The daily morning journal and courier., 1895-01-05

| he could.
 Mother case of 'tenderfoot' entic-
 ing and robbery" laughed the big bor-
 derman. Here, Pete" to a grinning
 half breed, bring up that led horse and let this fool ride
 We're deputy marshals," the leader
 explained as Frank climbed painfully into the saddle. "and we are out on a
 hunt for Captain Stevens and his gang
 of cutthroats. You'd better go along
 with us."
 Half an hour later Waggoner 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. It was only a bad bruise and would be all
 right soon, they said. He learned that
 he was in company with "Bill' Carr,
 marshal from Purcell, with a record of eleven men killed in eleven months.
 The other men, five in all were posse
 men, and all fighters. They were after
 Captain Stevens, q bold highwayman.
 Waggoners wound proved more trou-
 blesome than at first supposed, and he
 was moved to the home of a ChickasaW
 Indian near Silver City, and left the
 marshals continuing their man hunt. It was weeks before Frank got well, a severe fever following the exposure and
 wound. He was nursed by pretty
 half-breed girl, the daughter of the In-
 dian att whose house he lay 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 to keep Mary's image in his heart.
 When Frank heard from his father he got dose of hard sense and cold con- solation. The old man thought he had acted the fool, and told him so. Kittie Mayo wrote pathetic letter, lamenting that he had ever gone west into Okla homa, and intimating, in her gentle way, that he had made a mistake These letters made the young man am gry, and he cut loose from all home ties.
 He was penniless and decided to be- come deputy marshal. He afterward joined Harry Hills boomers, and was in the rush for homes when the Okla homa country was opened He shot a Texan who disputed his right to claim and was stabbed by half breed at Purcell dance house. Making living in the territory was not what it was cracked up to be. He cast his eyes about for some easy way of making ends meet. He saw contented, we'll xx,hi tn v,s1 drinking oily whiskey, 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 mar ried Indian women. These Indians, as wards of the nation, had much land and annuity Their husbands leased out the land, stole their wives annuity, cussed the men who wanted to throw open the country to settlement, and in many cases were Wife-beaters. Waggoner thought of Mary Beard and forgot Kit tie Mayo. He borrowed a horse and rode over to Silver City. The Indian girl was delighted to see him again. He told her that he had borrowed a horse to come over and ask her to mar ry. She consented, and promised to give him a whole herd, so he sent back the pony by a boy, and to satisfy Mary's | Indian father they were married by the Chickasaw ceremony, as well as by a | local preacher.
 Then Frank settled down to life as 1 tsquaw man." He did not beat Mary, | but he used her money and talked of | her land and stock as his own. He fell | into the habit of cursing the Indian | commission of congress, and became a power in the land as an agitator. He | was literally "howIing" success as a | "squaw man." and even the full bloods | came to like him. He developed those | lazy traits he had noticed in other | squaw men, and would sit for hours summing himself.
 A year ago his wife Mary died. Wag- | goner was shocked a little. He had | loved her in a way, but Kfttie Mayo was still his real sweetheart Two months ago 'bad man. from the BraZos eoun- try stole some of the "squaw mans" horses, and he started out ito run him down. In the Wichita country he was robbed by the Cooks, and on resisting was shot. Friends took him to Lena pah, and there he was told his wounds were dangerous.
 His thoughts flew back to Dad and Kittie in Ohio, He telegraphed the girl that he was dying She answered back that she would start at once for his bedside. She found that they had moved him to Muskogee, and there she The meeting was an effecting one. Frank rapidly recovered under ler loving care, and several weeks ago l marriage license was issued to Frank Waggoner and xittie Mayo. They were welded despite the protests of some Indian relatives of the dead Mary Beard. They started for the Chickasaw country on horseback, but they never cached there. A few days ago they were found dead, locked in each others trms, at the foot of the Evil Spirit leap" How they came there the ofT1- 'ers are to busy chasing the Cooks to investigate.