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The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1895-05-14

Ifyour wife is troubled with head
ache, buy her "a box of "Our Native
Herbs
The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1895-05-14

Hrzel Brothers lead all others i'm
groceries and provisions Try them.
l-1g I'm.
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Wanted-A cheap horse aud wagon.
Apply TO John Gilbert, 4O2 Harrison
ave.
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O. T \iu~ou, barber, shop near corr
ncr of First and Harrison. Clean
.haves The best hair cuts, clean tov-
c'~ >sIIcd vorkWcu Call ou Niu-
SON. II
The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1895-05-14
Notice Of publication.

First published in the Guthrie Daily
Leader April 2G
The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1895-05-14
Chr Erunrr.
KAII.RnAn TINE rAnI.E

GUTHRIE LODGE NO. 3, |. o. O. f.
III Meets Monday night of each week
at 1880 Visiting odd Fellows are
always welcome. A WEIDEMAN n G..
j. FoUCARr, Secretary.
The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1895-05-14

Paint your buggy for 75c at Lille &
Co.'S
The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1895-05-14

CGUTHRIE LODGE NO. /, A. O. U.
III W, meets Thursday evenings Of
week at 1880 p. m Hall in Victor
block, corner First and Harrison. Visit
ing Workmeu always welcome.
j. n. WALLACE. NJ. w.
O. r.. MONTGOMERY, Recorder.
The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1895-05-14
REMOVED.

DIR. II. l.. Smith has removed
TO rooms over Bee Hive cloth.
ing store, next TO Spengel'S.
\ If
The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1895-05-14
DAILY WEATHER FORECAST.

Special report for THE DAILY
LEADER 10y w. J. Walters. observer
United States weather bureau:
Highest temperature yesterday: 81,
lowest, 52
Forecast for today: Fair: warmer.
The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1895-05-14

fyou are going to use nice lap
duster or fly net this summer call at
ID. w. Stcarn's harness store 2051-2 w..
Harrison ave. I-2~f
The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1895-05-14

Daily Leader
The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1895-05-14
ROYAL Baking Powder
Highest of all IN Ieavening
strength. s. Government Report.

Hammocks, croquet sets and base
ball goods at Lille N Co s.
Call on A. J.. May for vegetable
plants of all kinds Sweet potatoes,
cabbage, tomatoes, celery, etc, i'm large
or small quantities div
Blank books and Office supple.
Largest stock, lowest prices Don't
you believe the "homomaCe story" at
Lilies Drug Store
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Notice

wst published i'm Da 81
Mph 90
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1895-02-13

Wisconsin pineries, where he captured an
eagle of the baldheaded species. The bird
was an unusually large one and had a
temper that was beyond all controlling.
He was placed in stout wire cage and
given quarters in the apartments OF his
captors, but his shrieking and screaming
made it so unpleasant for the neighbOrs
that 1t was finally decided that he must
go elsewhere.
Glib Harris conducts a saloon at No.
3S7 West Madison street, and he has been
pleading for the possession of "Van," as
the bird was christened, ever since it was
brought to the city. Yesterday Harris
was told to send for the bird and an ex-
pressman was hastily dispatched to bring
in the cage. "Van" meantime, had been
placed in wooden box. and in this he
was removed to his future home.
Harris was taking dinner in the fiat up
stairs, when the bird arrived and he or
dered his porter, Henry Paul, to bring the
box up. While Harris was finishing his
meal Paul became curious, and tore away
a part of the covering of the prison. In
stantly there was pandemOnium. Van"
pushed his powerful body through the
opening and, Selling the porters hands in
his talons essayed to rise with his prey
toward the ceiling. Paul was terrified, and
cried madly for help he was being
whirled about the room. Harris took in
the situation at one glance, and jumping
up he aimed terrific blow at the circling
bird. vans head shot out, and Harris
fingers were caught in the vice-ike beak.
The screaming brought Mrs Harris from
the kitchen. All she could make out was
some dark form swirling about in midair,
while two human bodies were being
dragged around the room. Chairs had been
overturned and the dining table was a
wreck. Mrs Harris grasped broom, and
with single blow laid the eagle on the
floor. Before it could recover she had
pluckily stuck it back in the box and
| clapped the cover down, after which it was
| removed to the saloon.-ChicagO Times.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1895-02-13

