HISTORIA, JULY 1 1921.
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From a California Oklahoman.
A pleasing compliment comes from the land of Sunset *
Charms, by way of a brief letter to Historia from Hon. Jesse
Dunn, who needs no introduction to man, woman, or child,
regardless of age, sex, race or previous servitude The let-
ter is under recent Oakland date, the writer having adopted
Oakland as his home since leaving Oklahoma:
My dear Sir and Friend:-
I acknowledge with much pleasure your favor of the
26th ult , enclosing as it does your picture, which I have
added to tnv office gallery of immortals, to-wit: Senator
Robert L. Owen, Walter Ferguson, C G. Horner, Fred
Barde, Governor Robertson, Charles Wrightsman, Roy Staf-
ford. Al Jennings, and last but not least your own smiling
Countenance What a galaxy of old-time friends this is, and
how I would be glad to see you all to-gether
In reference to the resurrection of Pancoast and Guth-
rie, I am reminded of the story of the old Georgia confed-
erate. Major Bledsoe, who ran a newspaper in the back-
woods of his native state, and Inadvertently announced the
death of his old time friend. Colonel Carter, with whom he
had served during the war. The Colonel was highly in-
censed when he read it and came in to the Major and in-
sisted that he apologize and retract insisting that he was not
dead The Major looked him over and offended by his cas-
tigations said •‘Colonel Carter, the Marion County Buzz-
Saw, suh, never apologizes and never retracts. Colonel, the
best thing we can do for you, suh, under the circumstances
is neat week to put you down among the births.” So 1
suggest that you put Pancoast and Guthrie down among the
births and thereby square yourself away with them
I suppose I never will get weaned away from Okla-
homa I still get the Oklahoman and Renfrew's Record,
and my office is the Oklahoma center for northern Cali-
fornia. Not a week goes by that someone of its men or wo-
men do not drift in and so I survive the eternal presence of
all these good strange people by occasionally seeing a few
of the real folks from back home.
Assuring you that I appreciate your kindly remem-
brance of me by occasionally sending me Historia .and that
I am happy to add your picture to the rest of the immortals,
I beg to remain as ever.
Truly your friend.
JESSE J. DUNN.
From An Outside Source.
An interesting batch of clippings have been received
from Mr George J. Remsburg, of Porterville, California, all
more or less touching Oklahoma and hers. One item from
the Atchison, Kansas, Daily Globe—Ed Howes noted publi-
cation, mentions the marriage of Miss Anna Alexander and
Lynden Lycurgus Archer at Hobart May 29; future home to
ce at Ramonia Bride is a daughter of Mrs William Irwin
Alexander, of Hobart, county superintendent of public in-
struction and the late Rev. Wm 1 Alexander, for many
years pastor of the Atchison Presbyterian church
Another item in the same publication refers to Hart
Martin, an attorney of Tulsa, who used to live in Atchison,
recently won a suit there involving property valued at a mil-
lion and a half dollars His client was Mary Gins, a Creek
Indian woman, who set up a claim to Crashy Heights, a fash
ionable residence district The court has decided for her
Bart Martin was reared on a farm near Atchison and read
law in the office of Smith & Solomon at the time. Martin
went to Oklahoma when part of it was thrown open to set-
tlement He is a brother of Blind Charley Martin, who
died a year or so ago.
A clipping from the Potter Kansan of January 13, 1916,
contains a brief sketch and portrait of Pe-po-ne, a Kiowa
Indian once known as the -Pioneer Belle of Potter." Dur-
ing the early 80‘s Pe-mo-ne’s father Paschal Pensoneau.
moved to near Shawnee, Oklahoma, where he died about
1883. The sketch was written by Miss Josephine D. An-
dres of the Kickapoo Training School, near Horton, Kan-
sas- and in it she states that Pe-mo-ne "is still living on the
Kickapoo Reservation, aged 75 years." Her father was a
Frenchman and her mother a full blood Kickapoo, who emi-
grated with that tribe to Kansas in 1832 and settled where
Kickapoo now stands. Pe-mo-ne was born in 1840; subse-
quently taken by her parents to Stranger Creek where is
now the site of Potter, where the young maiden grew to
womanhood and married Armistead Dawson, founder of Eas-
ton, subsequently on separation, married a full blood Kick-
apoo named Masquat. Paschal Pensoneau was an early In-
dian trader, and was the first white settler in Atchison
County, Kansas.
A clipping from the Troy, Kansas, Chief, reviews the
article on Captain Payne, in Historia of April, 1921. Payne
at one time resided in Doniphan county Kansas. The re-
view is by Mr Remsburg, whose highly complimentary men-
tion of the Oklahoma Historical Society is very much ap-
preciated. especially that more personal. Coming from the
inner soul of an old friend and Champion companion way
back there when life was worth the living.
Another successful loving match finds record in the
Atchison, Daily: Mr. Jennie Randel of Sayre, Oklahoma,
and Albert A Small, of Tulsa. Married at Atchison, June
6. Rev Clyde Odom, pastor of the Methodist church, of-
ficiating. The new bride was at the time visiting her sister
Mrs. W. A. Hollingsworth. Small is a large oil operator and
business man of Tulsa.
Maureen McKernan, a beautiful young Kansas artist,
with an Oklahoma taint, has a portrait and write-up in the
Potter paper of May, 1921:
Maureen McKenrnan, writer of general features for
The Kansan, tells us she was born of poor, but Irish parents
in W hite Cloud, Kansas, White Cloud being in Doniphan
Counts. Maureen states further that her first name wasn't
inspired bs one of Eila Wheeler Wilcox’s poems, that name
Maureen having been ordered by an Irish great grandmother.
Maureen, by the way, is a pure Gaelic word and means “My
beloved."
When Maureen was 6 months old her parents settled
on a ranch in the Indian Territory and there, in that wild
section, inhabited largely by Indians, Maureen was reared.
In 1916 Miss McKernan was graduated from the Uni-
versity of Kansas, where her mother, also was educated. For
one year Miss McKernan was a school teacher, but one
year was enough. She went straight to journalism, joining
the staff of the Topeka Capital In Topeka she did gen-
eral staff work until she succeeded Mrs. Kate Casey as edi-
tor of the Kansas woman's club page In addition to this
important work, Miss McKernan helped out in gathering the
news at the last session of the legislature, and it was when
this law-making body adjourned that Maureen was sent to
The Kansan. Maureen likes The Kansan and gosh, how
The Kansan likes Maureen. That makes it unanimous.
The Smith Book Co., of Cincinnati, Ohio, supply their
latest catalogs, tt and 13, the former of border and Indian
preference, the latter of American and general literature
combined.
Community Institutes takes up the Oklahoma Univers-
ity Bulletin for May—New series 218 Extension No. 82; bv
Prof I. W. Scroggs, of the department of Public Informa-
tion and Welfare, Norman.
To the ancient coin exhibit of the Oklahoma Historical
Society, Mr. E. L. Ensign, of Tulsa contributes a silver dime
ot 1853 mintage. Coins of that denomination of that year’s
coinage are scarce.
Mr. Leonard Blackford, Oklahoma director of the Near
East Relief, headquarters in Oklahoma City, keeps Historia
posted on this end of that work, and incidentally through
broadsides operations on the Atlantic.