Evening Republican, Volume 18, Number 125, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 May 1914 — A Fan-Travelled Alligator. [ARTICLE]

A Fan-Travelled Alligator.

A female aligator four and a half feet long, species Alligator mississlpplensis, was recently captured in central Oklahoma, In a bayou of the South Canadian Biver. Mr. H. H. Lane of the University of Oklahoma believes that the animal had travelled up the Arkansas River to the mouth of the Canadian, and thence to the point where it was found, a distance of some 850 or 400 miles west of the Arkansas-Oklahoma state line. The Canadian River la not navigable, and during most of the year is only a small meandering ereek in a wide valley. The alligator had been .in the neighborhood at least three years before its capture. Its skeleton la now in the university museum, where the lone traveller is also commemorated by a life-like model. -