The Vinita daily chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1902-1913, 1912-01-12
KLAH0MA IN GRIP
OF WORST STORM
Beaver County Court House cIoSes
to Give Coal to suffering-worst
Storm Since the Eighties.

I'D. VHicSS dt beaver, III tne OklanOma Pan.
II handle, have been closed and the ten
q days supply of coal for heating the
Ecounty building has been distributed
Nlamong the citizens to keep them from
hfreezing, says message from George
II. Healey, county judge at Beaver and
a cattleman there since the early SOS.
EForty dollars a ton has been offered
there for lal, and with the thermom-
8eter ranging around eighteen degrees
Nbelow zerC it is impossible to get the
Nfreighters to go to the railroads for
Wnore until the weather moderates.
aHealey says:
I'VE have now passed through three
weeks of the most protracted and Sc
Nyere weather this country has expert
fenced in thirty years. Snow to the
depth Of thirteen inches still covers
!. 1.-THE ground, obliterating all the grass
MRange cattle are subsisting on a ra-
Ntion of oil cake alone and this feed is
Ngetting low. Reports of losses are
slowly coming in. Sixteen yearling
Steers are reported frozen out of one
Mbunch last night. Detailed reports of
@osses in other sections cannot be had
%n account Oh the difficulty in keeping
Telephone lines in order. Yearling cat
Ale and cows will suffer the heaviest
Sspss as usual
i, Mr.. Healey states that only enough
bil cake is on hand to feed the range
Fattle for thirty days in the face of
NWeather that freezes in one night the
Eearlings in herd. He reports that
large amounts of cattle paper secured
S1sy mortgages on range cattle in north
.,alsg@ssern Oklahoma, are being carried
QAy banks. The ranch owners are do
Dig all in their power to protect their
attle.
He reports conditions the worst
kince the great blizzard of the early
Sos. when all cattle, regardless of age
Or condition, that lodged against the
drift fence" in the northern Texas
Panhandle were frozen stiff and |
Park in one night. These cattle, he |
lays, were beef fat and when skinned
Eater the hides were covered with fat
h inch thick. Horses, he states, have
II better chance than cattle as they
fhaw the snow away and get some grass
&nd they will not lie down and freeze
as cattle do after standing long time
AT Oklahoma City at o'clock the
Temperature registered degrees
above zero, with a promise of going to
10 below before morning, the weather
bureau stated. There is much suffer
ing in the city and in many sections
s2he natural gas pressure is weak. In
he office buildings there today men
#orked wearing their wraps.
At Hobart a terrific gale blew from
lie north all day. sending the mercury
"a zero, where 1t remained stationery
~ day. It was sinking still lower to-
Aight Sleet and snow flurries ragged
md considerable suffering to live stock
Mas reported. The coldest weather.
Hnce 1901 was expected tonight.
TAT McAlester the worst storm for
sars is reported raging. The mercury :
near zero and fine snow is falling. I
s's.ssE wind from the northwest is pill i,
Mg the snow in drifts. It was almost ,
isppossible for horses to travel on the !
Mreets and coal men refused to de- {
a3ter coal owing to the sleet on the !
bound. The coldest night of the win =
er was expected.
4 Muskogee felt the effects of the. sec t
,s.Nd blizzard of the week. The mer- .
10 showed 10 above zero and the t
EN. wind almost tied up traffic. D
f3)urant is sleet covered, the result Ii
1a stiff norther which set III this Z
n Ening, sending the mercury down to S
lfabove. A light snow was falling to- g
s3 Int and the coolest weather of the Z
Mater was anticipated, le
EVinita got its third severe blizzard in
n last five days when binding sleet t
"a aow storm broke. The worst Ct
IN experienced there since Feb n
Y 05, was reported. n
4 sd, following terrific bliz-
Z which ragged all day, the mercury
i'll ID at zero at o'clock and then fall, IL
M on an average of one degree an W
lSrr The Oklahoma Natural Gas q
bmpany cut off all manufacturing es- dI
SasAAnenls in cities it supplies with d.
Is III order to meet the demand for h
omestic consumption. Owing to ice Eo'
d the tracks street car companies had
Eat difficulty in moving cars. Trains
Ire unable to make their schedule bl
zeport from Big Heart in the os- ci
fb hills, said two deer with water and so
~ cunnIv cllt off bv the storm wan 70