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Vi %£wf ie ses ise ns is •n les ne m*' VOL. XXVIII 'J- j#' IpllS •wart or iy fit tf Pepsin and Iron Tablets TONIC AND DIGESTIVE• Digest what You Hat. Make Rich Red Blood., v: YOU FEEL STRONGER EVERY DAY At Vll Druggists or by Mail, Postpaid 50c Per 11 o-v H. M. STRAIGHT & CO. PIERRE SOUTH DAKOTA WM. C. NOTMEYER PIERRE, SOUTH DAKOTA. ABSTRACTS OF TITLE AND INSURANCE. Have several well located city homes for sale on easy terms, might consider an exchange. What have you to offer? Phone: Office, /-8-6 A. Residence, 2-3-8 F. IS NIFTY AND PICTURESQUE THE CAPITAL STORE Is the fashion headquarters in Pierre, where the goods offered are new and fully up-to-date. TRIMMED FALL AND WINTER HATS artistically trimmed, are being offer -d at prices that are as low as first-class good can b.-j sold in any citv. Ladies are invited to call and see the bargains yrs None are better none are more stylish. OPERA HOUSE BLOCK, PIERRE. CORNER DRUG STORE ^Paints, Oils, Brushes, Indian Curios and SOUVENIR GOODS. No Vacation. v.. Call or write I*J& J\ SCHUBERT, Proprietor. Pierre Business University PIERRE, SO. DAK. »«yvU are offering. After School What Why not learn Shorthand or Bookkeeping ENTER ANY TIME GROUND PEED gives better results in most cases than whole grain easier digested less.required. We have it in any form or mixture, prepared in our own mill. Fresh ani Entirely Frzz Grain A full linu of all other kinds of feed carried in stock. Give us a trial, i, "PIERRE HAY & FEED COMPANY IfPtone 144 Pierre. EUROPEAN HOTEL No. Ill Cliapelle Street C. J. NBVHAiJSER, Prop. Board by the Day and Week Good Accommodations S1.00 PER DAY. The average man thinks if he pays for the Christmas presents that's enough. And as a rule that is the least of the bother. We have little doubt if one, Theodore Roosevelt, were tendered the nomina tion and were to accept it he would be elected president in 1912. George W. Egau seems to have more newspaper support now than be had two years ago iu his race for the governorship.—Miller Gazette. The price of coffee is going up. Peo ple whose doctors have ordered them to give up coffee ought to be able to take a more cheerful view of things. The thirteenth annual meeting of the South Dakota Bar association will be held at Aberdeen on Thurs day and Friday, the fourth and fifth days of Jauuary, 1912. A movement is on foot in Califor nia to request the government to loan money to farmers with which to pur chase land. Our tremendous surplus money eouid not be put to a better purpose. The pontoon bridge at Yankton was carried away by ice the other day, but it has been repaired and traffic between the South Dakota and Ne braska shores of the Missouri river has been resumed. The supreme court on Friday denied the application for rehearing iu the disbarment procedure against A. Sherin of Watertown, and he is sus pended from practice for thirty days from that date. That convict in the Wisconsin state's prison who sends $10.00 to Chicago to be spent for presents for poor children knows that there are many in the world worse off than they would bo in jail. That such knowledge should exist, and in the twentieth century! Tell it to Otis. The secretary of the interior ex pects an early favorable report from the Indian committee on the opening" of the surplus and unallotted lands of the Cheyenne and Standing Rock reservations. The committee will doubtless act on the matter at an early meeting. The Huron college glee club, com posed of about forty people, will start Monday on a tour through South Dakota, Minnesota and Iowa. The club will travel in a special car and will be under the supervision of Gar nett Hedge, the noted tenor and dean of music in Huron. California is passing a presidential preference primary law. It has al ready passed the assembly and will soon get through the senate. Other states which really want suah a law can pass one. It is up to them. Sure ly it isn't the business of the national committee to do it. Neither side in the trust controversy looks its best in an extreme attitude. The big corporations cannot get along without the United States, and the United States cannot afford to drive the big corporations into the sea. What is needed is common sense in the handling of the question. It will be up to South Dakota to make an effort to get the returns of the primary next June quickly. Should the usual uncertainties result, the delegates to the national conven tion would not have time to change clothes and get away for Chicago iu time to cast their ballots. It is reported that Senator Gamble will withdraw hie opposition to Mrs. Hackett's confirmation as postmaster at Parker. Also we note that Editor Yule of Alexandria does not lay at the senator's door any responsibility for the former's failure to safely, pick the postal plum at that place. %./ The New York Sun, one of the best known newspapers in America, formal ly announced Sunday that its controlling interest has been purchased by William J. Reick from Mrs. William M. Laffan, who inherited the property from her husband. The purchase price is kept secret, but it is said to be in the neigh borhood of $2,500,000. The Huron Herald claims that H. C. Shober, auditor of the treasury depart ment and formerly lieutenant governor, is working for the re-nomination of Senator Gamble and President Taft at Washington, but hia paper, the Highmore Bulletin, ShoberV paper iuuq^nt. if ,J- f« PIERRE, SOUTH DAKOTA, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 2\, 1911 ,* tt COURTESY PAYS Aberdeen American: One of the big rnilroad systems recently began a campaign of appeal to its employes for more courtesy in their dealings with the public. It laid down some self-evident truths which will apply as well to every business in Aberdeen which employs labor as well as to the railroad system in point. Here is what was said: