The Guymon Herald. (Guymon, Okla. Terr.), Vol. 15, No. 16, Ed. 1 Thursday, July 13, 1905 Page: 2 of 8
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HON. FRANK P. FLINT
DANCE BAREFOOTED
over live coals.
A New and Better Galveston
Rises From City's Ruin
B:.=? Glance Bt.i t D sister—Pr<r s in for T tisun
x'l Tt*. e -late-esr^j H-story of
the Tcsis T. s.
'ELECTRIC GIST
Ml
i too. * beautiful town.
er* of the o'.rii *--r
city. great live oaks
city fcti r.sen fr t • ^
be equal to alljr Lable emergence-#
"for a great sea wail nightter 'bat the
wai1 cf China u4 lainnely moren*efu
La* be*u built around her three opeu
•:dea. and aa it itand* it isreprtsena
tiveof the characteristic engineer.: 6
achievements for which the present time
u coi«i The wall la over three mlies
in 1< cgth J« feet wide a: the base five
f. -• at the top and IT feet above medium
t-' ii. low tide."
At art: II theC;.. as ftecori Her-
ald ziv<-« let all* of the aa*?. vents* of
• • new deft nae. The f^u:.ca':or.s r«*t
pot four rov. f round p.ij:g 1- Itches
in diameter ami reacting down 44 f- et
into th clay To prevent undermining
a row of sheet piling just Inside the out
etde row of r-. ind piling. i« driven Into
the gr und Zt feet below mean tld"
n for farther pr.'eonon in aa* of
storm*, and under-mining. an apron
composed of solid granite block* exteads
seaward in front of the wall. The wall
Uau'.ied the street*. It had the aspect
cot only of a ;r sperou* port. lut also
bore ewlecce tha' 'I-* « a favorite j
r**r>rt The t • rm laid 1 w wealth and 1
<au'y It came up in the early morn-
.ng w,;h a s rott gale from the north-
west. *t! h brought the water* of the |
iia) u; : the level of the whame. Ere
loss the wind, n w from the northeast.'
b iases. Now wa\es came dashing with
fury from 'he gulf side Dwellers in the i
rickety teaementa sought refuge in the
•olid harness house*; a.larm awoke,]
but as yet there was no panic. By the j
middle of the afternoon tha water*.,
sprta-iing faat. all business was stopped ,
and people went home to lock after their i
' fkmTUea At live o'clock the wind wis
blowing M miles an hour, and now 'he
pan;.- wa* In full force; from this on to
sev n when resignation to the inevita-
ble * -ok the place of frenzy among many.
The wind came from any and all direc-
tion the anemometer was carried away
when to miles an hour waa recorded.
Awhile before seven o'clock a great
, wave rusht<1 in with a solid wall of water
1 four feet high, and whole blocks of
PHANTOM VOICE FROM TELE-
GRAPH RELAY BOX.
:lerk badly frightened.
•*
: ;:ti*ens of Bxrre. Yt.. Greatly Arouaad
ty Mysterious Sounds—Litter
Laid to Xew Law in Field
of Electricity.
Barr* VL—This city, usually staid
and phlegmaU. s greatly excited over
an "electric ghost." which ta made
In appearance at the railroad station
and refuses to depart. It ha> attracted
the atteation of several prominent rail-
road men and electrician* and each ha*
a theory for a series of souocs that sUU
mystify the investigators.
The "ghost made Its appearance ore
night recently whenC A Brown. a< lerk.
was alone in the offlce containing the
te>graph instruments safe and various
ar..> ie* of farnitu: He was qutetiy at
work baland&g his wt-n he
| fcetrdavolceorerhlsshoulder. geTeral
word* of French were spoken and Mr.
I Brown looked up No one was in the
| room, and the <..erk Investigated every
I nook and cranny to ascertain whence
I the voice came. He wa* unsuccessful.
I but while he was bunting he again heard
the voice, thi* time in English, but in- ,
distinct. He located it. and a chill crept
up his spine as he made the uncanny dis-
oovery that the word* came from the
' metal relay box connected with the tele-
I graph instrument. The instrument was
working at the time and the clerk ad-
| mits to having been well frightened.
For five minutes the one-sided con-
versation was kept qp. and Mr. Brown
ffaout enouch to understand that
some one was talking of a busicesa deal.
Answers to ques'i ns put by the voice
could not be heard and altogether It
sounded like a telephone conversation.
