The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1897-11-04
CITY IN BRIEF

W W Faulds Ia down from Perry
W. S Hamilton is up from Norman.
The Perry academy is TO be rebuilt.
J. Z. Blrge Ia up from Oklahoma
City
ON Leslie, Of Ksnsas City, lie in
town.
Rev. J. p Brown has returned from
Kansas.
Grand Army dance at Island park
tonight
Mrs. Eugene Hayes is here from
Pawhuska.
Miss Mabel Bowman, OF Newklrk, is
visiting Mrs. J. o. Stvsrns.
George Willis attended the Shr'ners'
festivities at Oklahoma City last night.
b f. Burwell, of oklahomA City, Is
looming up as . candidate for Judge.
Ex.RepresentAtive Smith, OF Grant
county, is an applicant for United
States Jsilor
/ Judge II. s. Cunningham went TO
Oklahoms City Yesterday to attend the
Shrine meeting
MRS. Gulick. who has been visiting
/ Mrs. Z. A. Young. returned TO Holton,
Kan, yesterday.
The railroad fund has reached s44,-
es0 J. @. Rainier. OF 81. Louis, yes.
terday subscribed $1,000.
Evangelist Steve Burke has re-
[ turned from q reform trip through
/ Pawnee and Payne counties.
Marshal Thompson will arrive in
the city Friday. lie will bring his
family aud permanently locate.
Joe McEachin, Of Oklahoma City, is
In town yelling himself hoarse and
burning old hats on account OF Han
mas deserved defeat.
Mr.. Geo. Downing, one OF the finest
position with the Bald win Photo
Studio, iiO Oklahoma avenue.
Fred Barnes, cashier of the Santa
Fe freight flee at Wichita, has taken
the chief clerkship at the local sta
tion, vice Frank o'Neil, agent at Pur-
cell.
Miss Ella NJ. Clarke, daughter OF
Sidney Clarke, OF Oklahoma city. VAS
married in Worcester, Mass last week
TO James A. Goodwin, OF Weymouth,
Mass.
City Attorney b Il. Hainer has re.
turned from Washington. Mr. Hainei
takes the Prince Albert Jokes good
nsturedly and says he is confident oi
winning judgeshiP.
win Matthews, the l4.year-o old son
of John Matthews, who shot 5.yeAr.
old Leverett Bridges, was released
from jail by Judge Foster yesterday
on So, 500 bail. Judge Foster is being
censured for releasing the prisoner.
The death OF the principal chief OF
the Pawnee Indians, Battiste Bayhille,
removed remarkable character. He
was almost three score and ten years
old, and had been interpreter Ia
treaties aud peRcemaker in his tribe
for many years He had acquired con-
siderable property, which he willed 20
his family.
Mr., Franklin, who has long been
representing the Halsell, Frazier com.
pany, OF Guthrie, in the eastern dis.
trict has rendered his resignation 10
that company aud accepted position
with the Proctor, Gomball Soap com
pany, OF Buffalo. N. Y. Mr.. Hassell
will take the place vacated by him
Carney Enterprise.
Strange as II may seem, Tom Capers,
the colored man who was shot by Ben
Howard, Is still alive. Capers wAs
shot four times. Two bullets lodged
ia his brain; one passed through his
aw and another lodged in his
nip. Doctors say this is an exceptions
case Several reports were current
Yesterday that CRpers had croaked
but Capers, himself, denies them.
The best snake story since that o.
the Garden of Eden comes from Cali
lornia. A man once saved the life OF
! rattler that evinced the liveles
/ Nnd OF gratitude and finally took VI
It's abode In his cabin. One night h,
heard commotion on the grounC
door. He ran down and found tn,
rattlesnake holding a burglar In IL
coils, with its tail cut of the window
rRttling for policeman.
This story is told on brakeman OF
a certain road running into El Reno
tie found Wandering Willie asleep il
box car and ordered him out. Tn,
tourist" slowly raised his head ant
in weak voice said: my friend,
am dying OF yellow fever. For God
sake let me die in peace" The brake
man turned double somersault IL
making get away, but he shouted t,
the sick" man as the freight moved
off; Don't tell them that saw you.
An experiment in transporting pris
oners was made by Sheriff Rinehart o.
Logan county when he took nine con
viets TO the Lansing penitentiary sew
eral days ago. Usually, he secures hi
prisoners by shackling their legs o
wrists. This often was painful AnC
interiered with moving them easily
This time the men were fastened 10
gether In pairs with q chain attached
10 steel collars around their necks
leaving free their hands aud feet
Sheriff khlnehart sal 4 the collars werl
far superior 10 other methods
w. w. Irons was over from his Osag
ranch today. The Courier saw him ant
asked about the report that the Jen
ninRs gang had been seen near hi