Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1916-03-09

Tho annual mineral output OF British
columbia Is valued at approximately
10000, 600. The figures for 1913 ex-
Seeded that amount, while the product
last year. vas some 100000 0 short OF
That Of tho previous year. The decrease
Tia the value Of minerals produced In
the province last year, as compared
with 1913, was due to the European
war. which disturbed the metal mar
kets throughout the world. producing q.
depressing effect on the industry In
British Columbia.
4 Ella Fiagg Young, long superintend.
ent Of the Chicago schools, has declared
In Los Angeles thai the modern girl
may seem a butterfly, but is all right,
sand don't any n forget 1t. The girls
of today are h happy possessorS OF
viewpoints are different from those OF
80 years ago. to be sure. blu their short
skirts are q vast improvement on
trains. The modern young woman
! meets my approval"
Petrograd all this year, but the au-
thorities have forbidden. with heavy
Il penalties, the dissemination of the
word cholera" by print or In speech.
It is called by a word signifying
''chronic diarrhea." The disease seems
to be gaining Roadway. as recently no
tees in big red letters W. been
posted up on shops and walls and
fences all owe the city warning the
population not to drink unboiled water
on any account.
At the present time about 1900, 900
acres are devoted to the raising of flax.
chiefly in North Dakota, Minnesota,
South Dakota and Montana. The flax
IL grown primarily for the seed from
which linseed oil is manufactured. The
annual crop amounts to about 2O,O0O,-
900 bushels of seed and Is valued at ap-
proximately $50. 900, 900. The crop also
straw, but OF this only about 100000
tons are put to any profitable use.
At Peterhof, Is mites west OF
Petrograd, the main road to the Rus
sian capital has been prepared for
trenches have been constructed In
woods and gardens along the roadside.
and platforms, reached by ladders OF
spikes driven into trunks Of trees. have
been built among the branches, 30 that
machine gun fire may sweep long
stretches Of h road.
N Ya
Buffalo Jones, a famous guide, who
Of late years has made preservation of
the buffalo his mission In life, declares
American aren't enough interested In
h bison to lake 1t worth his while
and that he intends now to live in Can
ada and breed catalo. This is a cross
between h buffalo and cow which may
be a large q percentage Of IN or the
other as the breeder ia see fit to have
The two countries benefiting most
ly In Australia In of the
vunM nra thu TTnifa1 CtofaS aud Jonor
The latter has an advantage over the
Former 30 far as shipping facilities n
freight rates are concerned. The reg
ular lines OF Japanese passenger and
freight steamers plying between he
ports OF Japan and Australia afford
facilities for promoting trade.
Ranchers Of the McLucas On. d.
school district have solved the prob
lem OF winter schooling for their boys
and girls by converting the sc%hoolhouse
into a home for them from Monday
morning until Friday night each week.
Parents planned an addition to the
school and fitted it up as sleeping and
eating quarters for the children to live
there in. care Of the teacher.
The present membership Of the
stock exchange in Sweden consists of
10 banks. eight banking firms or free
brokers. and Ave brokers in the ordi-
nary sense OF the term. Substantial
stock exchange buildings have been
erected In both Stockholm and Cote
borg. The annual volume of business
amounts to about $10o,Ooo,O 200.
From Japan comes the statement
that b systcm of prison reform
which Thomas Mott Osborne has in
stituted Mt Sing Sing was In use in
thai etnptre as long ago as 1860. pris-
0nerS chO0sing their own officials for
the maintenance OF order and vesting
them with authority that extended
ssven tp life and death.
Newly formed ponds OF water, cut off
from all communication with rivers,
brooks and lakes, are often found, OF a
sudden. to contain fish, the favorite ex-
are carried thither by birds, either In
their good or clinging to the legs of
waders. b crane. heron, bittern and
the like.
The prices Of antimony In 1916 were
iprObahly the highest known since the
m~etalsbecame q regular article OF com
MERGE. The high prices were naturally
reQected In far the largest production
seyer made IN h United States, ac-
cording to the United States geological
snrvey' preliminary figures.
HWst%ASSEn f68s
Robert Latham Owen, Junior United
@States senator from Oklahoma. is OF
Indian descent, his mother, MS the sena-
tor relates n his biographical sketch
printed In tho congressional directory.
shnvtnG been "Naricissa Chisholm Of
the Cherokee nation"
Joseph Denise, of Dayton, Ohio, who
Claims TO be champion trolley con-
OF America, has ridden 721.OOO
smtleasfn street cars. made 10. trips y
day fOr p years. with 1856, 900 stops.
IND solicited $1,60o.000 for HIS com-
spany&sM fares.
MI Nary Hook. of Alpharetta. Ga.
n aIElArge hickory nut which has been
l. ..chefinhed possession OF her family for
MISREPRESENTATION. i u covered with en-
sSHeyin9. made with q penknife in I73I1
nys W ii Kendrick. one OF her am
w Hraxilian doctor, In this country
seoSaSady sanaks p0isons md try to and
snnsa4Attd0te 9 each, has already