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 The Tribune.

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PUBLISHED AT BOWBELLS, N. D., ON FRIDAY OF EACH WEEK

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By THOS. B. HURLY.

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Gen. Methuen the defeated the Boers in an engagement at Modder river, which is said to have been the bloodiest of the century.

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Our friend Mahoney, "the turkey man,'' was kept pretty busy the first half of the week harvesting find marketing his crop of Thanksgiving toms. E. C. ways "there's more money in "em than there is in wheat, but; faint every d—n fool as knows how to raise "em."

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Gan. Joe Wheeler will resign Iris command in the Philippines and resume his sent in Congress on the re-assembly of that body. In a letter to the editor of a local paper at Florence, Ala. he says: "Will you please state in your paper that letters addressed to me at Washington about matters of congressional business will be attended to, as I expect to be there very soon."

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Corngressman and former Speaker Galusha A. Grow backs up the opinion of Judge Culberson, former chairman of the house judiciary committee—that it isn't at all necessary to admit Polygamic Roberts to a seat as a preliminary to excluding him—not only with his own corroborative opinion, but with an ample array of precedents, says the Pioneer Press. The house has always had, and on several occasions has exercised, the right to refuse to objectionable members elect the right to take the qualifying oath. That the only way to get rid of such a member is to exclude him by a two-thirds vote, after he has been seated, is the sheerest nonsense. Those members will win the admiration of their constituents by planting themselves squarely with Culberson and Grow. No other course will do it.

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From an Eastern Standpoint.

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EAST HAMPTON, Mass., Nov. 34,1899.

THOS. B. HUHLY, Editor and Publisher of the Bowbells Tribune:

Dear Sir —Through the kindness and courtesy of my friend of your embryo city, A. W. Movius, I received the first number of your paper, and you and your subscribers can honestly feel a just pride in its general make-up. It is my honest opinion that for enterprise and push there, is not a country or place on this footstool where there is as much push and energy displayed as there is by the editors and publishers of the great northwest. Why, bless my life, take Bowbells, for instance, that has been so Uhed only two years, and you pioneers of the "art preservative" have given the settlers a better and more up-to-date paper than they have in towns in old that have been settled for two hundred years and wit-a a population of from three to five thousand inhabitants. The denizens of these eastern towns are slower than God's wrath why they are slower than pond water as compared to the people of the far. There is a city in this county of 18,000 inhabitants and it is an actual fact that, inside of its corporate limits there are two villages within four miles of the court-house that are farther west to all intents and purposes than any place that you can find between here and the Pacific coast and whose inhabitants are jogging along in the same old ruts that they were sixty years ago and they actually believe that your people of the far west are outright barbarians. There is a weekly paper printed in this town, that has been published 112 years and these down-easters call it tile Hampshire County Bible. Some of its readers in the hill towns think that you people of the northwest are a benighted lot of heat hens. Why, there is more push and energy in the towns of the northwest of 500 inhabitants than in towns here of 5,000 inhabitants. They are fast becoming back numbers.

My old friend Movius can tell you that I have been all over the west and have lived in that section for twenty-five years.

J. R. SELMAN

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LAND-SEEKERS' EXCURSIONS.

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Cheap excursions from Minneapolis to Bowbells will be run on the 28th of November and 12th of December, when the fare will be $20 for the round trip. This amount will take you up and back and pay the government filing fee and pet your papers for 160 acres of choice land—all for $20. Call on or write to Land Agent "Soo" Railway, Minneapolis, Minn.

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There is little abatement in the magnificent" weather we've been enjoying here thus far during the winter, and tourists speak exultantly of our incomparable chine.

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LION LOOSE

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In an Express Car and Devoured a Cargo of Poultry.

Cumborland (Md.) Special to New York Journal: Terrifying growls issued from an express ear of a train that passed through bore the other day bound for Philadelphia. A lion was in possession, freed from his cage, slaughtering chickens by wholesale. Conductor and brakemen kept as far away as their duties would permit Half a dozen Hagenbeck’s men were gathered in the caboose, gloomily wondering what they could do to restore the monster to confinement. When the train stopped here for writer they ware at their wit's end. Many of the inhabitants Hooked to the station to listen, at a safe distance to the pandemonium that raged in the express car. There was a continuous fluttering and screaming— the hysterical distress of a barnyard — punctuated by one crash after another as the big is brute destroyed the poultry crates around him, amid vibrant rears that sent the crowd staggering backward. No one dared to enter the car. The animal trainers in the caboose were only too thankful to be divided from their charge by stout wooden walls. Accustomed as they were to subdue wild beasts, they realized that this lion, which had glutted himself on living prey, would rend any man who approached him. Through a grating in the side of the ear they could see him from time to time, his muzzle stained with blood and bristling with feathers. All about him lay the mutilated bodies of birds he had seized without devouring them. The survivors flew hither and thither frantically, sometimes hitting the roof and dropping back again to the floor. None of those responsible for the lion's safe keeping could imagine how he had broken from his cage, but it. was easy to conceive he had been maddened by the heat and darkness and jolting of railway traveling, aggravated as it must have been by the sound and smell of life in the crates all about him. It was agreed that the only thing to do was to continue the journey to Philadelphia with all possible speed, and there take steps at leisure to either capture or kill the bloodthirsty animal. And so the train rumbled on with the lion in possession.

