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r "?-' rrr" &&$$& c ts 506eV 0fcUiM TUTT BEAVER HERALD. Oldest OklQhoma Newspaper Republican for Principle 4 VOL. XXIII. BEAVER, BEAVER COUNTY, OKLAHOMA, THURSDAY, .MAY 12, 1910. No. 48 - 3-' Beaver Swept M 1 Fire Monday Honing THE DREAD OP MANY YEARS AT LAST COMES TO PASS Local News. Tho Heiiai.!) for all thu latest nows. Our Entire Business Block in Ashes In Less Than Two Hours It has been said, ''Tho unexpected always happens." Not so, In tho caso of tho conflagration of early Monday morning. For may years, tho warning has been echoed in tho ears of every resident of Beaver; in speaking of fires, "our time Is coming" thus it was that tho conflagration which has just swept ovor us and laid bare one entire busi ness block, was a surprise to no one and on every hand could bo heard the remark, "well it 1b no more than I ex pected." At about 1 o'clock Monday morning J. W. Monsingerand Warbas Provost, who had been sitting in tho Menainger Studio, went to tho Postoffico with some mall. Depositing tho samo in the mail box, thoy started on down tho street when Mnnsinger stated that ho smelled smoke and upon investigation it was found that the entire interior of tho "Top" Thomas barber shop was in a blaze. Tho alarm was quickly given and men, women and children were soon on the sccno with buckets, tubs and every conccivablo receptacle for water, but the fire had gained such headway that it was out of the question to attempt to chock, it. By quick work much goods were saved from tho build ings but tho buildings themselves were a total loss and tod ty only the charred embers and crumbled cement walls are Ijft to mark the spot where a number of prosperous establishments once greeted tho eye. , Had it not been for tho fact that the night was a calm o ao, it is beyond ques tion that tho wholoi town would have now been but a heap of smouldering juins. As it was it took heroic work to save tho oast sido of tho stroot, Tho gentle zophyrs of an ideal night was fanned into a stiff breeze by tho intense hoat of the burning buildings and at times tho flames swept almost across jb(r street and more than onco r wafc " PPfhought that in spite of tho desperate effort to save them, that tho build.'ngs on the east side would go too. Burning shingles were carried to adjoining rod's and alloys and a cloud of sparks sottled over everything, but tho attention of tho vast crowd was turned to protect ing tho east side of the street and bj soaking tho roofs and fronts of theN buildings and shielding them with sat urated comforts and blankets and keep ing a strict watch of alloys, every email blazo was controlled before it gained headway. A more heroic crowd of mon and women never turned out to baffle the fire fiend and too much cannot bo said in honor of every one of thorn. Not a shirkor waa in tho crowd. The man who did not own ono cmts intorost in tho town worked alongside tho fellow whoso every interest was at stake and never stopped until fhe last ember was extin guished. Sjbe origin of tho fire will probably F.J Biulsnll was n business viBitor from Mndteon Saturday. Representative A V. Toolcy was n Beaver cnllsr Saturday. Slates, tablets, chnlk and nil school supplies nt Tracy's Drug Store. Mrs. Nettie Brown is still on the sick list but is doing well. Dr, L. S. Munsell Is under tho weather this week. Mrs. A. E. LIghtfoot has been quito sick tho past week but is improving. MORTGAGE RELEASE Blanks for jale at the Herald otilce In any quan tity. May Stone hns had the "swell heiul" over a case of the mumps the past week. never bo Known except tnat it sianea in the barber shop. Just how it started is not known and can only be conjecture Undor the circumstances wo cannot see that anyone is to blame except that our town is and always has been a fire-trap with practically no protection and it is only another' case of "locking tho barn door after tho horso has been stolen." The firo has come and son.o of our people have felt it heavily. They have tho utmost sympathy of all and we aro sure that their losses will bo re membered and shared, as much as pos sible, by tho good people of Beaver who escaped. It has been a sad lesson for Boaver nut let us profit by this object lesson and install bettor firo. fighting faeilties so that in future we may not suffer a repetition of this dire calamity. So