There will be great disgust among the Chinese; the first batch of 179 got
through safely, but only 21 of the second lot will be admitted, and the
rest of them will have to go back to the Flowery Kingdom, sadder but wiser
men.

* * * * *

News has come that the town of Guthrie in the new Territory of Oklahoma
has been destroyed by a flood.

The Cottonwood River, which flows through the town, had been so high for
some days that it was feared it might overflow and do some damage, and the
citizens had been watching it, and taking every precaution against a
flood. Men had been stationed on the bridges ready to give the alarm if
the river rose so high that there was danger.

On April 27th the danger appeared to be past, the river fell a few feet,
and though the watchers were still kept at their posts, no one supposed
that a flood would really come.

At six o'clock in the morning of April 28th, the men on the bridges heard
a terrible roaring up the river valley. Convinced that a flood was coming,
they gave the alarm, ringing the fire-bells, and warning the people to
flee for their lives.

So unexpected was the alarm, that the people did not seem to understand
what the danger was. Tornadoes are frequent in that western country, and
some hearing the roar of the flood and thinking that the danger that
threatened them was the wind, rushed to the caves which they had made for
shelter from tornadoes, and these poor people were soon drowned by the