Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 24, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 January 1911 — To Appease “Cow Souls.” [ARTICLE]

To Appease “Cow Souls.”

Seattle, Wash. Steamer advices tell of the ceremony of the “beef sou’, celebration” recently In Tokyo, for the purpose of appeasing the souls of thousands of cows and oxen killed during the recent war to supply the army in Manchuria. It rsi estimated 130 * day were killed. A monument was erected “to prevent the souls of those slaughtered animals rising In retribution against the butchers.” -