The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1904-11-28
Huater
SPENDS HIS DAYS IN
THE WOODS
Has Killed More "CoOns"
Than Any Other Man
Alive To-day.

At Ingalls,. a small town in Payne
county. lives Dr. Stephen Can, who
Is about eighty years old, with as good
health as almost any young person one
can find. He was with General Lew
Wallace In the Mexican war, fought
through the civil war, has been mar
ried three times. has lived in ali parts
of the United States and is strong and
active. beth physically and mentally
Or. Call has set people to thinking
They wonder why he can have such
good health and yet he is 50 old But
one thing explains It and that is that
he spends the winters In the woods
hunting "coons" and during the sum
mer he is out fishing he greater pcr
tion Of the time.
If it rs not saying too much and his
friends say it is not. DR.. Call is the
greatest. oldest and best coon hunter
living today He has more coon scalps
to his credit than any hunter alive.
He has spent practically all of mis- life
on the frontier. He has rouehed it
from bcyhcod up tie was never a
pet but he has always made himself
felt and was favorite wherever he
went.
The doctors fondest sport is to hunt
"coons" He has a number of hounds
and they are good ones toe. He under
stands how to hanSie them When he
can not get a young person to &c
our with sim he will strike for the
woods himself. AS a usual thing he
likes to have one or two men with
him.
About the "time that coons Geo rip
est The old doctor arrange his
dinky spring wagon. leads her up with
grub, gets his hounds together an1
pulls for the tall timber in the Creek
country. He used TO hunt in the
Usage reservation bit the intrusion
Of the law has knocked that sport SKY
high for him.
Those who have huatcd with him
express themselves as being surprised
at he tenaoity that the old doctor has
In staying with any purpose he dc
sires to carry out. He can have more
patience trailing coon than he car
with his family. hut at the same time
he IS the most devoted man TO his
home folks
He often goes Grt alone for a hunt
in the fal and does not return until
the following spring Where he goes
or where ne stays few people evel
know Sometimes ne tells the people
he is going to Arkansas to hunt and
again to the Creek country But, ali
the same. he hunts In fact were il
not that he loves hunting some people
think that his health would have brol-
en- down lcng ago.
Dr Call is a strong Republican and
is true to the cause Cnce he asked
for a position end through some ef
fort he was given the postoffice at
ingalls,. He really did not know what
he could do with the office so he hired
deputy and virtually gave him
charge Of the thing Now the doctor
was capable of taking care of It FOR he
Is highly educated. having had years
Of experience in various public capac
tiles. But he wanted to hunt
He did hunt nearly all Of the time
one day there was a discrepancy in
the postal accounts and Sl7 worth d
stamps we're missing seemingly. His
deputy was looked upon by the peo
pie rather suspiciously He became
so worried over the matter that h'
soon resigned and 1t flnauy turned on
that everything was straight and tha
there was no deficit in The accounu
a. an.
One could not convince the docto
that he was ever wrong in hunting an.
no one would blame him 10 see how
strong and stout and happy he IS. HI
has Teen a soldier is a physician an'
a successful hunter While he pride
. himself on the record he made in thI
two wars ia which he participated IA
is proudest Of his hunting career