Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1915-03-04
Well, you know you have been
through winter. anyway.

Well if the male voters divide on
party lines, the women have only to
| hang together to elect their cand1-
date.
Before Sunday most of our state
legislators will be home figuring up
| how much the honor and the expert
ence has cost them.
The Sun shown itself only a few
hours during the past week. A full
week of cloudy weather at a stretch
is unusual in this country.
The Americans who were lured to
Canada for homesteads will be compell-
ed to return, owing to the war tax in
force there. 1t is said to amount to
$500 for 100 acres.
A Chicago catalog house has just
declared common stock dividend of
so per cent. Evidently some one has
been paying pretty fair profits to the
mail order houses.
English ships in the ealrish sea are fly
ing the Irish flag, and having once put
it up we shudder to think what will
happen if they try to take it down with
an lrishman on board.
The Stephens senate bill placing
the circle back at the head of the
party ticket on the general elections
ballot, which was removed two years
ago, lostpin the house 80 to SO.
The general appropriation bill for
this session, carries 50, ,761, $50 for the
biennial period as against 1886, 200
two years ago. The special appro-
priations Will swell the total consid-
erable.
Monday was the first dav of the
calendar spring, though the real
spring is yet three weeks ahead. The
soil is in excellent condition for the
seed of the coming crop.
Be Americans first" ought to be
good advice for those earnest souls
who are permitting their sympathies
with some European nation or other
to overrule their American pa
triotism.
The farmers had chance to put
some real economy into state affairs
when a bill was up for constitution
al amendment, which provided for
legislative sessions every four years.
They promptly killed the measure.
A federal law against the sale or
use of habit-forming drugs went into
effect Monday and it is extremely
rigorous in its terms Every com
munity has its dope fiends and it is
these that the law seeks to relieve.
The Centerville Independent an
nounces the formation of st ock
company under whose direction the
paper will be operated in the future.
ifl Nal Nj ho ;,1
charge of the paper and the politics
| are now announced as democratic.
The senate passed 33 to 9 the cleo
| tlons committee primary bill, similar
to the McMaster bill passed earlier,
| including a registration feature
| whereby one "once registered is al
ways registered unless specifically
changed
1t has been arranged between Rus
sla and England, that Russia is tc
have Constantinople, and warn
water outlet to the sea. The work Of
forcing the Dardennelles, and laying
the foundation for the delivery oil
Constantinople to Russia is now il
/ progress.
The weather has been somewhat
/ peculiar lately, with much that was
| stormy. We have noticed for sever.
al years in this country that we have
| March weather in February. March
will probably be a good March and
will be springlike.
| Plans for an extra session of the
United States senate after the 4th Of
March have been abandoned and the
! president is considering calling con-
| gress together two months ahead OF
the regular time that it may get a
good start on some important work.
II c. ID Sanders who hao mn hlieh ad