The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1898-05-05

stabbed by the heartless surgeon,
started for home this morning.
Ed II. Miller, a jolly print, came up
from Oklahoma City, gazed upon the
examining surgeons with longing eyes,
discovered that he was too long TO
make a warrior, and buried his ambi
tion to shed Spanish gore.
Louis Eichhoff, giant in stature
from east to west, but a sawed-off
when contemplated from north to
south, returned to his home at Ell
Reno last night after an unsuccessful
argument with the recruiting officers
Father Meter, the genial aud elo-
quent priest who was formerly here
but now stationed at Norman, has
been here visiting and returned home
last night. Father Meter will soon
take vacation and cross the sea o
visit his native land in sunny France.
Pawnee Dispatch; What's the odds
whether you live on a railroad or not?
Last Tuesday Perry had to telephone
to Pawnee forty miles inland, to get
the latest war news. This is fact.
Pawnee was supplied via Saltwater
and Guthrie, so that the latest news TO
reach Perry came around ll2 miles
inland.
A little boy asked for a bottle OF
"get up in the morning as fast as you
can" the druggist recognized house
hold name for "DeWitts Little Early
Risers," and gave him bottle OF those
famous little pills for constipation,
sick headache, liver and stomach trou-
bles. j. Wheeler & Son.
The Ladies's Benevolent association
extended an invitation to the soldiers
who are members of the company of
cavalry that has been organized here
| to fight the Spaniards, to attend the
performance OF Mikado at the opera
house last night, which was accepted
and the company was represented
there by nearly all the members.
The ladies of Hartranft Relief Corps
are preparing an excellent lunch for
the soldiers OF today who are going TO
Cuba to fight for their country. May
they ever be true TO their flag and the
best wishes OF the corps is that they
may all return safe and sound, and
they promise them a grand reception
and banquet when they arrive home
again.
Captain Barrett, of Shawnee, left
yesterday for Perry TO visit his
mother. The captain is supremely
happy since all the recruits detailed
from his company successfully passed
| the required examination and were
admitted to the cavalry. He was
warmly complimented by Governor
Barnes on the great showing made by
the Shawnee company.
Patriotic girls in this city will fur
nish baskets of lunch for the soldier
bays that leave today to go and fight
the Dons. Among the contributors
are May Vampner, Hattie Cam
eron, Fanny Clark, Mary Sheriff, Mar
tha Scott, Berdie Scott, Miss Ollie, Mis- S
Wolf, Miss Hopkins, Miss Mercer, Miss
White, Mrs. MeWethey, Miss Vampner
and Viola Curtis.
The hard rains OF the last two days
caused the rear wall in the Stapleton
building on Division street to collapse.
The damage to the building is eonsid-
erable, as il was nearing completion.
The roof was put on last week and al
most the entire building had been
lathed and was ready for plastering.
The cutters had not been put over the
rear wall and the water from the roof
loosened tho mortar, which caused the
wall TO collapse. Scott Cooper, the
contractor, is in no way responsi bile
for the aoeident, as the walls were Of
full eighteen-ineh stone, well laid and
mortared.