The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1898-03-23
OVER THE TERRITORY,

The Chapman murder case. which was
on trial the most OF last week at TalOga,
came to close last Friday by tho jury
returning verdict OF not guilty.
The Ehid Coming Events quotes II. G.
Thompson as saying, In an interview re-
centlY at that place, among other things,
thas he was MOI tied to Dennis Flynn.
He has stabbed free homes In the back
and is traitor to the people Of Okla
homa."
Yesterday afternoon, near Anadarko,
l.. r., q young man named George wills
was killed, the murderer having cut his
victims throat, nearly severng his head
from the body. A man by the name Of
Otto Eckert has been placed under arrest
charged with the crime.
The state coal OIL inspector of Kansas
has been caught In a little scheme OF
permitting the coal oil dealers at Kansas
City to do their own inspecting. This
was discovered by finding the inspectors $
stamp on barrel Of raInwRter which had
been sold and was on the market.
The county attorney Of Beaver county
has requested that all cases to be sub
mltted before the grand jury for the COM
| ing term Of the district court be pre-
, nted TO him by April /. The object Of
,his request Is TO ascertain whether there
would DC sufficient complaint TO Justify
the calling OF grand jury.
Oklahoma Cily Globe; Phil C. Kramer
| has purchased the tOwnsite Of Douglas
City and will convert the place into a
farm. Douglas City was organized sew
eral years ago by colored people .and
widely advertised as the Utopia Of the
| colored race, but the necessary financial
backing did not materlalizo and the pro-
moters Of 1he enterprise were compelled
| to abandon the project through lack OF
encouragement on the part OF the people
for whom II was hrlit.
Pawnee Times Democrat: w. II. Lit
ten. ashier OF the Bank OF Cleveland,
went 10 PawbuskA this week to maze cOl-
lections for his bank. He had taken
quarters IN al upstai'S room al the hotel
and was doing a gn0l business Some
one noticed that a great many Indians
were going TO tho hotel and II was re-
ported 10 Agent Frsoman, who ordered
Mr.. Litten 10 leave the reservation Ii
was just supper time, snd that gentleman
felt hungry, but his request for a good
square meal was denied him, aud he was
summarily and supperless hustled from
the borders Of the sacred soil
Klngfsher court notes: Territory vs.,
John Malone charged with murder; fury,
and verdict OF manslaughter In the sec
ond degree The federal grand Jury is
still IN session, and from the mum Der OF
witnesses present and action OF Assistant
United States Attorney Il. +. MeMechan
IL Is thought the jury Is doing cOnsidera-
bic work. Miss 5. M Burch, our efficient
lady deputy United States marshal, is
holding down the office aud looking after
the court while Dan w. Jones, another
OF Marshal ThOmpsOn's Appolntees, is ia
the saddle making things Interesting for
the eyil-doer.
Manchester Journal: W. II. Wood In
forms us that on Friday morning last two
strangers rode into HawlaY, about seven
teen miles south OF Manches ser, from the
north. Hawley is little country town
OF two stores, postOtfice and. we believe
blacksmith shop. j. Hopper and the
+, Usher boys own the stores. The two
strangers remained In town until after
noon, and when an opportunity presented
itself they drew guns, lined up the
crowd at one OF the stores. took what
money they could get, marched their
| prisoners across the street 10 the other
store and did the same thing there. They
then mounted their horses and rode
away, having secured, IL Is said, between
$40 and $40. Details OF the report OF the
| h0ldup are very meager. but Mr. Wood
says he has heard Il from two or three
/ different sources, aud that the report o.
above given is doubtless about correct.