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Show Prairie Fire. The Husbandman says: "Dr. Par-berry, Par-berry, who returned from Musselshell this week, gives a brief account of a disastrous dis-astrous prairie fire which occurred on Careless creek last week, sweeping from that point and spreading northward to the summit of the Snowv mountains. Ranches, stock, dwellings, "stables, fences, fen-ces, corrals, sheep sheds, hay and hundreds hun-dreds of miles of bunch grass was lapped up by the devouring element in a twinkle. twin-kle. Dr. Parberry's ranch and $1,500 worth of improvements were swept up as bare as a barn floor. Sweeping onward in its m'ad career it came to a ranch belonging be-longing to a widow lady on Swimming Woman, and demolished everything, even burning a pair of horses and a cow that were in her stables, and compelling the inmates of the dwelling to fly for their lives. Stock were burned to death in a number of cases. The fire caught from the noonday campfire of a freighter, who carelessly or maliciously allowed it to get a start." b |