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Taught His Dog to Pace.

Minneapolis Journal: M. B. Scott, a veterinary surgeon of Faribault, S. D., has a novelty in the shape of a wonderful pacing dog. So far as is known, this is the only instance on record of a pacing dog, though a trotting dog is not unheard of, and a man named Harry Ketcham, a Canadian, once owned a trotter whom, he called "Doc." This dog, which was a pointer, he exhibited at race-tracks and fairs all over the country. He was said to have made $10,000 out of the animal. Dr. Scott's dog will race against either a horse or a bicycle, and seems to enjoy it, though he evidently regards it as a very serious matter. Gypsy, as the doctor calls him, can make very good time, and Dr. Scott has speeded mm from a standing start to make a quarter of a mile in forty-live seconds, and the first eighth in twenty seconds. When he was teaching him to pace, Dr. Scott put small string hobbles on him in order to prevent him from breaking. Gypsy paced a little before the doctor bought him, though so little as to be of no consequence; but his new master thought he saw possibilities of the dog doing better, and began a course of careful and systematic training, until he obtained the present result. The dog, is a pare blooded St. Bernard and weighs 140 pounds, is three feet high, measures six feet from the tip of his bushy tail to the end of his handsome nose and is about 4 years old. Ho races alone, without a driver, and, besides being a very fine animal, is a real curiosity.

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M. J. BARRETT LAWYER.

MINOT, - NOR. DAKOTA.

General Land Office business a specialty.

United States Commissioner

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CONTEST NOTICE.

"Department of the Interior, United States Land Office, Minot, N. D., Nov. 28, 1899.—A sufficient contest affidavit having been Filed in this office by Leonard Pearson, contestant, against Charles B Cambell, homestead Entry No. 643, made October 29, 1897, For the northwest quarter of section 28, Township 161, range 89, by Charles B. Cambell, contestee, in which it is alleged that said Charles B. Cambell has wholly abandoned his said homestead and changed his residence therefrom for more than six months since making said entry and immediately  prior to this date, to-wit: Nov. 27, 1899; that he has wholly failed to comply with the homestead law, and that said tract remains unimproved, same as other public land, and absolutely abandoned, and that, said alleged absence from the said land was not due to his employment in the army, navy or marine corps of the United States as a private soldier, officer, seaman or marine during the war with Span; or during any other war in which the United States may be engaged. Said parties are hereby notified to appear, respond and offer evidence touching said allegation at 10 o'clock a. m., on January 22, 1900, before James W. Briggs, notary public, at his office at Bowbells Ward county, N. D. and that final hearing will be held at 10 o'clock a. m. on January 29, 1900, before the Register and Received at the United States Land Office in Minot, North Dakota.

The said contest-ant having, in a proper affidavit, filed November 28, 1899, set forth facts which show that after due diligence personal services of this notice [sic] can not be made, it is hereby ordered and directed that such notice be given by due and proper publication.

THOMAS R. OLSGARD, Register.

3 6  ABNER L. HANSON, Receiver.

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Bowbells!

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The new town of Bowbells is located in the famous Des Lacs Valley, in the Central part of Ward Countv, N. D., on the Minneapolis, St. Pay! & Sault Ste. Marie R y--Soo Line.

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BOWBELLS is located in the center of one of the finest tracts of agricultural lands in North Dakota. Over 700 settlers have taken up land tributary to Bowbells. and new settlers are moving in every day. Over 120 settlers have filed on lands around Bowbells so far during the present month of November. Within a year from now Bowbells will have upwards of 1500 prosperous settlors on lauds tributary to it.

The Des Lacs Valley at Bowbells is 25 to 50 miles wide. The soil is a dark rich loam, with clay subsoil land is level prairie, with gentle incline towards the river. The soil is free from stones and very fertile. There are no better wheat lamia in North Dakota than to be had bore. It is all Government land and subject to entry under the Homestead Act.

There is an abundance of COAL around BOWBELLS, which can be bought at $1.00 per ton. Excellent water is to be found in wells at a depth of 20 to feet.

The crop of wheat, flax and vegetables grown this year cannot be excelled in quantity or quality by any locality anywhere. The yield of wheat in Ward County this year will average 25 bushels per acre.

BOWBELLS is destined to grow very fast for the next few years, and offers excellent openings in all lines of business,—especially in machinery, lumber and general merchandising. There is a grand opening for a good livery stable.

For further particulars, prices of lots, etc., call on or address

THOS. B. HURLY, Bowbells, N. D.