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VOL. IV.
The Billings News.
BILLINGH, NOBLE COUNTY, OKLAHOMA, FRIDAY, AUGUST 21,1903.
NO. 49.
SUPPOSE.
RECITATION KOR SOME LITTLE GIRL
Supposing and rupposing that all o’er
this world
Each little girl cried when she had her
hair cured
Me! My!
What a terrible cry 1
Why, all the soft kitties would scamper
with fright,
And set up a-mewing by day and by
night,
And dear little doggies stop wagging
their tails
To howl out the howlingest, waiiingest
wails;
And wee little Iambs in the fields far
awa y,
Would bleat and ba-a-a ai d refuse to
f?o play,
And their mothers would scold them for
making a noise,
And call them the naughtiest of little
lamb boys—
I forgot, 1 declare!
I see I’m supposing the wrong kind of
case
For my little girl, with a smile on her
face,
Says, “Please, I do so want to have my
hair curled.”
And of course she is like all the girls in
this world!
Mary H. Flanner.
August Machen’s demurrer against
hia indictment for postal frauds has been
turned down by the courts. Mr. Beav-
ers continues to sustain his own demur-
rer without appeal to the courts.
ton will visit Boston but there is no
truth in the report that he is going to
undertake the recovery of several car-
goes of tea said to have been lost in the
Boston harbor.
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Even the Postoffice Department can-
not claim the palm for hypocritical em-
bezzlement. A pious fraud has stolen
I the funds of the New England Preach-
ers’ Aid Society and has lost (hem at
the gaming table.
SHORT, SHARP AND SNAPPY.
General Miles rose to the command of
the army from a lieutenancy of volun-
teers. General Young rose from the
ranks as did also General Chaffee, who
will be the next lieutenant-general.
W’nd can say that West Point controls
the army’’
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Anyone who imagines that Fourth
Assistant Postmaster General Bristow
is going to curtail the rural free delivery
service should consult the records.
There they will find that in the first
month of the fiscal year he has estab-
lished almost as many routes as were
established in the entire previous year.
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The speculators in cotton are working
a serious injury to the producers. They
have put. the price so high that exporta-
tion to Europe has entirely ceased.
Cotton planters have greatly increased
their acreage and, meanwhile, the for-
St. Louis Exposition officials are eign consumers are learning to use sub-
boasting that their festival hall will stitutes. S^orl sighted and selfish is
have a dome even larger than that of the speculator,
St. Peter’s. '
* • A Berlin physician announces that in
The old adage that “money talks” has one thousand‘cases of nervous diseases
COLOMBIA AGAINST THE PANAMA
CANAL TREATY.
Colon, Colombia, Aug. 17 The re-
jection of the canal treaty by the Co-
lombian senate has produced a tremen-
i dous sensation on the Isthmus. It was
After the yacht race Sit Thomas Lip- . generally believed that the treaty would
pass with some modifications.
There is good reason to suppose that
the majority of the senate regard the
Spooner amendment to build a canal by
the Nicaraguan route if the Panama
route was rejected by Colombia, as a
mere threat on the part of the United
States. They are convinced that the
Nicaraguan project is irr>possible, and
that the United States will again deal
with Colombia.
The rejection is a blow to property
owners here, who have been investing
heavily on the prospect of the treaty
being ratified.
COMPARE
“Gorman and
suggestion for ;
ticket.
Miles” is the latest
. democratic national
The oratory of Bryan seems to indi-
cate, as the doctors would say, a straight
jacket.
just been verified once more, this time
in Mississippi. Senator Money will re-
turn to the Senate.
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The “marked success” of the Langley
airship experiment reminds one of those
“perfectly successful operation;” from
which the pttients die.
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“La Grande Therese” Humburt’s as-
sertion that “The Crawford’s do exist”
is probably based on the theory that “a
lie well stuck to is better than a waver-
ing truth.”
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The Lone Star state announces that
she will have $300,000,00(1 worth of farm
products this year. Evidently there is
no danger of Texas becoming a lone
dollar state.
A riv.l wireless telegraphy company
has offered to show to the Marconi com-
pany a copy of all wireless messages thq
latter sends within a given period or
pay a forfeit.
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Notwithstanding Governor Aycoek’s
showing that his state, North Carolina, >
is tne poorest in the union, a Newbern
(,N. C. I bank cashier has just departed :
- ith *125,000.
among children he has found that six
hundred sufferers owed their affliction to
piano practice. The doctor does not at-
tempt to estimate the nervous derange-
ment the six hundred children produced
amongst their neighbors. There is more
than one kind of contagion.
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The ruthless hand with which civili-
zation clears the way is demonstrated by
the landless and penniless condition of
the dying Indian Chieftain, Red Cloud,
whose domain once included the terri-
tory from which several sovereign states
: have since been carved. However, he
held it unimproved and by no better
right in law of evolution than the tiger
whp hold the jungle.
WOULD PREVENT CRUELTY.
Washington, Aug. 8. The secretary
of war has issued a general order de-
signed to prevent cruelty to horses in
the military service. It is as follows:
“Any alteration in the length or shape
of the tails, manes or forelocks of public
horses by docking, banging or clipping
is hereby prohibited, and only such rea-
sonable trimmings and plucking as may
be necessary to prevent shugginess of
appearance will be permitted.”
