Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1913-03-06

PIERRE. SOUTH DAkO-
Icemen are happy, for their crop
has been harvested. aud coal men
have nothing to complain of at pre-
sent.
Thomas Sterling is in Washington,
where he has became q part of the
law-making body of the United
States.
The senate has passed bill ap-
propriating $4,000 to send Prof. N
E. Hansen to Siberia after another
collection of alfalfa.
The house resolution favoring a
constitutional amendment providing
for the recall of the state, including
the judiciary, was adopted by the
Kansas senate.
The house appropriation committee
reported the sundry civil bill carry
ing total appropriations of $113,271,-
Ola, which is 81, 1856, 1888 less than the
same bill provided last session.
Missouri has raised an issue in
which the whole world is more or
less Interested. II it can get along
without the Standard Oil Company
it will have solved great problem.
The legislative session just closing
was one long on Investigations. fol.
lowed by the usual applications of
whitewash. Future legislatures will
probably profit by the shortcomings
of the present body.
John Bibelheimer. a former deputy
state auditor, and d. r. Gustafson, of
Deadwood, retiring county auditor of
Lawrence county. are the two openly
avowed candidates for the position of
secretary of the tax commission.
While playing with matches and
birthday candles, little Carol Ander-
son of Webster set fire to her hair.
Her parents succeeded in extlnguish.
ing the flames before the child was
seriously burned.
The machine has run things so beau
tifully in the state during the past two
Years. that Governor Byrne wants a
special law passed so that it can con-
troll the employment of all help about
the state capitol. And the governor
wants this so badly that he is making
an administration measure out of It'll
Argus Leader.
The voter who does not see that he
is enrolled on the enrolment book
| now in the hands of the township
clerk, will be barred from vot-
ing next time, under the provisions of
the Richards primary law. A voter
can't go to the polls and swear his
vote in and great many are going to
be disappointed.
The democrats filed their primary
petition Tuesday for the imitation of
new primary law, designed to re-
peal the Richards law, through James
Coffey, state central committeeman.
Mr.. Coffey has saked the attorney
general for an opinion relative to the
entire Richards law, the opinion was
in readiness. johnson is full of those
things.
Those Mexicans had better begin
on good good behavior when it comes
to interfering with Uncle Sans citi.
zens. There are some hot-headed
rangers down there on the Texas Dor
der, and it would require only hur-
rahl upon their part to start hurri-
cane of Americans over into Mexican
territory.
Charles Bates, Indian agency clerk
at Pine Ridge agncy, who was arrest
ed year ago, for taking liquor into
the Indian country arranged in the
| federal court term and who was sem
fenced to serve term in the Law
renee county Jail, by United States
Judge Elliott, has been pardoned by
President Taft.
The brief armistic in Mexico that
followed the downfall of the Madero
government has been broken by a
fresh revolt in the northern states
and the contestants are clashing again
with newly loaded guns. Matters are
becoming somewhat interesting along
the boundary line, with the soldie