However, as no telephone wa* in that
part of the building, the sotmda were not
connected with thai Instrument
The clerk waa so ups't 'hat when A.
I A Stebbins. his chief, came in. he made
K ftinaswa. f-.m. of a Spac.al S<*t.
Celebrate 7e&st of St. H«l«
is Heroic Mini.tr.
I Vienna—The uihabitaau of the vil-
la -e of Toian Ora l In Rc>uinacia ceie-
; bratrf their ascual fea*t of St Helen
recently when the Xistinam priests
I .of a sp*«-al werf. :ane i ha"-' >? upoi.
e f- lis a crrenioey which contia :ed
ery day fcr tea days After qtaai
ee etrated by the hiih^ a large pile
of wood w>« * • on Hi* a.nJ toward
e-.^ning the Nistiaares took turns a:
•ianciag over the scaiu-rwl etaoera ni-
t- ring prophe. as to the hippevinge
C' the r>>mlng year mcst closely aff"*"t
Ir.g the members of the parish. While
the ceremony was going on bands
v ' I - V
vi/Ji
AFTER THE 8TOKJI
Itself is made of aolid concrete and • ootUges were swept away; the water
Strengthened every three feet by great rose high la manalon and >olaL WW
steel rods When the work Is finally 1 the wreckage waa swept with disastrous
eompleted, land will be filled in a ron- j force against the buildings, wind. wave,
•iderable distance ba< k of the wall to debr., not in their work In three hours
the sam" height and a beautiful drive- more the deaths rose to thousands, the
way ma le ' to™ destroyed
it n said that no cllU' n of Galveston , The story of the horrors and tragedies
v!
THE KMTIXARKS DAN'*1X0 BARE-
FOOT OS LIVE COAL&
played and the people surrounded the
burning embers.
i The people believe the Nlstinares In-
herit the power of walking unuscathed
• over the fire, and that even they could
I not enjoy the privilege except on the
occasion of this special celebration.
ThiB rite has been celebrated from time
1 immemorial in this particular locality
and attracts a large number of visitors,
i A strange procession was seen in the
, r ,wn of Cucullo, near Aquila, when
[ the statue of St. D>minic was carried
through the streets. Snake charmers
| annually attem the festivities and it
I is their duty while the procession Is
| moving to keep near the s.atue and
, throw handfuls of live snakes on it.
The painter Mlchetti Illustrated he
i xrone in a painting which was exhib-
ited in Paris some years aeo. He rep-
I r-'ser.ted the statue coverr-1 by a msss
lof gr^en snake* like a -iatue of Me-
I dusa.
1 When the snakes fall to the ground
there is a rush on the part of the
charmers to gather them up and throw
•honi on the statue again. The inhabi-
' tants believe the possession of one of
' the snakes which has been coiled
i around the statue insures th >rr. agait.-t
-nak^ bites for the rest of
1 and many are the professionals who
i go from town to town exhibiting the
snakes caught during the <■-! I ration,
using them for incantations.
engine dons a shirtwaist
He succeeds Hon. Thomas Bard as United States senator from California.
"pull" wa3 on his door. business value of whims
And It Seemed to Contradict the Con-
tractor's Little Sermon
on Success.
Lincoln Steffens. the author of "The
! Shame of the Cities." was talking
about a Pittsburg contractor who
thrives more through political influ-
] ence than through business ability, re-
I lates an exchange
"I heard something about this man
! the other day." he said, "that may or
1 may not be true If it isn't true, it
j should be, for it is certainly appro-
| prlate.
, "A young man called on the con-
j tractor and asked for a job The con-
' tractor wouldn't give him a job. for he
| had voted the wrong way in the last
; election. He read him a lecture,
i though, on his poor success—told him
' it was a shame, at his age. to be out
Cheap Trinkets Aid the Sale of Dry
Goods to the Women
of India.
The commercial world of the United
'States has paid almost no attention
m the petuliar wants of the Latin-
American. Oceanic and oriental peo-
I pie*, says a writer In the Booklover's
j Magazine.
Not long ago. for example an Amer-
ican company tried to sell a cargo
<>f hea'ing stoves in Para Brazil. Para
is Just a little moro than one degree
south of the equator.
The women of India like to g< i their
cotton goods done up in paper boxes,
each containing In addition a few
pk-es of colored glass and a gilt box.
