Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1918-06-30
Oklahoma Outbursts


Oklahoma OutbuTSts
Standing in another mans
shoes" landed Jim Adams In jail az
Claremore the other day. Before
aIightlng from n train in the early
morning he snapped shoes with Po-
liccman Lot, a sleepy passenger on
the same train
Claremoro Is the only town we
know Of where the stores keep, open
until 10 o'clock p. N, eY eadryy
untIl 10 O'Clock =. IN, every day eN-
cept Saturday when the last GUS
toner IL the only limit The preach-
ers are trying to have the stores
close at 10 O'Clock ON saturday
nights.
Judge Robertson charges BIZ
Alexander with rcsorting 10 aubWh-
rinc methods in politics. NO. sam
mie, the politicians in Oklahoma
have not adjourned.
The Durant News has . tracer
out for Tom Neal. Charley Carter $
opponent for the Democratic nOml-
nation for congress IN the third as
trict Never mind Tom Is going 10
run almost as strong as the oppo5l-
t!ou TO Senator owens.
Muskogce suggests that one way
to beat laundrymcn who have raised
prices is TO wear your b. v, as TWO
weeks instead ~ one.
Speaking OF the shortage oof men,
Il gentleman asked this column u
day or 30 ago why the one legged
bcggara on the street could not be
put to work? A lot Of men with only
one leg fill many places Of import
Hnce and make II good living. Come
to think about II, there Is no neces-
sity OF man minus leg or an arm
squattinE on the sidewalks lmpOr-
tuning every passerby. They could
run elevators and do a lot OF things
to help. You viii not find many OF
our boys who hose leg In France
sitting IN a shady place on the side
walk begging for living when they
come home.
Those Oklahoma city fellows
seem to have put the kbosh on
for getting the Democratic nOmina-
tion for corporation commissioner
when they charged him with being u
Republican Six years, they think,
is not long enough to get the talnt
out OF his skin
The kaiser is just wasting our
time trying to fix the blame else
where. II is too Internally hot to
listen to explanations and ACCUSE e
tions now
Tom McNeal in oklahoma Far
fner.
Speaking of perseverance. re
marked Truthful, Il think Hill pu-
senbury was one OF the most per
scverlng men | ever knew. Blll set
tied on a claim out In Western OK
lahoma where il was Il long way 10
water. The fact was that the set
tiers concluded that 1t wasn't any
use to try to dig for water there
but Bin said that he reckOned he in
tended to have a well. lie was an in
| dustrious cuss. Bill was and when
he started on that well he made
good progress. He rugged up wind
less and rope and bucket and had a
| boy haul up the dirt. The neighbnrs
would come around occasionally,
and tell Bill that he was wastin' his
time and labor, that there WASH |
and wQteS-lQ that country; but BilI
! just spit on Ms hands and went on
dIggin'. when he got down 300
| feet ne Quit comm up for dinner,
| took his lunch down with hm. When
he got down 500 feet he took his
beddin' down ana didn't come o AT
night; said II was more comfortable
down there than II was on top OF
the ground, Ii bein' late in the fall
and tolerably cool on the surface. 1t
was also dry, dusty in fact, in the
bottom OF the well.
After he had been down there
about three weeks without comm
up at all, they dropped note down
to him Stain that his mother-in-
law had passed away and askin'
IL he wanted to come up to the
funeral Bill sent his regrets but
said that at the rate he was goin'
down he would perhaps meet the old
lady soon anyway, and to go ahead
| with the funeral. When he was
down 1900 feet and the ground
was still dry as bone, the word
came down to Bill that his wife had
eloped with a lightning rod agent
and ne was asked what no wanted
ed to do about ii. Bill sent up word
to tell the lightning rod man that he
needn't expect any sympathy from
him, that he would get what had
been comm to him on account OF his
general meanness. and the disrepu'
table business he was in, Meantime
Bill went on digein'. About a month
after that Biz was down something
over 1000 feet he pinned "A note tc
the bucket sayin' that he thought he
could detect smell OF birthstone
but he didn't intend to let that in
terfere with his diggin',
II was IL months and 10 days at
ter Bin made his last visit To th'
top and he had reached depth o
$500 feet, when his pick struck {
powerful flow Of artesian water. BIZ
grabbed the bucket and held on. II
about minute after that the met
who were workin the windless saw
! Bill and the bucket shoot up on
OF the well and about 900 feet int
the air on top of a great column o
artesiau water. 1t was dangerou
situation but Bill kept his presenc
| Of mind He didn't fail off tho 10