far as wo were able to learn the losses were about as follows: J. D. Niles, cement store bulldng, total loss, value $2000. Insurance $1000 W. N. Stafford, stock of merchandise in above building, total loss, value $3000.00, no insurance. Journal Printing office, owned by V. T. Qtiinn, total loss, value $2000.00, no insurance. O. J. Loofbourrow, bakery and moat market buildings, total loss, value $600.00, no insurance. D. R. Vatson, bakery, loss about $500.00, no insurance. G II. Rush, meat market nnd house hold goods, total loss, vnluo $750.00, no insurance. J. O, Stono, pool hall and building, total loss, value $1000.00, Insured for $300. G. Strueli, building occupied by "Top" Thomas barber shop, total loss, value $200. no insurance. "Top" Thomas, harbor shop fixtures, total loss, $300, with m insurance, J. W. Savage and Dr. L. L. Long, building ocoupied by Dr. Long, loss $200. no insurance. Dr. L. L. Long, medical books, in. truments, etc., loss $300 no insurance. Johnson & Davis, loss $50. no insur ance. Gso. Metzger building occupied by W. C. Prazor, loss $100. no ineuranco W. C. Frazer, loss in law books, abstract blanks oto, $300. no insurance. V. Watson, photograph gallery, par tial loss $200. no insurance. Henry Meesc, building ocoupied by O. D. Smith & Son, total loss, value f!500. no insurance ), D. Smith & Son, stock of morch anoW, value .flO.OOO. Insurance $2000. TotalMoes except about $2000. worth of badly' mixed stock but not damaged by fire oAwater. J. O. JIodgo, offico building, value $1400. total loss, insured for $000, Tho.q. pKBraidwood.lossof $150. in abstraot bl.Mika and miscellaneous pap ers. Dr. J. A. filler, dentist, loss $100 or $150, covorcd by insurance, A. 8. DicksoD, loss of $75. in law books, papers, ovio., no insurance Claude T. SmirJi, loss of $75, in law books, papers, cti. no insurance. Beaver Countv ,'il building, fixtures A number of cases of measles are re ported in tho community. All nre ro covering nicely. Mrs. A. G. Thomas was quito sick the past week but is improved at this writing. DRY GLEANING, DYEING and PRESSING., Call on Mrs. W. II. Robertson nt tho millinery store. tf Polities are wnrming up. The "poli tical lmndshuke" is on in full blast. Kissing tho babies is next in order. Jim Baker was in from- his Ilibbs farm Saturdnv. Ho reports wheat (K h Standard mjjj I DrPRICE'S Jm. lira tab ORAM rH L Baking Powder H wSSSl I5 use a protection and a M 9HJ lUCS, guarantee against alum iiHKFsfiuUl A touch of rheumatism, or n twinge of neuralgia, whatever the trouble in, Chamberlain's Liniment drives away the pain nt onco and cure tho com plaint quickly. First (implication gives relief. Sold by V O Tracy looking fine and not badly is rain. ' needof FOR SALE Horses nnd Mares. Well worth the money. Enquire of V. II.DANir.L80N, Beaver City. Okla. 4-'8 5-32t Sweet "William An old buggy enn A Bcavor County Ringing Convcn-. tlon will be held at Gray, Oklahoma, the Inst Saturday and Sunday in May. All singers nnd singing societies are requested to bo present. Send in your selection as soon as possible, to go on program, to R. L. Crowd), Balko, Oklahoma. Tom Weaver, of illhh, who sold out recently and wont to Illinois, has ro turned to Beaver county to stay. Thoy will return. Wnlcoinc homo Never hesitate about giving Chnm burlnin's Cough Remedy to children. It contains no opium or other narcot io and can be given with Implicit con fidence. Ac n quick euro for coughs and colds for which children are sus ceptible, it is unsurpassed. Sold by F C Tracy. bo.inndo-to lootflilTc liatv byiapplylng j ' r Gloss Blnk lVrma-W on the scaring. Subscribo for the IIkualo, $1.00. ' Sold by F. O. Tracy. Glinmhorlaiu's Stomach ami I, Ivor Tablets will clear thn nour stomach, Hvueten the breath and create a healthy nppolito. They promotn the How of gnstric Jiiir.li, thereby inducing good digestion Sold by FO Tracy Post cards of thn big Uenvor fire fur sale at Monsl.igers Studio. Beaver Got yoitr punt cards of lire at McnisingoM Studio. the Mrs. Boiihia Currixr. of Ashland. is a guest of hor sisters Miss Adolia I Alborsand Mrs. B. 1. Russell this week. She also visited her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Albors, of Six Milo. Mins Pcsc'iHn Carlisle of Ploriswai a Bcavor cuJldr Wednesday. II. M. Unlink and family were Beav er shoppors Saturday. f O. A, Ittrhruu is among the new ad ditions