The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1897-10-03
CITY IN BRIEF.

AlG. Fields minstrels are headed to-
ward Guthrie.
Some well-washed old rags wanted at
The Leader office.
Miss Grace King entertained last night
az the Commercial club, Oklahoma City.
Oklahoma plays very prominent part
IN May lrwin's new piece, The Swell
Miss Fitzwcll.'
l. w. Cole. who was principal OF the
El Reno schools, has taken /. N. Hopkins
place a. superintendent.
Rev Buckner has a double wedding
booked for today but his modesty keeps
him from giving names or place.
The fun First Regiment band will give
a concert today at o'clock on the corner
OF Oklahoma avenue and Division street.
One OF the attractions at the Oklahoma
state fair will be Gilber = pony and dog
show, exhibiting over 100 dogs and forty
ponies.
The Oklahoma state fair noat in the
circus paraue was cracker jack and at
tracted as much attention as any feature
IN the parade.
The United States marshal nt Alaska
has appointed W. W. Painter. Frank
kres' and Frank Canton deputies, with
headquarters at Cir Gle City.
Miss Kittle Schnell was not as seriously
4 Injured as was At first supposed. She
was IN company with Miss Orner and Mr..
easier, when the horse they were driving
ran away.
Miss Belle Rittenhouse has been re-
/ tained a. stenographer for the new audit
| tor. This Is worthy compliment 10
/ Miss Rittenhouse. who Is one OF the best
stenoPraphers In the territory
The Santa Fe railroad is placing new
steel rails, graveling and raising the road
/ bed, cutting down heavy grades and put
place along its route from Purcell TO the
| Gulf.
Two men were kept busy at the fair
office on First street, on circus day, at
tending TO the calls of iaQuirng visitors
Ia reference TO the fair and over ESQ
premium lists were handed out separ'
ateiy.
| over fifty farmers made special inquiry
at the fair office on circus day concerning
/ the rules and conditions for entering the
cotton contest and competing for the S2i,
| premiums offered by the Coyle Mercantile
company.
This months Cosmopolitan contains q
picture OF Dian Johnson, o! ;kis town. IN
] COW BOY attire, mounted on pony. The
representation is sufficiently good as TO b,
labeled Tho Real Cow boy -Oklahoma
| City Oklahoman.
Mrs. Burda, the Bohemian woman
charged with killing her husband In Tin
coin county, was taken 10 Chandler yes
terdaY by Sheriff Frank Gebke. The wO-
| wan was afraid Of vile treatment from
the colored inmates Of the county jail.
j. NJ. Montgomery, who has held posi-
tion as guard at the federal jail the past
! TWO years, Is now employed in the freight
department at the Santa Fe depot Mont
| is gan industrious and level -headed man
and will do good work for the Santa Fe,
The directors OF the Oklahoma state
fair have contracted with Professor Rush
and wife 10 produce a balloon race on
Thursday Of the fair week Professor
Rush and wife ascend a miie high on sep
arate balloons and make daring parachute
I jumps.
The county farmers race, 10 take place
on the fair grounds during the coming
fair, II attracting q great deal Of atten-
ton. Many OF the farmers are training
their carriage horses preparing TO capture
the valuable prizes offered by the Guthrie
merchants.
Frank Healy, register OF the Woodward
land Otfice, Is one Of the best marksmen IN
! Oklahoma aud does all his shooting from