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Show Llfe In Oklnlionm. A thirteen-year-old boy killed n mouutniu-lion lu n canyon six miles from Grand, Day County, last week. The animal measured eight feet from tip to tip. There are almost as many buffalo as mountain lions In Oklahoma. Oklaho-ma. Pawnee hns twenty-two buffalo and Guthrie seven. Hill Grimes, Territorial Secretary, recently re-cently mashed his foot while lighting a pntitlicr ot enormous size. The story Is told by the State Capitol: "The Secretary Sec-retary did not waver until the beast was slain. He discovered tracks along Hominy Creek, and alone and with a butcher knife started to Investigate. He soon came upon the panther under a projecting rock. Grimes dared the animal to come forth. It thought the Secretary looked easy, and promptly responded. Grimes came Into camp dragging the panther behind him, after a tight which was both long nnd bloody. So reports Mr. Grimes, the only witness." Al .lennlngs, n college graduate, attorney at-torney and former leader of one of the worst gangs of outlaws that ever Infested the Territory, has served his two years ot Imprisonment and Is again a free man. What line of business busi-ness Al will now take up Is not known, but there are several people who hope he will not return to Oklahoma to live. A county paper says: "An old man nnd his old wife camp to town last Saturday to market some produce. AVbeti near the depot tlip team became frightened and ran away, demolished tlie wagon, killed themselves and the old man. and crippled the old woman so bad she had to be shot," Oklahoma City Is as lively ns needs be In a social way. Our fourteen clubs and societies report their balls and "doln's" In the newspapers every Sunday. Kansas City Journal. |