The Guymon Herald. (Guymon, Okla.), Vol. 24, No. 52, Ed. 1 Thursday, March 4, 1915 Page: 3 of 8
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GET SQUARE WITH
THE WORLD ..
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A man or woman whose life is not
square with the world has a grudge
against the church, for it hurts their
business and shows up their crooked-
ness. A man or woman whose do-
mestic relations are strained or
broken by faithlessness has reasons
to avoid the church. It would make
them feel very uncomfortable If they
would come. A man or woman whose
life Is four-fifths trickery aud deceit
has no use for church. A man or
woman whose private life Is in viola-
tion pf the principle of chastity never
wants to enter a church; their con-
science would not let them come in.
When men and women stay away
from church there is a skeleton
around somewhere. Some never
come because they have their vanity
wounded and others stay away be-
cause they cannot boss the Job.
About one per cent of all the excuses
are valid. The great army of non-
churchgoers cannot be morally earn-
est, and without moral earnestness
there is little hope of any help from
such In the cause of truth and right-
eousness.
(.FT SQUARE WITH YOl'KSKLF
ANI> THE WORLD AND G«> TO
CHURCH NEXT SUNDAY.
Go To Church
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Jack for Sale
t
A good Jack for sale or trade.
As I have two, I must sell or
trade one of them.
See me, or address
Sam L. Whaley,
51t4* OPTIMA, OKLA.
A liit of Early Hay History
(Continued from page 2)
SEE US BEFORE BUYING
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FLOUR
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"OUR QUEEN" #3.78 PER HUNDRED
"PRATT'S BEST" :?•«•" PKR HUNDRED
HOTII FLOURS ARE FANCY HIGH PATENTS, AND EVERY SACK
IS (il AHANTEED.
WE HAVE SEED POTATOES, ONION SETS AND A FULL
.. GARDEN SEEDS
LINE
STAR MERCANTILE CO.
The Old Reliable Grocers
Are You
Undecided
where to buy your bill of Lum-
ber? If so, all you have to do
is to look at the prices we are
quoting for
HIGH GRADE LUMBER
as well as everything that Is
included In building, for In-
terior or exterior work, from
the timber in your foundation
to the shingles on your roof.
THE STAR LUMBER COMPANY
City Meat Market
.1, I. HENSON, Proprietor
E. F. HAZELTON, Mana«er
Fresh and Cured Meats; Fish and Oysters every Thursday; Home
Rendered Lard; Compound; Creamery Butter; Mustard; Sweet Rel-
ish; Sweet, Sour and Dill Pickles; Dried Cod Fish; Salmon; Pork
and Beans; Salt Mackerel; Pickled Pigs Feet; Pepper Sauce; Pea-
nut Butter; Fruit Jelly.
DKLIVEKY HOURS—9 a. m. to 11 a. m. and 4 p. m. to 6 p. m.
Come and see us. Satisfaction Guaranteed.
.7 GIVE US A TRIAL ..
Let Us Grind
Your
FEED!
We have just installed a new Monarch Grist Mill, which grinds all
kinds of meal from wheat, maize, Kafir, feterita, corn or any grain.
We have set aside SATURDAY for this purpose and will be pleased
to attend to your wants. Remember, we make the feed business
a specialty.
GUYMON GRAIN COMPANY
W. L. PERRY, Proprietor.
South of the Tracks
MULE COLTS WANTED
If you have some good mule colts
for sale, see
51tf NANCE & ROACH.
WANTED—Good girl for general
housework; four In family; good
wages. Address Lock Box 1, Guy-
mon, Oklahoma. 51tf
| beaten down with the big herd,
got on my horse one day and told
J John ('.off that if the main herd was
! within 100 miles of us I was going
j to locate it before I came back.
"1 had not goue west more than
j ten miles when I could begin to see
1 more buffalo all the time, so I kept
I on for another ten ni les until I came
! to a lake of water that covered about
I a ouarter section of land.
] "And all around this lake as far as
j I could see I could hardly see the
'ground for the buffalo. This was a
' rainwater lake, and as my visit was
I in the fall of the year, this lake was
covered with wild ducks and geese
j and all kinds of water fowl. This
I scene out on the prairies long before
| the white man had taken possession
[of this domain, Iona: before the wagon
| trains or the railroads, was one of
j the prettiest scenes 1 ever saw in all
I my life. The lake and the wild wa
| ter fowl, the buffalo, and also wild
ponies running loose made it a sight
[ Now and then among these vvlla
j horses, I made out horses and mule?
with saddle marks on them, signs ot
tamed creatures that had broken
I away from their subjugation by men
j and had drifted back for companion
ship with the wild creatures in the
I unmolested all outdoors.
| "It was at this lake that we made
| our big killing. We camped there
| for about ten days, and brought down
| SoO buffalo.
