The Bowie Blade. (Bowie, Tex.), Vol. 14, No. 4, Ed. 1 Friday, June 23, 1905 Page: 2 of 8
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THE BOWIE BLADE
EDM1STON PTG. CO., Pubs.
BOWIE,
TEX A?
The man who has a-Hlac bush grow-
ing right next the street never has to
prune it.
Dodging More Straw Men.
Russia Still Scaring Herself
ALL OVER TEXAS.
A kind of caterpillar is injuring the
^can buds in the vicinity of Waco, f
New York thinks that She is on the
eve of a religious revival. Few places
reed one more.
.... Lightning struck a baseball game in
Troy, N. Y., and the umpire’s decision,
' Strike," was prompt.
Edward Atkinson may have had
Eve in mind when he summed up the
cost of a woman's clothes.
Philadelphia seems to be too quiet
even for sheep. One recently butted
a Philadelphian nearly to death.
It is all explained. The old mug
that was recently sold at auction in
Ixmdon for $29,000 was a vawse.
Florida claims to be "ten thousand
laborers short,” and the. alligator.. in:.;,
dustry is suffering in consequence.
This country will be only too glad
to accept the guardianship of any
other cups the kaiser may care to of-
fer,
— Prof W. P -Trent-says-Refoe - was a
great liar. Wish there were a few
more such lies extant as Robinson
Crusoe. ________ .... ... ...
I
A Boston bank has failed with lia
bilities of $1,700,000. The reports do
not say which of the officials did the
speculating.
St. Petersburg, June 21.— NovpefiT
Vreyma yesterday printed a dispatch J
from London, in which the correspond-
ent declared be was in possession of
information to the effect that the Brit
ish are advislDg Japan against the con-
clusion of an armistice. "Russia,” the
dispatch added, “is not considered to
be sufficinetly weakened.” Great Brit
lan hopes that Field Marshal Oyama
will succeed in destroying Gen. Line-
vitch’s army and thus relieve her
nightmare that the army may later be
shifted to the borders of Afghanistan
for operations against India.
The radical Nashlshums assert that
a "phantom of financial exhaustion is
hanging over Russia.” Really the
greatest friend of peace draws a har-
rowing picture of 90 per cent of the
«n phi re's population living as their
forefathers did in the sixteenth cen-
J, T- Barnes feR front a hand ear
and was run pyer near Adhall and dieu
EX-SHERIFF AVRIETT KILLED.
of his injuries during the night. '
Aged British Peers.
There are seven peers in the British
house of lords whose combined agea
reach 623 years. Lord Gwydyr is 95;
Lord Field, 92; the Earl of Cranbrook.
91; Lord Masham, 90; Lord Gimthrope,
89; Lord Brampton, 88, and the Duka
of Rutlknd, 87.
tury, groaning under constantly in
creasing extravaganves of the auto-
cracy which clever bookkeepers can
no longer conceal. "Russia,” the
Novoe Vreyma continues, "is reach-
ing the end of her ability to borrow
for the purpose of prosecuting the war.
Hefe the real secret of hope for peace
is that Russia's poverty must decide
the issue when the plenipotentaries
meet.” »
Robert Todd, Sheriff of Milam Coun-
ty Surrenders.
Cameron, June 21.—About 8 o’clock
yesterday morning three shots in rapid
succession were heard at the court
house and when the crowd rushed up
to learn the cause of the shooting
they found ex-Sheriff Giles C. Avriet-t
lying in the County Court room, near
the south door step, gasping in death.
One ball from a forty-five caliber re-
volver bad taken effect about two in-
ches to the right and a foiiivu of inch
above the right nipple and passed out
of the body about four inches from the
backbone on the left side, about two
inches lower than where it entered,
probably passing through the heart, as
death was instantaneous. The upper
lip was cut from a fall on the stone
steps or door facing.
Sheriff Robert Todd surrendered to
Constable George E. Boles and was
taken to jail. Avriett was in his shirt
sleeves and no pistol was found on his
body.
