The Beaver herald. [volume] (Beaver, O.T. [Okla.]) 1895-1923, 1898-07-28

ten,ion to their Colorado horse ranch.
Impossible
1t was n Cuban drama,
And the actors face was sad,
Quoih he: ITO play the villain
Is really too bad;
Bn, injury with insult
Is mingled and III quit,
If play the Spanish gunner,
How can make bii?"
Washing gton Star.
Tie prospective hole at the salt well
has been abandoned after reaching 1926 |
feet. The drill was stopped in red clay,
The casing has been pulled and Uncle
Sam will settle the bill Prof Doty
who superlntended the work has for
warded tn Washington specimens Of the
s,ratas Of earth aud rock passed through
to w. ID. johnson Of the geological de,
partment - Meade Globe.
A New windmill and watering tank
for cattle have been put up on the old
Rock Island road about twenty miles
west Of Rock Island. This will make a
convenient Watering place for people
travelling alcng that roud between Rock
Island and Metcalf---a distance of sixty
Eve miles. Heretofore people travelling
over that road have been obliged to drive
of the road in order to get water.
The pastures and crops of various
kinds iu this vicinity are beginning to
suffer for lack of moisture. Though
rain fell at Clear Lake and in the Elm.
wood vicinity Sunday there was none
here. Already the dry weather has hurt
the prospects for crops. The extremely
hot weather of the past two weeks has
had bad effect on vegetation, as is
manifest 10 the half baked products Of
the garden.
Judge McAtee, sitting in chambers,
has decided that the county attorney of
Woods county has no authority to pros
ecute in the name Of the Territory of
Oklahoma. The county attorney had
brought suit to restrain the extension by
the county clerk Of Woods county of
the sc per cent raise of valuation on the
taxable property of the county recently
made by the territorial board of equsli-
za,ion. The injunction was dissolved
Oklahoma Tines-J Journal.
Rev. j. J. Bagsley and wife attended
the children's day exercises at Clear
Lake and report an enjoyable and profit,
able meeting, The exercises were cons
Quoted out doors. Songs and recitatious
went to make up the program in the
morning and in the afternoon Rev.
Yeager of Lockwood preached on the
the subject, "Tbc Pathway of Life. A
heavy rain fell between the morning aud
the afternoon exercises, but did not in
terfere with the program.
W. |. Drummoud, editor Of the Enid
Suu, last week met with an accident
concerning which he snys: "Experience
is not always safeguard agains, acci-
dents, especially in running job press.
The editor of the Sun has fed about
1900, 900 tons of paper through vari-
ous job presses in his time aud never
met with all accident, but on Tuesday he
absent mindedly left his hand in the
press little too long, with the result
that all four fingers were caught, two OF
them peiog chewed up handsomely"
There was heavy rais iu the west
eud of the county lately. The old set
tiers of that section along tho Cimarrou
say the river was higher this mouth than
they hed ever known it TO bo before.
The Ciusrron valley was extensively
flooded The damage wrought to crops
in the locality Of Gal!ieuss and Garrett
is reported to be great. Fields of corn
aud alfalfa were completely inundated.
Much corn aud sorghum was washed eu-
tirely away. The water rao into sever al
houses along the valley. The water rose
to depth of two feet in the dwelling OF
Williams, who lives near Garrett. The
food was not wholly the result Of rains
in thut section, but Of rains further up
the river in New Mexico