Pierre weekly free press., February 29, 1912, Image 1

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HAPPY HOME REAL
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Pepsin and Iron Tablets
TONIC AND DIGESTIVE*
Digest what You Mat. Make Rich Red Blood.
,YOU FEEL STRONGER EVERY DAY
At Vll Druggists or by Mail, Postpaid
50c Per Box
H. M. STRAIGHT & CO.
PIERRE SOUTH DAKOTA
PIERRE 1882 STILL HERE
CHOICE FARMS $12 TO $20
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CORWIND. MEAD
Real Estate and Mortgage Loans
Buys Notes and City and County Warrants.: Sells
Choice Lands and Lots on easy terms. Quote what you
have and write for information.
CORWIN D. MEAD, Pierre, S. D.
ESTATE
•jp. PIERRE, SOUTH DAKOTA.
Built upon a Modern Plan
Strictly Fire Proof
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Hyde Block.
A6EN8Y
ST. CHARLES HOTEL
J. E. MILLER, Manager.
Largest and Best Hotel in South Dakota
CENTRALLY LOCATED
CORNER DRUG STORE
Paints, Oils, Brushes,
Indian Curios
and
SOUVENIR GOODS.
M. J. SCHUBERT, Proprietor.
FARM LAND WANTED
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IS THE BASIS OF ALLi
WEALTH
And, if you get Land before the advance in prices
you will have to hurry. Lands are certain to rise
in the immediate future. We buy desire farms
and sell at small advance in price. Our advice is
BUY AHEAD OF THE BOOM
We can locate a limited a number upon Govern
ment homesteads, near railway station. Ranches
to go at a bargain. Some business and dwoltins'
lots in Pierre, choice locations, offeiod choay.
244 Rooms
Rate $2.00 per Day, and up
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I have over 100 inquiries for prices on Central
South Dakota farm land. Any Hughes, Sully or Stanley
County land owners, who want to sell, can be helped
out by writing me their prices, terms and legal descrip
tion at an early date.
*1. J. DALTON,
PIERRE, S. D.
Politics is booming the funeral busi
ness in Tennessee where in a conven
tion delegates nailed lies with bullets
and hit three heads.
George W. Egan claims he is as
nominated, right now, for governor
of South Dakota, but that he intends
to keep on fighting—or talking rather
—till the June primaries.
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Alfalfa
The country is full of Alfalfa en
thusiasts and there can be no ques
tion that it will prove a profitable
crop for Hughes county farmers, yet
it is perhaps best to go slowly in
working into it.
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Tested seed corn is selling for $5 a
bushel right now. There must be a
reason for such values. If it hid not
pay the farmer big to know what kind
of seed he is putting in the ground, he
would not be willing to pay such prices
The governor has selected as dele
gates to represent this state at the
meeting of the National Mothers and
Parent Teachers congress, at St.
Louis, Mrs. Kent Kellar of St. Louis,
Mr. and Mrs. W. C. .Lusk of Yank
ton.
The smallest horse in the' world is
a Shetland pony owned bv the Mar
chese Carcano, in Milan, says an ex
change. It is 24 inches high and
when standing beside its owner the
pony's back is only an inch above his
knee.
The fraternal insurance society, the
Modern Woodmen of America, is being
bothered somewhat these days by many
"insurgents" among its members who
are protesting against the raising of the
rates for members carrying life insur
ance in that soceity.
South Dakota extends a cordial in
vitation to all citizens of the southern
states where the ten foot sn&w and
ninety-mile winds are raging, to spend
the balance of their winter season in
balmy South Dakota. To all who can
not avail themselves we extend sympa
thy.
Editor Abe Van Osdel of the His
torian has been confined to his bed
with pneumonia several days, but is
improved at this writing. In the
meantime Cull. Byrne and Egan have
been busy lining up their supporters
for the big battle in June.
Great Britian has just taken over
the telephone systems of that coun
try and will run them in the interest
of the people. The government, hence
forth, has an absolute monoply, of all
public means of communication by
mail, telephone and telegraph, y,•.