I "Shooting was so good that
I found we were running short of am
I munition. Although all of the store
provisions we needed, since nature
furnished us the rest, was flour and
coffee, we were well fixed, but we
were getting short even of flour and
coffee. But it would not do for us to
* be caught in Indian country without
i plenty of ammunition for our rifles.
So Mr. Goff and I decided that some-
body had better go to Granada to
stock us up again.
"At this time I owned a half in-
terest In a saloon at Granada, my
partner in that being Jack Williams.
I decided that I would make the trip
back myself, so I loaded up my wagon
with 100 buffalo hides ready to start
in the morning. So far as Indians
entered the proposition my trip alone
seemed safe enough. We had seen
no signs of hostile Indians since we
left the Wagon Bed Springs on the
Cimarron. My trip was to be about
125 miles from our camp on the lake
up to Granada, but as 1 was short-
cutting back not over our route of
the hunting camps, this journey put
me into country over which I had
never been over. Mr. Goff had been
as far south of Granada as Bear
. creek, about 70 miles, and he told
J me as well as he could how I should
lay out my bearings and my route.
1 was to set out almost due north,
perhaps a little east of north.
I camped the second night at the
Point Rocks on the Cimarron. Mr
Goff had told me that I would find
no water from the Cimarron to Bear
creek, so advised me to get an early
start when I left the Cimarron so
that I would make Bear creek.
I saw no buffalo after leaving the
Cimarron, so 1 figured that a hind
quarter of antelope would come in
pood. These animals were very plen-
tiful in those days; they could be
found almost everywhere. 1 had
reached a big high level flat about
ten miles beyond the Cimarron when
three of these inquisitive animals
started up directly towards my wag-
on. I got down out of the wagon
and flattened out on the ground until
they came up within fifty yards of my
rifle. I was feeling that my antelope
was just about in my grasp, when my
little plan was upset. I was just
about to pull the trigger when my
two dogs spied the antelope and
made for them. The antelope turned
tail and scampered off with the yelp-
ing dogs stretching themselves out
and at every jump chasing my ante-
lope steak further away.
1 watched them until they had
reached about 300 yards, when I real-
ized what the dogs were doing to me,
so I had a sudden impulse to crack
one of the dogs, giving the dog the
benefit of the doubt whether 1 could
hit him at his speed and distance.
Right here is one of the curious little
episodes of the plains. I cut loose.
I overshot the dog and broke an an-
telope'B leg. This suddenly threw all
the advantage to the dogs and they
made short work of bringing down
the antelope. Then my sentiments
towards the dogs changed, becaus*
my antelope steak, once so near, then
so far, was back again under my con-
trol 1 went up to the dogs, patted
them on the head and told them
what good dogs they wer«- It «a>
feast for the dogs and fresh meat
for me.
My wagon journey took me ovei
le\el prairie country covered with
buffalo gra^s unmarred an>where by
an> track of wagons except my owl
I traveled through the afternoon aul
into the dusk, and into the dusk, atul
into the starlight and on and on un-
til the gathering darkness brought
fear to me. I don't know what ii
was that | feared, l.ut I kepi feeling
that something I didn't know what
— might happen to me in the dark
The fear of traveling alone in th-
dark over unknown country is the
worse for its uncertainty of what
danger might be. Perhaps som--
where in my thought might have
been just a lurking notion about In-
dians.
When one is all alone in such clr
cuinstances a curious sense conp'.-
over him which makes a difference
whether you are moving or whether
you are camped and standing-still
on the defensive. Perhaps this is
the dread of moving Into ambush, of
moving yourself Into trouble. But
whatever this thing is, It got Into
me, and I stopped for a dry camp.
