The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1915-12-01
Quail Season Officially Open for
Thirty Days and Many Mighty
Hunters Prepare to Make
War on Birds
UNUSUALLY LARGE
CROP IS REPORTED
Legal Lights Little Delayed by
Cruel Court But Will Invade
Wilds Northwest Early
Next Week
By GEORGE H. WYATT

The lid will be off for about thirty
days now including today. 'vhe lid
on quail, that is. And the nimrods Of
Chickasha. Oh, those nimrodsl How
they'll gather round the neither and
how they will disturb the quiet atmos-
.phere and now they'll sprinkle the
scenery with shot. And they'll get the
game, too. Some birds-a Rock Island
Red. or so; some more birds-a fine
Jersey calf now and then; still some
birds and an occasional Duroc Jersey
shoat; and yet some more birds and
few tame turkeys; another bird now
and then and few festive bull calves.
At least that is the way-judging
from past experiences. maybe-that
Bert Barefoot announces the program
as it will be rendered from this time
until good old Saint Nicholas har-
nesses his reindeer to the Christmas
sledges.
Mr.. Barefoot believes in doing his
shopping early, in the open game
season. With this end in view he
usually leaves Chickasha just a little
bit before 1901 O'Clock on the morn
ing the lid is lifted. Sometimes, un-
kind critics aver he leaves three or
four days ahead in order to get the
cream before other hunters scare the
birds out Of this section OF Oklahoma
with their indiscriminate noise and
firing and banging away. This time.
unfortunately however" hard
hearted county Judge has set several
cases in which Mr.. Barefoot and sew
eral other local legal luminaries are
detained-get that word. it was used
with criminal aforethought in this in
stance-as counsel. This will necessi-
tate the disciples of Blackstone and
Coke and Lyttleton and Kent to defer
their trip until next Monday, Decem-
ber 6.
The party which Mr.. Barefoot will
chaperone will include in its personnel
such distinguished followers of nimrod
as Judge Win Linn, D M. Caveness,
Will Melton. r. Bond, Oscar Simpson
provided he secures a hair cut Bare
foot and Caveness authorities for this
statement) Ben f. Johnson. F. L.
Slusher-these two last named gentle
men being bankers and not attorneys
are added to the list for financial rea-
sons-and several others.
With the above-named aggregation
of lawyers, and so forth, will go full
camping equipment to the wilds in the
extreme northwestern section of
Grady county This equipment will
include rain-dew-air proof series Of
tents of differential dimensions, a
portable cook stove. some tin dishes
and tin cups. some salt and little
pepper, some flour, no meats of any
kind, some other camping "impedi-
menti7 and "cullud gentleman who
used to cook away back yander in de
days befoah de civil wah.'
Mr.. Barefoot stated that this whole
county seemed alive with birds. The
grass, he said, was full of them. the
sage brush was literally loaded down
and broken off with the weight Of the
numberless birds which roasted
therein. When asked if it was really
fact that sagebrush abounded and
flourished and grew and waxed fat in
this portion of the prohibition center
Of the universe. Mr.. Barefoot alleged
on his word OF honor as . gentleman
and scholar that he did not know,
but If it didn't it was the only thing
that did not grow out Of and from and
in the fertile soil of Grady county.
At any rate it was stated that there
would be birds thicker than book
agents in the land Of perennial
warmth Mr.. Barefoot said they were
so thick that when scared up in
lunches and coveys and droves from
the face Of the earth. they flew in
such numbers that their wings rustled