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VOL. xxvni %jT V. :v 4" LAI gt-% 4 HAPPY HOME REAL f'V. ,?'3 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 W 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 PL" 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 *06 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 »?r .£ ?&U '.r It. fa"* *&<• rL 1" -ztt. K/, I Mi a S* 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. JSrf 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. tVv 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 1 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 tbe K. 29,1912 that pro con- 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. yZOjs ft 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. .Y^ 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. 11 llwisfl#? NO. 43 :ms