The Union times. [volume] (Union, S.C.) 1894-1918, 1903-04-03

for the night. One place was called
tho streets Of Cairo. Thoy had o
lot Of large pictures, few canels
! and lot Of girls and men who
looked very much like they were
badly sunburnt; they had very few
clothes, oil of which looked like very
fine elk, with large flowers or fig
ures all over them. The girls woul1
ride the camels outside of the show
grounds and a lot of the men and
boys With things somewhat like
drums would follow hollering as loud
as they could and beating a. hard as
possible on these instruments. These
would quickly 60 back in the tents
and one fellow would get on the
stage and begin dancing, singing and
beating the drum with al II, ,xinhfs
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writer had nevep ften II y
compare with it except : Kfckspt(
Indian band at q dog feast and 1
Chinaman band, the latter being
here few years ago. There was .
modern Ferris wheel which would
carry about fifty people; they would,
carry them about forty feet high and
stop at the top for about one minute
tor the occupants to take q look at
the tents and g,e,t mass of peopl.
who were all around, and it would
take about five minutes to 20 to the
top.
The committee in charge Of the
reunion had arranged to hsvea big
buffalo dinner for the old soldiers al
the fair grounds, but the dinner was
put off until the last day of the re.
union. They had purchased Eve
large buffaloes for the occasion, but
the writer went to Fort Worth that
forenoon consequently did not par
take Of the feast. Tho buffaloes we're
purchased from Goodnight Ranch in
the Panhandle of Texas, they were
domesticated and were shipped down
to Dallas at the beginning of the
reunion, and nearly everybody went
to the stock pen to sec the buffaloes,
the largest one.weighed 1900
pounds and another was nearly az
large, while the others were smaller.
They were very gentle and look :
very much like tho wild ones, except
their horns were much longer,
straightcr and more smooth. While
speaking of Goodnight's Ranch it
calls to mind the first time the write,
ever saw the King of the plains as
he was called at that time; it was at
Harold, Texas, in Wilbarger county.
The railroad had only built rs far as
Harold and that was the terminus
Of the road for several years, and in
fact the promoters of the road owned
all the land about the town and they
sold it out at fancy prices as though
they were going to make . city on
the plains, although there was not q
drop of water in six miles of the
place except a few wells of salt water,
which were very deep and a very
slow flow Of salt water. The rail-
road company hauled water I dare
say for more than hundred miles,
but they did not kick as they had to
boom the place to get more money.
There was spring six miles cast Of
Harold called tho Cottonwood
spring, and a great many people
made q living by hauling the water
into town and selling it out BY the
tucketfal or cupfal as desired. The
Cottonwood spring was fresh water,
but was very warm BY the time it
was hauled into town. There was
not tree, hill or stream of water
anywhere in sight of this town, and
you could look as far as as your eyes
were able to deoern and yet the Wow
appeared to be the same. The rail
road was then called the Denver,
Texas and Fort Worth. Well, the
old man Goodnight had ranch with
. lot of cattle out in the country, am
not sure how far from Harrok hut
that being tho end Of the railroad
came in on the train ono day and
the whole town turned out to.see
him, Of course the writer followed
the crowd. He was q short, heavy
built, dark Completed man of mid
die ago and wore black broadcloth
suit of very soft finish, long tail coat
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