Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1913-05-01

PIERRE. SOUTH DAKo-
The birds are singing and the bees
are humming. It's time to plant gard
en- with q vengeance.
II Gov. johnson isn't careful he
may stnbe his toe on 7. r. s old rec
ord on the japanese issue.
Topeka Capital: 1t is only after q
man has learned a lot that he begins
to be Inundated by his ignorance.
Alfalfa is doing very good. 1t came
through the winter in fine shape and
except where the rabbits ate it off
every field has q good stand.
Farmers west of the river are very
hopeful of good crop the coming
season. The storms of the late win
ter and the early spring gave them
abundance of moisture.
The position of governor general of
the Philippines is looking for some
one who wants the job. The ex-presi-
dent thought we'll of it when he was
the incumbent, and it isn't SO bad.
The Boston Transcript cannot un-
derstand why the bull moosers should
favor compulsory voting law. care
mt the majorities against them large
enough as it is?" the paper asks.
A New York priest is making wax
candle sixteen feet high which he hopes
to have placed in the Vatican to be
lighted in honor ST j. Pierpont Morgan
on feast days. Burned one day year
it would last three centuries.
Seeding in this section is we'll along
and while it is q little later than usual
the soil is in exceptionally fine condi-
ton and old timers who have been in
the country for years entertain great
hopes for a splendid crop.
after all is said and done the gen.
eral assembly did pretty well-for
that kind of an assembly," says the
Waterloo Tribune" We are brought
to this conclusion when thinking how
very much worse it might have done. y
An insurgent convention of the
South Dakota Woodmen will be held
in Mitchell on May 18th, to elect dele
gatesito the national Insurgent Wood
men convention to be held in SPRING
field, ILL.,, on the 18th and 10th of Nav.
1t is certainly pertinent comment
airy upon the times that steamship
line long engaged in carrying cattle
from the United States ia now prepar-
ing for traffic of another kind. The
United States has now few, if any
cattle to spare.
The three largest cities of the
southern hemisphere do not compare
in population with the three largest
in the northern hemisphere, but
Buenos Aires with nearly 1900 900, is
growing fast enough to attract world
wide attention.
1t is cheering to learn from the
bureau of navigation of the depart
ment of commerce that the current
fiscal year will show an output for
American shipyards greater than for
any of the past four years. But there
is room for very much larger out
put in the future.
There will be no more bewailing the
want of moisture by the South Dako-
ia farmers for some time to come.
The past three years spring has come
early but the farmers are we'll salts
fed with the weather this year. Those
who have seed in the ground now can
look for splendid stand Of grain.
The decrease in wheat acreage Of
the state has had disastrous effect
on the flour milling industry, as there
are only twenty-five mills in the state
today whereas there were 1872 Ave
years ago. Flour milling, like other
lines OF big business is being central
lied in the larger towns.
Doweships which failed to make a
levy in March, 1913 for taxes for road
purposes. under the provisions Of senate
bill 50, which authorized this levy and
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