The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1907-08-02
IN EMULATION OF
TEDDY, TIE STRENUOUS
Washington Girls on Okla
hOma Mission Having Time
of Their Lives


special to Daily Leader.
Chattanooga. Okla, Aug. Miss
Margaret Gipson. Miss Ethel G Mill
hen and Niss Emma j. Wamscott,
three Washington girls who We're sent
TO Oklahoma in connection with an in
vestigation of certain questions by the
Indian department before some high
collared official decided that the new
stale was too wild and woody TO be
trusted with the entertainment of east
en femininity, are having the time OF
their lives while engaged In their
work here.
who said that Oklahoma was
wild? questined Miss Wainscott IN
dignantly. why. ! think it's just too
lovely for anything. ! was raised in
Montana. and this looks like the
heighth Of civilization compared TO
what was used to when was a
child Oi course the other girls find
il rather strange. but they are Just
tickled to death with the things they
see
we saw just the sweetest old buck
Indian the other day. and the other
girls took picture Of him | suppose
he was iust little dirtyand when the
| picture was taken he asked the girls
% kiss him Why do Won know, they
actually refused | was too ashamed
OF them for anything You bet that I
took them Gff into corner and gave
them lecture on lndlanology and
they will know better pext time"
Some of the enterprising young citi-
/ Of fthnffunnnnn OH Nhnn are
excr.ing themselves TO the utmost TO
make The stay Of the fair casterners
pleasant one. informed the trio re.
Gently that Il was only a short dis
tance to the famous wolf hunting
grounds. whore President Roosevelt
nerformed his heroic and sensational
feats.
The girls were Immediately INFUSED
with an ardent desire to emulate the
! example Of the president Tho result
| was one Of the most startling exhi-
/ bitions of eastern equestrianism ever
seen on the western plains
Mounted on seasoned COW ponies,
whose dispositions were guaranteed
! TO be OF the best. the three set ont
from Chattanooga this morning. intent
on the canture Of q number OF the
luplne tribe They proceeded only a
! short distance from town when half
grown coynte picked himself ont Of
! the grass and started of lcr0ss the
country at an easy lope
Thsoc shgill shrieKs. In three differ'
ent keys. proclaimed the fact that the
young women had spied their quarry,
and the chase was on
! Miss Gipson was he first 10 fall by
the wayside. She had not been in.
formed Of the quick turning habits OF
! The Oklahoma COW pony. and the first
! time that her monnt performed this
evolution. following the wolf, she went
over his head and lighting gracefully
on the green sward Her pony. how
ever. was thoroughly imbued with the
spirit OF the chase. and did not wait
for his rider, but followed the wolf
The horse ridden by Miss Milliken
also waxed unduly enthusiastic IN the
chase, and Miss Milliken was so busy
staying in the saddle that she loet all
interest I'm the proceedings ~ the
t.me she had regained control OF her
pony she was hopelessly distanCed SO
she returned TO the point whore Miss
Gipson had Withdrawn from the race,
and the pair rode the one outraged
/ and disgustd COW pony back 10 the
| town
Miss Wainscott stayed with the
chase until she lost the coyote IN the
timber along the Deep Red when she
too, returned &c Chattanooga.
The three were tired, but they were
4 game,
We didn't have very good luck
this time exclaimed Miss Gipson as
! she rueiuly rubbed bruised spOt
but We are not going TO give up
guess we can catch wolves lust ms
well as the president can. and we are
going TO catch one too. aren't we
/ girls?
And we are going 10 take him
back TO Washington with as. and pre-
sent him 10 Mr.. Roosevelt guess
that viii show those department
clerks that oklahoma Is not too wild
for Washington girls