Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1916-03-30

The man who is 100 lazy to make
hay while the sun shines always has
to borrow an umbrella when it rains.
Many Texas cattle are being un.
loaded at Pierre this spring, the same
being sold to the smaller ranchers on
the west side of the river.
st, Paul Pioneer Press: Little Hol-
land is busily engaged calculating
how many times she is to be slapped
in the face before "sassing back. -
Officials here discredit reports that
Mexican snipers have. killed Ameri-
cans, and state that no official re.
ports to that effect haYe been receiv-
ed
Washington Post: =. Eugenic cod
ding of presidential booms, may be
the proper thing. but Justice Hughes
Topsy seems to grow of its own ac-
cord.
Joy-ridlng is not likely to increase
in popularity to any great extent
this simmer if the present price of
gasoline is maintained or even in
creased.
Out of total vote of rs, 143 cast III
the referendum election in Manitoba,
40, 2S5 were in support of the provin-
cial prohibition act and,25, 64S against
leaving majority OF. %, ,447.
AS far as we have been able to OBJ
tain reports, so per cent of the Ameri
can army's aviation strength is work
ing fairly we'll under such actual war
conditions as the3expeditionary force
has thus far encountered in Mexico.
out the state for the candidacy of
Orville Rhinehart for the democratic
gubernatoriai nomination. Mr.
Rhinehart was house smember from
Pennington county at the last session
of the legislature.
The new tuberculosis sanitarium
to be opened at Pringle, near Custer,
is to be known as the Black Hills
tuberculosis Sanitorium. The Prin
gle townsite consists of little over
100 acres which was purchased to-
gether with an option on adjoining
land
W. A. Donneley of Aberdeen, has
announced his desire to go to st.
Louis as delegate TO the democratic
national convention, giving Wilson
as his presidential choice. This name
makes the twentieth such filings with
the secretary of state, with but ten
to choose.
Managers of American railways
| have been notified by the Trainmen s
| Brotherhood that their demands for
wage increases viii be presented to
them today, and thirty days will then
| be given for decision, but railway
officials, it is rumored, will promptly
reject their demands.
There IS no doubt but that printing
prices will go soaring in very short
time. Every bit of stock and mater
| lal entering into the product Of q
printing office is advancing in price
so rapidly that it can never be known
one day what the price of the same
article will be the next day.
A troop of Indian cavalry for ser
vice in Mexico, is the proposition of
| Indians on that portion Of the Stand
ing Rock reservation which lies in
South Dakota, as Indians in that sec
ton have asked that they might be
allowed to provide such a troop in
case any demand is made upon South
Dakota to provide any troops for the
trouble in Mexico.
For the United States to change itA
traditional policy on the question o.,
large army and navy more reason
will have to be advanced than arr
those born on panic and sudden fear.
A hundred million people are not to
be stampeded by waving spectres %
front of them on road they have
travelled in safety and serenity fora
hundred years or more.
The eastern political experts sly
that if the five or six reactionary e-
/ publicans who unhorsed Roosevelt
at the Chicago convention desireto