generosity to the minister. and looked on with
pleasure the minister contentedly lighted the
cigar.
Suddenly there was report, the minister fairly
howled with terror, and the air filled with
smoke. Sniffles and his wife were surprised and
shocked beyond expression
Heavens muttered Sniffles, That's the
work OF those pesky clerks again.
The minister's face was red with rage. Hail
of his beautiful side whiskers had been singed
and he looked a sight. He gave one terrible
glance at Snifles. then took his hat and de-
parted.
Never shall enter this house again. he said
with great emotion, he shut the door.
That night there in Snffes house.
His wife accused him of having loaded the cigar
purpose in order to drive the minister away.
All his explanations were in vain, and now Sniff
fes and his wife have ceased to speak.
The clerks still wondering whether Sniff1es
smoked that cigar but he is silent about the
matter that they can't get anything out of him.
New York Herald.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1895-02-13
RIVER TRAMPS.
The Strange Floating Population
Found on the Ohio.

Found the Ohio.
Another class of men pass great por-
ton of their lives upon the water. The
Ohio river tramp is familiar figure along
great stretches of the stream, says the
New York Mail and Express Thousands Of
men, it is sometimes estimated, dwell in
little households the year round, picking
up a precarious and ambiguous livelihood
from passing barges and from the adjacent
shore. They pay no taxes, but with their
wives and children pass their days in petty
thievery on the boundaries of the states.
Perhaps the majority of them are poor
whites from the mountain regions of West
Virginia and Kentucky, or their descend
ants who have crossed into Southern Ohio.
They are recruited by Migrants from Pitts
burg, Wheeling, and other big manufacture
ing towns on the upper stretches of the
river. Vagabonds who have grown weary
of begging over the country roads of Ohio
join them, allured by the prospect of lazy
plenty.
The tramp boats are primitive fiat bot
toned affairs made out of barges, roughly
rooted over, and generally propelled by
polling.
In the course of a season one of these
households will cover several hundred
miles. Its owners anchor off some thriving
town or fat country district. The men are
familiar figures in the saloons of the
neighborhood. They earn a partial liveli-
hood doing small jobs, and sometimes work
for weeks at fits and starts as hired hands
during the harvest season. The farmers
have little love for them, and are wont to
associate their visitations with thefts of
sheep, pigs and poulsry. The women and
children of the tramp boats are seen along
the highways during the berrying season.
picking the fruit for their own use, and for
sale in the villages about.
Some night when the patience of the
neighborhood has been exhausted, the
houseboat weighs anchor and poles dowr
stream to fresh fields. The same program
! of spasmodic industry and petty reprisals
| is repeated.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1895-02-13
THE INDIAN WAY.
Under Thir System There Can Be No
Will Contests.

Under Thir System There Can BE No
VIII Contests.
"Potlatch'' among the Siwash Indians of
Washington is a sort of reversed donation
party, says the Chicago Record. The word
means gift literally, but is sued to de-
scribe a peculiar custom which, l told,
is common among all the Chinook nations
those that dwell in the valley of the
Columbia river and west of the Rocky
Mountains in the north. AS old age ap-
proaches the grandfather, or the rich
uncle, or whoever the big may be,
calls all the members of his family to-
gether and distributes his wealth among
them, according to his own views and
wishes. He usually saves enough to last
him for the few more years that may be
allotted to him, relieves himself from care,
and effectually prevents anyone putting
ertv
There are many other advantages in this
system also that are at once manifest
The donor has the pleasure Of giving,
which the Bible says is better than re-
ceiving; he can administer his own estate
and his friends and relatives won't litigate
over him when he is gone. If he has farms
or cattle, or sheep or horses, owns par
ticular fishing grounds in any of the sal
mon streams, he divides them around
among his sons and grandsons, as he
pleases, sometimes exacting from the re-
C1plenC certain COIHpeHSdllOHS LOT tIle du-
| vantage of himself and others. The grand
| son who gets the wheat fields agrees to
| furnish him with much wheat 1oul
every year; whoever gets the cattle, sc
| much beef, and on, and the final anG
| paternal obligations always regarded
| as sacred as under the patriachal system
| of the East.
| The Indians call the white people Dos
| TONS" probably because the first paleface:
who came into that country were from
| that respectable town. In their Language
"6'' means Good morning." or How d,
| you do?'-the usual form of greeting whel
! friends meet. So instead Of saying How,
as you do when you meet an Easter
| Indian, you say Hello, six"
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1895-02-13
A SPECTER CALF.
Which May Have Had Some COnnec-
ton With Miles Ogle.

