The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1898-04-12
OVER THE TERRITORY.

In case OF war printers are not subject
TO draft
No one feels like taking the advice OF
the man who is always telling how TO get
rich and at the same time hasn't enough
money to pay his honest debts.
An Arkansas City woman vows she is
going TO have new bonnet. 1t Is to be
entirely new, out and out. She says she
has been married several years and never
owned an entirely new hat since she left
her fathers house. She has always had
to use portion Of her last years trim
mings.
Sam Crocker, who lives eleven miles
| east OF Norman, met with a bad accident
at his home one day last week. While
chopping wood his axe struck a clothes
| line suspended above him, causing the
sharp point OF the axe TO strike the left
side OF his head, resulting 10 deep and
! lengthy cash.
A citizen said to old negro King yester-
day: "Well, King, II looks like war, and
| understand they're going TO put the
negroes right In front. Datll be all
right, sun, he replied. "Ei dey puts EN-
in de rear de white folks I'D run over'em
en- killem, so dunno but what dey'd be
safer right In 'front.'
On last Saturday at Tyler, Tex, Judge
| Gill granted new trial TO Jim Nit, who
/ was convicted two Weeks ago OF murder
/ during the LOngvlew bank robbery In
| 1894 and given life sentence. This rob
berry was the last in which the famous
| Bill Dalton participated, he being killed
few days afterwards in the Indian Ter
ritory while resisting arrest.
John Butts, colored, who was appointed
postmaster at Cherryvale, /. t., and
whom the residents OF the town refused
to let run the Office I'm the usual place,
went to work and put up shack about
mile from Cherryvale and called IL
| Ungles. No mail matter passed through
| his hands however, and now the office
a useless expense
Topeka special. Congressman JEFF
Hudson, bond co missioner OF the Agri-
cultural college, is negotiating for the
| purchase OF large block OF Lincoln
county, o. Il. bonds. He says IL Is impos
slble for him TO find bonds in Kansas, and
that Oklahoma has bonds which he con-
siders good Investments. He has spent
many thousands OF dollars In Oklahoma
bonds for the college, and is preparing TO
take several other issues besides that OF
Lincoln county.
Chandler News: The News man Wis
tied Stroud last Sunday and found II
quite an interesting little town, consider
ing that IL was but fw weeks old.
Huildng has been retarded by the bad
| weather which has made II almost impos-
sible TO get building material, and yet
there has been q great deal OF building
done So far the buildings are all Of
wood and are rather small, but some
brick and stone buildings will BE- erected
soon. A large hotel is being built and
many houses are being moved over from
the old town. one mile west The greater
number OF StrOud's business men seem "a
hail from Oklahoma City and shawnee
many Of them still retaining their inter
est IA those cities Stroud will be good
business point and credit to Lincoln
county.
Oklahoma City specials The threat
ened attack TO prevent the building Of the
Northwestern Normal school at Alva is
taking form here, and will probably show
Itself IN suit for permanent injunction
to restrain the board OF regents OF the ter
ritorial normal schools from disbursing
money for the construction OF the build
ing. The Times Journal OF this place
published the statement today that The
Alya school was part Of combine by
which different territorial institutions
were TO be located at towns that stood
together and assisted each other In fight
ing their common battles. The combine
Is said to have agreed that Guthrie should
get the capital, Perry the penitentiary
sane, and Alya a normal school Tht
contract for the Alva school permits the
expenditure OF SS6, 600. The bill prOvid-
ing for the erection OF the school fixed NJ
limit to the amount 90 be spent. This Il
not denied here, bat II is urged that this
law is invalid because OF the fact that NJ
specific appropriation was set aside fo
the building; that there is no funC
against which warrants can be drawn ac
cOrdlng TO law.