The Red Cloud chief., 1919-04-17

While making headquarters at Muir
do | visited Okaton, Draper, Vivian,
Presho, Oacoma, White River, Capa,
and several other burgs. The flu, not
being particular who it visited, claimed
me as its victim / spent fourteen
days in a hospital or experiment sta
ton, formerly the Murdo High School.
Those were indeed ID miserable days.
From information given me by the
doctor and nurses, l learned about the
9th and 10th day, I came about as
close to crossing the dividing line as
l did in Red Cloud one year ago to-
day, but was not surrounded by kind
friends as | was here. Hunting the
nimble cotton tail on the prairie may
be good sport, but lodging colored
jack rabbits when you are entertain
ing the flu is entirely another class
Of sport. However | again lodged
the undertaken. Several of the patients
in the building were carried out to
their last resting place on the green
sunny slope, while l was in the build
ing.
On November 23rd, a p. M, I babe
my Murdo friends farewell and moved
81 miles east to Chamberlain, arriv-
ing there at eight o'clock the next
morning. When the train reached
Oacoma, a miles west of the river, the
genial conductor informed US that we
would remain there until such times
as the spirit and the train dispatcher
saw fit to let us proceed. The bridge
across the Missouri was "out of order"
due to ice breaking up and going down
the river.
Several Sections of this bridge is
the old pontoon style-now being re-
placed by steel structure.
My friend, Atty. Brown of Cham
berlain was returning, on the same
train, from Murdo. He suggested that
we lay in a supply of provisions and
spend the night at his camp on the
west side of the river After a 3 mile
hike by moonlight, with a brisk, cold
wind thrown in for good measure, we
reached the camp, fired up the old
and in a short time "bacon and'
were before us on the festive board.
After a nights rest and a bachelors
repast we walked to the bridge. and
hiked across. Fr~ost-covered ties and \
trembling structure, with huge cakes
Of ice jamming against it, did not
make the trip as pleasant as a stroll
down Fourth venue.
The offer of . position in a news
paper office in Chamberlain got the
best of my roaming disposition. While
there made my headquarters in the
big hotel.' It was operated by q
cousin of Ey-president Taft-hotel
man, banker and rancher. Ed nav not
be as smooth a politician as his cousin
Blil, but he sure sets q table that sat
ANes ones appetite. About three
weeks after ] handed there | received
a telegram, conveying the sad news
that my sister-in-law had died and
that my wife was seriously i'll. az
hours later | was in Denver. I re-
manned in the city until about the
middle Of January. One day, when
leaving the depot, | heard some one
say Hello Quig". 1t was nv old
friends Bill White of Red Cloud, en-
route from this city to some point in
After leaving Denver | journeyed
the sand hill section of Nebraska.
in Alliance, Crawford, Chad
ron and Gordon, as well as Lusk.
wyoming, the metropolis of the oil
country. Yes, Lusk is booming, and
tourist is paying for the boom.
A good imitation of a square meal
VIII spend you six bits, and the land
lord V bats an eye when he SEN
arates you from 50 fora room-not
for a week, but a night. The amber
fluid still flows freely in Husband
the price of it is in keeping with the
price OF the necessities of life.
Gordon is located in the potash dis
trict. Many large factories or plants
are turing out this product. A potato
flour factory has also been put into
operation, using the scrubs" to nan
ufacture flour. Gordon is also in the
potato district, over half a million
dollars worth of tubers having been
shipped out this season.
The sand hills may be looked upon
as a joke by farmers in this section of
the state, but l witnessed a real es-
tate deal while there, in which $S5, 900
cash was involved. The purchaser
was an experienced Iowa farmer. As
an agricultural state Nebraska is at
tracing the attention of the progress
sive eastern farmer( at a later date
a story of the fertility of Nebraska
will be published in the the Chief