The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1900-03-28
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TERRITORIAL SKETCHES.

TERRITORIAL SKETCHES.
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
After six months of idleness the
Cleveland ferry is now plying from
shore 10 shore on the Arkansas river,
the water having become too deep for
fording.
Many OF the Sax and Foxes kill their
precious time with playing throwing
stick. Old Coonskin recently lost his
whole wardrobe, excepting his panta-
looms, In one of his favorite games.
Dan and Dave Tohee, chiefs of the
Iowa Indians, were ia town Tuesday,
seys the Stroud Messenger. The ex-
pect S25, 600 within sixty days. Dave
was accompanied by his sixth wife.
and solennly promised TO invite every
body TO his possible seventh wedding.
Representative stevens of Texas has
introduced bill providing for the ap-
pointment of registers Of the land
uffce in the Indian Territory. The
bull provides that the secretary OF the
inferior be authorized to appoint
registe. and fouriassistants for each of
the civilized tribes. This bill Is de-
signed TO take from the Dawes com
mission the appointing power which IL
DOW exercises.
Stroud Messenger: Last Friday af-
ternoon while Judge Burford wa
holding conrt Rt Chandler, the gas
plant at the court house which fnrn-
ishes light for the entire building, ex-
ploded, causing loud report and q
stampede fromlthe court room. The
bailih closed the door 10 prevent the
excited people from running over one
another on tie ssairw az. Judge Bur
ford asked the bailiff what the trouble
was and he replied that Populist had
exploded. Burford said: "Go on with
the court
The Blackwell Times Record and
the Ponca City Courier, In their issues
of this week, formally announced the
of James Wilk5tof ronkawa
for a place on the delee alton 20 the
Philadelphia convention Secretary
Jenkins, IL is understood, considered
the advisability of entering the race,
but since the Mckinley administration
has indicated that IL does not desire
federal officers TO go as delegates he
has decided TO stay out. b. s. barnes
of Ponca City has announced his with
drawal, however. Wilkin was one of
the strongest members of the lower
house of the last Legislative assembly.
The oklahoma City Times-Jour
says: "The assertion that the courts
will give QueenAn his liberty on a writ
of habeAs corpus is fatty contradicted
by the supreme court of Oklahoma.
Several years ago that court declared
that In cases where the courts had
jurisdiction the writ of habeas corpus
could not be involved, but that the
case must take it's course on appeal.
That rule has been followed ever since.
But suppose that QueenAn should Ap-
ply for q discharge under q writ OF
hAbeAs corpus and his prayer should
be granted, most assuredly Queenan
would only be discharged from the
penalties Of the courts verdict, and
must yet stand trial for the murder OF
his wife. The courts order ia such
case would be @ declaration that the
pr'soser had never been put upon trial
and bad net been convicted, and there
fore had never been put In jeopardy.
Enid Wave; Among many other
good truisms uttered by Major Whit
tingrlll In his speech at Waukomis
last Tuesday, we quote the following;
Senator Beveridge OF Indiana, says
that China Is the mightiest commer-
cial fact in our future, and that we
have outgrown the constitution that
the declaration Of Independence does
not apply oElyto Anglo Saxons. Does
not apply' as IL did an hundred and
twenty four years ago, and we must
not haul down the dag; that we must
give the children Of the equator the
benefit of our splendid civilization as
for instance, by selling them In 1898
two hundred thousand dozen bottle
of matted liquor AS against li2, ,440
dozen in 1899 at the moderate sum of
sl54, ,as0; that we are trustees under
God Of the civilization Of the world,
Are but the disentombed utterances Of
Ihe darkest and bloodieBt era OF hu
man history. They are the rumblings
of the national volcano. They began
AZ the signing of the treaty In Paris.
Our government was weaker the mo-
meEt that treaty was signed than Il
has ever been any hour nineo the rati-
lcAtion OF the federal constitution.
The issue is empire or republic To
save the republic and forcntAll the en-