The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1895-01-07
A WILD WESTERN ROMANCE.
How a Tenderfoot From College Became
Squaw Man and Lost His Life.

How a Tenderfoot From College Became
Squaw Man and Lost His Life.
From the Cincinnati Commercial Gazette.
Frank Waggoner was graduated with
high honors from a college IN Ohio In 1855.
His father owned a farm in the backwoods
of Paulding county and the young collie
gian had no desire to return to the ru-
raj districts and saw wood" or maui
rails either, so he went TO his father and
told him he had determined to go West
and grow up with oklahoma The Old
gentleman thought Frank was a "pcsky
fool. and said so, and pretty kittie Mayo
almost cried her eyes out. Young Wag-
goner took her in his arms and told her
that he was going West for her sake,
and that as soon as he had made "a mod
est start he would send for her. and they
would, like the good children in all we'll
regulated novels, live happily ever after
ward"
So the youthful enthusiastic left Paul
ding Center one day and took the train for
the west while poor Kitty cried bitterly
behind the shelter Of the station and Papa
Waggoner alternately dashed tear from
his eyes and cussed the DANCED young
IDIOT" Even the idiot felt badly and, de-
Epite his utmost endeavors, he could
hardly keep back the tears.
In due time Frank landed at Hume
well, Kan, on the border Of the Chero-
kee Strip. and tried 10 get work. There
was none TO be had. He had few hun
bred dollars, and was comparatively easy.
One day ne met dashing Jim Dalton,
then a dapper little fellow, who belonged
TO a gang of "boomers" then in camp
along the Chiekasaw river, under COM
mand of Oklahoma Harry Hill.
you are a pretty good fellow" said
Dalton, land l guess you're game. Now
l know where there is a gold cache not
far from Eufaula. 1t amt no great mine
with millions in It, but there is 100000
planted there by three miners
who dug It out of the Wichita mountains.
If you'll furnish ponies III go along and
we two viii scoop it all in"
Waggoner had unbounded faith IN Dal-
ton, at that time a popular young border
gambler, and later on, HE noted outlaw.
So he wrote a gushing letter to pretty
Kittie and another fun of braggadocio to
Papa Waggoner before he followed Dali
ton down the old Chisolm trail into Okla
homa, over to the Chickasaw Indian
country. on the way they were Joined by
dashing Pearl Younger, daughter of
Belle Starr. Dalton and Pearl seemed 10
be well acquainted, and apparently had
some secret in common. Their meeting
did not appear to be by chance.
mo, you must not shoot him, JIM" he
heard the girl say one day as he rode
along, hit him over the head and let
him 60"
Frank thought a good deal about the
expression, hit him over the head and
let him go, but he never dreamed of ap-
plying IT to himself. That night as ne was
lariating out his horse he suddenly lost
consciousness, aud when he came to the
dew was on the grass and he was all
alone his head feeling like lump of lead.
Before he could recover his wits cav
alcade of horsemen dashed up. and a big
fellow with an arsenal strapped about his
waist and a Winchester strung to his
saddle pulled up and demanded that he
give an account Of himself Waggoner
complied as well as he could.
"Notber case of tenderfoot enticing
and robbery" laughed the big borderman.
Here, Pete" TO a grnntng half breed,
bring up that led horse and let this fool
ride"
Were deputy marshals," the leader ex-
planned, as Frank climbed painfully into
the saddle land we are out on a hunt for
Capt. Stevens and his gang OF cutthroats.
You'd better go along with us
Half an hour later Wagner reeled
and fell from his horse. The pain In his
head had proved too much for him, so his
new-found friends went into camp and
looked after his wound. 1t was only
bad bruise and would be all right soon,
they said. He learned that he was in
company withtBilp' Carr, marshal from
Purcell, with record of eleven men killed
in eleven months The other men, five In
all. were posse men, and all lighters They
were after Capt. Stevens, bold highway
man.
Wageoner's wound proved more trouble
some than at first supposed, and he was
moved to the home of a ChickasaW lndlah
near silver City, and left the marshals
Continuing their man hunt 1t was weeks
before Frank got we'll, a severe fever fol-
lowing the exposure and wound. He was
nursed by a pretty half-breed girl, the
daughter of the indian at whose house he
Law sick. She spoke good English, sang a
little. and could talk prettily. she soon
won the interest of her patient, and when
he got well and ready to leave the indian
home he promised 70 Keep MARY Image
in his heart
when Frank heard from his father he
cot a dose Of hard sense and cold con-
ISOLATION. The old man thought he had
acted the fool and told him So Kittie
MAYO wrote pathetic letter, lamentng
that he had ever gone west into Oklahoma,
and intlmating in her gentle way, that
he had made a mistake. These letters
made the young man angry, and he cut
loose from all home ties.
He was penniless, and so decided to be-
come a deputy marshal. He afterward
ioined Harry HIS boomers. and was in
the rush for homes when the old Oklahoma
country was opened. He shot a Texan
who disputed his right to a claim, and
was stabbed by a half breed at a Purcell
dance house. Making living in the ter
ritory was not what 1t was cracked up
to be. He cast his eyes about for some
easy way of making ends meet. He saw
contented, well dressed white men riding
good horses, drinking oily whisky and
playing high cards without work, and he
asked who they were.
"Squaw men," was the reply he re-
ceived
Investigation discovered the fact that
"squaw men were whites who married
Indian women. These Indians, as wards
If the nation. had much land and annuilv.