The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1898-12-02
CITY In BRIEF.

Supreme court is In session.
District coust adjourned yesterday
until Monday at 8 a. m.
There are fewer houses for reut than |
ever before known in Guthrie.
The little son OF Mr.. and Mrs. Will
lard Stapleton is very i'll at their farm
near town.
The same old Moses is serving 1 w.
Harper whiskey over his bar, I'll Har-
rison avenue.
The incest line of trimmings, silks,
braids, ribbons; etc, in the city at the
Guthrie Cash Store.
Ladies' G.. A. r. Circle will meet In
the Suffrage club rooms Saturday, De-
cember 3, at 3 o'clock.
Bob Smith, the best street commits
sioner Guthrie ever had, has finished
the sewer ditch on Villas avenue.
Some handsome sales of property in
town have been made lately, which Is
good sign that money is plentiful
The demand for dwelling houses is
great, and some Of the real estate men
are kept quite busy answering inqui-
ries Of those seeking such houses.
Yesterday a real estate man said 10
a reporter Of the Leader that he could
hnd tenants for a dozen or more COM
Portable dwellings II he could set
them.
A man whe has studied the person
mel of the next legislature says that il
is made up of independent and will
not be "run" by any one. 1t will do
70 pray that is so.-Wichita Eagle.
Secretary Jenkins today issued a
charter to the Acme Fraternal Union
OF Sedalia, Mo. Charles Il. Barnett is
the general agent of the company for
Oklahoma, with headquarters in this
city.
The quickest way to solve the high
hat nuisance in theatres is TO compel
the men to sit on one side of the house
and the women on the other. Give a
woman TO understand once that her
power to make a man miserable Is
gone and she will discard the instru
ment of torture. Her delight Is not
in the height Of the hat but in the
ability TO make man wretehed.
DO not complain about poor potatoes
any more, but go to the GOOD Luck
grocery and buy some of those fine po
tatoes which have just arrived from
Box Butte county, in Northwest Ne
braska which is the finest potato
country west Of the Mississippi. The
potatoes are dry and mealy, and as fnt
for baking as were ever placed in al
oven. Try bushel, only 20 cents, an6
you will use no other. Good Lucl
Grocery.
At the meeting yesterday Of the di
rectors of the A. G.. & G. railway com
pany the president and secretary wer,
authorized to at once advertise foi
bids and begin the permanent survey
Of the road from Guthrie to Shawnee
Already offers have been made to com
plete the work and great hopes are en-
tertained OF the early and successful
completion of the road between her,
and Shawnee. The survey will b,
finished before January l. There is
one thing certain, the survey viii
begin in few days and will be pushed
through as quickly as money anC
activity can do 1t.
Mr.. II. f. Hawkins, OF Guthrie, wa
well acquainted with Alex Loin wh'
was murdered and robbed opposit
New Madrid, Mo-, the other day. II,
had known the murdered man TO
many years as one among the fore
most citizens and best men of tina
community, and Mr.. Hawkins feel
greatly grieved over his murder. A
the LEADER CLEANS the particulars i
appears that two negro men had rowet
deceased across the river in skiff
and as he stepped ashore one Of 'h'
negroes struck and stunned him ani
then they cut his throat and robbed
the body of gold watch and $3.50
just at this tins they were diacovere'
one OF them captured and the other es
capped. The negro captured in the &C
was hanged at once and the folloNini
day the other was captured and h
also was hanged