A statement issued at the "Wash
ington offices of the Roosevelt na
tional committee" in the interest of
Col. Roosevelt and signed by Medill
McCormick declared that President
Taft's administration has embarked
upon a policy of "political suicide
and murder.
It is remarkable how little great
financiers know about their own busi
ness when called before a beef trust
or some other kind of trust investi
gation. It is hard to believe that
office boys, and not these captains of
industry, are the ones who have
amassed the great fortunes
The organization of commercial
clubs in nearly every town in the
state during the past winter is one of
the hopeful signs of the times. It
indicates that South Dakotans have
not lost faith in the state, but are
putting in their time and good money
to boost their own particular com
munity and South Dakota in general
According to Logan Waller Page
director of the office of Public Roads
there are 2,199,645 miles of public
roads in the United States. It would
take a man 65 years to cover this vast
mileage riding 90 miles a day in
high powered automobile. From
these figures it would seem that the
public highways have obtained
pretty firm grip on.the country.
The Lorimer committee has agreed
to take up on March 23, the consider
ation of their report to be made to the
senate. They hope to dispose of the
matter on that day and throw it in to
the open senate, where under the
rules of practically no limit to debate,
and rankling bitterness existing over
this long drawn out controversy, it is
safe to say that about one of the last
things that the senate will do before
tbe closing of the present session ot
congress, will be to -vote on tbe
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PIERRE. SOUTH DAKOTA, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY
HAS FOLLOWED HIS HAT
Huron Huromte: It will not be
necessary for those persons who are
anxiously waiting on the promise of
Colonel lieosevelt to divulge his pres
idential intentions next Monday to
dwell longer in uncertainty. The
colonel is going after the nomi
nation. From his headquarters at
Washington, campaign literature is
already flowing out.
The first installment consist of of an
assault on President Taft for the
wickedness displayed by him in buy
ing southern delegates with patronage
and in his preparations to run the
'steam roller" over the Chicago con
vention.
Four years ago, when Roosevelt was
employing the same tactics in the in
terest of Mr. Taft, they were not
mentioned against them.
It is not now convention to mention
that he was the inventor of the jug
gernaut (f the spoils system
crushed the rising progressive
test in the national republican
vention of 1903.
This is radically wrong. The young
man who is master of a trade is al
ways sure of a good position at re
munerative wages, while the profes
sions are crowded with those who
live from band to mouth, and know
not where the next day's pay is com
ing from.
EQUAL PAY
In Spokane, Wash., they believe in
the "equal pay for equal work" ide*
and they're going to practice it by
paying seven women assessors the
same amount per month thatfthe 42
male assessors will receive for tbe
same amount of work. Tbe women's
specialty will be household assess
ments and there will be small chance
of slipping any furniture by tbe keen
eyes of these assessors. Married
women of good business ability have
been selected for the positions and it
is expected that others will be ap
pointed later for several Washington
towns.
Equality is coming to have a like
definition for women and men up
there in Washington.
AN ORDINARY PREVARICATOR
Watertown Times: Candidate Cur
tiss stated repeatedly in his argu
ments before the legislative commit
tee that the pamphlet could be placed
in the hands of every voter in tbe
state tor $5,000. The Pierre Daily
Dakotan after making a careful ex
amination, states that the cost of the
printing and distribution of tbese
pamphlets will be $25,000 at tbe least
possible figure. Amendments offered
by the representatives of tbe Press
association to the old law would bave
brought this cost down to witbln
$10,000 of that figure, and allowed
the publication in the county papers
as before.
BELLE FOURCHE IN JUNE
"Belle Fourcbe in June" is going
to be the cry over South Dakota tbis
year, as th^re are three statewide
meetings billed there, on the edge of
the great government irrigation pro
ject. Tbe guests are going to bave
an opportunity to see the great recla
mation project-. The conventions
which meet- there are the Congrega
tional state conference, May 21-28
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The argument that is now being
employed against Mr. Taft could as
well havs been employed against Mr.
Roosevelt.
