The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1906-11-20
WAS A MEMBER OF THE
FEROCIOUS LOuISI
ANA TIGERS
CAREER IS PICTURESQUE
RamanCe in Early Days De.
cided His Life'S Mission.

Judge Stevens as he always was
called while in Davis and the adjacent
Arbuckle mountains, seldom talked
about himself. only that the boys call
ed him judge ever since he decided
questions In debating schools In his
native louisiana lie also admitted
that he had been very active mem
Der Of the ferccious Louisiana Tigers
during the war for the union. The
judge Summed up his war record by
saying: Il had to do right smart
fopping over the Yankees that moved
too near our Tigers nest" The judge
is reported to have had tragic
romance daring his younger days. It
ls loudly claimed that he had been en-
gagged to be married to Creole
beauty, and that on the day preced-
ing his expected marriage he caught
another fellow hugging and kissing
his intended, and that ne then and
there killed the unfaithfuI br:de-tobe
and badly wounded the kissef It is
said that he escaped and has man
aged to Keep out of the laws clutches
for that murder up to date. The
judge, however, has been tormented
by the spirit, ghost or spook Of his
intended Creole ever since he killed
her IN the arms of her intruding lover.
Many of the Davis people, and even
the writer of this fragmentary bio
graphical sketch often saw the judge
rushed into a furious rage at an i'm
agined female ghost, oursing her,
throwing water and rocks at the ap-
p'ration, and haying Dam you
thought | killed you forty years ago,
but here you are"
Judge Stevens is the greatest
Shakesrearian scholar that ever lived
in the Washita valley He could re-
cite most of Hamlet and the Mid-Sum-
mer Nights Dream, but of course
during his lucid intervals. But like
Bancos ghost, the Creole ghost could
not be permanently banished from his
presence.
The judge first appeared in Davis
about ten years ago. He went into the
saw mill business at the four miles
distant mouth CT the evor-ushing
Honey creek. about two miles below
roaring Turnre Falls and where the
crystal clear stream ningles its
waters with the sluggish Washta
river
The Judge turned out pretty good
lumber for some time. but alasl the
Creole ghost cut up worse pranks than
ever before The haunted saw mill
often reyerberated with the terrific
sounds made by the judges shotgun
md bulldog revolver II is said that
he even purchased several silver bull
lets and shot them at the invisible
tormentoE because he had often heard
that the most daring witch could not
NANhA hNAhb oilbh az WIN n "AANNA hhA-
let That unconQuerable female ghost
managed to bankrupt the judges saw
mill enterprise; so he traded the out
ht for a bunch of Texas steers. Then
he became a bold, bad, wild and woody
cowboy in the Arbucke mountains,
grazing his cattle round about Wight
mare cave, Dalton canyon and up to
Cannonbal mountain The judge
never wasted any powder and lead on
bobcats and woolyes, for the good
reason that he needed his ammunition
for bigger game, the irrepreslblC
] Creole ghost.
One afternoon his herd drlfted to
the plateau near skyroeket guich, the
marshy bottom OF that cedar-adornet
/ gulCh being a prolific breeder of lack