The Bowbells tribune., 1905-02-24
The Bowbells Tribune
B, 1nos, B. HuRlY

By TnoS, B. HuRLy |
Congress has voted an appropriation
Of 500, ,0OO, 600 for addition of new war
vessels to your Uncle Samuel's already
quite formidable navy.
Ten states have pooled with the fed
eral government in determined effort
to protect the people against the infam-
ous Standard Oil octopus.
An English scientist says meat eating
makes man immoral. Don't know as to
that, but do know it makes him profanc
to pay trust prices for it.
Don't worry about Gen. Nogi simply
because he has taken to writing poetry.
When occasion demands he will quickly
turn Pegasus into the pasture lot and
mount his gallant war steed.
A Southern paper bears the news that
Ben Tillman is suffering from nervous
collapse. What pile of wreckage the
collapse of such nerve as he carried
must indeed have made!
''Incision of the tonsils" is the latest
surgical fad. It is for the benefit of
persons who desire distinction. but who
cannot afford to have the appendix re-
moved.
An Eastern paper says the ranges of
North Dakota are strewn with horns
that were frozen off cattle during the
recent cold snap. If such reports as
this keep coming in we will scarcely
miss the Chee-Foo liar.
alabama casts her eleven electoral
votes for Alton B. Parker" said Sena-
tor Burrows, and not member of the
electoral college cracked sad, SYM
pathetic smile.
The senate public lands committee
has ordered favorable report on Sena-
tor Hansbrough's bill to extend the free
homestead law to settlers on the aban-
doned Fort Rice, N. D., military reser-
walton.
A London policeman who was recent
ly arrested for stealing a can of milk
from doorstep and drinking it, escaped
on an American style technicality. He
proved that the milk was frozen and he
ate it.
Mr.. Bryan in recent speech said the
Democrats should do more thinking. It
would probably be impossible for them
to do more of the painful variety of
thinking that they have been doing
since the slaughter of their late presi-
Dental candidate on the altar of Re-
publican whoop 'rupitivesness.
James j. Jeffries, the worlds cham
pion pugilist, announces that at close of
the present year he will retire from the
pugilistic arena, having already accu-
mulated sufficient of the "root of all
evil" to see him quite comfortably pass
the remainder of his life. James is said
to be worth S15O,000.
It is of interest to the public to know
the postoffice department has issued in
structions to exclude from the mails all
newspapers and periodicals which pub
lish notices of drawing contests and
similar devices to boom trade. The pa
pers will not be allowed to announce
piano drawings by merchants. The
drawing coupons must not be printed in
connection with advertisements. The
order applies to church fairs also. The
postoffice department claims that such
schemes are lotteries and the law pro-
hibits the postoffice from aiding lotter-
les in any way whatever.
Receiver Loeser has filed in the Unit
cd States bankruptcy court at Cleve-
land list of the creditors of the now
famous adventures Mrs. Cassie Chad
wick, showing the amount due each, 80
far as known. While it is understood
ainoficially, that the woman's debts
will aggregate close to $4,000, 900, the
claims thus far presented to the re-
.eeiver foot up total of only $63, $40.
The valuation of her estate is not given
by the receiver, but it is believed that
the entire property is not worth to ex-
1900.
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