The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1903-08-20

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termined to find out whether or not oil /,
Is to be had in paying quantities below !
the surface of the ground.
Seven freight trains were on the
Geary sidings at one time last week.
1t requires about ten miles Of siding for
the Rock Island and Choctaw there.
Charles Red, a negro, has been land
ed in jail at Chandler to answer the
charge Of killing Wesley Hayes in
Choctaw railroad camp last February.
Last weeks rain set the plows NOV
ing all over Oklahoma 1t Is probable
that bigger acreage Of wheat than
ever will be planted in the territory
this fall
Stories arc coming in telling Of chill
dren who have found playground in
wheat bins getting wheat grains in
their ears. 1t requires a delicate op-
GRAFTON to remove such objects.
Seventy-fve cars Of wheat are re-
ported as having been marketed in
Ingersoll one day last week. 1t Is one
Of the best markets for this grain in
the western part of the territory.
At Waurika wheat has gone up to 81
cents a busheL Temple buyers have
paid 66 cents and in other parts Of the
territory the figure is in the neighbor.
hood of 60 cents.
Within the last twelve months Geary
has had eighty-seven houses buill with
in its limits. not including the addi-
tions. The money expended on them
amounts to something like $l57275.
Several citizens have been up watch
ing nights the movements of the
clouds. since the rains have been COM
ing There are probably more storm
cellars ready to go into commission
now than ever was the case in the ter
ritory.
Indians don't enjoy having their
pictures taken AT Waukomis the
other day an unoffeding snapshotist
tried to get delegation of Cheyennes
and Arapahoes. but was greeted with
nothing but lodges behind blankets
and the backs Of the bucks.
Old Mexico is to get part of Okla
homa's civilization. The Elk City Ok
Iahoma Mexico company will take to
point eighty miles east of Tampoo
harbor in the Gulf Of Mexico. this fall
number Of families with their own
school, churches, and in general their
own society.
-Four Comanche county men we're
run in by the officers at Mountain View
few days ago. They we're charged
with disturbing the peace at the new
townsite and stealing gun from
ffieien Poage. The sheriff, assisted by
one man. followed the men three miles
on foot in The darkness and arrested
them
Orient trainnen prevented a bad
wreck near Fairview few nights ago
During a storm string Of box cars
was blown from siding out on the
main track They we're seen in time
by the engineer. who reversed and got
up sufficient speed SO that when the
runaways struck his engine no damage
was done,
Regular train service on the KATY
has been established with Muskoges
an dthe junction just across the rivel
from Cleveland. It is understood tina
: contract has been let for the con
, struction OF an eight-stall noundhous'
at that place, and now the Cleveland
esr rise TO inquire where the agree
, ment 81 the road with that town ii
e going to materialize.
Pawnee county commissioners ar
awaiting the action OF the town q
= Cleveland on the proposition TO cor
n struct a bridge across the Arl1ansa
/ at that place The town viii have d
give about S2,eOo. Two years as
notes We're deposited in the bank
/; there to the extent Of $4,000 for thi
Il purpose, but the paper viii have TO b
a secured again in order for the procee'
ing IN every way to be valid.