§B§ CITY AUDITOR SHORT
A complete checking of the ac
counts of Maurice McMillan, former
auditor of the city of Fort Pierre, and
who disappeared several weeks ago
show that he was short about two
thousand dollars through bis cashing
of warrants and failure to make re
turns. He was under $1,000 bonds
through*an eastern bonding company,
and they will probably attempt to
locate him.
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A GROWING PERIL'
Very few young men are learning
trades these days, and the problem is
really getting to be a serious one. A
few years ago it was deemed the prop
er thing to educate a young man'i
hands as well as his head, but now
that sort of thing seems to be out of
date, and all the young, men, or near
ly oii" of them, seem to want to be
doctors, lawyers, book-keepers, etc
COLONEL CAN NOT KEEP OUT
New York, Feb. 26.—Roosevelt
letter to governors who asked him to
be a candidate for the presidency in
full is as follows:
S
of P. grand lodge, June 19 20
and tbe South Dakota Bankers' asso
ciation, June 26-27. Besides tbis tbe
Belle Fourcbe Auto club has an
nounced that it will hokTits second
annual meet on July
a season oC.lt Belle
New York, Feb. 24.—"I deeply ap
preciate your letter and I realize to
the full extent the heavy responsibility
it puts upon me expressing as it does
the carefully considered convictions
of the men elected by popular vote to
stand as tbe heads of government in
their several states.
'I absolutely agree with you that
this matter is not one to be decided
with any reference to the persona)
preferences or interests of any mau,
but purely from the standpoint of the
interests of the people as a whole.
'I Willi accept the nomination for
president if it is tendered me and 1
will adhere to this decision until the
convention has expressed its prefer
ence.
'One of the chief principles for
which I have stood and for which 1
now stand and which I always have
endeavored and always shall endeav
or to reduce to action, is the general
rule of the people, and therefore I
hope so far as possible the people
may be given the chance,, through
the district primaries, to express
their preferences as to who shall be
the nominee of the republican presi
dential convention.
Very truly yours,
'*'»^THKODOBK Kooskvelt."
TO FILE ON STATE LANDS.
N. M. Hanson, deputy in the state
land department, left Monday for the
Rosebud and Pine Ridge country, and
while out on the trip will visit the land
offices at Chamberlain and Rapid City,
to make filings on 30,000 acres of state
lands in the Rosebud reserve section to
be opened, and 27,000 acres in the Pine
Ridge section. These selections will
close up the indemnity lands in Mellette
and Bennett counties, and while the
Bennett selections are largely "in the
sand hills, there was nothing beside this
left for the state to secure.
CONGRESS GROWS RESTLESS
Washington, D, C., Feb. 25.—Poli
tical activities are heating tbe atmos
phere to such a degree that it is
freely predicted today that demo
cratic leaders of the house and repub
lican ieaders of the senate soon would
find themselves agreed that congress
could not keep up the pace beyond
the middle of June. Until now it
appeared to be an accepted fact thai
the session would be prolonged be
yond the Chicago and Baltimore con
ventions.
Unless Democratic Leader Under
wood and his associates in the house
are willing to abandon a part of their
program to bring in metal, sugar,
chemicals, cotton and wool tariff
bills, night sessions soon will be
necessary, for practically nothing
has been done with supply measures.
The appropriation bills will requirt
time for consideration, as the demo
cratic economy scheme is directly
involved.
The republican senate leaders be
lieve if the session drags out beyond
the conventions and nothing is ac
complished that the house will have
to carry the lion's share of the re
sponsibility. All of these arguments
it is predicted are likely to make
both sides more willing to quit before
the conventions.'!"
SOLD RANCH AND CATTLE
Fort Pierre Fairplay: Napoleon
Welcome disposed of his ranch and
all its belongings, including live
stock to a man named Joseph F.
Springer, the consideration being be
tween $20,000 and $25,000.