These men had been raised the clos-
The Sheriffs’ Ass’n, which meets in
Houston, is to adjourn to Galveston
on 12th to accept the hospitalities of
that city.
James' McCaferty almost dead of
consumption, at the poor house in San
Antonio, cut;his throat with a razor,
dying almost instantly.
Dallas is still in the contest for the
State Encampment which will- be "held
August 14-24. The Winner must raise
at least $10,000 for entertainment.
AGONY OF SORE HANDS.
Cracked and Peeled—Water and Heal
Caused Intense Pain—Could Do
No Housework—Grateful
to Cuticura. 4*
Rev. W. D. Wear, formerly a Cum-
berland Presbyterian minister, aged
S5 years,, died at Fort Worth Friday
evening at the home of Judge C. C.
Cummings,
"f&y hands cracked and peeled, an®
were so sore it was impossible for me
to do my housework. If I put them in
water I was in agony for hours; and
if J tried to cqpk, the heat caused in-
tense pain. I consulted two doctors,
but their prescriptions were utterly
useless. And now after using one cak®
of Cuticura Soap and one box of Cuti-
cura Ointment my hands are entirely
well, and I am very grateful. (Signed!
Mrs. Minnie Drew, 18 Dana St., Rox-
bury. Mass.”
Eldridge Carter of Sumner sola
ferty-two bales of cotton last week
fof T%c. It was an Unusiai sight H>
see a string of cot-ton wagons driving
through town in the middle of June.
While en route from Beaumont to
Albany on a recuperating trip, J. M.
Hamrlch, of Jonesboro, Ga., died very
suddenly. He was accompanied by his
wife and two children, and the fe-
Freaks of Lightning.
During a recent storm in Maryland
the lightning struck a colored man’*
house, passed through a window and
killed a dog lying under the house.
During the same storm a gum tree was
struck and ignited. Several hogs were-
In a pen directly under the tree, and
the hog9 were not hurt.
--- 'V .
years
mains were senT baclc lo Georgiir
brothers, but in 1902 Todd and Avriett The machlne an(, wood yard of s.
were candidates for the nomination of
Well, the Gould fortune can stand a
shrinkage of a million or two without
necessitating the mortgaging of the
dear old farm. -
It doesn’t make any difference
whether a woman can drive a nail
straight or not, as long as she can
make good bread. ■ • ...
London, June 21.—While undoubted-
ly the people of England would like to
see a general battle la Manchuria he:
fore an armistice is declared, since it
is felt certain that Field Marshal Oy-
ama would score another victory, the
Associated Press. is assured that the
British government has not given Ja-
pan any advice -as to what course to
puc-iie, as was alleged by the Novoe
Vremya of St. Petersburg.
In fact, the government has done
nothing beyond supporting President
Roqsevelt’s efforts to secure the ear-
Men drink less in summer than in
winter, according t&jabsecving statisti-
cians, and yet summer is the season
of larks and swallows.
Dressmakers denounce the "sylph
like” figure. Possibly this is because
it takes less goods to cover that kind
with a stylish garment.
Rest meeting of Hie peace plehipoten-
tiAries and submission by Japan of
terms likely to be acceptable to Rus
sia. With overwhelming forces at his
command it Is felt in military circles
that Oyama is in a postion to deliver
a most crushing defeat to Gen. Line-
It cost the city of New York $3,000
to bury Hiram Cronk, last, veteran of
the war of 1812. But then, there are
ho more Tail survivors'.^^-
It has been necessary (o vaccinate
the entire police force of Passaic, N
J. That town must have policemen
w'ho are in the habit of catching
thugs.
Dynamite has been found in (he heef
of a woman’s shoe at GonneHwviHe
Penn,, but even that won’t atop the.
woman who wants to , put. her foot
ijcwn hard.