STOCKHOLDER'S MEETING.
An Oregon chemist announces that he
has discovered how to make silver from
gold. The discovery must be about as
There will be a meeting of the stock-
holders of the Partners’ Co-operat ve
Shipping Association held at the Fra-
, , ... ; ternal Home building in Billings, on
useful as a process of making pennies ' rday( Aug 22nd, 2 o’clock, p. m.
°U o Pieces- j All stockholders are urged to be pres-
• * I ent as business of importance is to be
The fearful damage occasioned by un- trans acted. M. R. Conway, Pres.
safe stands erected for spectators at hall
games and other exhibitions should be a
lesson to every city. Such stands should
tie safe above all else.
writes: Marion Lee of Dunreath, Ind.,“l
tried eight physicians without relief.
Only three bottles of Foley’s Kidney
Cure made me a well man.” It is a
,, . .. ,, „ . medicine free from poisons and will cure
Morgan is finding all the water he can ttny ^ of kidney disease that is not
J. Pierpont Morgan has abandoned
his intention of spending a month on the
water in his nawly refitted yacht. Mr.
Jas, S. Armstrong, Sec.
Bad Case of Diabetes Cured.
“I had diabetes in its worst form,”
attend to right in Wall Street.
[nil piuiiD$ a,
The only exclusive plumbing
house in Garfield-co.
Mini to inn
Steam fitting
We carry a full line of
Bath Tubs. Clostts.
Lavatories and Sinks.
Pumps and Windmills.
Glazed Sewer Pipe •
end Fittings.
Wrought Iron Pipe and 1
Fittings. 1
We employ competent men, only.
EstiraHtes Furnished.
Enid, Ok.#
B. HAZELTON, Manager.I j
Sum Indcpcmlrncc A»«.
I’htHW ,iso
beyond the reach of medicine.
Lowe k Co.
Sold by
NOTICE.
All persons knowing themselves in-
debted to D. K. Sterreit will please call
and settle same at Citizens Bank where
all notes and accounts have been left for
collection. Do not delay as these must
be closed at once. D. K. Sterreit.
Watch for a Chill.
However sligi.t it this time of year
and in this climate, it is the forerunner
of malaria. A disposition to yawn, and
an all tired out feeling even comes be-
fore the chill. Herbine, by its prompt
stimulative action on the liver, drives
the malarial germs out of the system,
purifies the blood tones up the system
and restores health. 50c at Robertson’s
Drug Store.
A car load of Anchor Buggies and
Bain Wagons, call and see them at
Leonard's Hardware.
THE WINFIELD TRAGEDY.
The total death list resulting from the
promiscuous shooting into a crowd at a
band concert in Winfield last week by a
crazy man has reached nine. It is
thought one other of his victims who
were wounded will die soon. The oth-
ers are all in a fair way to recovery.
Besides those who have died there were
about thirty who received wounds of a
less serious nature. It was a terribly
sad calamity and turned a happy even-
ing into a long-to-be-remembered night
ot' grief.
LARGEST CLOCK IN THE WORLD.
The greatest clock in the world, the
dial of which will be 120 feet in diame-
ter, is being built hers for use at the
Louisiana Purchase Exposition next
year, and it is declared it will prove one
of the most interesting features.
Only the hands and machinery are be-
ing made here, for the dial is to be a
brilliant bed of flowers. The clock will
be placed on the side of the hill north of
the Agricultural building.
The minute hand will be 60 feet long
and the ring at the end, which will be
fastened to the machinery, will be eight
feet in diameter, large enough to hold
twelve men easily.
A hundred persons might prome mdel
on this hand without interfering with i
the movements of the timepiece. The j
minute hand will in jve five feet every'
minute.
The flower bed will be a masterpiece
of the florist’s art. The numerals mark-
ing the various hours will be fifteen feet |
in length and made of bright-colored j
coleus, a dense foliage plant with bright
colored leaves that may be pruned and
kept symetrical without danger of im-
pairing its growth.
In a broad circle surrounding the dial
will be twelve flower beds, one opposite
each other, and each two feet wide and
fifteen feet long. These will be of var-
ious flowers, each selected. so that the
blossoms will be open at the particular
hour it represents and no other. In this
way, both the hands of the clock and
the flowers will tell the time of day. At
night the timepiece will "be illuminated
j with 2,OtX) incandescent lights,
j The hands of the machinery are be-
I ing constructed by the Johnston Service
company. Milwaukee (Wis) corres-
pondence Chicago Tribune.
NOTICE.
Headquarters Billings G. A. R. Post.
Department of Oklahoma. j
Comrades: You are hereby notified
that the Territorial Reunion will be held !
at Wellston, .Sept. 9, It), 11 and 12.'
Take due notice and govern yourselves:
accordingly. J. D. Landrum,
Post Commander.
Cured Paralysis.