These trinkets are practically worth-
less, and their cost to the manufac-
turer* is infinitesimal. But the sturdy
hon. h. W. goode.
th
found
it
tt
are most heartrending, but most insplr- |
lug the story of the way Galveston met
her sa l emergency. Leader* came to't he
f' re soou as the *urvlvor* could awake
from their dazed condition, martial law
was proclaimed, the dead disposed of
In a miraculously *hort time, the city
with Indomitable courage trying to rise
from it* overthrow And wonderfully
lias It regained its pla'-e There Is in otir
history r.o tale of greater heroism, flr.er
spirit of the way the people of Galves-
ton faced the awful conditions in the.r
town, the manner In whi< h they builded
anew.
| Concerning the early history, Galves-
ton was named af'er Conde de Gal vex
aped In that awful S'-ptember gale of
ubth instant. 15w. so wholesale
was the destructlveness. If OLe did not
urt. r the sa<l loss of relativ-and friend
all property was damaged to a greater
or ! s sexient.
Whatever i was that worked euch
niln 'he r .-i lents as well as outsiders
ard to explain, tuauy asserted
bave been a tidal wave; many
called It a tornado; the winther bureau
of Washington recorded it a "freak
•t >rm ' s< rrn thing inexplicable. It is
light to have been one of the YSe-t
India liUrrlcanes whose progress was
properly forcaat until It took to the
Gulf of Mex co and became a "freak." uuira v .. •« ««
A r t;iilar West India huri b ane is surtl- governor of Louisiana, by a Spanish x-
c'.entl) undesirable a* an extreme mlRht [iiorlrg party, and the pirate l«afltte be
w ork h - haux of this freak storm , ame g. vcrnor of the Island when It was
When the hurricane reached It* height titled by Mexican force The pla. > 1 e-
In Gal'- Hston the wind was blow ing with i-atne the scene of conflicts among Indi-
an C Mated veloriiy of 120 in !• s an ln-Mexl< an-pirate, white adventurers
hout, Hi thi* tremens.us velocity the in 1S;I9, a year after Texas was at nexed
win.I simp!) picked up ilie wat. rsof the to the United States the city of Calve*-
Gulf of Mexico and hurbd them ov r the if)0 wa* incorporate.!
islati l city, dealing out death and de-
gmctloa until it* mighty fone bad
been *pent."
Galveston, yon remember wa* built
on .. l.-laiul a strip mil's iong and
from one to three miles wide. At it
CHKWTOHIKR WEBSTER
Floating Coast Defense.
The latett weapon of man Is a float
rrom one u> tnree noi" wnr. m 'nR f"r'r's< for ciuut defens purpos s.
place «i< Galveston Island more than 1.' " >"* lighting ma- hin- which called
feet above th. sea at tlood tide The the Cerberus, la. ks In every line of
city wa* locatel at the east end. where beauty. It Is nothing more nor leas
•wlft current between Island and main- than a perfectly round floating fort
land made a fine rti ep water barl .r HI:
ua'ed as it was at the g«tewa> of th.
southwest. It was very Important .-oiii-
i r. tally: and a most proseprou* town
the storm laid kiw
about 2 H) feet In diameter heavily
protected by Impenetrable thlcknew#
of armor plate and equipped with
batteries of heavy guns far too larg''
to be mounted upon any ordinary
BTEBB1NS HAIR ROSE AS A VOICE
SHOUTED HELLO."
no reference to the matter. Shortly
after he went out Stebblns got a scare ,
j that made his hair rise. He was almost
leaning on the relay box when a voice
shouted "Hello!" almost in his ear. A
I rapid conversation followed, but he wa.-.
I too fright ned to take note of what was ;
said As he was afraid of being laughed
at. he k-pt his own rouusel un'il next
,<ay. when h and Mr. Brown heard the |
same voice. They then compar- .1 rotes |
and quiptly call'd tn the head lineman. (
The llnepian thought a telegraph wire
had become crossed with a telephone
line, but this proved not to be the case,
and F. W. Stanyan the general superin-
tendent of the road, who has had 20
years' experience with telegraph equip-
ment. wa* notified. He ma !e a careful in-
vestigaMon. and was at a loss to ac. ount
for the phantom voice. While he wa*
i making his investigation* he heard two
voices emanating from the box. They
spoke of differen' subjects and had noth-
ing In common. Part of the time whole
sentence* were plainly spoken andotli'r
times only a word or two wa* di.-un-
j gulshable.
The story got about town and many
persons have listened to the winds.