"a detective sees a clue in All sorts of
apparently trivial things, and will run it
down until he has satisfied himself one
way the other" said local sleuth to
a group of listeners, says the Louisville
Courier Journal. Il remember when Miles
Ogle, the notorious counterfeiter, was free
the last time, and bogus coin was found
in circulation all through the Ohio valley,
two of Uncle Sans seuth hounds &C tually
investigated a ghost story The story
came from Jefferson county, Ind. \ spec
ter calf had been seen in the lonesome hol-
lows to the north of the county.
"All the farmers within a dozen miles
had paid the hollow a visit, and waited
patiently for hours to see the frisky four
legged ghost come gambling down the
hill side and go floating over the rough,
rocky creek bed that was at the bottom of
the hollow They were never disappointed.
Promptly at II o'clock the ghostly calf
made it's appearance. Many carried guns
with them, and fired at the specter as it
floated by. When the smoke disappeared
the ghost gone also. This kept
up for months, and the strange apparition
became quite notorious through the news
papers. The story was in this way brought
to the notice of the United states secret
service detectives at Cincinnati.
They put several things together. Miles
Ogle was free. Bogus coin was in circula-
ton in the West. The ghost must certain
ly be blind. The scheme was about such
one as would ,emanate from the willy
counterfeiter. Two of. the detectives who
had made these deductions and REINFORCED
with firearms and ammunition started very
secretly for the ghosts lair. They put up
with a farmer whose place adjoined the
lair and the first favorable night they
went to the grewsome hollow. They saw
the ghost. 1t danced about with such a
surprising abandon of purpose that the two
detectives were surprised They fired shot
after shot al the specter, but not shot
had any effect.
1.-The old farmer will tell you that wher
the two detectives came into the house
shortly afterward they were white anc
| breathless. That may have been due tt
| the rough walk, and it may have not. The
next morning they made a thorough search
through the hills, but could find nothing
| to explain the mystery. They left the same
| day for Cincinnati. Miles Oge was cap
| tured on a shantyboat on the Ohio river
between Louisville and Madison, shortly
after. AS everybody knows, he is now serv
| ing a sentence in the Columbus (Ohio
penitentiary.'
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1895-02-13

Hon. Julius Caesar Burrows. of Michigan, is
looking for who put up job on him the
other day 1t happened that he passing
through the rotunda of the capitol on his way
TO his arduous duties as a statesman in the
tional halls of legislation he was stopped by
long, lank specimen who doing the capitol
in charge of guide.
'Scuse me- said the interoper, ''ain't you
Mr.. Burrows, of Michigan?''
Yes he replied with his well-known suavity.
us there anything 1 do for your
''Oh. no; 1 jist wanted to congratterlate you
your election
Thanks" smiled the congressman. II am
very much obliged to you, I'm sure
Don't mention il. I'm a Democrat myself,
and when they told me you was the only Demo-
crat elected from Michigan kinder felt that I'd
like to take honest man by the hand. I'm
from Georgy myself where Democrats grow
trees, and eff you ever feel lonesome We'll be
glad have you down way. Good
bye" and with another grasp Of the hand of the
gentleman from Kalamazoo the gentleman from
Georgia rejoined his guide leaving Mr.. Burrows
in state of mind which almost beggars descrip-
tion.-Detroit Free Press.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1895-02-13
EMBARRASSING
Predicament in Which the Church,
gOer Found Himself.


