The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1894-04-28
mayor was gone.

FELLOW CITIZENS; THE CANDIDATE
ron sHERIFF DO NOT LOOM UP MUCp
ron BEAUTY, ESPECIALLY NY FRIENr
HERE. WHO Is BUCKING ME FOR TIL
OFFICE"
kidnapped! by the eternal!" shouted
Jcrky.
what do you mean?' | asked.
They have stolen our candidate"
repeated Jerlty, "and we will have &c
pay a good round price to get him back
or we will get left on the election,
Hurry home, and run off 1000 hand,
bills, Offering 500 reward for informa
tion of his whereabouts. Head i
Losrr So that it will attract atten
ton. Then get out an extra issue "
the paper, and pour hot shot in
Riley Holt. by the way, you can O i
all thro ugh the paper, and save cost o.
the bills. Give it to him hard. Re
member the city backs you
The following is the editorial tha'
appeared in the next edition of the lQ
AL paper
While delivering u telling speech
/ RE Rock, last night, the mayor O
/ this city was actually abducted from
the stand where he was making the
| eCort of his life The lights were put
out, and the mayor was taken away
on horse. That sneaking reptile,
/ Riley Holt, who is his political oppo'
/ nent, and one Dirty Dave, who wa
/ run out of this city for not changing
/ his clothes since the town site was 10
Gated and who is IA fit companion fol
Riley, are known to be rcspC nsible foI
the mayors disappearance as the '
were heard forming the plot after the
first speech of Saturday night, wher
his honor did the cowardly Riley up SC
badly that the crowd left the grounds
before Riley had said dozen words
This city offers reward of sl0(
for any information that will
lead to the discovery of the
mayor, and If the town of Rec
Rock had not been dead for the pas
decade She would do likewise In al
probability the editor of the sheet pub
iished in Red Rock will not know O
the rascally abduction until he receive
this paper. lie Is a Holt man, and 1
some years behind the present progres
sive era. His skull is thick, and con
scquently there is very little room 70
, brain. lie is in the first edition o
, Darwin, and his correct name is Mon
KEY. II he can get sonle one to rea,
- MN huAl MS Dlih AlltN may Bc
something of an idea Of its mea min
during the next month, and then yo,
will see some charging.
r The Senator's people are always a
- home, and would drink a quart o
5 mountain sage-tca for the pleasure o
, a business call from either or both O
the vcrmin
We are informed that the red
headed lawyer, who. on the Fourth o
July got drunk and fell out of tn
stand and broke his arm, an
threatened TO sue the city for damages
is going to take the stump for Riley
lie is good sample of Red Rock
lawyers and his step win show tn
height of his aspirations.
II our mayor is not set at libert
within forty-eight hours after thi
publication, there will be several ne'
holes dug, and some of them will b
filled with dead politicians. We mea
business.
The mayors wife kicked the bari
of all the trees in the front yard the
took her gun, mounted her horse, an
started for Red Rock. The town
liable 10 be aroused to activity in IN
near future. When villainy is so ram
pant that community will steal
candidate for Office, and that, toe
while delivering "a speech, the lin
should lie drawn and stealing punish G
by hanging. w. w. GARTNER.