The natural place to make a camp
on the prairie is determined by find
Ing water, since I had to have water
for myself and my mules, llut water
or no water, this feeling that some-
thing might happen to me if I kept
on moving got in its work on me and
I stopped for the night. This decis-
ion took the brooding fear out of me
by my acting. I was busy making
camp. I was busied In unhitching
my mules. In unsnapping and un-
buckling their harness, and in tieing
the mules to the wagon wheels. I
tied up three of them, each to a
different wheel, when I decided that
the fourth mule needed all the grass
he could get, and was too thin to
spend the night tied tight. 1 figured
that this thin mule was entitled to
graze around for what he could pick
up, but in order to keep him from
wandering away, which would be
serious thing to me, I went to work
to put hobbles on his front legs. This
is what town people would recognlz?
as a "handcuffing" stunt, fastening
the mule's front legs together closely
so that he would not "hobble" away
very tar.
To hobble the mule I got down
on my knees In front of him and was
working at the hobble w hen this po-
sition gave mo a new vision Into th
darkness which closed around my lit-
tle lonesome camp. The contrast be-
tween th<- black earth and the dark-
ness of the sky makes a strip along
the sky line which is not licht, but
which Is lighter than anything else
one can see at night. In this sky
line I made out very close to me
some kind of a white thing, a whitp
thing plainer and whiter the longer 1
looked at it, and which looked closer
the longer 1 looked.
It didn't take me very long to quit
working at the hobbles for the mule.
I just tied the fourth mule to the
fourth wheel and let the thin mule
line up with the rest of the mules.
My whole thought was fully occupied
with the something white. You see,
nobody can camp well or rest easily
with something white standing sen-
tinel in the dark, not unless you
know what the something is that Is
so white. When I would rise up it
would be swallowed up Into all the
darknesB of the night, but when I
would stoop down close to the
around, I could see a line on it again.
So I was attracted towards this ob-
ject. My whole business became one
of invsotigation. I set out to see
what this was, but then the thing
would not seem so clos13. But 1 stuck
to the trail of the white thing. 1
stalked it cautiously and took my
time to figure it it. It waB some
rocks—some rocks outcropping at
the head of a little draw . The hea l
of a draw was a useful discovery, bo
I followed this little draw because I
knew a draw would lead to a creek,
and that was what I had been driv-
ing for all day, a camp on Bear creek,
which the coming of darkness had
hindered.
I followed this draw down for half
a mile until I began getting into tall
grass, tall water grass, which would
be a sign of water close by. But fear
came on again in tangible shape, a
sense of taking care of tramping too
boldly up or down a creek because I
might walk right Into an Indian
camp. Water was the thing I was
hunting for and nothing else. So I
slipped carefully along through the
tall water grass. I expect to be be-
lieved when I state that I was neither
whistling nor singing Imagine my
surprise w hen as I sllnked along so
cautiously, I came upon a mule on
the north side of the creek. This
mule. In that semi-starlight, did not
look good to me. I squatted down in
the grass and tried to think what
should be my naxt move. I tried to
figure out whether I might be on the
edge of an Indian camp or whether
some white man might have camped
there as myself had set out to do. I
figured out that I would not find the
answpr by sitting there In the grass.
But I also had in mind what is prob-
ably close to fact that if I was close
to Indians and the Indians saw mc
ducking around in the grass they
would not hesitate to take a shot at
me. It worried me to think they
might see me first. I also figured
that If the mule belonged to some
camping white man he might not
hesitate to cut loose if he saw me
prowling around his mule. White or
red, the spectator, would not have
seen much in that light, as either one
would probably shoot all the quicker
on the trigger for It.
I decided that the mule had to be
Investigated so that I might get an
answer to what the mule was there
for. So 1 was ducking along In the
tall grass to get closer to the mule,
when all of a sudden ray heart
skipped a couple of beats and filled
In with double time.
A shrill voice bellowed: "What
are yo'u doing there?"
I lack the means of telling how
people can see the color of a voice In
the dark, but I knew nevertheless
that the voice was that of a white
man. This was the first voice outside
NOW
BUY
LUMBER IIV^VV .. ..
The lumber market is advancing and it will only be a ques-
tion of time when we will have to raise our prices to conform to
the wholesale market.
There never was a better time In this country to build the
new house or repair the old one.
Call at our yard and get a book of House Plans. It will help
you In planning your buildings.
Big Jo Lumber Company
Phone 1'J
C. A. NASH, Local Manager.
the hunters began to flock around.
Only for about five more days did
our party stay there and we loaded
up our hides and took them to Gran-
ada and sold them. We sold to Otero
& Sellers. We hired a mule train to
bring in the hides we could not haul
In our own wagon. We paid f>0
cents per hide for this hauling and
sold the cow hides for each and
Why not enjoy auto service whll*
you have a chance. We have just re-
ceived a car load of these machines
and you might as well own one. Th*
price Is right.