A wealthy woman in New York say:
she expects to rejoin h r pug - do-,
after death. It is a question whethei
she believes she will go to heaven oi
the other place. —
vltch. x
The recent -movements of British
cruisers in the Far East are taken to
mean that the admiralty has again
undertaken to notify the Russian cruis-
ers of Foreign Minister Lainsdorff’s in
etructions that there is to be no furth-
er sinking of neutral ships. At any
rate ship owners are much relieved.
It. seems the hoop skirt and- the
sylph-like figure are among fashion’,
decrees for the summer. How they
are to be made to agree we do not
pretend to understand.
. We hear a lot of talk about
.“beautifying the canal zone.” A hob
in the ground extending from ocean tc
ocean, would be about the pretties;
ornament imaginable for the cana
zone.
According to one correspondent
they are1 killing flying sriakls on the
Rappahannock, and according to an
other the steamboats plying that rivet
have- decided to close their Uarruums.
It is time.
Rice Looking Up.
Brownsville: Two car loads, 1,140
sacks, of cleaned rice was shipped
from this place to New. York by the
Merchants and Planters Rice Milling
company. The price received was
about five cents per pound. The ad-
vance in price in rl.ee the past few
weeks has given great encouragement
to rice growers, the price here being
better than ever before," I hough ‘he
acreage lias been considerably' reduc-
ed. „ :•______________:. . ......
BOWEN EXONERATED.
Washington, June 2+r—-ft can be
stated on official authority that the
Lo4omis-Bowen case has not only been
settled finally so far as the administra-
tion is concerned, but settled in favor
of Mr. Loomis. The charges against
Mr. Loomis for which Minister Bowen
practically stood, are declared to be
without sufficient foundation, jn fact
to be worty of further consideration.
Deserts Pulpit for Forge.
Rev. M. E. Bachman, a popular
aprltfr 4 "served--tn-that ca-
pacity for six years. The campaign of
that year ihad caused bad biood be-
tween them. Avriett got the nomina-
tion by a small majority and served
In 1904 they were
again
Two years,
candidates for the same office and
Todd defeated Avriett by a small
vote. These two campaigns had wid-
ened the breech end it was generally
Dr. Clifford Dead.
San Antonio: Dr. Joe Guy Clifford
postmaster at San Autonl0, died Tuos
day night at his home in this city. Dr
Clifford was well known in profession-
al circles. His condition for a weak
has been critical. Death was caused
by acute uremia, superinduced—by
chronic Bright's disease. Dr. Clifford
was. appointed postmaster by Presb
dent, McKinley on May 6, 1898. He was
39 years of age.
known and talked that bad blood ex-
isted between the two men.
Mr. Avriett leaves a wife and five
children, four girls and one boy. His
son has been in the law department of
the State University for two years. Mr.
Avriett- had served as officer in the
county for many years, as constable at
Maysfleld before moving to Cameron,
and was in business here about ten
years ago.
Lovell at Abilene was destroyed by
fire. The loss to stock and building
will be about $7000, with insurance to
the amount of $3000. The origin of the
fire is unknown.
At Laredo Juan Gutierrez, a 12-year-
old Mexican boy, while attempting to
cross a trestle in front of a switch en-
gine near the machine shops fell be-
tween the crossties and was crushed
to death by the engine.
P. C. Williamson, a highly respected
young man of Waverley community,
was shot, and instantly killed at his
father1* home. - Henry- Sirfekiand, a
cousin oof the deceased, surrendered
to the officers at Cold Springs.
Fire totally*destroyed the large gin
Plant and shingle mill of Taylor & Mc-
clergyman of Mlnersvillle, Pa., has for-
Dade, on the line of the LouisanaT Rail-
way and Navigation Company near
Shreveport. Besides the mill upward
of 100,000 shingles were destroyed.
saken the pulpit and will go to work at
the blacksmith's forge. The rever-
end gentleman's father is one of th*
best edge tool dressers in the section
and taught his son the business before
the latter was ordained a preacher.
Now the younger man, finding that the
small salary paid by his church is not
sufficient to support a large family,
will return to the forge, being a skill-
ed mechanic and sure of good jray.
