The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1908-07-16

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After all it looks like a stray tabhy
cat housed at Backbone Timuaing
toms place will prove worthy OF tue
time and care given by Timugipgsn,
who by the way is a member of tha.
thousand-times blessed organization.
Society to Prevent those animals with |
feeling from Being Neglected and al
lowed to Stink Back into a Wild and
Undesirable State"
Mr. Timugington recently drove his /
fine span OF gray mules out to the river I
the family convenience being fastened /
to the tugs and the entire family ex
pected to spend two days at the river
camping and fishing and reereating |
They did not have 20 return home un-
III Wednesday evening service of
prayer meetirE, and Mr. and Mrs. Tim
ugington were very happy. Well, too. |
they might be- with their eight sturdy
boys and six lovely dimpling daught- |
ers TO gladden. their hearts and make
them feel cheerful over the great hard
ships Mr. Timugington had when the
family was just cropping and none old
enought to be OF any more SERVE tpl
their mother tnan to wheel the washing
from house 20 house and run to the
grocery after a bar OF soap when
needed.
The tab cat was along and the
] girls we're glad of il, as she is a powt
erful bird catcher and they needed
some new plumage for their hats, and
crows and buzzards are plentiful in
the Johnoak along the winding, sill
very. romantic. stream that has SO
long made the Bowwow country fanr
ons. Hlis W
l. Mr. Timugington ascertained the
bass we're in bad humor and the river
was most too high for good fishing
i He was getting pefulant when he shot
robin for oait, and was on the oppo
site side of the stream from the
I wagon and family. The tab cat had
been sitting on plank near the end
of the conveyance, whore three lines
that had been. o nthe trot lines all az
j ternooD Still shaited We're yet fastened
. TO the hoop
. Tab saw the dead robin being dis
, sected and plunged from the wagon
to the stream, twelve feet and eleven
! inches down. knowing the animal could
/. swim the family paid no attention un-
q til they ascertaind the animal had
4 ierked loose the three baited lines and
g
: tached When fifty feet from shore
1 giant mudcat struck one OF the
A hooks and started down with the line.
Tab rose from the unasSed for sonse
; and tried TO head back toward the
wagon, but the fish had made other
arrangements and started In the other
L direction The cat was getting the
worst OF the strain and the eldest Tim
lugington lad braYely attempted res
. cue. but just before he got hold OF ta6
= line huge bass hit another hool
4 and started up stream, the catfish an.
II the cat protesting and cOntesting each
Z inch The game fish, however, waF
. getting away with the outfit when {
trout took the last line and made ;
q desperate effort 10 sc down stream
D The tension was so strong that TIT
different animals all started the cr
Gle swing atathc same time, and thl
IS family had TO stand aside, as the nov
imprOvised wheel was spinning
around and around in the water wors
le than an electric fan over soda four
le tain.
Of How long this would have laste
In the water can never be told, bu
the spinning wheel finally acquire
Is such momentum the water wa
IN driven 10 the sides, and IN
tab cat lrayely marched tn
three fish to the wagon whes
n and hqld tis body Ia such shap
ar as TO plainly show it desired to fish ii
sr more that day.
nj The catfish weighed 81 pounds; IN
Is bass was a fourteen FOUNDER Will
the trout pulsId the scales az pound
and three au6 a half ounces.
IN In, the maniler of getting the prize
m. 70 the bank, II can now be reasone
40 out how Moses got the dry lands Il
the lsraelites 20 get over the Red Sc
E with. and TO that extent the incidel
on may, when once the blight of pref
dice Is allowed 10 fall from the ey'
Of mankind be ot extraordinary sole
tiiic value.
Several farmeTs witnessed the o
a. currence, but taeir testimony was NJ
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