Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1915-08-19

Hughes county's we'll cultivated
acres are producing wealth these
days at rate that would yield a good
per cent of interest on a valuation
ten times what the land ls bringing
on the market.
DR.. Robinson of Rapid City claims
to have the only X.ray machine in
stalled in a physician's private office
in South Dakota. An instantaneous
photograph can be taken of breaks
and dislocations in the bones of the
human body.
Your king and country need you:
we DON'T" This note in the weekly
pay envelopes of employees is the
way the Canadian Pacific Railway
has taken of notifying unmarried
men in it's service that they must en-
list or quit their jobs.
The Chicago Herald has discovered
there is real secretary of state on the
job at Washington now; that the Wash
ington dispatches no longer refer to
Wilson's action in such and such an in
ternational crisis, but that Secretary
Lansing has done so and 80.
Grand Army men at Lead are get
ting together and preparing to reor-
ganize post. The members of the
Grand Army in that place are few in
number but great in enthusiasm, and
will try to make the newly organized
post one of the best in the state.
Sweeping reductions in the anth ra-
cite coal freight rates were ordered
by the interstate commerce commits
sion on railroads carrying 80 per cent
of the national supply. The COM
panies are also ordered to establish
through routes and publish point
rates paid by all shippers.
England seems to think she can do
anything she pleases with American
commerce that goes to any country
but her own. 1t might be good idea
for the United States to send bat
tie ship with the next American YES
sci to go to the old country-just to
see the ship reach its destination
A large number of tracts of Indian
Inheritance lands will be sold through
sealed bids will be opened at Chey.
| enne Agency in short time, the
tracts running from 800 acres down
to small fractions, and from fifteen
| dollars an acre down to small
amounts. the title to come direct
| from the government.
| Sued for libel because of an unwar
ranted attack upon state senator
Politician Holsaple of the Anti-Sa.
loon league let the suit 60 by defaul,
and Judgment has been given against
him, all of which serves to empha
size the fact that Mr.. Holsaple is q
detriment rather than an asset to the
anti-saioon league cause.-Aberdeer
News.
Some of the inhabitants of Custer
county are complaining because theil
crops have been destroyed by elk and
buffalo. They are in wild animal
reserve that is occupied by animals
tame enough to devour the fields
planted by civilization. Either one
/ or the other will haye to 60 and prob
ably the elk and the buffalo are the
more useless Of the two.
| Last week petition was filed will
the city auditor of Lennon, bearing
the names of forty signers. asking thai
the question of reverting back to the
old aldermanic form of government b.
placed before the voters at specia
election. This would mean that Lem
mon would again have mayor and 81,
aldermen to govern the city, instead o.
a mayor and two commissioners.
The American dollar has supplant
ed the British pound. long the none,
in the worlds transactions. Con
tracts with Europe are to be paid il
dollars. The pound sterling has de
preciated four and three-quarters
/ cents and the French franc and tn
Italian lire nineteen and twenty-6v