Anybody seeing the major coming down the
middle aisle of Sunday morning, with his
erect form, his military frock coat tightly but
toned his rubicund countenance actually emit
ting rays of red light, would never have mag
ned him to have passed the meridian of life
more than 20 years ago and people said: he
is very well preserved" says the Philadelphia
Press.
But the secret of the majors fountain OF
youth was his hair 1t not his own, but 1t
was so black and glossy, well cured and
looked so vrile that the major thought nobody
ever imagined it wig.
So as he sat in his pew on this particular
Sunday morning the sunlight turning his shin
ing locks yellow and green and purple it
struck through the colored windows he was SUI
preme in the tranquility of his youthful appear
ance and his deceptive hair. One by one the
elders filed down the aisles and took up the
little collection boxes with their long handles
Of course every has seen these little ar
rangements and how they lifted from pew
to pew over the heads of the occupants.
AS the pass was made in the case of the
major the manipulation mscaculated the dis
lance and catching it on the majors hair
passed it on to the next seat, with the major
wig hanging to it, ,
CONSERVATION seized the major, and his sans
froid completely deserted him, and suppressed
giggle only made matters worse.
Hastily arising, he made grab for his van
ouished tresses and with a spasmodic jerk ht
clapped it on his bald pate but wrong end fore
most This was the last straw, and catching w
his hat he left with more haste than grace.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1895-02-13
Puzzled Even Him.

All the good stories of Or. McCosh were not
told by his obituary biographers. He had
thoroughly characteristic. but entirely amiable,
egotism, which sometimes raised a smile among
the Princeton students. One day he had been
discussing before the senior class Leibnitz's the
Dry of evil, and especially the point that man.
kind put upon the earth because there was
less evil here than elsewhere One of the young
men inquired: well, doctor. why was evil in
troduced into the world anyway?'
The doctor had habit, when he was puzzled,
of chewing his thumb knuckle, and the ar
gument leading UP to this he gnawed vi
ciousy. When the question came out, however,
he threw up both his hands and cried:
''Ah, We have asked the hardest question in
all pheelCsophy: Sukkrates tried to answer it,
and failed; Plato tried it, and he failed, too;
Nahnt attempted it and made bad work. of it;
Leibnitz tried it, and begged the whole question
l have been tein ye; and here he re-
newed his chewng-'I confess, l don't know
just what to max of it mesel !''-kate Field s
Washington.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1895-02-13
In a Winter Wood.

Sing oh, winter wood. So sad it seems to me,
That thou, whom music loves, should now SO
beakly pine
That memories of thy summer minstrelsy
Alone return to soothe this of mine.
Not one sweet chord of all thy former lays
Breaks from thy snow-locked lips in answering
cheer.
The lisless wind on frozen branches plays
The mournful numbers of the dying year.
Thou bleak reminder of those sunny days.
Though gone all the beauties once thy
boast;
hymn to thee song of fervent praise
For loving thee, when dead l love
In each bare limb, by weight of winter bowed,
In each brown leaf that crackles meath my
tread,
Are memories speaking to my heart aloud,
Bidding fond love to all the blessed dead.
Boston Journal.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1895-02-13
Got in on His Eve.

A few years ago well-known physician OF
this city, while visiting Paris. attended anna
teur circus-a fashionable society eveut-to which
there admission only by invitation. He pre-
scented himself the door with g ticket made
out in the name Of his friend, Prince Orlof of
the Russian embassy.
But this ticket is not yours; it is Prince Or
loft s, and it is transferable said the door
keeper he barred the way.
well, 1 not Prince Orlof?' asked the
doctor.
mo, sir; we know very well that Prince Orlof
has only eye The other is glass
well, stupid, how about this % said the doc
tor, as he took his own glass eye and held
it in his hand for inspection.
''Oh, l beg your highness' pardon said the
doorkeaper. walk right in.
The had by a singular chance hit upon
the only respect in which the prince and the
doctor resembled each other Queer coincidence,
wasn't it?-New York Mail and Express.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1895-02-13

The wings of Time are black and white,
Pied with morning and with night.
Mountains tall and oceans deep
Trembling balance duly keep.
In changing moon and tidal wave
CLOVIS the feud of Want and Have.
Gauge of more and less through space
Electric star pencil plays.
The lonely earth amid the balls
That hurry through the eternal halls.
A makeweight flying to the void,
Supplemental asteroid,
Or compensatory spark,
Shoots across the neutral Dark.
Mans the elm, and Wealth the vine;
Staunch and strong the tendris Irvine;
Though the frail rnglets thee deceive,
None from it's stock that vine can reave.
Fear not then, thou child infirm,
There's no god dare wrong a worm;
Laurel crowns cleave to deserts,
And power to him WHO power exerts.
Hast not thy share? On winged feet
Lo! it rushes thee to meet,
And all that Nature made thy own
Floating in the air pent in stone.
Will rive the hills and swim the sea,
And, like the shadow, follow thee
Emerson.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1895-02-13
VARIETIES.
She WINS Aunt Bessie.

