The sun., 1894-12-30
4 WILD WESTERN ROMANCE.
How . Tenderfoot FROM College Bees-e :
Saunyv Man and Lost His Life.
ENor "a. cfnetrratt Commercial Ga.ette.

Sgunw Man and Lost HE Lie.
FNor ne Cincinnati Commercial Gdsette.
Frank wagvoner was graduated with high
honors from q college in Ohio in 1883. His
father owned farm in the oackwoods OF Paul
ding county. and the young collegian had no de-
sirc to return to the rural districts and saw
wood" OF maui rails either, So he went to his
father and told him he had determined to go
West and grow mp with Oklahoma. The old
| gentleman thought Frank was a"pceky fool"
and said so. and pretty kit;!e Mayo almost cried
her eyes out. Young Waegoner took her in his
| sake, and that as soon rs he had made modest
start he would send for her. and they would;
Ike the g9oq nnr GhGren sYsr Ia s
So the youthful enthusiast left Paulding Cen
I Whie Sne poor KttS W cried @ bitterly Behlnd the shS
| ter of the station. and Papa Waegoner alter
that "danged young IDIOT" Even the idiot felt
| badly, and, despite his utmost endeaNors, he
| couid hardly keep hack the tears.
! In due time Frank landed at Huuuewell. Kan.
on the border Of the Cherokee strip. and tried TO
few hundred dollars. and was comparatively
| easy. One day he met dashing Jim Dalton, then
| adapper little fellow, who oelongea 70 q gang on
| River. under command Of Oklahoma Harry Hill
You are pretty good fellow said Dalton.
there is a gold cache not far from Eufaula. 1t
amt no great mine with millions in IL, but there
dug Il out OF the Wichita mountains. IL you'll
furnish ponies Iii go along and we two VIII
Waggonor had unbounded faith In Dalton. at
that time popular young border gambler. and
ing letter TO pretty Kittie and another full of
braggadocio TO Papa Waggoner before he fol-
Oklahoma over TO the Chickasaw Indian coun-
try. On the way they were Joined by dashtng
Pearl Younger, daughter of Belle Starr. Dal-
ton and Pearl seemed to be well acquainted,
and apparently had some secret in common.
Their meeting did not appear to be by chance.
| M shoot him Jim he heard
the CIR. say one day as he rode along. Hit
him oyer the head and so Iet hm on, III,
sion, Hit him over the head and let him go.
hut he never dreamed of applying II TO himself,
| That night as he was lariating out his horse he
suddenly lost consciousness, and when he came
TO the dew was on the grass and he was all
Before he could recover his wits a csvalca6e
of horsemen dashed up, and big fellow with
demanded that he, give an account q himself.
robbery" laughed the big border nan. Here.
led horse and let this fool ride"
"We're deputy marshals," the leader e5'
die, " and we are out on hunt for Capt. stevens
and his gans, of cutthroats- You'd better &c
Half an hour later waggoner reeled and fell
from his horse. The pain In his head had
nsh fS5 h 50 as ssS @
wound. IL was only bad 6tuise and would ot
all right soon, they said t He learned that h
from Purcell. with a record Of eleven men killec
! in eleven months. The other men. tYe In all
after Capt. Stevens. a bold highwayman.
; waggoners wound proved more ublesom,
home OF a Chickasaw Indian near Silver City
, and left the marshals continuing their Uar
hunt. IL was weeks before Frank got well,
severe fever following the exposure and wound
He was nursed by pretty half-breed girl. tn
: daughter OF the Indian at whose house he la!
sick. She spoke good English sang little, ani
| could talk prettiiy; She sooa won tue interes
. of her patient, and when he got well and read!
{ to leave the Indian home he promised to keel
r Mary's image in his heart. "
dose of hard sense and cold consolation Tn
old man thought he had acted the iool, and t9l'
menting that he. had ever sont " est into okla
. hOna. and intiInating. in her gentle way; tha
|. he had made mistake, These letters mad IN
= | young man angry, and lie cut loose from a.
= He was penniIess, and so decided TO become
= | deputy marshal. He afterwaTd joined Harr
J. Hills boomers, and was in the rush for home
= when the old Oklahoma country was opened
claim and was stabbed b. "a half breed AT a Pur
i. cell dance house. Makng a living in the Terri
cast his eyes about for some easy way OF maxim
n ends meet lie saw contented. ,wel!7dresse
V white men riding good horses, drinking oil
!. whiskey. and playing high cards without wor.
= and he asked who they were.
y "SquRw men, WAS the reply he received.
t. Inve~Iigalion discovered the fact that squa,
,t men" were whites who married Indian womcI
| N,
n much land and annuity. Their husbands lease
!, out the land, stole their wives annuity, cusse
J. the men who wanted TO throw open the countr
Y TO settlement, and In many eases were VIII,
" beaters, WagGoner thought OF Mary Beard an
10 forgot Kittie Mayo. He borrowed a horse An
= delighted TO see him again. He told her that
u y had borrowed horse TO come over and ask h'
N 10 marry him. she consented. and promise
d pony by boy. and 70 satisfy Mary's lndia
II father they were married by Tie Chickasaw ce
|, enlony, well by a local preacher.
b Then Frank settled down TO life as a squa
As man." He did not beat Mary. but he used h'
is money and talked Of her land and stock IA b
A dian Commission OF Congress, and became
q power the land as an asitator, He was Il
orally u howling' success as squaw n an
m and even the full bloods came 10 ike him. 1
u developed those lazy traits he had noticed
u. other squaw men. and would sit for hours SUI
u a Year ago his wife Mary died. Wagon
- was shocked little. He had loyed her IN a Wa
to Two months ago a bad man" from the Braz
OF country stole some Of the "sguaw mGni
&c. horses, ana ne started out 70 run h'in doMhi
h. by the Cooks, ana on resisting was shot. FTien
"a took him 10 Lenapah. ana there he was told h
,L His thought hew back TO Dad and Kittie
q Ohio. He telegTaphed the girl that he was cy IN
- for his bedside. She found that they had mos!
him "a MuskOgee, and there she followed. III
meeting was an affecting one. Frank RAPID
'p- weeks ago a marriage license was issued
ar ! Frank Waggoner and kittie Mayo. They we
pa ea relatives OF the dead Mary heard They start
nj for the ChckasaS country on horseb b
they never reached there. A few days ago tn
In were found dead. locked in each others aru
AZ Rt the foot OF the Evil Spirit Leap How IN
"A came there the officers ale too bI5y chasing :
-. Cooks To investigate.
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