
strike anywhere will be no more. OF
at any rate. it will be an out and-out
outlaw.
The Farm, Stock and Home gives
out the following problem in alithme-
tic: If, with the highest tariff on
wool ever known, sheep on the Amer.
lean farms have decreased 9,O55 1851
in ten years. how much protection
will the sheep industry need in order
that the next decade may cover the
losses of just that recorded"
In the republican assignments to
the standing committees of the house
of representatives, the South Dako.
ia members are placed as follows:
Martin, interstate and foreign com.
merce; Burke. Indian affairs frank.
ing republican,, expenditures in the
interior department; Dillon, claims,
coinage weights and measures; revi.
sion of the laws.
Eastern papers received in this city
state that former governor Robert S.
sVessey is one Of the prominent men
in corporation which has been or
ganized to manufacture liquid gas as
= new motive power for automobiles,
and at the same time manufacture
machines built especially to be oper-
ated with this power.
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