\V S. Baily, P. O. True, Tex., writes:
"My wife had been suffering five years
with paralysis in her arm, when 1 was
persuaded to use Ballard’s Snow Lini-
ment. which cured her all right. I have
also used it for old sores, frost bites,
and skin eruptions. It does the work.”
26, 50c and $1.00 at Robertson’s Drug
Store.
A CURE FOR LOVE.
Take 12 ounces of dislike, one pound
of resolution, two grains of common
sense, two ounces of experience, a large
quantity of time, and three quarts of I
cooling water, of consideration. Set
them over the fire of love; sweeten it
with the sugar of forgetfulness; skim it ,
with the spoon of melancholy; put it in
the bottom of your heart; cork it with
the cork of a clear conscience; let it re-.
main and you will quickly find ease, and I
be restored to your senses. At the |
house of understandiug next door to [
reason, on Prudent street, is the village
of contentment. -Ex.
Come and lit! yout Isrmi lor sale with us. i
We hive buyers coming and will tell your
Itrm if you will give u» a chance.
St. Clair A Opdylke.
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| PRICE WITH
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<| QUALITY WITH
QUALITY
* BEE
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This is all we ask you to ilo to
Mini Hip reason why you should
trade at the
HIVE
Our stoek of Dry Goods, Clothing, Shoes, Hats ami Furnishing Goods
is getting broken on aeeount of the big business we have had recently and
our buyer is now in the Eastern markets purchasing a big stoek of fall goods.
We have just received a full line of the celebrated “F. C.” Corsets and
have all of the latest styles in any size. Yours for Business,
A. S. Cades, Prop.
of Billings Largest Dry Goods Store.
h
| umber pealersi
UTA THAT is our business, and we are always ready and
I willing to figure with you on anything you are think-
ing of purchasing in our line and can give you just as
g<mkI prices as anyone else. All we ask is for you to
come and get acquainted. We are not strangers to
you but our new man is and when you get acquainted
with him you are sure to give us, at least, a fair share of your
patronage, which we are bound to merit.
F. D. TREKELL, Prop. SKSffi*.
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The Painter Rules
That is, he usually decides what
brand of paint his customer should pur-
chase. If he is wise he chooses Crown
Cottage Colors, by far the best paint, in
every respect, that money can buy.
Every can is guaranteed by the manu-
facturers as follows:
wmmmm We Guarantee
That properly applied oa a aerface ia proper
condition, CROWN C0TTAGC COLORS will give better
reoulte thaa any other paint (iadadiag white lead)
aad ia aN caaee where it dooo not, aad it ia the
fault of the material need, wa wl* da the work
over agaia at mat oopaaaa.
'Bradley C&LVrooman Co.
I For Sate By I
Lowe Hardware and Drug. Co.
n(W TO CATCH A TIGER.
One day, at Utica, some fifteen years
ago, Marshall P. Wilder, the platform
humorist, attended Barnura’s circus
with some frio ids. He had never met
Barnum at ti.:,t time, and when the
great showman came along in front of
the seats bowing;and smiling, as was
his custom, Wilder said:
"Bet you supper tonight for the party
that 1 can get a dollar from him before
he leaves the tent."
"Done!” said one of the party.
Wilder slipped down, and just as Bar-
num approached the place of exit, he
stepped up briskly and said:
"Excuse me, Mr. Barnum, but I be-
lieve one of your tigers escaped yester-
day."
"Yes, sir," promptly responded the
showman. "Our royal Bengal man-
eating tiger. The press agent his the
matter in charge." And the great cir-
cus man moved along toward the exit.
"Hold on a moment," continued
Wilder. "I see you offer $500 for its
oapture. It’s a waste of good money.
Give me $1 and I’ll fetch him to you."
"Hah!” exclaimed Barnum, looking
down curiously. “Come, how, 1 haven’t
time," and he started on again.
"See here,” Wilder, clutching at the
disappearing coat tails, “let me explain.
My plan ie to take a time when the tiger
is on one side of a high board fence.
Then I shall creep along the other side
to the first knothole with a pail of
cream. Tiger amelia cream. Can’t get
it. Sticks tall through knothole in-
tending to insert it in pail, withdraw it
and lick off cream. I tie a knot in hit
tail before he can carry out his plan.
I want the dollar to buy the cream.”
"Here you are, sonny,” exclaimed
Barnum, producing a silver dollar, and
disappeared from the tent.—Saturday
Evening Post.
Quick Relief for Asthma Sufferers.
Foley’s Honey and Tar affords im-
mediate reliet to asthma sufferers in the
worst stages and if taken in time will
effect a cure. Sold by Lowe k Co.
Far Farm Least im Ike Denting Investment
Co. at Ferry- Money paid ot loan u papers
are signed. Lowest Rules ted Easy term*.
R-I-P-A-N-S T«bules
Doctors find
A good prescription
For mankind
Thf»!j-cent packet is enough for usual occasions.
The family bottle (€0 cants) cantata a supply for
a year. All druggists sell them.
A. G. CASKEY,
Successor to
SAMUEL FRANCIS.
Does a General
TRANSFER BUSINESS.
Freight, Express or Baggage handled
with care. Leave orders at Butler's
Barber Shop. Phono No. N)
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