Chinese Relics in Mexico,-
Excavations made around HermosIK
Tor Mex„ have "resulted in the"uTuSTrtr-"
lng of several old monuments bearing'
Chinese inscriptions. News of the
finding of these monuments has caused
some excitement among the archeolo-
Liey
S. P. Sherin Drops Dead in a Speech.
Chicago: S. P. Sherin, formely Sec-
retary of the Democratic National
Committee, dropped dead on the floor
of the convention hall in the Auditor-
ium Hotel while making an address
before the delegates to the convention
ofjhe National Interstate Independent
Telephone Association. Death was due
to apoplexy. M r- Sherin was presi-
dent of a long distance -telephone com-
pany at-HufianapoWs.
J. B. Davenport, aged sixty-three
years, a former resident of Bucklin,
Mo., and a prominent G, A.-R. leader,
fell dead at his home in Cleveland, Ok
Mark Twain has bad his full share
of trouble iSb recent years, and how
his daughter has the appendicitis. A
man who has done so much to make
others cheerful 'deserves more happi-
ness himself.
ft Is understood that the surviving
widows of Mr. Hoch are about to form
an old settlers’ association. Some
thrilling, hair-breadth escapes will
probably be recounted when the, pion-
eers get together.
A Pennsylvania court has rteevidert
that "a man Is master in his own
household.” This will be news to
many a man.—rPerry Herald. The wise
husband wHI wait until his wife af-
firms this judgment.
Frank R. Lubbock Stricken.
Austin:" Gov. Frank R. Lubbock is
seriously ill at his home in this city
as a result of a stroke of paralysis
which, occurred at. 2 o'clock Tuesday"
afternoon. His entire right side is
affected and it carried with it the stop
of speech. He is semi-conscious at
times. The Governor will be ninety
years of age next October. At 11
o'clock Gov. Lubbock's condition is re-
ported to be worse.
The corner stone of the Confederate
monument to be erected at Bonham,
was laid with Masonic e. remonies
Tuesday.
Information from a reliable source
has been obtained to the effect, that
the Sou-t there Pacific will put on gas-
oline motor cars between Dallas aand
Sherman as soon as the line between
Galveston vnd Houston is equipped.
The Taylor Fair Association has se-
cured a Pig fireworks display as an-
other attraction for visitors to the 24th
annual exhibition of the association
at Taylor on July 4, 5 and G: also re-
duced excursion rates oir all railroads.
gists because Huey ire believed tST"
prove the theory that Mexico in past
centuries was inhabited by Orientals
ing attention to the fact that she-
1 want3 recognition. At the end-of th®
letter there was this indignnht para-
graph; “I want you to know that my
husband died of regular old Tjishioned
consumption, contracted in the service.
There is somebody writing to the pen-
sion office trying to keep me from get-
ting the pension, who says John died
of tuberculosis.”—Washington Star.
Irrigation Movement in Oklahoma.
Lawton, Ok.: In furtherance of the
plans for "building Sh irrigation reser-
voir In Southwestern Oklahoma the
Government has. withdrawn from the
horoetsead settlement 23,000 acres of
land in Greer County, along Red River.
Other reservations will be made in
Kiowa County. The land forms a strip
two Kites wide and eighteen miles
long and exteuds from west of Warren
To the Harvest Field.
Now York: Two parties of college
students, one from the Troy Polytech-
nic, the other from Malone, N. Y, will
start for the wheat fields of Kansas in
,a few_days with the first division of
laborers sent out by the Free Employ-
ment Bureau in this State. Appeals
have come from the Kansas employ-
ment bureaus for forty thousand men.
About one hundred and fifty men will
compose the firty party to go from
this city.
According to the Globe, Boston has
ft professional shake catcher. In Port-
land there are perhaps half a hundred
wlmae. energies dOTOted to jjfrPtUf::.: ui4b®-Navajo- Mountains nadHhenceJtHUlRfeK that he will commence active
lng “the serpent that lurks in. the I_____ .........—........——
The Missouri, Kansas.and Texas has
decided tp erect large additional stock
cattle imihunq from the Texas fever,
catt’tle immune from the Texas fever.
