Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1915-11-25

Shelving capable leader by max
ing him vice president doesn't appeal
so strongly to political bosses as it
did before they tried it on Roosevelt
Congress will convene early in De-
cember. Weather note: Watch out
for war clouds from Japan and strong
winds from the eastern munitions
factories.
Julius IL. Johnson of Fort Pierre is
out after the republican nomination
for congress in the third district and
should stand good chance of land
ing the plum.
European diplomacy is conducted
on the theory that it is poor foreign
Office that can not find an excuse for
doing what the war department.
wants it to do
The editor of the Leslieville Led
ger says that Mr.. Egan will start on
a speaking tour of the state in the
interest of his candidacy for governor
about December l.
South Dakota people are digging in
for the winter. Coal bins are being
filled, storm doors and windows are
on and "a stack of bucks and a side
Of sausage" is a faYorite order at the
restaurants.
The United States had nothing to
do with the start of the war, aud it
will have very little to do with it's
end, but it seems to be nightly mix
ed up in it while it is in progress.
III 1918 the auto tax in this state
will be three dollars instead of six,
and the greater per cent of the tax
fund will be spent upon the public
highways, according to new law
which goes into effect January 1st.
Now that the women of Europe are
bearing arms along with other of the
burdens of war those ''lords of crea-
tion' who would limit suffrage to
those fitted for military service must
skirmish around for new arguments.
The state game department this
fall has taken seven cars of bullheads
out of Lake Alice, near Altamont.
The lake was overstocked With fish
and many were starving. The bull
heads are beng placed in the various
streams of the state.
The government will offer forty
eight tracts of Indian heirship lands
on Crow Creek reservation, in tracts
from eighty to SIX hundred and forty
acres, and at prices ranging from S5
to $40 an acre, payments cash within
thirty days after date of sale Decem-
| Der -.
| The Spearfsh commercial club will
make an effort to have Spearfish Sc
| lected as the place for the home for
aged members, which will be con
structed at some point in South Da-
kota by the South Dakota Ancient
| Order of United Workmen.
Commenting on the immense crop
yield of the United States this year
just at the time when the world neads
it most, and is willing to pay a high
price for 1.-THE Springfield Republi-
can speaks of "the amazing luck of
the United States"
The Highmore News has been pur-
chased by the owner of the Bulletin
of that place, but instead of consoli-
dating the two papers, he has an
nounced his intention of moving one
of them to Holabird, the only other
town in the county, and to re-estab-
lish the paper at that town where it
was originally started.
| Serbia's fighting men are giving the
world sublime example of heroic
defense. Yielding crag by crag to
the Austrian German foe. they have
flung themselves against their Bull
garian foe and worsted it. The allies
are Fastening to their relief and they
may hold the southern territory in