The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1921-08-15
DEAD 0sAGE Chief
WAS A lAD7's NAM
Two White Women Are Now
Battling Through Court over
Warriors Large
Estate

women are battling Tor the flcn
state % 40 aged osagn Warrior. eAcs
elalmIng 20 have hsen hts lcSal eif,
fho aana of thc courts of Osas.
.sDaniy are rich With salrs 81 rom
ance and tragedy. love and hate. 90
pahnce aud estravaganco one n
the mos, interesting Of these is that
of rhtec siflker. 4 founr bravo Ii
nia time " the listle 0sase nation
who Won 10th his spurs aud hia
Dame in the last AAtiie waeeA
against ghe Sherokeea 10 quarrel
over TIE eastern boundary .ue Of lhn
Osagc reservation
After that famous battle Three
striker VAS given tho Usage nam
81 Iah blah "a walls. arer hatln
Killed three Chewkee hrayc# With
three successive strokes ~ his loma
hawk Three striker bad over sln
heeu royercd leader among ~
peeple aud even az ihe 'me 10 his
death 20 tala MAS held la yenorA
ton bs The gullhioodu This despite
'ho fac, Thar. due 20 "a impairment
90 his faculties ho bad for seserai
wears been confined lu lAe unlts8
states indian ASYLUM ia South
Dakota
The OseKo we're not az that time
'nies lne the onormoas rescnuus
from ot which ,hcy hsse today. aaf
the loss ~ three hundred hefses ana
other troubles wrlghcd upon Thrnu
strikers mind until he Was admdg
ed lnrane
Upon his discharge from lhe ass
lam he returned to paNhuska AL
when approaching The age 81 SO ,ooe
a white woman aa hls brittle his ~
Unit, for white uomen having beea
''rve'opod ~ sla later YEAR Three
STRIKER in his young datr haa bcep
married under tflhal law hut b.
came a y dover IN middle lte
After hts marriage "a 1912 10 Mrs
Minerva \ Winner. he Was returned
80 the asylum In South Dakota. and
white nll confined there his guar
dian brought suit 10 annul the mat
finve Mrs Three striker rccelyln
a'lmuns va the sam ~ 500
After the deat. Of Three Striker.
~ lei' vs. y McGnlrc Naa appoint
90 special administrator ~ the es
Ito until the case should bo dinpon
81 ~ IN court 1hie WAS q tho re-
quest of Thrcn striker. vho had been
McGuire's ward for two years pr'or
'o his death Pierre 81 John fpah
So. te pain and Fred LOOK oM who
we're t4c nearest of kin. we're re
memborod among others ae henefl
diaries of the estate immediately
thereafter Mrs Three STRIKER began
Proceedings 10 yacate 'te iudgmcn,
anuullng the marriage calming that
She did moi know 81 u NJ the time
and on the further grounds thai
three striker. being confined ia thp
asylum IN Souta Dakota. WAS not ln
oklahoma when the suit was enter
od on June -. Judge " BIRD.
assigned here by the supreme cont.
after bearing the case. vacated tho
Judgment with the effect that tho
whole Osage estate Was ordered 70
ra Nre Three Striker provided taa
Judgment was not reversed beside.
,he estate. which Is valued at $3.50,
coo iher Is also $4,000 in cash and
notes
Recently. however, another claim
ant has appeared on the scene. Mrs.
Cora Sears Fury has entered claim
70 Vhe estate on the grounds that IL
Years ago she was married to Thres
striker and claims never TO have
been legally divorced The CASE /.
noe IN the district court
Three Striker was "a fnllb'ood and
when approaching four score yea
Be still maintained his powerful ply
.iqie and was tut slightly sicoper
lie was familiar figure both Ia
pawhnska and the indian village. n
vas never seen without hIs cane and
iis purse. 70 the strinRa of which WAS
lttached a rabbits foot Ills heavy
ron gray hair reached his shoulders