Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1905-06-13


citation at st. Louis and during the big
fight for the next convention place
promised the delegates that if they
would vote for Oklahoma he would
give them the best kind of entertain
ment on the big stock and agricultural
farm, comprising $1,000 acres.
He said he would show them 500
harvesters and binders at work in a
wheat field Of $4,000 acres. He would
show them how to raise blooded stock
on mammoth scale, or he would give
them a buffalo dinner. Indian war
dances and cowboy feats of thrilling
nature.
Working over the entertainment
plans the Miller brothers decided to
make the event commemorative of the
Oklahoma and the west of olden
times, which still lives virile and
green, it is believed almost every
where east of Chicago.
Back to "old oklahoma"
People in the west know that Okla
homa and the wild west received it's
death blow with the opening of "Old
Oklahoma" April %, 1889, over six
teen years ago, Oklahoma nowadays is
hustling agricultural community,
with great industrial development and
the fastest growing railways in the
country. But fasteners don't know it
SO the Miller brothers will present an
entertainment of contrasts the west as
it used to be, and the west as tits.
The ranch itself. will typify the lat
ter idea The Millers have $1,000 acres
with $50 miles Of fencing. Nine thou
sand acres are in wheat, 1000 in corn,
500 in oats and smaller tracts in pota-
toes, melons and other crops.
| To handle these crops the 101 ranch
makes use of every modern device.
The central ranch house is the center
of a telephone system which reaches
to all parts of the property. Forty
two wheat binders, ten corn harvest
ers, five threshing outfits and fifty
wagons are in use. A steam traction
engine was purchased to haul gang
plows. To see the forty-two reapers
go one after another down a vast ex-
panse of waving, golden grain, one has
to visit 101 ranch.
Nearly 500 farm hands are required
to till the acreage. while fifty cow
boys look after $4,000 cattle. About
5000 hogs, 500 mules and 300 work
horses are kept on the ranch on the
average.
A Buffalo Hunt.
The Miller brothers recently pur-
chased thirty-five head of buffalo
from Montana man, and brought
them down to Oklahoma. Three died
on the way, but thirty-three arrived,
as an event of some domestic import
ance occurred in one of the cars. The
editorial convention will see the
youngest buffalo calf in captivity.
The big chiefs, Geronimo, Quanah
Parker and Big Wolf, chief of the
Cheyennes, will lead parade of 1000
Indians and $50 cowboys in native
/ dress. Then will come the genuine
buffalo hunt, and for fear the brutes
will not take kindly to hunt, the Mil.
Ter brothers have brought UP lot of
long horned Texas steers which are
guaranteed to lead the hunters a mer-
ry chase and to endanger life and limb
of pursuers.
/ Pickett the negro cowboy, will dc
his favorite trick of leaping upon the
1 bareback of galloping steer, and of
throwing the animal by selling its
nose between his teeth
Roping Contests.
/ Roping contests will be held in hall
a dozen places at once and bronchos
will be busted" Lucille Mulhall, OF
wild west equestrian fame, champion
lady rider and roper of the world,'' will
indulge in feats of Craftsmanship and
throw the lasso and tie wild steers.
A cattle roundup and branding by
| will r1yin
come a roping contest for the cham
pionship of the southwest.
Indians and cowboys will fight a
sham battle during which an immi
grant train will be burned. AS fl
male everybody who can get a horse
will line up and at the crack of a pis
tol start tearing across the prairie in
an imitation of the famous rush with
which the Cherokee strip was opened
At night Indian dances will be held.
These will mark the obliteration oil
the tribal existence of the Ponca ano
! Otoe tribes. They own much of the
land in the 101 ranch having leased il
to the Miller brothers. The fedora
government is breaking up the triba
relations and allotting the land in in
dividual parcels.
To properly mark the event, which
is one of great seriousness and con
siderable pathos to them the Otoes
and Poncas have invited Indians from
all the neighboring reservations to be
their guests.
: After the visiting editors wend theil
way to the special train to the music
of dozen bands, their cars will pas!
} the 101 ranch barns, each 181 fee
mobiles, the waving fields of grain
the huge stacks of hay, the building
/ with the printing presses, the ca
loads of wire fencing, and other sign,