Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1913-01-16

PIERRE. SOUTH DAKo,
Woodrow Wilson was on Monday
elected president of the United States
by a majority of the presidential
electors chosen last November.
1t seems that about the only por-
tion of the Richards primary law
which is not yet effective is that por-
tion of it which takes from the ma
chine the disposition of patronage.
The latest dark horse to be led
from a senatorial STALLS Judge Frank
Aiken, of Sioux Falls, federal judge
under the territorial government and
long time resident of the state.
The legislature might give the
house and senate journals the anti
phat treatment as the first step in
reducing the cost of state printing.
The fight is now on for preferred
place in the inaugural parade. The
tariff question will remain in the
background until after March 4.
Much interest is being manifested
in the Potter county oil project. and
the work of the prospectors who ex-
press the belief there are valuable
deposits of petroleum beneath the
soil of Potter county caused much
comment.
Former Governor r. S. Vessey has
left for Chicago, and will later 60
upon the lecture platform in an east
ern circuit, his first appearance being
at Binghamton, n. Y, some time in
February.
When it isn't earthquakes it is a
polar tide that hits California hard
thud. The freeze early last week
practically destroyed the entire lemon
and orange crop in the fruit belt of
that State, entailing a loss of $50, ,0oo,-
600.
/ TT ia ropnrtu6 fhot Snnotar E,1
lette is about to introduce banking
and currency bill. The Wisconsin
senator does not expect affirmative
action at this session, but he plans to
be prepared for whatever may turn
up in the next congress-.
The Iowa legislaturors are to re-
ceive ST 900 each for the present ses-
sion's work-a 100 per cent increase
over the former salary. 1t is hoped
that the legislators will not UNDER
take to earn the new salary by trying
to double the number of new laws en-.
acted.
His nibs, Royal Johnson, has soft
ened up a little and found that the
provision in Dick Richards's g primary
code relating to popular election of
postmasters is properly geared and
ready for putting into running opera
tion when ever the spirit moves and
the candidates give the signal -Da-
kota Republican.
In the transferring of employees in
the different state departments at the
beginning of the new year, C. Edding
of Groton takes the position of sta
tistical clerk in the state railway de-
partment, made vacant by the trans
fer of E. F, Swartz to the position of
clerk of the supreme court.
The South Dakota legislature came
back rather neatly at the Californians
who are in the habit of boasting loud
and long over the superior excellence
of their climate as compared to that
of the Dakotas, by passing a resolu-
tion condoling with California over
sub-zero weather which ruined the
orange and lemon crops there last
week.
Last winter the Gulf States had
some exceptionally severe weather,
the freezing line stretching far out
into the waters of the gulf, which
was unprecedented. This winter has
already been almost equally remark
able, but for snow rather than cold.
Southern Texas had had the first
sleighing in twenty years, though
there we're not many sleighs available
to take advantage of it. In some
towns the stores were closed and
everyone went out to see the wonder.