The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1898-10-12
ABOUT THE TERRITORY.

a railway mail service Is TO be estab.
iished between stroud and Wellston.
At he bottom Of cave near Dough
erty is spring containing eyeless
| fish
A beggar is resping a harvest in
Kansas City by proclaiming that he
wasn't crippled at Santiago.
The grafters who did Wichita one
/ week, Guthrie the next, are now keep
! ing the police awake at oklahoma
City
Judge Burtord fined a man a, Wood.
| ward S25 for hav ng weapon on him
! during court hours and inside court
! room
The case OF Seymour Price VS. Side.
walk privileges at oklahoma City has
been continued. 1t will probably 60
to the supreme court
The Taloga Advocate has this cam.
paign argument: Don't vote for n
man who will sell out for IS" What
does the Advocate want, "a $40 man?
stroud has a commercial clnb which
! does more than drink mint juleps
when it meets. 1t has undertaken to
build bridges across stseams near
| Stroud.
A migratory flock OF chicken hawks,
said to number fully 5000, has teen
seen near Ceres and Red Rock, accord
ing to Amos Fits, in the Perry Demo.
crat Patriot
Several OF the magazines announce
/ that fInu hnna 10, ,,rfvaf tho hfatpru -
the Santiago campaign before the
year is out. Better finish up the war
OF the rebellion first.
Because few Indians got drunk on
whiskey furnished them by white men
here are those who insist that the
savages should be exterminated.
| Why not first eNterminate the white
men who make them drunk.
It's only a few months since the
| papers used 20 make daily bulletins of
| Gen. Miles start FOR the front. Now
| he is almost forgotten. He can't even
get TO testify before the whitewash
committee. SO passes this worlds
glory.
a wag at Enid cut a hoe in win
! dow curtain IN n store and put up this
placard "A Peep for Men Only"
! Every man who locked through the
| hoe was hit a thousand pound blow
from behind with an oak board Half
the population is standing up.
Notwithstanding that Geary is a
railway town the United States mail
is still carried by star routes. Daily
newspapers are three and four days
old when they get TO Geary. The
c tizens are kicking for an improved
mail service, and they should have it,,
At Arapahoe the other day Il ne
! looking stranger strnck town and be-
came friendly with every body. After
a weeks stay he left. 1t then devel-
oped that he was Pinkerton detec-
tive Tne local fellows are scratching
their heads and trying to remember
what they told him.
A Mr.. Youst, Of Saltwater sold a
man in Kansas horse The man did
not pay for il. The saltwater man
went up 20 Kansas and took the horse
home. Then the Kansas man sent
the sheriff TO Oklahoma to arrest the
Still water man. Governor Barnes e.
fused TO grant requisition.
hNuiiAHfh lt biltliAl ,
force yesterday took in man who
gave his name as W. b. Arterberry,
from everywhere lie had in his pos
session team Of fine, large, young
mules, branded U, and a sorrel horse
and saddle branded w The mules ft
the description of span stolen at
Muscogee a short time ago The man
claims that he bought them at Coal.
gate, but he does not produce bill OF
sale.
Tecunseh Republican Shawnee
papers are complaining bitterly OF the
stagnation Of BUSINESS In that town
They don't seem 10 realize yet that
the Frisco railroad has built across the
north of them. The Dinner Bell says
Shawnee merchants are about al
lively this season as u graveyard.
And then in a ft Of desperation IL in
quircs Can't our merchants wake
up and inject some life into their bust
ness aud the town %
Gushing Herald Some Of our sa,
and Fox Indians had nine head OF
ponies stolen few nights ago. They
apprised John Arnold OF the fact. lie
secured the assistance OF Deputy Sheriff
Dnbson, and together they took the
trail OF the ponieu. They called OF
DR.. Bland, at Red Fork, /, T.. and with
that gent eman's assistance soon haC
the thief Ia charge. lie proved 10 b'
Charles Bowman, well known mere
AT first Bowman denied any knowl
edge Of the stolen ponies, but gentl,
hint from DR. Bland that hemp rop,
would perhaps refresh his memory
which met the hearty approval Of th'
dozen COW boys who accompanied tn,
party, caus bowman 10 reconside
his statements. He then led the partl
TO where the ponies were, near Sa
pulpa. The thing most regretted Il
the escape OF Bowman, who, at an un
guarded moment, sprang for the brusl
and succeeded in getting away.
Cushing Herald Mrs. Long, who
lives northeast Of town contracted q
have a well dug by win Noble, AM
was 10 give him a COW in paymen
when the well wss Gnished. Tn
other day Mrs Longs COW was miss
ing and she sent for Deputy Sherif
Bill Fleming and told him that Nobl
had stolen her COW. Bill Flemiag tool
the trail Oh what he supposed wa
Noble and the COW until he crosse
the Cimarron river. Noble heArinI
that the COW he was to get IRON MgI
Long had been stolen, jumped On
mule aud eook the trail OF Fleming, BE-
lieving be was the thief Mrs. Lon
caught sight Of Noble as he was rid
ing by, and took after him. fhe triI
a a a