The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1893-09-18
NO PLACE LIKE HOME
Suaocatins Heat, Air Full Of Dust, No
Water at Hand.
LIFE AMONG THE BOOMERS
Prairie Fires are Blazing. q Hot.
Parching Wind Is Blowing and
Everybody is CursIng His
Hard Luck.

ARKANSAS CITY. Kas., Sept. 1.-THE
mystery which, through SO many long
years Of anxious waiting, has shroudcd
tho real character Of the Cherokee strip Is
swept away. Ii was promised land, but II
has not kept its promise. 1t may do.so
year from now, but Mt present tho strip 10
about the most unnviting quarter on the
face of the earth. Water Is obtainable
only in few places. Food Is SO scarce
that loaf of bread costs so cents pound
and smoked ham 10 worth dollar. The
weather 10 suffocating, and another hot,
parching wind is blowing. The drought
Of tho past month has left the country
burned dry. and smothering dust, fine as
sand, and ashes I'LL the air, adding to the
thirst aud general discomfort of the un-
happy boomers,
Prairie fires are blazing in many places
and tho boomers are out fighting oil the
flames. To-day was generally given over
to an effort to bring order out OF chaos.
the farmers families put up tents,
arranged their primitive houses rs COM
fortably ms possible, and began a search
for water, either in creeks, springs, or In
driving well. County seats and town
sites become busy communities. Those
reached by railways are fairly we'll sup
piled with provisions, but In those oil the
lines Of travel. tho commoncst commodi-
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