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TWO WERE KILLED
Deadwood Telegram: W. O. Her
bolsheimer, engineer and Samuel
Huron) assistant engineer, both of
Terry, this county, are dead as the
result of the explosion of an air re
ceiver, of Mark Twain mine at about
11 o'clock yesterday forenoon
CAUGHT A GOLDEN EAGLE
A wolf trapper near Eagle Butte
caught a large golden eagle in one of
bis traps, and after a battle with tbe
bird, which was caught by one foot,
he took it to Eagle Butte and sold it
to a merchant for. exhibition pur
poses. On account of their feathers,
and the difficulty in capturing them,
these eagles have always been held in
high value by Sioux Indians, and one
of tbe Indian residents near that
place has offered oneof his beet horses
is trade fostto bicdi^-
TAFT TO REPLY TO T. R.
Washington, Feb. 22.—It was an
nounced today from the white bouse
that President Taft would make his
reply to the Columbus speech of
Theodore Roosevelt on March 8,
when the president will deliver an
address at Toledo, O.
TO BUILD COUNCIL HOUSE
The Indians on Cheyenne River In
dian reservation have a committee at
work soliciting funds for the erec
tion of a large "council house" of
their own at that agency, in which
they can hold their meetings for the
discussion of the good of the tribe,
the work of betterment of their con
ditions being of growing interest
among their leaders, and while the
trial relations are no longer as strong
as in the old days, tbeirgeneral coun
cil holds them together regardless of
their segregation on their allotments
and they desire a "home" meeting
place of their own.
THE SCHOOL CODE
At the last legislative session there
was a battle royal over what was
known as the "Bigelow" school code
which was hotly opposed by the coun
ty superintendents of the state, as
something so new-fangled and radical
that no one could comply with it.
They secured its defeat. By the way,
Mr. Bigelow was not the only one
back of this code, but it was some
thing in the way of the product of
the school superintendents of the
state. Now the countv superintend
ents are preparing their school code
for presentation to the next legisla
tive session, carrying their ideas as
to what the school law should be to
help them along. Incidentally the
grindstone is creaking as it puts an
edge on the knives of the school men,
for ready use as soon as the county
superintendent product gets out into
the open. And all the time the
"school kid" is looked upon as large
ly a by-product, regardless of whether
it is the school superintendents or
the county superintendents .who ace,
at work on a school code.
THE SOIL PROMOTER
The '"back to the soil" movement is
unquestionably the manifestation of a
genuine buman impulse and human
need, but—
Thus far it has been, on the whole,
only another opportunity for promoters
and land sharks to speculate on the ne
cessities of the land-hungry.
Probably the worst examble is the
Florida everglades swindle where, it is
to be feared, tbe government that
should have protected the homeseeker,
actually protected the interests that
took millions out of the homeseekers'
pocket and gave him nothing in return.'
—Sioux City News.
HOPEFUL SIGNS
Brookings Register: The organiza
tion of commercial clubs in nearly
every
town in the state during the past win
ter is one of the hopeful signs of the
times. It indicates that South Dako
tans have not lost faith in the state,
but are putting in their time and good
money to boost their own particular
community and South Dakota in gener
al. .. ..
SHOWS GRATIFYING GAINS
The seventh unnual edition of the
South Dakota high school directory,
prepared by the State University of
South Dakota, has been completed.
The work has been compiled from
the information furnished by the
superintendents and principals of the
various high schools.
This year 151 high schools were re
ported. in contra-distinctioh to the
129 of last year, showing (he names
of 471 teachers while tbe total num
ber of last year was but 416 Tbe
total enrollment of the schools was
7,302 last year it was 6,195. There
are 1,187 seniors this year. Tbe new
directory shows 305 of the teachers
to have college degrees. There were
but 276 who held degrees last year.
The directory shows tbat 86 of the
high schools have a four year course
20 have a three year course 81 have®
a two year course and only 5 have it
one year course. V.
TALKED LIKE A PROF$SSjQR
Sioux Falls Argus-Leader: John*f'
Sutherland of Pierre, who happened
to be in the city Friday, aodepte^ ufc!
invitation to address the sttidents vl
tbe Sioux Falls collefe. Mr. gather*
andi ha« sist^.- .wl»0'' |sif^|'4i.
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