The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1899-08-08
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OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES


Patronize the park aud the play
D. n. Goode, the grocer, has sold TO |
II. Oliver.
A world of abstraoting is being done !
et Bronsons office.
The street fair soliciting committee
Is getting there
The majority Of the roals leading
into town are impossible,
The opera house received its grade
this morning and dirt is flying
A band Of Iowa Indian farmers were
in the city last evening ON trading
tour
). b, Freeman will put another story
TO his brick block over Wallace's drug
store.
L. P. Burlingame went north this
morning 90 tour for health land
wealth.
The la2t report Of Charles D. Snow
& Co. shows that Oklahoma leads In
wheat, oats and corn
DR.. j. L Melvin received message
announcing the death of Mrs. Melvin's
mother in California.
City engineer Foncart Is preparing
the Advertisement for permanent side
walks not contracted for.
The best ladies' Of oklahoma Citv
are members Of The flower parade
committee Of the street fair.
Out OF forty three Eastern families
w. M. Spurloek sold them twenty Lo-
gan farms and rented six
The Shawnee Real Estate Associa-
tion is running Eastern excursions into
shawnee twice a month and is making
them pay
The WeinberRer Bros bought lot
in block so, East Guthrie Yesterday
for $3.50 from Hermen Beckemever. a
brother of Otto.
Stop, Bessie. What are you pound.
ing your little brother for?n 'Because
be sure to do something he ought not
in about two minutes.
The Times Democrat. OF Pawpee
clipped half column Of railroad news
from the Leader and credited IL to the
State Capital. That is not fair deal.
The Fair received another large
shipment ofglassware this week which
will be pushed off on the nth Alta
recent sale, 2400 pieces went in three
hours.
H. q. Trosper, member of the first
legislature from Oklahoma CITY. was
robbed OF $3.50. The money was in his
trousers pocket under his pillow and
taken while he was asleep.
The bridges leading into the city
northeast of town, north on Division
street, and by the fair grounds are IN
a dangerous condition. The county
commissioners should look up the re
pairs.
VIM Campbell has opened a short
order lunch order in Ritterbuschis
saloon on Oklahoma avenue Bill
located lot 2 miles east OF the United
states land Office on opening day and
lost it. He is entitled to patronage.
Gen. W, NJ Bruce, the real estate
rustler Of Perry, was in the city last
evening on business with a nun Der of
Eastern speculators who desired Logan
county farms On his farm in the Strip
he threshed 20 bushels OF wheat per
acre. lie left for Galveston to take a
bath in the gulf for week
City Attorney Johnston, Of Perry.
won out yesterday before Chief Justice
Burford The Perry Water and Light
Company brought mandamus suit
against the city of Perry TO compel the
the council to levy au additional tax
for water purposes Judge Burford
refused 10 grant the peremptory writ
The energetic r. j Barker, the pol
itician, farmer, and breeder of Here
ford cattle, of Crescent City, is in the
city. He SAYS the roads have been
improved so that heavy loadsmay now
be hauled oyer them. He also re
marked that "Oklahoma has never
shown to better advantage than now "
The Sill Dixon -four train is going,
and don't forget it., August 18th. II
Hennessey don't respond soon she will
only get a passing notice. 1t will not
cost S400; only $500 is asked Hennes.
sey cannot afford 10 let Enid and KING
fisher go " without representation
and decoration in the train. This will
be general advertisement OF the ter
rltory. -Hennessey Press Democrat.
C. T. Tahaferro, the colored orator
of Perry, vice president of the terri.
torial colored protective association
was in the city last evening on his
way TO the 5th annual meeting at
| Kingfsher, The association is sis
hundred strong and the object is to
advance the best interests of the race
intellectually, morally, eocially and
religiously. E | Saddier, Of Guthrie.
is president
Jake Spidle, the noted Republican
Democrat, Populist, Prohibitionist
and Woman's Suffragist, was murder
ed at Manchester, Grant county, by S.
E. Stone on July 22. Old Jake was
natural born thief and he got there"
Ia every political party. He was
sharp with his noodle, but could not
write his name. very few men could
force themselves on party and be
elected like Old Jake.
DR.. Homer Mead, Of Camden, H.,
formerly a medical examiner in the
pension department at Washington, is
in the city, stopping with some of his
old comrades Of the civil war, renew
ing old ties and taking in the scenes
OF Oklahoma for the first time. The
doctor Is in no hurry and will remain
some time among us. He is rooming
at the home of Joseph Mooney, one OF
his old comrades, on North Division
street.