Democratic Sentinel, Volume 19, Number 29, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 July 1895 — A Dog's Life in Oklahoma. [ARTICLE]

A Dog's Life in Oklahoma.

Down in Oklahoma they have many queer ways and queer things. The way they dispose of outlawed dogs would cause a citizen of Kansas City', who is used to the comparatively peaceful ways of the dog catcher and his wire noose and profanity, a shock. They have neither wagon nor noose in Oklahoma cities, but they have few stray ours which have forfeited their right to live because they have no master. Not long ago a Kansas City man stood on one of the principal streets of a bustling town, when he heard the report of a gun and saw a crowd of people run in every direction. “Ah!” he thought, “a tragedy. What luck.” For your ordinary peaceful citizen likes nothing better than the stimulus of a shock of that kind when in a country with a reputation for desperate deeds and men. Standing on the street was a small man holding a smoking shotgun, and writhing upon the ground was a big yellow dog. Another shot and the dog was dead. Then the crowd swarmed in, and the man witli the gun wormed his way out, followed by a crowd of adoring small boys. It was the city dog catcher. No noose and long torture for dogs in that town. The city executioner just loads up hJs gun and goes out and cancels a dog or two, and then collects a salary from the town.—Kansas City Star.