Courtesy leaves a line flavor—dis courtesy a bitter taste. Courtesy makes friends aud friends make business. If you must light with some one join the army. The railroad service is uot a training school for cotuba tiveness. The men at the top are uniformly courteous. Are you headed that way? Courtesy is not a veneer covering a bad disposition. It must be genuine and penetrate to the heart to be ef fective. Good temper is an asset to a rail road, as witnesses the following ad vice: Every time you lose your temper you do two things you lose a patron for the company and you injure your digestion. One is as necessary to the company as the other is to you. Complaints cost more and multi ply correspondence—correspondence means postage, and postage costs money. We have to haul a ton of freight two miles aud a half in order to pay for a two-cent postage stamp. Courtesy always pays dividends. These dividends may not come back to you iu the form of dollars and cents, but they most certainly inure to your aud the company's credit. MARTIAL LAW IN MEXICO Mexico City, Dec. 20.—Mexico is on the verge of another revolution aud a permanent legislative commit tee is preparing to declare martial law throughout the republic. All the governors of states have been ordered to ruu down General Reyes and place him iu jail. A plot has been discovered to as sinate President Madero. lie now is guarded by special troops. Friends of Diaz are considering the advisa bility of inviting him to return to re turn to Mexico. PENSION BILL PASSED The passage by the national house of representatives of the Sherwood pension bill originating in the house, was the tirst important action of the new congressional session. The bill was discussed at length aud it encountered determined op position iu some quarters. On the tinal roll call there were 84 democrat ic votes and 8 republican votes against its passage. The author ol' the bill, Mr. Sherwood of Ohio, is a democrat. It is said that the bill, if enacted, will add $40,000,000 to the pension roll and that 400,000 pensioners will be able to avail themselves of its pro visions. The measure recognizes to some exteut the period of service of pen sioned soldiers, granting $15 per month to those who have served from three to six months, 820 per month to those who have served from six to nine months, $25 per month to those who have served from nine months to one year and $30 per montli to those who have served more than one year. UP TO DEMOCRATS Chicago, Dec. 1(5.—With one na tional political convention coming to Chicago in 1012, citizens here to day pledged themselves to pay all the expenses of the democratic national convention, if it is voted to Chicago, at a meeting of the democratic nation al committee in Washington, Janu ary k. THE HOOK-NOSED JEWS NOT IN IT The Controller bay investigation has been dropped at the buggestion of the attorney for the prosecution, Louis D. Brandiis. Why did Mr. Brandeis so advise? Because the Guggenheims have been pried loose from the Cun ningham claims in the Bering coal field and thousands of acres of coal have been restored to the public domain. Because the public has been assured that not one single acre of coal shall pass from the public ownership except in cases (negligible in number and amount) where the letter and spirit of the law have been fulfilled. Because in the place of Ballingerism the interior department has a policy providing a government railroad, goverment docks and a government coal mine for the control of .. 'ftJS? A NEW WRINKLE Sheriffs throughout the state have had their eyes opened to a technical ity which may mean a great deal to any one of them just as it did to Fire Marshal Craft aud others. Mr. Craft, the state's attorney of Moody county aud others swore out a warrant for the arrest of a suspect ed firebrand. He was found in Deuel county and arrested but the sheriff to have the warrant properly O Iv'd by a justice of the peace in that couuty as provided by law and when the case came iu federal court it was held that the omission made this au illegal ar rest aud therefore the officers were liable for damages iu the amount of $500, The interpretation of the lavtf will be a surprise to many sheriffs for most of them have believed that a warrant issued in one county is good iu any other in the state but is uot unless a local justice signs it. This outcome of the case is not construed as a reflection upon the the tire marshal's office for he has served the state well, in season and out. Mm DELEGATES TO CONVENTION The delegation to the National con vention from South Dakota will be elected at the regular party primary, to be held June 4. It is announed that the state committee will elect to inter fere with the state law governing the matter. That will make this state one of the last, if not the last, to choose its representatives, and if the is doubt us to the nominee at that time, as now appears probable, the action of South Dakota, notwithstanding it has but ten delegates may become of tremendous importance. In fact, it is readily con ceivable that the ten from this state may hold the balance of power. BIG AND SUCCESSFUL St. Paul, Dec. 18.