The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1900-06-15

TERRITORIAL SKETCHES.


After being woke up for the thirty
ninth time the editor of the Blackwell
Spoon got up at 2 o'clock the other
morning and wrote this Before a cat
d es he sits on the back fence and
howls from 1880 p, m. to 1880 a. M,
and after he dies he is made into fiddle
strings for some galoot to saw oil from
1870 a. IN. to 1880 p. n"
The Greer. Eckert fight in Cowley
county. Kansas, b as reached that in
teresting stage where deceased aunts
have been brought into the contro-
versy The Greer faction charges
Eckert with robbng his aunt of money
to buy newspaper, to which Eckert
replies that he hasn't had an aunt for
over quarter Of a century,
Creek Tribune-There is fellow up
in Wichita, Kan, who ought to have
bee sent to the pen for life. He is
guilty OF forging checks on the editor
of the Wichita Eagle aud cashing
them. II an editor gets far enough
ahead to have his checks honored at
the bank he should be let alone
Day county has the distinction of be-
ing the first IN Oklahoma to file
statement of the tax assessment for
1900 as fixed by its county board Of
| equalization. 1t was filed with Audi
tor ;. n. Hopkins and shows an in
crease in taxable property of Sl,4O0,
600 over last year.
The army worm has made its APP
pearance in great numbers in many
parts of the territory. Most of the
wheat is too hard for them to work on
but they are damaging oats consider
ably and reports from Woods and
! Grant counties state the worms are de-
vastatinR many fields of corn, strip
ping the ground bare of every green
blade.
Norman Transcript: The tenth trial
of case began in the Perry courts
lest week. The case is a suit for
! $500 salary by Rev. ). p. Myers, late
county school superintendent of Noble
county and pastor of the Presbyterian
church of that city in the early days,
against that church. At one time he
had the church advertised for sale.
Since the passage Of the bill open
ing the Kiowa, Comanche and Apache
land for settlement interest In the
mineral deposits in the Wichita mour-
tains has been revived. 1t is the be-
here that the mineral land laws ap.
piled to this country as soon as the
president signed the bill and claims
are being staked off by the hundreds
all through the mountains. Material
has arrived by Rock Island freight for
a small smelter and actual tests of ore
| will soon be made.
A test was made of the natural gas
Il
strong, three and half miles north Of
Granite, Saturday and Sunday. The
well is only Is feet deep and is filed
with water from the recent rains. A
large funnel was made and placed over
the we'll in an inverted position. The
gas that escaped through the end of
this tunnel was sufficient to produce a
continuous blaze twelve inches high.
A company has been formed TO sink
the well to greater depth. Several
Rock Island officials were present when
the test was made, and they pronounce
it petroleum gas
The people near Augusta, o. t., are
becoming excited over the railroad
situation. 1t appears that the Augusta
railroad grade is proving a temptation
to several railroad companies. The
Choctaw, Oklahoma 81 Gulf had large
corps of engineers in this vicinity
during the past week. the survey com.
mencing at Geary and ending at
Kiowa, passing within one mile of
!. Augusta. The Rock Island is survey
ing this way from Enid, and the Kan
sas CITY, NJ Msxico & Orient is making
final survey from it's head camp near
the Kansas line The appearances are
that the Stillwell railroad will have to
race through oklahoma. The Stillwell
company is hiring all the men and
teams that can be secured,