Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1915-05-20

the American note and hopeful that
all differences will be settled in a
| diplomatic way.
A new phase of the Mexican stu
alton is the Yaquic Indian phase. The
| Yaqui Indians are massacreing
Americans and Mexicans without any
discrimination on account Of natl on
ality.
Rioting in Rome has assumed the
dimensions of an insurrection, the
| demand for war against Germany and
| Austria having greatly increased on
account of the sinking of the Lusi-
tania.
st. Paul Pioneer Press: A South
Dakota man who lost two table
spoonsful of brains from a wound
may recover. Which reminds us that
good folks do not use all the brains
they have.
The much used slogan, "Alfalfa on
every farm" will soon be true say
ing, as nearly all the farmers in this
locality are sewing number of acres
and those who have alfalfa a year or
more old are planting more.
See the DEVILS Gulch. Spearfsh
canon in the Black Hills and other
points of interest in this country,
first. The scenes are much more in
spring and a heap safer than visiting
the tame show places of war torn
Europe.
Andrew d. White, Ambassador to
Berlin during the Spanish American
war. reminds Germany that she sold
arms to Spain during that "unpleas-
antness" without being submitted to
the charge of unneutrality by the
United States.
The much-heralded anti-tipping law
of Wisconsin is not law at ALL 1t was
vetoed by the governor on the ground
that it would restrain human liberty.
He might have added that statute
books are already overloaded with
laws impossible of enforcement.
The state food and drug depart
ment has issued a bulletin in which
merchants are requested to clean up
their premises in order to keep down
the supply of flies and mosquitoes.
The bulletin says the sanitary food
law will be enforced most vigorously
this summer.
Yesterday occurred a meeting of
the state banking commission, when
an effort was made to put into opera
ton the new bank guarantee law pass
ed by the last legislature. Two bills
have been referred to vote of the peo
pie on this subject and they will be
voted upon at the next election.
The Security State bank of Faulk-
ton, which was placed in the hands
of the state banking department, will
pay dividend of 25 cents on the dol
lar, and expects to pay all claims in
full AS soon as the different court
cases in relation to the bank are clear
ed up.
There are still few critics of the
Mexican policy of the administrator.
They are largely confined to those
men who see no contradiction IN their
opposition to armed intervention and
their demand that the lives of Ameri-
cans who remain within the borders
of war-torn Mexico be adeq uately
protected.
That Germany concludes that it
will be better for its side of the case
to show that the Lusitania was laden
with ammunition is suspected from
the report of its admiralty that the
second explosion was the blowing up
of ammunition. The Cunard line Of
fcials strenuously deny that there
was any ammunition on the ship.
Don't go to Alaska after JOB un-
less you have one promised and are
sure of it when you get there. The
Alaska railroad commission has issu-
ed just such warning to work
seekers, but from all reports thous-
ands of them are travelling to the
great Northwest in the hope of find
ing speedy, paying employment.