Among the number were many s;> r 'ual
lsts, who are of th* oplnk/n that themes-
sages are sent from another world. Ex-
pert electricians believe that the sounds
are the result of some undiscovered law
In the field of electricity and that this
law can be worked to advantage when
the cause Is discovered.
Mile of Tthc5c Like a Clothesline
When Train Wrecks Trunks
of Ten Women.
Tren'on. N. J.—There was weeping
and wailing when ten women in Phila-
delphia and other cities further away
pr- er.ted checks for trunks which were
to have been shipped from here the oth-
er day. As a Southern express dashed up
to the Btation platform a baggageman
wheeled a tru^k containing the trunk*
alor.g to get in position for the train fol-
lowing.
A loose wheel on the truck HI off and
tru. >. and trunk* dropped directly in
1 front of the flyer. There waa a crash,
j ,i whirl and a.s the train re e.ied in a
cloud of dust, innumerable dresses, pet-
ticoats and articles of lingerie fluttered
along the track.
' The engineer brought his train to a
i stop about two miles part Trenton and
>,a< d up to find what ho had struck. To
. the. iwiat .her of the loottio-ive a blue
I silk skirt clung, and a white shirt waist
flopped from one of the engine's flag*.
Th track for a mile looked like a
clothesline in asqualL
4
y
He is the *4—* - f 'he Lewis and Clark exposition at Portland, Ore.
People of Galveston built th ir bouses warship. The Idea of 'he invention >•
upon the sand, literally and figuratively, Miucsted by a small but strongly
the strip of land Is but a strip of fortIfted Island. Th* new flglrlog snip
sand. The man that led lheflr t Ameri-
cas colony into Texas. Stephen F. Ah-
tin. of Virginia, said, as lie surveyed the
coast along Galveston bay an.! saw a
stranded schooner tha' had been carrlt ;l
far Inland "Home day tb eletneni*
w hi. h .ltd I hat wlllsw. ep over this .0.1.-1
again " Munaey, In which this story I .
told, remarks: "The proph. < > made ;,i
year* ago ha* since con. true nit r
thai' once. Galveston ha I • ■ ■ n under
water several times; but her people have
mmply waited for the wave* to roll by
Heatedly threatened, but never de
Ktroye I they catne >« thai as ihe>
had survived many forms ihernoiild
be no 1 • tnpesi terrible er.iiiigh to over
whelm Ihem They stayed on their at rip
of land and waxed rich "
When the overwhelm '1* storm cam-
It found a city of :> It hsbHai •- a
city of bom< s a city who*- wealth was
wagered herself on gavte
*1- .ssippi Git Lost the B«t and Be
cams a Burt* After the Base-
ball Contest.
no pretense at attaining high
,;..il on the other hand. It Is main-
land that with the aid of such float
Ing fortresses the Japanese could have
effectively bottled up Port Arthur
without the aid of their huge Beet.
Her iurprlse
"Yes said the veteran of many
wars, I have participated In 17 en
gagements—"
NVhstl" exclaimed the pretty grass
widow "And >o«i are still n bach
elorr Chicago Dally N"w«
Puttied.
Native—You Bnd It hard to under
stand our language*
Foreigner-Yes a girl Just told m
ihe *a« «<>ln« In for outdoor games,
Cilia for Beer from Bier
Evansvll'e. Ind Michael Hr.et/el an
aged German cltlxen, who live* on ^
West Michigan *tre< t with his two |
sons, who «-onduct a saloon, was taken j
suddenly III. and fell over apparently |
dead.
The iona called In a physlrlin. who
pronounced the old man dead The
coroner and undertaker were sent for
and arrangements for the funeral were
begun
As the undertaker bent over the aup-
pored corpse the old man arose up
from the bier and a*ked what was go-
ing on. He yawned, stretched out his
arms and said would like to have a
glass of beer and a Iwwl of snap He Is
In apparently go<xl health to-day. and
bids fair to live maay more year*
MMMk] I yd Is1 rlbut ed but It,',., gam- .ere going ouU-
. ... ..n.i u tin .ti b the N. \. bun.
Caught
Miss Pascay 1 coyly t I saw the cut
eat painting to-day of the #r- what Is
the name of that little god that repre-
sents matrimony*
Mr. Tlmmld Well, now, you'fe got
me.
