Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1899-05-10
meat on sale without the tag coupon he
can confiscate ii.

can confiscate Ii.
Wild Pigeons Come Again.
People Of Lime Ridge. near Reeds
burg, declare that fortnight ago they
saw a flock OF pigeoY.s go by-not d few.
but great cloud of them a stream so
long that the first of them were cut OF
sight before the rear of the procession
had passed. Old settlers saw the won
derful sight. and no one questions but
that they know the American passenger
pigeon when they see it, Why IL is
that no one SHIT al least one OF them,
but we forgEf the game law!
For fourteen years these birds have
been supposed 10 be extinct Older
people have caused children to marvel
BY tales OF the pigeons hiding the sun
SO great was the number. Even coll
iectors, wiling to pay any price, have
not beer able to get bird 10 stuff
They We're killed spring and fan in
great numbers. for they were good eat
ing ana easy mark As ii says in Gen
esis, The dove found no rest for the
sole OF her foot.' ;.
There were theories that the birds
had CHANGED TO be together when
storm swept them out to sea ard to
/ death. and some other wise fellow had
IN idea that an infectious disease got
among them. But. whatever the cause.
y was certainly remarkable for the
disappearance WAS sl;dden. writer
in the Reedshurg Fsse Press SAYS he
saw three at Camp Douglas eight YEARS
ago this spring-a male and two fe-
males-and RETAINED from shooting
them, though they could PROBABLY all
nave been killed at one shcl, as they
perehed on the limb of a tree, billing
and cooling in their loving. way Others
have reported seeing smal numbers
around Resdsburg in later years. and il
Is hoped they may return.
Sweat bird, that shunn'st the noise of
folly.
Most, musical. most melancholy"
Great Lawyers After SUPPER
The lobby of the Park hotel is the
Fifth avenue hotel corridor o. yiscon-
sin. A great deal of our greatness sifts
through there in the course OF year.
John r. Fish and Gabe Bouck were
about the only occupants just after
supper the other night Fish is a tall.
handsome. quiet ma, with white hair
and moustache Any observer could see
that he was somebody. He was stroll
ing up and down disconsolately though
he said afterwards that he came TO the
supreme court that day with fifteen
cases on his mind The court had Just
handed down twenty-five decisions and
ten of them, by the way, were reyersals
of lower courts. Two of these decisions
interested Lawyer Fish. Both were re-
versals and both he had argued sue
cessfully before the highest court.
CaDp ROtlpk sat in a qba in laaL ir, Or tile
slumbering lion. as he usually does.
Graces the Oshkosh lawyer does not
possess. Even when addressed the bic
smooth-sha face may not move
muscle. When he does talk. however.
there is a frequent hesprinkling of ex-
pletives and declaratory sentences are
delivered with an interrogative "huh''
al the end, and there is a spirit wholly
devoid of anything apologize that has
often made witnesses in the box trem-.
HE as if the royal Bengal tigers cage
might give way at any instant. Mr..
Bpuck is one Of the old school and
Wisconsin has few left.
His father, was governor OF New York
state i: 1894. The son came to Wis
consin in Isis ana after studying law
yegr in Milwaukee. he went 10 Osh-
Philetus Sawyer was working with his
hands and John Hicks had not begun to
think of going to Oshkosh.
Mr.. Bouck said he was in congress
with Carter Harrison Until one knew
him, the latter seemed of the mud-tur,,
tie order (Mr. Bouek worded il differ
ently), but when one got to know him
Harrison was found to be highly edu-
Gated and well-informed. He seemed to
hold Chicago in the hollow of his hand
The best business men voted for him,
also the hoodlums. When he couln't get
a party nomination Harrison would
run independent. 1t didn't seem TO
make any difference as to the result
The great lawyers. Fish and Bouck,
had ar idle evening on their hands
They dc not go up in their cherries
rooms and read the Contemporary Re-
view, nor did they put up their feet and
engage in deep disputation over the
Eas;sr query of Job IF a man die shall
he live again" 1t is chiefly in obituary
memorials to the bar that jursts do
these remarkable things. In this in
stance at O'Clock the two went arm
in arm to hear and see that frisky oc-
togenerian. Fanny Rice.
togenaran, Fanny Rice.
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