Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1915-05-13


We marvel that the colonel could |
have associated with all those bad |
characters and remained SO pure.
It's an ill wind, etc. American
travellers won't spend S170, 200, 900
abroad this season as they used to do
May appears TO be making up for
what March and April didn't do in
the matter of weather.
| Judge Bouck of the circuit court,
| has granted permission for the re-
count of the votes on the saloon H.
cense question cast at Aberdeen.
| for 100000 Russian citizens in the
| United States to rally to the coors
| They are not breaking their necks to
| respond.
Old man Huerta's bad boy has TAX
en- a home on Long Island. which is
a long ways from Mexico but con-
venient place from which to salute
! the American flag.
| Massachusetts, it appears, has Civ
en- South Dakota sixty feet of space
in its building at the San Francisco
exposition, and South Dakota will
| fill it with it's products.
| Hand county has refused to pay
further tribute to the bridge trust,
the commissioners of that county
having decided that it could build its
bridges with local lobor
Justice Mccoy has received an al
tentative writ of mandamus calling
upon State Auditor Handlin to either
issue the expense warrants to the
justices or show cause why he should
not.
Italy is progressing slowly, but it
is progressing. 1t has drawn the
wrath of the kaiser and threat to
include that country in the general
smash he designs inhicting upon
Europe.
| Foreign travel for pleasure will
come to a dead stop until after the
war since the sinking of the great
Lusitania by German submarines.
Seeing America first to be good
employment these days
In figuring up the cost of the Euro
pean war there is one item that isn't
usually taken account of and that is
the two Or three hun red million dol
lars that American tourists annually
spend across the water and which
will remain on this side this year.
The state board of charities and
corrections has ordered that the star
spangled banner hereafter be unfurl-
ed each day over all state institu-
tions. Penitentiary inmates will
better appreciate the fact that this is
the land of the free when they see
the emblem thereof
The enacting Of the 32O-acre home
stead law in this state has caused a
big increase in business in the Belle
: Fourche land office From March 90
to May l, this year, there have been
861 filings, representing approximate
ly 1877, 760 acres of lands. This leaves
between 100000 and 700, 900 acres OF
land subject to entry in the Belle
Fourche district.
Quite boom in the business of the
New York stock exchange is revealed
by the organization of new firms, the
enlargement of old ones, and the es.
tablishment of branch houses quite
a different situation than what pre-
vailed a few months after the war.
Brokerage may be immoral" says
the Philadelphia Record, "bnt it is q
pretty good barometer OF business"
1t is the opinion OF the New York
Evening Post that the attempt to in
ject European politics into the next
: presidential campaign "will be re
sentcd by the great body of German
American voters" and will ''reac
tremendously in President Wilson's
favor" OF this, there can hardly be
a doubt Renuhlican leadars vii