The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1897-11-16

CITY IN RRIEF

The Oklahoma Medical association
meets in Oklahoma City Thursday.
Evergreens make good windbreaks,
and they can be planted in the fall.
Two hundred and four students are
enrolled at the Norman University.
Judge Dale and court staff returned
from Chandler court Sunday evening.
Nat schnell and e. M Hopkins have
returned from business trip to Per-
kins.
Real estate agents report the de-
mAnd for houses greater than the
supply.
Crysanthemum sale at the rectory
one week, commencing ThuredaY
morning.
Messrs. Rooney and Hamilton have
started q canvass for the new city and
county directory.
Samuel Shoup, while hunting near
Marshall, was killed by the accidental
discharge Of his gun.
At last we are to have a complete
city and county directory. Every bus
mess man should support It,
Notary public commissions have
been issued to Capt. O. A. Morris, OF
Perry and Charles Chamberlain, OF Ok
lahoma City.
Lost-A pair OF beveled.edge nose
glasses. Finder will please leave at
Mr.. Lasseter's Office and receive re-
ward. Miss Hill.
Payne County Populst; Down at
Norman, the Athens (2) of Oklahoma,
three bloody scraps day is the gener-
al order of business.
"BufAlo" Jones has not been heard
from since August 10, and relatives at
Garden City, Kan, arc very much
worried over his long silence.
Business and professional men
should not fail to advertise in the new
directory. One will be mailed free
to every postoffice in the county.
Marshall Record: Miss Fanny
Barney, of Guthrie, is teaching the
school in the Clarke Hicken bottom
district, and boarding at c. ]. Hicken-
bottoms.
Theodore II. Weise, a private de-
tective, OF Sha Vnee, dropped his re-
volver last week and has since died
from the wound caused by its aoci-
dental discharge.
The Western American Union, of
Oklahoma, has been Incorporated. 1t
Is benevolent society for the ad.
vancement Of the negro. Its head
quarters are at Tecumseh.
The land department officials have
begun prosecution for timber cutting
on the Council Grove tract. Sixty
days warning was given but not
needed by over hundred persons.
The new fast mail which will prob.
ably be put on November 81 will leave
Kansas City at 2:30 a. m. and arrive at
Newton at 7:l0 a m, in time to con-
meet with the Galveston mail Il ain,
Willie Cooper. formerly OF watonga,
was shot and instantly killed recently
by the accidental discharge OF gun
in tho hands OF Joseph HRlem, one OF
his companions, while hunting near
Highland.
Albert 0vermAn, OF Saltwater, has
been declared insane aud taken to the
asylum at Norman. He was q dime
novel fiend and his trouble was caused
by absorbing too much Of the flashy
literature.
Invitations have been issued for the
Fourth annual ball of the Governor
Guards and First Regiment band on
Thanksgiving night. The band will
give a grand concert promenade from
until 9 o'clock.
A PottawAtomie county young man
| who permitted u strange woman tC
faint In his arms lost his diamond shirt
stud in the operation. The next wo
man who fRints in that mans vicinity
will doubtless drop the entire dis
tance.
The quarantine law prohibiting the
moving OF cattle from Logan TO Gar
| field county, as well as covering
large portion Of the territory, expired
yesterday, Cattle can now be moved
back and forth across the line with
immunity.
Oklahoma Masons who will become
Scottish Riters at Wichita, on Monday
November is are Hon. Henry e. Asp
Guthrie; Walter Florer, Thomas II
Huffaker Mortimer #. Stillwell, JohI
L. Bird, Gray Horse; and Leroy r
KING, Waukomis.
A colored man at Tecumseh, Scott
Barnett by name, was shot at -four
times while carrying two buckets oi
slop past the city park, one shot
striking Just above the thigh and pass
ing out through his stomach. No ar
rests Competition must be keen in
the slop business there.
The carrier rope broke at Reave,
Bros theatre last night while Pro
fessor Cameron was attempting hi:
slide act, precipitating the professor
to the pavement He was not serious
lY injured and is as full OF grit as ever
announcing positively that the slide
will be performed tonight
Later developments seem TO show
that none OF the Jennings family wal
At or near Shawnee when Jack Love
claimed he was shot at on the Santa
| Fe train. II seems that a FIRE brok,
out in cotton gin near the track Isl
as the train was leaving and that sew,
erAl shots we're fred in giving Tho
alarm. II is now thought that tn,
bullet was from one Of the revolveri
which was fred for that purpose.
At the recent term of the distric
court in Chandler a flaw was discover
ed in the indictment against a Mr.
HuskeY, who was under bond on thu
charge OF murder. County Attorne,
Embry moved to quash the indict
ment which WAS granted. Before tn,
grand Jury could return another trul
bill Mr., Huskey had taken Frenel
leave and the rabbit will have TO b.
caught twice in this particular In