Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1911-02-07

CHAPTER yI

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wore mostly .u 20. road .a ,0r man.
no. o' tho careful auto driver. w
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v.. made .a landscape n' m..I a.
count
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'I." forester .r uaW at ...eI DO
America b.. answered. N.y dear
y'li- .Hi'FalHrr ..."ao. .H.' .u '."
most u.H'N. I.r... .u '." history
Of '.' ".-. I. u. d0mn". tae
w''.. range .a u."s I-. .urnm
n.F NJ rho cowboy .s .u.e' Tho cow
boss .- m.IH- ...- Tho cowboy H
pitching HfH.'. H"a wearing horribly
ss ho h..s''rs I.s mnds s..g ~ tho
rangers at the moment a. mru or
weston training .se Ross 0H, whose
aIeE'an'" Is n." .H Uncle sHm WIFI
others hat r1n-frr ~ aIce.Hn'eis not
quite ompete hence the .n-0.once "
men '.h' Gregg who think they can
brlbe Hr inum.11te these forest guards
ani s1 obtain fayors The newer men
are college bred real forc,rors But
you can't know what % 1ll means tl'
you see Ross or some other ranger ou
his own heath Wen make up l,ttlc
party some day and drop down upon
him and have him show us about lts
y lonely life, aud 80 the ranger keeps
open house Would you Ike to ro1'
"Oh yes, indeed I'm eager to get
into the mountains Every night as |
see the sun 90 down over them won.
der what the world "a Ike up there"
Then he began very delica,oly to in
Qulrc about her eastern expcrleuce
There was not much TO tell In a love
iy old town not far from PHILADELPHIA,
where her aunt lived. she had spent
ten years OF happy exile 81 WIS hor.
ribly lonely and homeslck at Arst." she
said Mother wrote only short let.
ters. aud my father never wrote AT all.
l didn't know he was dead then. He
was always good TO NE lie wasn't
bad man. was hep
NO. responded Redneld without
hesitation. ole was very Ike the rest
OF MS. only little more reckless and
little more partisan. that's all He
was dashng horsemau and dead
shot, aud 20 naturally a leader OF
these daredeyils Ho was popular
with both sides OF the controversy IN
10 the very moment when he went
sou'h 10 lead the INVADERS against the
ruslcrs"
what was Il all about3 never un.
derstood it What were they lighting
aboutY
In sense It was all very simple
You see. Uncle Sam IN his careless do
nothing way has always left his range
60 me- man who got there Rrst That
was the cattlemau At nrst there was
grass enough Tor MS an, hut as we
built sheds aud curras about water
INK places We came to claim rights on
the range We usually secured by
fraud homesteads ln the sections con.
taInIug water and 80, gun IN hand,
stood on the man who came after
Gradually, after much shooting and
lAwug We parceled ont the range and
settled down, covering practically the
whole state Om adjustments were
no, perfect. but our system was work.
ing smoothly Tor us who controlled the
range We had convinced ourselves
aud pretty nearly everybody else that
the state was only No Tor cattle graz.
ing and that we were the most com.
petput grazer.. furthermore. we were
I'm possession. and mo- man could come
I'm without our consent
However, q very curious law VI our
own making was our undaur or
course the hester or punkIn roller
as We contemptuously called the small
farmer began sitting IN here and there