Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1915-08-01

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nr,.nlfttrd his eve, to wander from OIL,
| to another Of the few objects "nt"
constitute hiS earthly possession. hr-
! tore him was a row OF plum '''@
laden with ripe trut when snN'i'"
| IKE Op1ls AGAINST the green sol mum
patch beyond, Behind hlm WAS
shauN half duG-oui, about SIX IN
| eight fec'. and perhaps nuc rect hl-Il
| his home. A narn several times larger
thau his house, and not big hlfu
either was few feet away To ms
| left A COW and calf, hen ana
chickens and small pony completed
the farm equipment
Jesse Van Derring is his name, For
| II Years ne has SIuatlgd thVro on th,S
picco of land, which is his, by right
Of conquest as well as right of pos
session He looks to hc 80 years ola
At the most, but ne frankly couteSSt9
that he is 81. He came from llhhol-
wears ago. when oklahoma was I'M
| tested with wild beasts and wilder
men, incidentally he learned ihat
email strip of land 60 rods wide ana
/ one mile long had been left out I'M
surveying the boundaries of the Creek,
and Sac and l'oN tribes ON tins strip
of sand and cIags he pCrchcd and mas
not been Off of it many times since,
at least not Tor any great Instance
'ohicht'u hulhah'
| Wednesday when ne received call
| crs, ovcralls and jumper and came
| nat comprised his wearing apparel,
| This had seen better days long time
ago, and it alone he wore, for through
| The gaping rents one could often catch
| sight of the covering nature provided
| for him. He is not poor, any more
than he seems to be rich. Just off
| .he garden spot which surrounds the
| shauty are several producing oil wells,
| hut it is little he cares about them
The pumping Of the engines OF the
| White & Sinclair station can plainly
he heard from his howell but ne
| should worry IF everybody was
| wise as ! am and would settle down
and be happX there would be no wars
and no politics and no religions ana
nothing to bother folks he SAID. Il
| nave all lhe money ! want never
work much, cause ! make a living
| without II, and nave lots or money 10
| give away. | gave my brother 80
acres Of my fam not long agO and he
is crazy; he's workin' himself TO death
on it. | would give away 80 or more
| could fad somebody who would he
aoutertod and not want everything
and be fit to live by
Spurued Money.
Since Thoreau wrote his philosophy
at walden pond. there has doubtless
been nobody so eccentric. When
White x Sinclair wanted to build
their pump station IN the extreme
north end Of his farm, he accepted
% from them as payment after their
representative had insisted that the
l. cation was worth that much to the
firm. When Milt Thompson OF Cush-
ing, owner Of the Thompson hotel,
bought the oil royalty on his land and
paid him $500 for it., he put the money
away and informed the leaser that he
would keep it, and if he did not make
that much on the oil he would pay
him back. Asserting that it was too
much to ask OF the government to
deliver his mail at his gate, he moved