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ifONE DEAD AT CHEETAH,✓y-' Diedjunday*1 •: Tb of at a I i ty carne to:; an in n ace n t bystander at the Ohecotah shooting ectiipe last Saturday night. Howard, the ejan who was standing in range, of the de ty bullet ahd wlio recmVed it Trr hls a domen, died Sunday. • :This was predicted by the physiciansat the time that Howard was struck,_The^lateajfe jepnrtstroni,Bakerlis4bAthe is still alive and it is reported to beat even toss with him.\ His age and habits are againt hltiybufc he is known • to be of snch—rugged co wihe has a chance that other ; men -would pot have.—To-uso -t keyword a—of- on e-of-i- S his adherents; “That shot would billany other man than Sam Baker.Baker is Dying. _cotah which is given credence by thosewho know Bpker’s indomitable spirit.ft is reported that Baker called his two sons fo his, side Sunday morning and said: “Do rot prosecute JoneB. If 1^ live I’ll take care of him. If I die yourVII* *IVhb1.oc01s• • -fct#- • *abdv% *•bboys can fix him.{ * ‘-*riand come up on the passenger train arriving here at 12 o’clock* Hfc stated .to; a Phoenix reporter that he saw Baker’s father-in-law just as the train started. He told Lightle that they' had dostall. hope, that Baker was dying-and would not. live till morning.--He-was getting weaker every minute and was spitting bloodj and the Attending—physician had pronounced his case hopleaa.u t ’lilt j f'r j-t ^ ..I. Li-0VcyaTifV
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Muskogee Daily Phoenix
Muskogee, Oklahoma, US
Tue, Aug 26, 1902
Page 4
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Steven G.
USA 18 Nov 2018
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