Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1916-04-13

RRE. SOUTH DAKOTA,
The latest reports from Mexico are
to the same old threadbare effect.
The Villa chase thus far has devel.
oped several corners in Mexico, along
with several loop holes.
Speaking of the short skirts-but
then we are 200 darned busy looking
to even think of speaking.
That presidential plum is looking
mighty big and juicy to the hungry
who are squatting under the tree.
One trouble with the shoe manu-,
facturers' efforts to keep skirts short
is that they are shoe manufacturers.
Springfield Republican: The recon.
Citation between Messrs. Roosevelt
and Root shows, also, what progress
is being made in bringing Il. II. back
under good Influences"
Unless there is some plan develop
ed to furnish the necessary ingredi-
tents for making paper it will be
necessary for publishers to economics
by reducing the size of newspapers
London papers have been reduced to
half size.
George Egan is carrying on a
meteoric speaking campaign as an in
diyidual candidate for the republican
nomination for governor, and it must
be admitted that as q platform orator
ne has proven his ability i'll past cam
paigns.
A meeting of tne veterinary sur
geons of the state with DR.. j. E.
Phelps, state veterinarian, in charge
was held at Huron last week. The
meeting was called for the purpose
OF forming a new association of
deputy state veterinarians.
The latest political filings are those
of Judge Il. q. Smith of Yankton, as
a n~on-partisan candidate for supreme
court justice from the Fourth district;
Edmund ID. Morcomb of Sioux Falls,
democratic candidate for governor,
and Frank M. Rood of Philip, repub-
lican candidate for secretary of state
to succeed himself.
Now comes belated returns from
the Wisconsin primary completely
reversing the earlier reports that
Senator La Follette's ambition to be
the presidential nominee had been
turned down by the Wisconsin voters.
The belated figures are strong for the
cChoGcis anu IL 10 lIOW bStdUilSIeu lie
will have control of the state dele
CATION.
Will Altman of Kirley is over 800
ahead for one days work, in which
he dug out a den of timber wolves,
and got the mother and several pups.
The stockmen's association pays him
one hundred dollars as their bounty,
for helping rid the range of grey VOL
YES, and he gets the state bounty in
addition which will amount to sever
al dollars.
The county commissioners of Hand
county have arranged for a "county
road from Miller to Orient, which is
just across the line in Faulk county.
They will put in SPECIAL effort along
this line for their north Hand county
road expenditures this year, and will
have q trunk line road" practically
through the center of the county from
the north boundary to the county
seat.
Up to date no republican who has
been loudly proclaiming that the
government would have had plenty of
revenue if the democrats had not re-
dnced the tariff has come forward to
explain how a high tariff increases
expectations and how, if low rates
vastly increase importations, higher
rates would not have lessened the
amount of imports and thus lessened
the revenues.
1t is rather peculiar how necessity
causes people to change their ideas.
A striking indication was given by
minority lead Mann when the Burnett
m miuratiop hin mos hro,rh 49,.