The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1922-07-22

eyes, Mathsr Hownri's scire hnre
= tutsh ~ resentment. \ never liked
him from the minute hrst saw him.
end liked him less afterward. Then
| Got next 10 bis game.
~Yopr father had been prospectlng
just like everybody else He'd come
on Goat up Kentucky guIch and was
trying 10 folluw II to the vein Saulnt
saw hins--and what's more. he saw
that tioat. II looked good "a Sqpint-~
aud late that night. heard hiln and
his two drinking partners. niindeyc
Eoxensn and Taylor Rili--they Just
reverse bis name Tor the sound Of it,
taking In niIndeye's foofn I'm .
womHn--~ Mother Howard chuckled---
$50 lusg lrsned my head against the
door aud listened Then few down
stairs 70 wait for your father when
be came IN from sitting up half the
night 70 get an nsSay on that iioat.
Squint and them two others was 'igur.
Inc on jumping his claim before he
ronlJ file On II and all that
"Weli. there was biz ccrnlshman
here that was kind OF sweet on-~and
! guess always will be. He's been
gone now. though. ever since your IA,
ther left. got him and asked him
10 help. And Harry was just the kind
of fellow that would do H. Out In
the dead OF night they went and
staked out your fathers claim Harry
was 10 ges. Is per cent-~and early the
1ncxt morning your dad was waiting
TO file on Il, while Harry was waiting
for them three. And what iight II
must have been--that Harry WAS
wildcat In those younger days. she
laughed. then her voice grew serious
"But all had It's effect Rodalne
didn't jump that claim. and few OF
us around here flied dummy claims
enough In the vicinity TO keep him Of
of getting too ciose--but there was
one way we couldn't stop him. He
had power. and he's always had It--
aud he's got II now A lot of awful
strange things happened 10 your "a
ther after that--charges were iiled
against him Tor things he never did
Men jumped on him In the dark. then
went TO the district attorneys Office
and accused him Of making the at
tack And the funny part was that
the district attorneys Office always
believed themand not him. Once
they had him Just al the edge Of the
penitentlary. but III happened 10
II fasx ii A.
didn't GO" Again Neither Howard
chuckled only 10 grow serious once
more. "Men who went TO work for
your father and Harry disappeared.
or got hurt accidentally In the mine or
Just quit through the bad name II
was getting. Once Harry. coming
down from lMe tunnel at night
stepped on little bridge that always
before had been ms secure and safe as
the hills themselves. II fell with
hiin--they went down together thirty
feet. and there was nothing but Ma.
ture TO blame for II, IN spite OF what
we three thought. Then, AZ last, they
got a fellow who was willing to work
for them In spite OF what RodaInes
crowd--and II consisted of everybody
in power limited about your fathers
bad reputation back East and--"
my father never hsrmedsa soul 10
his lIfal' FairchiIds voice was hot.
resentful Mother Howard went on:
Il know be didn't, Son. I'm only
telling the story. Miners are super.
stitIous as u general rule. and they're
childish at believing things II all
worked In your fathers case%-wi,h the
exception OF Harry and 'Slssle Iar.
sen. Swede with high voice. just
about Ike mine. That's why they
gave him the name. He went 10 work.
A few months later they got into good
ere. IL looked IKE the bad luck was
over at last. Then"
Mother Howard hesitated at the
brink Of the very nubbin or It all. to
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