The Langston City herald. [volume] (Langston City, O.T. [Okla.]) 1891-1902, 1897-05-08

In Logan county by the recent flood.
Every modern cycave in Oklahoms
should have . drain pipe from the bot
tom.
The new water-works we'll a. Guth.
RE caved in the other day and the city
Is out si, 1000.
2 A. II. Classen, the new receiver oi
the Oklahoma City land Office, Ia now
in charge.
Guthrie made q tcn-strikc all over
the country by refusing aid from out.
side points.
The cowboys now say that the Cot
tonwood valley at the site Of Guthrie
was similarly flooded in 1879.
There Is crazy man at II Reno and
the boys get mp imaginary foot races
with him and have him walk his head
OF.
W. $. Field Of Oklahoma, IL is said,
will be appointed assistant commits
sioncr Of Indian affairs. Ten Indians
In Washington have indorsed him
During the recent high winters in Ok.
lahoma the Quapaw river in Lincoln
county was q mile wide and thirty feet
deep. All the bottom farms were de-
stroyed.
Slowly but surely IL Ia becoming inn
possible to use in Oklahoma the word
"cloud" with taclsing "ominoas" to IL.
Why not call them all "omnous.
clouds:'
People who are now saying the
Guthrie food accounts were cxaggcr.
ated were the very people who strobe
around tho streets and said that 200
were drowned.
In the saltwater Jail tho grand jury
visited young man named Daughcrty.
He jumped on one Of the jurors, an
old man, named Walbriigc, and knock.
cd him down. Daughcrty rs now in a
cell
An Oklahoma editor makes mention
OF a subscriber who dropped in To re-
new his own paper and send three "a
Pennsylvania relatives. Then in a
burst OF gratitude he says; MAY his
wheat 60 80 bushels TO the acre"
In as great n catastrophe as the
Guthrie food seemed TO be the ncws-
papers in the first account must Judge
from appearances. And the appear
anccs at Guthrie the day after the flood
indicated that fully fifty people were
gone.
Hogs and cattle command good pri-
ces, wheat ia going up and is already
At paying prices, corn il advancing.
everything tho farmer has to sell com
mands a pretty good figure, while
everything he has 10 buy is cheap.
Why should not the farmer always he
happy.
Archie Anderson of Enid has been
notified by the adjutant-gcncral that
his name has been inserted in the
army register this year as one OF the
three most distinR uishcd students in
military science and tactics OF tho
graduating class of the Missouri mill.
tary academy.
In every Okla. town there is q sys.
tenn of alarms for the fre.bcll. One
tap means first ward, two taps means
second ward. Yet there is no case on
record where man listened to the bell
and translated its code The Kansau
simply rusbcs blindly out into the
dark and follows tho first running man
he sees.
The recent copious rains makes the
wheat crop OF Oklahoma almost assur.
cd, bnt the farmers should not ncglec,
the corn, cotton and other crops; diver.
sified crops multiply the resources oI
the farm, then the failure OF one cror
gives him some other TO fail back upon.
Oklahoma is not be any means a harr
of one string; when one string breaks,
she has many others she can play with.
A shooting ARRAY occurred recently
on 4 claim just east OF Oklahoma CITY,
between John Dinkins, occupant of the
land, and Mr.. Minks, a contestant for
the same property. Both had lived on
the quarter section until lately, when
Mink's house and all its contents were
burned. Since then he has lived in
town, but has some growing crops near
his former home. Recently a. he was
going to do some planting, Dinkins
forbid his return and shot him IN the
head and shoulder causing . dangerous
wound Dinkins is in Jail.
One OF the unique features of the cell
ebration OF the completion OF the
Hutchinson and Southern To Med ford
will be II bachelors parade. Over six
ty bachelors holding down claims in
Grant county will present themselves
in proper uniform 10 the asses who
may visit the city and let them know
what an opportunity there exists there
for those alliances which are the ma i.
tural spheres of mankind. As the pro-
bate judge and county clerk will prob
ably be in the parade the necessary
papers can be furnished ON the spot.
OF course the parade will be that of
cavalry, as what would body of bach.
clors do in matter of infantry.