The Vinita daily chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1902-1913, 1911-01-30
OPEN QUA|LsEAsON
WILL END TUESDAY
Extreme Dry Weather Has Acted as a
Great Protector For the Quail
in Craig County.

But one day remains Of the open
season for quail in Oklahoma. and it
is probably many local sportsmen win
be afield with the early dawn tomor-
row.
Owing to the unusual dry weather
quail hunting has not afforded as much
sport this season as in the past, but
there are a few vinita hunters, who
feel that they got theirn.r This fact
will cause an unusually large crop of
quail for next season.
Unless a fatality OCCURS tomorrow,
the season will pass without a single
fatal accident to mar the sport record
in this county. However the record
for the entire state is rather sanquin-
airy.
With the hunting season Of 1901
coming to close February /. the num-
Der of dead and wounded by the acct
dental discharge of guns during the
season in Oklahoma surpasses that of
any former years. During the time be-
tween November IA and the end of the
season eleven nimrods lost their lives
and the same number were wounded.
some of them mortally
On November 16, the first day after
the hunting season opened. three were
killed by the accidental discharge of
the guns with which they had gone
hunting.
The first death Of the year among
the nimrods was the accidental shoot
ing of Edward Owen, life insurance
man of Chickasha, Okla. Owen. with
a party of companions, had started
for an extended hunt, the first of the
year. owen, in alighting from the
buggy in which he was riding shot
off his foot He died November 16
On the morning of November 16
word reached Oklahoma City that Rob-
ert Kerr had accidentally shot himself
and James Ragan, one of the party
with whom he had gone hunting The
men had taken an automobile and gone
to Wheatland, Okla, about nine miles
southeast of Oklahoma City. Kerr was
rushed to Wheatland, but died before
reaching there.
On the same day, Orson P. lids, a
prominent coal man of Coalgate, Okla,
accidentally shot himself near his home
On the following day at Haskell, Okla,
John Nimrod was shot and instantly
killed while scuffling for the possession
Of gun with his younger brother
On November 1s, w. C.. Perry, a
travelling man of Lamont, OKLA, while
hunting with companions near Fair
view, was shot in the face by his COM
panions. He recovered.
An accidental discharge Of his gun
tore one Of H. T. Moorehouse's hands,
at Claremore, Okla, where he was en-
ployed as block operator for the Frisco
Railway company. The accident oc-
Cured November q.
James Bouse, an oil operator at
jerks, was killed by the discharge Of
his gun November %. The accident
occurred as Bouse was preparing to
go for a hunt
While hunting with his brother Billy
Fritsch was wounded in the head and
face by a load of birdshot from the
shotgun of his brother The brothers
we're residents of Rolf, Okla The ac-
cident occurred November 25.
j. L. Guthrie of Guthrie. Okla, while
hunting near Mangum, Okla. was
wounded in the hand by load Of bird
shot fired from the gun of one of his
companions on hunt.
Clyde Giest, pitcher for the Chi
cago White Sox, was shot in the foot
while hunting near Kingfisher, Okla,
December I.
Ray Hamlin Of Pond Creek, Okla,
was shot and almost instantly killed,
when the gun with which he was hunt
ing, dropped from his hands, Decem-
Der 8. The boy was Is years old.
On December 8, Eugene ingalls, of