The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1896-03-20
GUTHRIE AT TIE CREEK.
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60 70 Neofgc W. Naylor.
The following letter was written to
the Leade- at Cripple Creek, by ex-
Fire Chief George w. Taylor, bat
owing to delays in mail facilities
George beat the letter home. Taylor's
letter is given below In full;
CRIPPLE CBEEK, March 10 Below
you Will find true statement of facts
about Cripple Creek and as / have
promised umber of Guthrie people
II they would read the DAILY Leader
they would find a letter from me,
would like TO see this in print
have seen here since my arrival in
] Cripple Greek the following Guthrie
people: Il. G Milliken, who is run.
cling lunch house and doing a good
business; w. IL. Gilman and nephew
OF Bill Baxter, running eating house;
p. =. Blass and Otto Hansel, partners
in saloon Datz bartender; Dan Strobel
has meat market in connection with
Blass; Jack TearneY has lively sport
ing game; Joe Baum, Claude Parker,
ex-sherih Of Lincoln county, Frank
Anderson, Young Hinkle, son of Andy
Hinkle, John Rollins, J Jennings are
strictly men OF leisure; w II McOlung
company's yard, which is the largest
tum ber company here; hey have
twenty teams working for them and
their monthly receipts are eighteen to
twenty thousand dollars; Clarence
Elrick, who worked in the post Office
IN Guthrie, is working for Milliken as
a waiter; NJ Stowe, brother of c. W.
Stowe OF Guthrie, sold his lodging
house last week but is going to stay
here; Smith, late Of the firm of Covle
Smith, sold his meat market vest err
day at good sum and is now working
two mines here; Prof. Magruder is
working mine about five miles from
town
The population of Cripple Creek, at
fair estimate, is about $4,000 and
about 250 people are coming in every
day aud about $50 leaving daily. There
are very few families here, but there
are lots of women here There are six
theatres and dance halls, sixty seven
saloons which pay 5000 license and the
city gets 1t ali A few pay occupation
tax Merchants pay nothing. Rents
are out OF all reason. Small 1Ox2
rooms demand SOS a month; rooms
2OX6O get $3.50 a month, an you must
give bond of several thousand dollars
10 guarantee of good faith; furnished
rooms SO = week. Meals can be had
from IS cents TO so cents. Clothing is
as cheap here as in Chicago; eggs two
dozen for csc; butter 20 and 25c pound:
potatoes IA n pound; beef, from TO
l5c pound; salt pork, dry Joe 10.
ham and bacon 12 TO l5c a ID: sausage
l0c ID; lard lOc h.; chickens Ice 10 (;
Hay sells at $50 per ton; cordwood at
50 per cord. Banks will not open new
accounts with individuals for deposits
OF less than s300 Turkeys sc per lb;
can goods, peas, corn etc, l0c; tom g.
toes, II re- lumter dimensions S22 50 |
per Nj; flooring, S35 to $40 per Nj; sid |
ing, S35 to S55 per NJ finishing, 500 /
per Nj; batting and molding, l cent
per foot. A good many houses are
papeIed outside but there are about
300 houses in course of erection They |
are building two brick and stone no. ,
tells, one for Ss0,OOO They are work. |
ing day and night in this building /
with three shifts of eight hours each |
Carpenters get SO per day; laborers |
S2 so on the streets; in the mines, SO; |
man and team, 81 and IS per day; man 1
with two teams and one wagon, 81 to |
50 per day, and all work only elght /
hours per day. There are twenty-five |
men here for every job. but a man |
with friends here stands a better
chance of getting job. Mr.. McClunp |
offered me job for two teams at $40 |
per day. was also offered a Job in |
the mines at SO per day There is lots |
OF money here and rustler can get |
some Of IL. Fire insurance is 10 per
cent They had two fires here Friday |
and Saturday. BARRIERS get csc per
shave; IOc per hair cut
Flour, best grade, SO % per 100; l6 /
loaves of bread. 81; 10 lbs granula ted
sugar 81; draymen get 500 per NJ feet
Of lumber for hauling IL IA miles with
two teams; they haul /, 400 feet a day,
easy; 81 for shoeing a team of horses
Now as TO the people dying. There
are q-ite frequent cases Very few
die VINO take care of themselves
There are more dying in Guthrie than
here. The majority who die here are
Did topers or people who are drinking
pr dissipating, ying down on floors 10
sleep their drunk off or 20 out in the
night air without sufficient clothing
On while drinking. There is lots OF
drinking going on. And right here |
want to say that all the people have
met and mentioned from Guthrie are
n the best of health and making
little moaev Notwithstanding the re
port of j. Baum dying and Parker's
illness. They both are enjoying good
health at this writing. myself includ
ed, thank God.
could have worn two overcoats to
lay II had them. IL showed and the
morning dew floated all day in the
air while the sun was shining like
July day in Oklahoma / would like
very much TO stay here, but. as you
Srow. my all is at Guthrie and / will II
have 10 return in a few days TO make
arrangements TO come out here for
good Respectfully yours, George w.
Taylor.
Seems as if consumption always
picks ont the brightest and best
Fully one-siNth Of all the deaths that
,ccur in the world are caused bv
Many things were
once considered impossible. Ii would
be strange II medical science did not
make some progress The telegraph
and telephone, the phonOgraph. the
electric light-an were once impos-
bic, and once it was impossible 10
sure consumption. That was before
he time of Or. Pierce's Golden Medi-
al Discovery. Taken according TO /
this standard medicine
will cure 9s per cent OF all cases
IF consumption. Consumption is
,aused and fostered by impur-
~ in the blood. 1t is cured by purity