The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1904-07-08

die Top-and Sour Lake oil fields is
decreasing on an average of $4,000
barrels month.
The great worlds fair handicap
race at st. Louis was won by Colo
NAL Girl, owned by Otto Stiefel,
with Hcrmis second. The race was
worth 81 900 to the winner.
John H. McDuffe, who captured
Rube Burrows, the noted train
robber, several years ago, was shot
and killed by neighbor at his home
in River county, Alabama. last
week.
Robbers caused a panic in a gam
bling house at Houston, Tex, by
exploding a stick of dynamite un-
der poker table and during the
excitement got away with a bank
rclI of $4,000.
Chas. Z. Magoon has been ap-
pointed general counsel for the
isthmian canal commission. Judge
Magoon has been the law officer Of
the bureau Of insular affairs since
the Office was created in 1899.
Rev. l.. G. Broughton, a promi-
nent Baptist minister of Albany,
Ga, was cowhided by Chief of Po-
lice Westbrook, because the minis
ter had charged in a sermon that
the officer was a drunkard and
shielded Iaw-breakers.
Gov. Peabody of Colorado, while
on a visit to Chicago, was waited
upou by a committee of three,
claiming to represent Chicago work
ingmen, and advised to leave the
state. The governor told the men
he woald remain as long as he liked,
and ordered them from his room.
A Kansas City Southern passen-
ger was wrecked near Joplin, Mo-,
by the spreading of rails and the
following persons were injured: ::
Frank Giddings Of Neosho, Mo. !;
w. T. Bird, postal clerk, Kansas
City; Evi Martin, postofice inspect
tor, Joplin, and a physician from
Emporia, Kan.
Nine million of acres of govern
ment land in Nebraska were opened
to settlement June %, under act of
congress, which permits homestead
ers to file on $40 acres. This land
is known as semi-arid land, and is
mostly adapted to grazing. 1t is
the last great opening of govern
nlent land of this nature that will
ever be made and was the occasion
of a rush for choice sections BY
those desiring to establish branches.
The prohibition party, in nation
al convention at Indianapolis, NOM
mated S. G. Swallow of Pennsyl-
vania, for president and G. W.
Carroll of Texas for vice president.
In addition to the planks on the
liquor question, the platform de-
clares the party to be in favor of
international arbitration, suffrage
law based on mental and moral
qualifications, uniform laws of the
country and dependencies, popular
election of United States senators,
civil service extension and the ini-
tiative and referendum.
Chas. Gutke, Edmund Bersch
and Chas. F. Kelley, former mem
bers of the st. Louis house of dele
gates, under Indictment for perjury
and bribery, caused CONSERVATION
among their former associates and
many wealthy citizens by confess
ing when placed on trial few days
ago. Tn statement given to the
press by Gutke. he declares every
corporation of any consequence in
st. Louis paid the famous combine
of nineteen large sums of money for
their votes to secure desired fran
chises and municipal contracts.
Kelley declares he was given $780,
900 to make the trip to Europe and
remain until the statute of limi-
tation expired in certain cases in
which men worth millions might
have been involved The con-
fessed boodlers declare the city
of st. Louis has been at the
mercy of combine in the house of
delegates for twenty-five years.
George Rice, a former oil refner
of Ohio, has filed a bill in chancery
at Trenton, n. J., asking that the
Standard Oil Company be dissolv-
ed as an illegal combination in re-
straint of trade, and that the court
appoint receivers or directors to
take charge of its affairs pending
the dissolution. Rice claims that
he was driven out of business by
the so-called trust, which exists
against the laws of the United
States.