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Show Disastrous Prairie fires. Terry, O. T.. Nov. 2S. Prairie fires have played havoc in Oklahoma and Indian territories for the last few days. One farmer lost 1,000 arces of fine hay in the field, several hundred bales of cotton and 500 head of cattle and hogs. Millions of tons of hay in bale and in bulk have been burned in other sections, sec-tions, aud no less than 100 residences have been destroyed. Several lives have been lost. In the Kiowa Indian reservation a strip of laud thirty by seventy-five miles was burned, causing great datnutre. |