The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1906-09-12
ls.ocaates Pre.. t. The Evening Ts.es.


Guthrie, o. T.. Sept. 12.-That dan
ger turks in every walk of life and es-
7ecially that of the farmer, is illus
rated by the many peculiar accidents
hat have happend in Oklahoma re-
Gently. There seems to be thousand
md one ways in which person may
)e injured II he is not continually on
guard. Eternal vigilance seems to be
she price of whole bones as we'll as
liberty and the following list of mis-
:laps, some trivial and others serious,
that have befallen Oklahoma people
recently, seems to prove the truth of
this statement.
The most docile of farm animals,
the COW and calf, often are to be
blamed for pitlful accidents. Everett
Eayre, son of w. A. Sayre of Pawnee,
vas cutting a rope of a calfs neck.
lie let the knife slip, which hit him
in the eye putting it OFT. He was
taken to the hospital /; Guthrie for
treatment.
While loosening pin with which he
had COW picketed, c. P. Bunyon of
Pond Creek, who for several years
vas city marshal OF thta town, was
severely injured. When the pin was
loosened the COW started to run, jerk
ing the rope in such a way that the
stake pin struck Bunyon in the fore
head. rendering him unconscious.
The habit Of riding COW is usually
not considered dangerous, but the g.
year-old son of Mr.. and Mrs. C. L
Pugh Of Lahoma, had his left arm
broken above the wrist by being
thrown from one of those animals
while trying to ride her to the pas
turc.
Falls from trees are common, but
such mishaps are usually confined to
juvenile humanity. Not so, however.
in the case of u. G. Garfield. a promin-
ent farmer in the vicinity of Carmen
He was fixing a telephone wire in a
tree when his foot slipped and he fell
thirty feet to the ground, rendering
him unconscious and breaking two
ribs.
Henry Lasson, Jr., of Ell Reno, by
way of celebrating his sixth birthday.
made high dive from tree in the
yard at his home, breaking his left
arm.
A fatal accident as a result of a
fall from tree happened at Norman.
S1o' CASC TNuIlOTs oOu vi ftOU6CC NJ.
Mullor, a shoemaker, was fixing some
sort of trolley in a tree, and had
tied one end to limb and fastened the
other end in the ground. In trying
to slide down this wire with his feet
fastened to pulley, he fell twenty
feet. receiving fatal injuries.
Carl Falkner of Billings, was the
victim of peculiar accident. He fell
against the rear stone wall of a store
building with an open knife in his
hand, the blade, which was about an
inch and half long, pointing toward
his body. In falling he forced the
blade into his left side, full length.
just below the heart. Had the blade
penetrated a little' deeper Falkners
wound would have proved fatal.
Miss Frances Swingle, also of Bill
lings. recently received a painful in
jury while putting bottle of soda pop
in the refrigerator. Through some un-
explainable cause the bottle bursted
In her hand, cutting that member bad
ly and breaking one of her fingers.
The baby buggy is not always as
doci!e as some men would suppose.
Mr.. Lamond who runs an employment
agency at Shawnee, was trying to take
one of the innocent cOnveyances down
stairway when he made a misstep.
falling to the bottom of the stairway
and breaking both legs.
A man living at Sparks who failed
TO count the cost of displeasing his
wife recently is now pursuing broken
arm and bruised shoulder. The hus-