—This was North and South Dakota day at the North western Land Products show and hun dreds of visitors from the two states are attending and meeting Governors Burke and Vessey, who have been on a "boossting tour" of the east fornear a month. Governor Vessey told of the efforts commercial clubs of Soutn Dakota are making to protect immigrants. He said that he favors a law making cor porations and exploitation companies doing business in the state secure a license from the state commission. THE SCRAMBLE FOR OFFICE The fight of railroad commissioner iu the southern district is opening up for a contest. Frank LeCocq, the old time member of the commission, who was the first to announce his desire to again be a member of that commis sion had the thing to himself for some time, until Mr. Murphy, thought the field for secretary ol state was a little too crowded for his size, aud swung over onto the railway commission track, as giving him more room, but he had not fairly got over until Captain Lavendar of Yank ton got into the game, making throe open candidates have been mention ed in John S. Miller of Parkston, and W.E. Kge'of Centerville, but it is not likely that they will attempt to break into the field, already so well filled. A NEW DEPARTURE Wool growers of the nation are in convention at Omaha and they are discussing a proposition that looks to the establishment of a factory for the manufacture of woolen goods under the auspices of the National Wool Growers' association. The as sociation says it can prove that the duty on raw wool is not the cause of the high price of woolen cloth. At previous meetings of this association it has been declared in reports that the duty on wool did not augment the price of wool on the American market, where it is controlled by a combination that acts very much like a trust. i' V- SANE AND SIMPLE It would seem that Kansas has solved the problem of insuring the bank depositor against loss in a sane and simple manner. The basis of the whole superstructure of its guaran teed banking may be found in the statement of Bank Commissioner Dolley in his last annual report. "I hold," he says, "that the first duty of the banking department is to pro tect the depositing public, and I be lieve firmly that when the banking department issues a permit bearing the state's seal for a bank to do busi ness every dollar deposited in tbat bank should be returned to the depos itor—100 cents on the dollar no •tor f« THE GAME OF POLITICS Aberdaen American: One of the American's interesting contempor aries poiut out the fact that the tariff question is loaded. It cites the cir cumstances that "in 1883 the republi cans revised it and the next year the country elected Cleveland. In 1888 the democrats were swept out of pow er because they opposed the Mills bill, although it did not become ef fective. McKinley framed his tariff act iu 1800 and the democrats came back into ofilce with a tremendous sweep. The Wilson bill, in 1894, was followed by the overwhelming defeat of the democrats." There is a lesson in this which the politicians seem too dense to realize. The people are quick to appreciate the fact that the politicians of both parties fool them at Washington, when it comes to the construction of a tariff bill. General Hancock was ridiculed out of his chance to be elect ed president by saying that "the tariff is a local issue," Nothing truer was ever said, and it stamped Hun-: cock as a wise statesman, but the people did not have sense enough to appreciate him until too late. Both parties truckle to the local sentimeut for high protection, and the result is that the party which does the truck ing is scrambled the first time the public gets a chance at it. It is ouce more the fortune, or the' misfortune, of the democrats to un dertake tariff revisiou. We hear that the congress now in session is to be a "do nothing"' congress. Mr. Manu, leader of the republican side, is going to see that. It may be that the democrats are willing. The game of politics is a curious one, and a forecost would be unprofitable. ASHER F. PAY WINNER l'olitlcal Advertising. Of all the candidates spoken of for the office of Secretary of State, it seems that Asher F. Pay of Huron, South Dakota, is an easy winner. Mr. Pay is not ouly especially quali fied for the office, but there are some circumstances which boost his can didacy. For instance, Mr. Pay is a Veteran of the Civil War, who saw honorable sevice iu defense of tho country and as a member of the Four ty-fiftb Iowa Infantry was a brave and fearless soldier. Personally, I am very much in fa vor of the Old Soldier preference idea, that is, I believe that every thing else being equal, that the old soldier should be given the position. As a general rule these old soldiers ar uot wealthy. First, of all they are without exception, men of high char acter and dertermined purpose men, whose minds have not run to the ac cumulation of money, but who have sought both by precept and example to teach the lessons of patriotism and arood citizeusbip aud for that reason, generally speaking, they have not been successful in the accumulation of this world's goods. So, whenever find an old soldier seeking a posi tion by which to earn his livelihood, if he is qualified for it, I am for him and with him. I have given some thought and con sideration to Mr. Pay's qualfications for the office «f Secretary of State. I have never met him, personally and have never discussed his candidacy with him, but I find in the whole his tory of his existence, his efforts and hiB trials, the element of good citi zenship aud worthy manhood. Mr. Pay is especially fortunate in that, with having the honorable record as a soldier and the further fact tbat he was seriously wounded iu active service he possesses to a preeminent degree, the training and experience enabling. him to fill the olfice to which he aspires with much credit to himself and the state. In my travels around among the people, I find that Mr. Pay is generally a favorite and if he continues to push his campaign, there is not much ques tion but that he will be nominated and elected. tmsmmM W'Hr 1 So mote it be!— American Republic. Winter appears to be a little slow the shopping, but he'll arrive all rightsC|| NORTHWEST LOOKS GOOD Speaking of the Pacific North west eastern United States investor* are going in for holdings in that .Motion to a much greater extent tb*fi fen feral ly supposed.^, Broadmead, acoon|la« ian, may be regardedM intensive farming, by ffeiefc ttyhlTj liamette valley the most dewtti£Jfr^ti!sii»ik equal im i*: totti* tTflttgilir "*v{ -ft. •«t. NO. 33 111 •iV