"O' Mr Tlmmld. this Is so lutlJOn "
Okolooa. Mlea.—As a result of
the loss uf a wa- r In «h;.h
the stak-* consisted of the prom-
ise of her hand In marriage provided t he
Okolono baseball team defeated her
home fam M sa B> atrlce Jamison,
daughter of Col A J Jamison. r°*?-
•na-'1 rat Houst in. a near-by town finds
h, 1 • (the lawful wife of Joseph S. Wil-
liam-. a popular young man of thi* city.
The gro .ru m t the bride for the first
time wh o the H -ton team played here
recently They |..rm«d an atiaehnient
a- once which ripened Into a proposal,
t) >t h are baseball enthusi w 4 and * h >n
I the (ikolona fsm visited Houston Miss
Jamison agre.d to the proposition to
wager herself that Houston would wis.
I Okolooa enjoyed a decisive victory and
1 the nnptlal knot was tied lft< r the game.
| Cat. Mother to Your.g Squtrrelv
llar'f.'rd 'ity. Ind A p" ullsr freak
of ar.iinai sature - the., !.• of a female
Maltese <*at nursing two young *<|ulr-
| r. la along wph a litter - f uewly-born
i kittens at the home of W illiam Kacer,
ta • .f-h "(ty While Mflng a tree on
his farm a squirrel's nest with two young
.• ,nd Hi'mother was found 1 lis
' pother a* killed when ih- tree fell and
tb- two little Squirrels wit* eye's yet
unopened were taken home by R < r
and plsred with Ihe kitten. The mo'ber
, ,t t,iopted them and guar Isi« m |usl
of work and so forth—and then wound
up Impressively:
" 'My boy. the door to every succea*-
ful business !* labeled Push.
"The young mas assumed a puzzled
look.
" 'But your bt lnes is fairly suc-
cessful. i>u't it?' he asked.
• Ye*, fairly so. said the contractor.
•Why do yuu ask'"
" Because.' said tne young man. 'I
noticed that your door is labeled
Pull.'"
Enterprising Young Yankee.
A Kit'ery tM« 1 woman offers tbe fol-
lowing as an exam tile of twentieth cen-
tury enterprise: "A few days ngo 1]
*aw a youngster digging dandelions
from my lawn He worked away fur
an hour or *0 WMfcWt payiug heed to
anyone, and whin the ha*k t wa* full
wet t to my pump and washed them.
When the ' >anslng pro.. wa> i\ern«>
calmly stepped to my dourand knocked.
When 1 answered the . ill he aske.i m-
If l wanted to buy the lot for 21 cssta
a peck."
Open to an Engagement.
"Llttl" boy said the teacher of th*
class, do you Int. ud to come to Sunday
i. hool regularly!"
I guess *! 111a am " answered the
urehln with th cropped heart and the
tolled face, with some hesitation. "Is
dere anything In It. 'eldea de plcttir'
^rds and <Je picnic?" -''hliegoTribuna
H's Lm W '
Casey- An' Kelly lash- wurdawu*:
"Ol wl*h 01 cud live 1 wo day* longer "
■ Rller An'ferwkai*
I "go he could see how manny htckD
I wud le at hlr funeral -Judge
British dealar will not descend to
further this trade by the Inclusion of
such absurd gewgaws; and a* Amer-
ican manufacturers have never given
the matter a thought, the trade is be-
ginning to pa>s to Germany, where cot-
ton cloth* with their aicompanylu*
baubles are put up to suit the lllndoc
I taste.
Polite Way of Getting a Tip
A shrewd old continental guide. wh\.
I in conducting a lady p; ind a grand old
j cathedral, had been (ualdnou* In his
I courtesy and fascinating in his de-
- rlptive details anen'. the historic pile
I observed with pail that the victor
•v*8 evidently abnitt to take her de-
oarture without bestowing the cus-
tomary dole. To pre\ nt this the wily
jU guide said: Pardon mo. madam,
hut if. on her return to her hotel,
madam should ind that she had lost
her purse, will madsm kindly remem-
ber that it wa-* not in this piat* that
she took It ovil?" This neat reminder
Immediately produced the dtslrod ef
feet.
"Alma Cowa" in England.
A curio** custom still holds good lb
the village of Waddesdon. In Bucking-
hamshire. England, where on any
morning or evening of the year a per-
son 'an claim a free drink of new
milk from a cop specially kept for th"
leneflt of thirsty wayfarers. This ani-
mal ts known locally as th 'alms
cow" and when she dies another hat
to ta provided by the parish,
A Vast Q„lf.
"Papa what's the difference between
' a man's tailor and a ladles tailor?"
1 "Oh. about $100 an hour."—UX*
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