See "HOP."
Plenty of old papers for sale at
this office. Just the thing for start-
ing fires or putting under carpets.
my own that I had heard for three
days and nights.
1 know my voice must have been
pretty weak and trembling, but 1
said, or tried to say. Into the dark:
"I am hunting for water."
He asked me my name and then
told me his, which was Rush, and he
asked nie how 1 happened to be there.
I explained how 1 had left my wagon
up on the high land and was trying| the bull hides for $3 each,
to find a way down to camp where
there was water, and he went with
me and helped me get my wagon
down.
It turned out that Mr. Rush was
out on Bear creek poisoning wolves
for their hides, and was using the
mule I happened upon to carry his
bedding and grub. At that time
there were many wolves out on the
prairies and this man was making
good money just killing them for
their hides. I saw him at Granada
th« following spring and he told nie
that he had made a thousand dollars
that fall and winter killing wolves.
It took me three more days to
drive on Into Granada with my buf-
falo hides, and it was a sight for sore
eyes to see the hunters who had'
stuck around town gather around my]
wagon wanting to know where 1 had
been hunting.
The profit of our enterprise was
due largely to the fact that our out-
fit had been energetic enough to take
the chance with the Indians, and to
the fact that we had located a good
hunting ground, so It Is not likely
that my answers gave these fellows
at Granada much satisfaction. We
wanted the game for ourselves. So
after about two days In Granada I
started bark for the camp by the
lake, with my wagon loaded with
grub and ammunition. As near as I
could make them out, I followed my
own wagon tracks on the return trip.
As soon as the hunters In Granada
found out that I had left town they
also followed my tracks, and it was
not more than two days after I
joined our party at the lake before
the hunters began to flock in. With
all these hunters flocking over my
tracks, we all combined made quite a
trail through that country, which be-
came known as Brown's trail, and
afterwards became a public road.
The hoys did not kill very many
buffalo while I was away because
they were fearful of running short
of ammunition. The buffalo did not
stay In the vicinity very long after
General
Work
1 want to do your odd job* of
any kind, either with or with-
out team. Charge* reasonable.
Phone 198.
.. BERT BRUCE ..
Delicate Children
usually only need n food tonic to make
them strong and healthy
Olive Oil
Emulsion
eontainina Hypopho$phit*$
is not only the best food tonic but is
pleasant to take. Sold only by us.
Wanser & Hamilton.
tnem p.irong wiu nw
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SUFFERERS
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Pain leaves almost
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and kindred trouble*
It goes right to the
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and pains and make*
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a bottle of "6-Drops"
today. A booklet with
each bottle gives full
directions for use.
Don't delay. Demand
"5-Drops " Don't ac-
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place of it Any drug-
gist can supply you. If you live too far
from a drug store send One Dollar to
Swanson Khcumatic Cure Co., Newark,
Ohio, and a battle of "5-Drop«" will b*
sent prepaid.
GHEEB
Jmmtm
Farm Loans
Having been appointed agent for the J. I>. NEW'COMBER COM-
PANY of Eldorado, Iowa, I am now In a position to make FARM
LOANS In Texas and Cimarron Counties, Oklahoma, on good land.
See me for that loan or for that renewal of the present loan that
le about due.
~ HARRY CLARK T"
FIRST NATIONAL BANK BUILDING, GUYMON, OKLAHOMA.
Prompt and
Satisfactory Service
PHONE
NO. 9
TOM HOUSER
DRAYMAN
Our wagon* go everywhere and we deliver the good*. We m*et
all trains for baggage and express; have splendid storage room* and
are In every respect equipped to handle the business Ii our line.
Headquarter* at
Star Mercantile Co.
Cook Stoves
AND HEATERS—ALL STYLES AND PRICES
NEW FURNITURE OF EYEHY DESCRIPTION—UP TO DATE
We are making some extra low prices on everything In the Furniture
and Stove Line. Call and Investigate the bargains we are offering.
Langston Hardware Co.
| WK LEAD IN LOW PRICES
GUYMON,
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Zimmerman, Warren. The Guymon Herald. (Guymon, Okla.), Vol. 24, No. 52, Ed. 1 Thursday, March 4, 1915, newspaper, March 4, 1915; (https://gateway.okhistory.org/ark:/67531/metadc274954/m1/3/: accessed April 25, 2024), The Gateway to Oklahoma History, https://gateway.okhistory.org; crediting Oklahoma Historical Society.