The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1898-03-17
OVER THE TERRITORY.


Plenty OF very dark" complcxloned |
people who have been proudly claiming |
for some time that they were OF spanish |
blood, are now willing TO admit that their /
ancestors were either negro or indian
Deputy Marshal Madsen brings the |
news OF horrible murder yesterday, |
three miles east OF Minco. Otto Eckert |
whose brother lives In the south part OF
this county, cut the throat Of 10 year
old boy named Wylis. whose mother Is |
believed 10 live In FL Reno. Eckert Is In |
jail at Chickasha.
III Reno Star. Fifty subjects OF the !
car OF Russia, with fur-trimmec caps
and coats, came In this morning over the |
Rock Island They are going TO take up
land q Custer county. They are spend
Ing the day la buying horses, wagons
and farm i'm plemenis The outfit has a
goodly number OF rub.Os which will come
In handy for the purchase OF farms
The work on the Choctsw is being
pushed with vengeance. Nancy & Co.
have sublet the following contracts TO
graders: Welsh Bros. seven sections;
M e, gan Bros one section; Frank Pen
well. one section; Bs ker Bros OF Ok
archie, one section; Hall a. LOCKER. Colo
rado. two sections; Mike Booling, Of
Fort Smith, one section Nancy q Co.
have the contract for laying the track
laid by June l3 The balance OF the
track TO Bridgeport will be completed by
July IS.
The noted horsethief, Pink Hale, and
Andrew Stansield, a forger. escaped from
the Cloud Chief jail last Tuesday by re-
moving plank from the floor and digging
cut They noun ed a couple OF horses
left near by cOnfederates, and Hale made
good his escape, but Stanslield was cap
tuced few hours afterward. The Cloud
Chief Herald Sentinel says that a reward
OF 800 will be paid for Hale at any jail In
/ the United States He IS described as
follows: Thirty years old, weight about
l40, feet 6 inches in height, blue eyes.
dark hair, slightly dark complexion and
stih knee caused Dy gun shot.
Ponca Courier: Notice was served this
morning on all grocerymen OF this city
/ not 10 sell lemon or other extracts which
| contain alcohol 10 any Indian, or TO any
ward OF the ROvernme who IL now upon
the rolls as such. Lemon extract has
been fAvo-ite beverage with the Ponca
Indians, and they can get good drunk
| out OF 80 cent bottle. Often when they
have money and are unable 10 getw hisky
they will buy nearly all the extract sup
py IN town. The grocerymen viii all
o1ey she new order. Saloon meu were
also served with the notice, warning
against sale Of liquors TO Indians.
n
man who visited the Otoe reservation
yesterday related 10 a little squad OF In
terested listeners last night what he
saw there. That which interested him
most was the sacred hand dance In
which they were engaged yesterday. In
stead Of using their feet they kept time
TO the pounding OF he drums with their
hands In var ous graceful motions. After
dancing In lnis way IN silence for son-e
time all ct once number Of the women
begin wailinR and crying and shedding
tears IN time TO be followed by the men
IL Is peculiar form or sacred rite OF the
0toes, little understood Except by the
Iudians.
| The following cases were tried by
Judge Hainer at Newkirk last Saturday
Elmer Whiles, introducing liquor intC
Usage reservation, plead guilty any sen
fenced 20 reform school at Washington
ID. c. for two years A. j. lieppinstein
for introducing liquor into the Osag'
country, was sentenced TO 500 fine anC
sixty days in the federal iaL a. Guthrie
Lee Conrad plead guilty and sentence de
feTred Case OF A Helen, Charles an(
Frank Farrell, Louis Pappan and Pat
rick Fay against the santa Fe railroad
was dismissed at cost OF plaintiffs K
! T.. Mitchell was given an order TO conhn
Is. M. Bruner to five acres on his CLAIM
and one-third Of wheat now on balance
OF land William G. Barnett was dl
/ vorced from Cornelia Barnett. Franl
McCaslin divorced from Nellie McCaslin
C.. h. Foultz from Lizzie FoultL. Clari
s. Krause from Michael Krause. Mar
garet L. Howard from Edward +. How
! ard Mary j Gearhard from John Gear
hard. M. Pollock from Rosa Pollock
, Jason Caiieen was denied a divorce fror
Nellie Caiieen.