Fire at Cleburne destroyed half a
dozen frame buildings, entailing a loss
of some $3000. a butcher shop, restau-
rant and feed store were destroyed.
R. T. Chase, engineer- of-the com-
panjr organized to operate a gas plant
in Temple, is on the ground and an-
Bill Dick Chalker, the J 5-year-old son
of C. A. Chalker. while out hunting
near McFarland’s Springs, eight miles
north of Texarkana, accidentally shot
himself in the thigh with a shotgun,
which he did not ThTnk" was loaded.
President Frank McArdle of the In-
ternational Association of Foundry-
men, has announced that if the em-
ployers in New York and New Jersey,
do not grant an increase of 25e a day,,
he will extend the strike to the en-
tire country.
After a warm fight between Atlantic
City and Chicago, the"Texas delegates-
secured the 1906 of the American
Association of Nurserymen for Dallas.
This will be the first convention of
the organization ever held in the
Southwest.
FOOD IN SERMONS.
Guy Scott, a 14-year-old boy, who
lived with his father, Robert Scott, a
mile and a half east of Rosalie, in
Red River County, shot and killed him-
jelf with a load of buckshot from a
double-barreled shotgun.
State Land Commissioner Terreil
has announced that on.....September- 1
he will place upon the market 6,000,-
000 acres of public lands for sale,
ranging in prices from $1 up,1 pno-
fortieth cash and the balance on forty
years’ time. •
Feed the Dominie Right and the S
mons are Brilliant.
A conscientious, hard-working and
eminently successful clergyman
writes: “l am glad to bear testimony
to the pleasure and increased meas-
ure of .efficiency uud health that hav®
come- to me’from adopting Grape-Nut®
food as one of my articles of diet,
'-‘For several-years I was much di»-
tressed during the early part of eactx
day by Indigestion. My "breakfast,
usually consisting of oatmeal, milk
and eggs, seemed to turn sour and
failed to digest. After dinner th®
headache and other symptoms follow-
ing the breakfast would wear away,
only to return, however, next morn-
'lag; -............r“—S —*- — _
The first car of Texas new wheat
was received in McKinney Thursday,
lath, from Valley View. It tested fifty-
nine pounds to the bushel. . The. first
car of new wheat last year was re-
ceived on June 10.
bowl. *—Portland Advertiser.
east.
1 operations at once.
The trustees of the new N% P. Sims
Public Library at Waxahaehie have
awarded the contract, to furnish the
books with which to stock the library
to a Chicago firm. Seven thousand
volumes will be embraced in the ship*
Miat"
"Having heard of Grape-Nuts food,
I finally concluded., to give It a fair
trial. I quit the use of oatmeal and
eggs, and made my breakfasts’ of
Grape-Nuts, cream, toast and Postum,
The result was surprising in improv-
ed health and total absence of th®
distress that bad, for so long a time,
followed tho morning meal. My diges-
tion became once more satisfactory,
the headache® ceased, and the old
feeling, of energy returned. Since that
time, four years' ago, I have always
had Grape Nuts food on my breakfast"
table.
"I was delighted to find also, that
whereas before I began to use Grape-
Nuts food I was quite nervous and be-
came easily wearied in the work of
preparing sermons and in study, a
marked improvement in this respect
resulted from the change in my diet.
I am convince® that Grape-Nuts food
produced this result ajDd helped ma
to a sturdy condition of mental and
physical strength.
;; “I have known of several poreona.
who were formerly troubled as I was,
and who have been helped as I hav®
been, by the use of GrapeTx’uts food,
on my recommendation, among whom
may be mentioned the Rev. —;-
bow a missionary to China.” Nam®
given by Postum Company, Batiia
Creek, Mich.
"There b a reason.”
R«ad th® little book, “Tit# Hoad
i WallvUJ®,” in ®*cb pkg.
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