The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1911-03-30
MATT DUHR
SC|NT|LLATES
!. PHILOSOPHY
Veteran Writer Tells Of Usage
Indians and Shoot
ing Stars
Special to Daily Leader.

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Pawhuska, Okla. Mar. 29.-Some
of the old and devout Osages love
to stretch on their backs and look
at the starry firmament at the sill
ent midnight hour. 1t is then, ac-
cording to their superstitious belief
that many of the very good dead In
dians take flights to the earth, visit
ing their still living relatives. They
come down on shooting stars. 1t is
useless to ask the devout redskin
how the inhabitants of the sky get
back 70 their celestial wigwams.
Is Foe to Liquor.
The Rev. C. G. Branon, or Pussy
FOOT Branon, tie famous catcher or
| bootleggers and eontraband firewater
is, as usual, attending the quarterly
Usage payment. Mr. Branon has been
a powerful warrior in the army be-
ing against the liquor sellers. He
is argus-eyed snarp-nosed, hundred
cared and swiftfooted in seeing, hear
| ing smelling and catching the traf-
| fickers in intoxicating beverages.
5room-Maker Had Plenty.
Mr.. Branon captured and put out
Of the booze business, McWatt, the
blind broom maker. He confiscated
at least 900 pints of whiskey on
the McWatt premises or while in the
DLnd booksellers wagon,
He is Reverend.
The Rev. G. G. Branon captured not
less than 10000 pints OF whiskey and
about 100000 bottles of beer in this
town and suburbs within the last
two years 1t Is hard telling how
much damage would have resulted
ard how many crimes committed il
those large quantities of hell-broth
had been permitted to go down the
Indians throats.
Best Bridge in State.
Sidney Suggs, state commissioner
of highways says that the colossal
stone bridge over Clear creek, near
its junction with Bird creek In West
Pawhuska, Is the very best bridge
in the state. Many Of the rocks in
the TWO arched structure weigh a
ton Four carloads of cement were
used in the building OF the bridge
Like the bridges built by the anci
ent Romans, the Pawhuska bridge
is everlasting.
he Oldest Preacher.
DR.. Joseph B. Dunn. aged 49, !
the oldest, and happ.est pracCicini
} physician OF this town and county.
He has lived in this region and in
adjacent Southern Kansas for near
ly forty years. The venerable dis
: ciple of Esculapius says that he made
lots Of money during his younger
days but that he lost most of it by
buying six farms and 1000 sheep in
! Chautauqua county, Kansas The
mild hammered old gentleman is a
widower but great admirer of the
! fair SEX He says "a man that has
, no wife or sweetheart is a monde
script and should be banished.
Few Oynamiters Indicted.
: II seems that only a few of the
: fellows that dynamited the negroes
, houses in the .Prue, Wynona and
Hominy neighborhoods have been in
: dicted by the Usage county granc
| jury. II appears that very little di
rect and positive evidence was pro
! duced. None of the negroes that
( was scared away could be found to
come and testify before the court o.
inquiry,
Most of the expelled eolored people
, also sincerely believed that the Lord
will should be done without gorwl
! ing.
Strong efforts will be made to
have State Game Warden John Doc
lin furnish this county with con
signment of foreign pheasants and
other game birds. The rocky, tim
bered hills ,of southeastern Usage
county would prove a veritabe para
disc for Chinese pheasants, plaum
! ed quails and other imported feath
cred game There is also no doubt
about the African dik-dik antelopes
that are no larger than iackrabbits
, would thrive in the primeval forests
and open prairies of Oklahoma.