Volume 17 , Issue 21

NW Okie's Journey

[Photo on the left was taken 30 October 2006, of Bud Clark and my Duchess Pug, who took a real liking to Bud Clark just to make me jealous. You can see it in Duchess' expression in this photograph.]

J. L. "Bud" Clark was one of my favorite persons, farmer, rancher of Alva, Woods County, Oklahoma. Bud passed away 27 June 2015. Bud was born 2 April 1928, to Ida Cleo Clark and Joseph Lawrence Clark. Services for Bud Clark will be at Wharton Funeral Chapel, Thursday, July 2, 2015, at 10:00a.m.

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Walking With Sadie

Woof! Woof! As we arrive back in the Southwest Rockies of Colorado, NW Okie has me continuing research on Oklahoma Bandits. We found the following article in The Daily Ardmoreite, 23 February 1921, Wednesday, with this headline: "Funeral Of Last Oklahoma Bandit Held Tomorrow."

Henry Starr, fearless but criminal without hope of reform, would be lowered into his grave on that Thursday, 24 February 1921.

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One Hundred Years Ago, 29 June 1915, Tuesday

One hundred years ago today, 29 June 1915, one of the headlines on the front page of The Oklahoma City Times read: "Missouri Miners Quit; They Demand Higher Pay." And ... "Call issued to Women Workers To Organize."

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Indian Territory Outlaws (1915)

It was in a Dalles, Oregon newspaper, The Dalles DailyChronicle, dated 26 December 1894, page 1, that we found this little mention of "The Indian Territory Outlaws" via Claremore, Indian Territory, dated December 24, 1894.

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1895 - Hunting Down Bandits

In the Fort Worth Gazette, dated Sunday, 10 March 1895, page 20 we found this little headline mentioning: "Hunting Down Bandits." Two Indian Territory outlaws were captured by the sheriff after a week's hot chase. It was reported as a lively battle in which three were wounded.

The Desperadoes were in a log house and resisted the officers' rattling fusillade until forced to surrender. The cabin burned.

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1906 - No News From Posse

It was in Bismarck North Dakota, Bismarck Daily Tribune, Thursday, March 15, 1906, front page, these headlines were reported: "No News From Posse." Pursuit of Indian Territory outlaws continued.

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1896 - Kilgore's Hot Shot

It was in The Gazette, out of Fort Worth, Texas, Thursday, 2 April 1896, page two, that we found this headline: "Kilgore's Hot Shot." Fired at the people of Wichita Falls and the Gazette, on Account of their views touching the causes of the Late Bank robbery and subsequent lynching. "Gilded and flagrant falsehoods," were the polite terms applied by Judge Kilgore to the Declarations of the Gazette. Scored for its defense of the lynching of the murderers of Frank Dorsey, Judge Kilgore asserted that the Indian Territory is more low abiding than Texas, and asserted that the motive of the people of Wichita Falls and of the Gazette was a sinister one.

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