A small boy still in kits was standing on the
sidewalk in front of house on Clnoro street
the other day as a young business man went
hurrvinf, mast The little fellow stepped directly
in his way.
Say" he asked, in chubby voice. doesnt
Aunt Bessie live here?''
I'm sure don't know, chd,' answered tne
man. kindly. What is your aunts other name
I,s iust Aunt Ress;e She is in that house..
why don't you ring the BELL!
Its far up
So the stranger gave the bell a strong pull,
and in a moment Che door was opened py q
pretty young girl, who gave cry OF surprise
followed by an exclamation of delight, as she
caught the child in her and kissed him,
while her face expressed her pleasure
Are you Aunt Bessie?' innocently asked the
young nan the steps. He meant no narn,
but Aunt Bessie instantly froZe, and ne mad the
pleasure of hearing the unknown infant whom
he had helped say as the door closed:
He's just a man.'-Detroit Free Press.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1895-02-13
How to Remit.

We are overwhelmed with such
masses of postage stamps, which we
can not sell or use, that we ask our
good friends, wherever possible, to re-
NIT in something else. Twenty-Five
cent silver pieces, or fifty cent ones,
come in envelopes all right. We have
never lost a letter CT dollar sent to
us in four years. A dollar bill is just
as safe as postal note. OF course when
friend has nothing handy but post
age stamps send them along.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1895-02-13
The Joke Was Too Much.

The clerks in the office were always on the
alert TO play some joke on Sniffes the junior
bookkeeper and the strangest part of it was
that they always managed to catch him una
wares
The other day the clerks loaded tempting
looking cigar with an apparently harmless ex
plosive. 1t was gracefully offered to Snffes
who accepted it with prcfuse thanks, saying hi
would smoke it after dinner that evening"
It so happened that that very evening Sniffies
wife, who very religious woman, had in
vted the minister to dinner The minister loved
good cigars, and Sniffles. knowing this, proud,
asked him to have a cigar, and unselfshly an,
innocently handed him the which he had re
ceived that afternoon from the clerks in thu
Office.
Snifaes' wife was pleased at hex husband
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1895-02-13
A New Picture.

A very ignorant and wealthy woman who was
fond of talking about her art gallery one day
met at the house of an acquaintance a lady who
had not called her, although they lived in
the same town.
Come to see me. dor said Mrs b, the
patron of art the other lady taking her
leave.
THANK you very much, the non-com-
initial reply.
We've got new picture, too. That ought to
tempt you come, if / can't
Il should be very glad. indeed. to see it,
''Such a lovely picture. Sometimes it seems
to me could look at it all day long,
What is the subject of YOUR picture Mrs.
B@?' inquired the hostess.
Jupiter and Ten remarked she. with as
suranca.
Then someone remembered that the name,
Jupiter and To- attached to the picture -
Montreal Metropolitan.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1895-02-13
AccOmmO tla ting Actors,

They say that Edwin Booth could be awesome
in private life. and wont to draw about
himself any and every occasion circle, in
which the presumng, if they dared to enter.
plighted by the lightnings of the great ira
gedians godike wrath. This Booth. The
other star, Joe Jefferson is quite another sort of
actor in private life. What could you expect?
Could Joe Jefferson be awesome? The idea is So
impossible that this story, which fiuttered from
the wings of Macauley's the other night, seems
almost matter of course.
This is the story. There numerous Juvenile
'supers in RIP Van Winkle.' One of the
smallest of them Stood hat in hand, waiting for
his cue. The hat not wanted in the young
histrions approaching turn" Suddenly the
youngster turned to the nearest bystander with:
Say, there's my cue-hold my hat will your
The bystander held the hat most obligingly
until it's owner returned and, looking round him.
inquired: who took my hat %
Il took it," the answer came. and il came
from the immortal Joe jefferson.
The infant recovered from his collapse in time
to finish his part in the pay.-Louisville Courier
Journal.