Submitted by
Loyd Bishop

SQUAW FOUND DEAD
Sarah No Ear Fills Up on Booze at Ponca City and is Found Dead

Monday evening Sarah No Ear, a Ponca Squaw, was found dead in a spring wagon in the road south of Ponca City. The team had stopped against a barbed wire fence at the side of the road, and the squaw was hanging over the dashboard dead. Her husband, Old No Ear, was sitting in the back seat of the wagon, dead drunk.
Coroner Morey was notified and went out and removed the dead body to Ponca City depositing it with an undertaker, while old No Ear was thrown into the calaboose. The Indians had been drinking in Ponca City, and the theory of the death of the squaw is that she was drunk, fell across the dashboard, and being unable to help herself, strangled to death.
As for No Ear, the buck, he was too drunk to know or care what was going on, and can give no account of the affair. Next day he was fined in the police court of Ponca City, ten dollars for being drunk, and in default of the ten dollars was committed to the bestial.