The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1901-05-08

Jim Clarke 5 stiu couldn't Keep uD with
the demand and Jim Clark fairly coined
money and grew fat laughing al the
bargain Be- had made
One day Moses Baker came over from
Leteher county and bought whisky from
the girl For three years Moses Baker
bad heeu sultor or Ellen Hisnifc's She
bad always hated him and never hesi-
tated q tell him So When be found that
she was selling whisk, bee thought his
oaporuniig had come
Ellen. he said. yo marry me and
everything i ba an right Ill provide fer
ser ma and Va baby. ana 30 gal % have
3 better husband. d sou don't marry
newell there's a law in the land f1r
them that sels Ticker what don't hey no
g9vmeHt stamp on it.7
"Mosa Baker said thc girl 20 hate
ihe eroun so stan. on To a snsakln'
houn' O. iaik THIS way % me. And now
iet me tell yo Mose Baker wouldn't
marry yo' ail If thar No-nt another man
in kaintuckyr
Nose haker mounted bis horse and rode
away The federal grand jury was ID
session that. week in louisville Mesc
Baker ,ame into town before ts deHbesa.
uons were concluded That NIGHT q fed-
eral marshal started Cor Clay county.
and in his pocket was warrant for the
arrest of Ellen Hisnite On the charge of
selling liquor without government
Lcense The girl heard thc marshal was
comins but She did not run away. ,.I
sold icker she said -l sold I'd Ter save
ma and the baby from a-starrln But
I'm Hirnite. ana ! run from nobody"
TIE next day she was arrested Ifn
clark sot away
Al the trai the witnesses we're called
untn oulg one WAS ier Then the red.
erai rrosse itins attorney said araH
Moses Baker" Nose Baker. 4 aaurt Ntau
mountaiuer went forward and took fha
witness ohair Bakr drauied out that
Do bad seen rho prisoner retailing iricis
whisky from Jim Ciarks stL re haa
bouEht scme whisky from her himself
a. had seen others bus it He kneu
the glri had 10 eoeernment license Taen
the attorneys Tor the defense took lhe
witness
AFTER old man Henits was k.led and
Che cabin burned Down SD you see
notice on the tree warning che family ia
50 away asked the counsel Tor ths
defense
- heard Fuihn of it~
The family lost everything. They had
10 fold or fnnfurs ieft nothing BIT me
clothing - their backs. cid fheyr
'Waal theF dlda't have s0 powerfuI
much ifff~
Then fhe people % fhcrs drove fhis
Womaa and are children into fhe uo1r-
taiHs - siarreg
Wal they went
And vou didn't e. 20 heip fhemg-
They Ham't 10 En e. mins- Mases /
began 90 iook uneasy
"But after rtu heard ftis girl va ssli- I
irg whisky yru nentT
rl sent and seed her serIn' red EaEer !
snid sou not ask her fa marry you-
"Waal. pfaus did- Nases VA. urir- I
Cling rerrculiy Ir Sc cha.r.
-knd ~hst did ere say1
% dcr't kr1u SHAT she aail-
Let ~ ask goa. Mr. Baker f this !
s-d I'D u1t =sy Mnzs Baker ] hate yoa /
and H1uidnt marry 11l Il yo1 uere /
the last man 81 kaintocky1
Moses thoueht ft- while
veal ere night
and ther sou rams dlea ia I.oulsfire /
and sEcre 1li thif warmth
-Waa- ken d1un gare afsrieht-
That's al SIR Baker Sep down
Then Ger Basn Dake fetk ihr sfana
ana told heU jim b Enlte had saFea his
he during the war ana shat brave
and gallant ssidier - Fas. and bow ~
four years ~ had uorn Tie gray aIth
honor Is the s1uth Ther cen. Castle
man related how ere 81 ths Hirutc aays
had been saldier in biz oamnand during
ne Spanish sar and how BE- had uorn
tie blue as erctIta0g as his father did
1e gray.
ellen HiErle uas called she ssi8 she
had sold Iicit whisky she had sold Ii
siiholf a Ecenas she said. -Tm guilty.
udee That was All
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