to our lUt the pneL week. Tho Presbyterian Church is being remodeled and ro paired to soma uxtout this week The coiling will bu rained and arched and tho plain windows will be replaced by stained glass. About $150.00 will be expended in repairs. This work will add greutly to the com. fort nnd appearance of this edifice Keep Out. All wolf banters aro warned to keep out of the .1. K. George pasture. W. R. Olmptkah, Foreman. John, D Rockefeller would go. brqkn if ho should spend his entire i neon in trying to prepare a bettor medicine than Clhumborlaiu'n Colic, Cholera and Diarrhoo Remedy for diarrluieai dys entery or bow el complaint s, It is lim ply (impossible; and so ay every oW that luis u.d it, Sold by F C Trapy Mr. Thomas states that ho was not in tho' shop after 8 o'clock Sunday. His wifo was in the shop about dusk to get a bundlo of soiled towels. Neither of thorn had a firo of any kind in the building. R. E. Judd, an employee of tho shop, in company with Mr. Booley, went in tho shop between 10 and 10:30 p, M., to get a deok of cards but he states that he did not light a lamp nor strike a match nor does not know that Seeley did so. Mr. Judd states they were only in the shop long enough to procure the cards and that ho know where to put his bands on tbam, and that thoy then want to Clifford LowiB room at tho White House hotel. Bo that as it may, tho firo originated and in consoquoticq proparty to tho vrtluo of over $25,000 has gone up in smoke. and furnituro, total' loss, value $5000. no insurance Sheriff D. P, Millerpersonal proper ty in jail building $160. loss no insur anco. At this time Bomo nre undecided, but for tho most part, those in tho firo dis trict aro located temporarily in other quarters and will oontlnuo in business. Wo trust that from tho ashes of wo't Beaver a bigger acn" better business hinr.1.- will ri nnd that in tho early future the buildings of tho east sido of thebtreetmay bo re-plaoed by more ntih'c.inHnl fill'UCtUrCS BO that thOfO need bo no ro-occurranco of tho dire oalamifcy that has just befallen us. It takes a bravo heart to faco tho triala or loss unflinchingly but the men and wocoen of west sid Douglas avenuo aro macle; of tho kind of stuff that knows no failure nnd they will riso again i,n spito of adversities, Detwilor, "Tho Land .Man' may be aeon at the lnw office of A. S. Dickson, in the Hodge building Seo him for any kind of a land deal. Miss Laura Mackey returned to Beaver Friday last, after a ten days visit in tho eastern part of tho state. J. W. Savage and wife are occupying tho Bulick property until the comple tion of their new homo which they will soon construct in South Beaver. Foley Kirtnoy Pill?, aro antiseptic, tonic and rostorativo and a prompt corrective of all urinary irregularities. Refuse substitutes. For walo by F O Tracy. Frank Maple Is having tho Savage proporty, which ho recently purchased, repaired and remodeled this week and will soon occupy tho H.tiuo with his family. Foley Kidney Pills contain in con. ceutratcd form ingredients o estab lished therapeutic value for tho relief and cure of all kidney nnd bladder ail ments. Sold by F C Tracy. A severe hail storm did much dam age in eastorn Kansas last week. Fruit and gardens were riddled, groat dam age was felt by thu greenhouses in the loss of glass us well as plants. Thu splendid work of Chamberlain's Stomach and Liver Tablets is daily coming tn light No such grand rem edy for livor nnd bowul troubles was ever known before. Thousands bless Ilium for curing constipation, sick headache, biliousness, jaundice and indigestion. Sold by F C Tracy, L. 51, Larson called at this office the past week and renewed for tho IiKiui.it ordering salnc sent to his now home nt Florence, Grant county, in future. Mr. Larson and family dopurted for their new homo Tuesday of this week. QUALITY COUNTS If you buy Hardware from us you get the QUAL ITY and at the RIGHT PRICE We are always at your service with a full and complete line of HARDWARE Everything usually found in an up-to-date store .r Se us lor H AD a fire. Saved all my all my Ab stract Outfit. Now RtaE open for business in m& Implements, Wagons, Buggies the Dr. Alunsell building north of the Bank Beaver Co. Abstract Office WALTER C. FRAZER, Bonded Abstracter. VtlilmBsmimamssmm CARTER-TRACY HARDWARE CO., Beaver, Oklahoma r ! w ? a II ' 8 r '- -. 4, ' ia o $ ,s. n'"J I"