Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1917-06-14

/ If Root and his party cannot
straighten out Russia, nobody else is
able to do it.
Strictly speaking, the president is te
have power to regulate those who at.
tempt to regulate prices.
The man who is registered will be
| interested, whenever there is draw.
ing. to know whether his number has
| won.
The prussians say they are going to
collect big indemnity from us after
the war. We shall take out indemnity
insurance by winning the war.
The penalties provided for food
hoarders will not apply to persons wish
ing to store whatever surplus may re-
suit from their war gardening efforts.
Mob violence is not calculated to
promote respect for law; but it will
appear that Missouri community has
reason to vent itself if ever a commun-
ity did.
| With all the general sentiment
against capital punishment public exc
cution of food speculators would draw
a happy, picnic sort of crowd to the
exercises.
! Now that registration is over per-
| haps congress will turn attention to
the coal and food situation in a way
that will bring spec llators to sit up
| and take notice.
Carranza, the poor fellow, can't i'm
agine why the United States forbds
shipments of arms and munitions into
his country. Trouble with him is he
! don't want to know.
The kaiser told the empress that
the allies had been stopped. The
| kaiser is human just like ordinary
men. He deceives his wife-to make
her happy, of course.
Unless the government does some
| thing soon about the price of coal.
most householders will be frightened
into buying their winter supply be.
fore the government can act.
Ii you have business with farmer
| during the next few weeks, better trv
to get to him after the sun has gone
! to rest in the west. He will be about
the busiest man in America from
| this time on until the crop is cultiva-
| ted,
On the birthday of the nation we
should remember what others have
done for us, and then ask ourselves
| whether we are not in duty bound to
do your part in preserving for future
generations the blessings we have
| inherited.
Americans are drawing nearer the
firing line in France: 1t is already evi
| dent the moral force of this country in
the war is having desired effect on our
allies the French and British-and
that it is having quite the reverse ef-
| feet on our eaemies-the teutons.
| Secretary Lane announced the desig-
natlon OF Gl5, 400 acres in eight west
ern states for entry in homesteads of
320 acres. In South Dakota III 300
acres in fourteen counties, including
Trip, Perkins and Gregory, and in
Wyoming 100, 200 acres were designat-
ed in nine western counties.
! The United States with its OCCASION
al tornadoes is not such bad country
to live in after all. One can realize
this when contemplating the great hav-
oc wrought by volcano and earthquake
in Salvador. that Central American
country which is so enighly touted
for its wonderful climate.
The prospective wheat crop of the
United States this year was forecast
June at 656 900, 900 bushels, combin.
ling revised estimate of the badly
damaged winter wheat crop and the
first estimate of the new spring wheat
crop. based on June conditions. Tha,
compares with $40 900 900 bushels
| harvested last year and 806, 600, 600 bll.
| shells. the average crop of 191l-1915.
! In the South Dakota express rate
case. Monday. the supreme court an.
nuiled in part 80 far as they exceeded
the states powers injunctions Of STATE
courts against the American and Well.
Fargo express companies which re
! lquirsd them to mainia ain certain lowel
intra-state rates despite interstate
n CON merce cemmiaeiOn tnFiffa MAJ ryn;t