The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1903-09-17
LEApERETrEs.

LEApERETTEs.
Local Happenings Of City and Terri
tory Briefly Told.
White corn has gone up to so cents
a bushel at Foss.
In some localities of the territory
last week cotton was severely damag-
ed by hail
watonga has fixed up for an excel
lent lecture course this winter Among
the entertainers will be Champ Clark,
of Missouri and John Temple Graves,
the Atlanta orator.
Blaine county lawyers In bar assc-
citation have asked Judge Beauchamp /
of the district court to postpone for
one week the opening of the court in /
order that they may attend the en-
campment of the national guards at
Guthrie.
oBummer." one OF the oldest, most
familiar. and most highly favored ca
nine residents OF Watonga, has passed
in his checks. lie belonged to nobody. /
but everybody in the town seemed tol
have an interest in him.
Three quail flew through the glass
window ofg a Watonga saloon a few
nights ago. we're caught and are now
on exhibition there.
Judge and Mrs Beauchamp held
reception to the members of the Greer
county bar and officers of the court at
Mangum a few nights ago.
There is a great deal of complaint
coming up from the new country where
whisky peddlers are getting in their
work among the Comanches and Apa-
ches. 1t has caused lots Of trouble
among the whites.
Out at Erick there appears to be
some feeling against a doctor of that
locality. 1t is said the doctor was
called to examine a man who had
been shot in neighborhood row, but
that the doctor would not do much for
him, insisting that he was going to die,
anyhow. Another doctor was called
and cared for the injured man.
Farmers who come out from Illinois
say that the soil around the town Of
Prague. Lincoln county, comes as near
that of the Sucker state as any in Ok
lahoma. They predict that it win lie
selling for 500 an acre some of these
days.
Eugene V. Debs is to speak at Ok
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Prague people say that town will
be the gateway to the Creek country
when that is opened up to white set
! tlement. They have a fine country
surrounding there, which seems des-
tined TO make and to hold up the place.
Officers for the Woods county regi-
ment of old soldiers have been chosen
as follows: Colonel. John II. Gray,
/ lieutenant colonel, William Cecil maj
or, l.. c. Forester; chaplain, j. C..
Smith; quartermaster, T. E. Weeks;
adjutant, W. Hiatt.
Cotton from Hinton, Caddo county.
after being ginned there, will be ship
! ped direct to Liverpool for marketing
Geary's brick plant has been obllg-
ed to put on a night shift owing to the
many orders coming in from all over
/ the territory.
Dwight Bayley is to teach the
/ English Bible In the Kinghsher col-
/ lege during the academic year at hand.
C., w. Cruzon, Of Calumet, has sold
| this season 500 bushels of peaches He
sold a great many Elbertas for s1.O0 a
bushel. the purchaser picking the fruit
Roosevelt has an artesian well. Wat
er was struck at a depth of 2S0 feet
after drilling through sixty feet of
solid rock
The Oklahoma county man who pat
ented a water velocipede denies that he
got his idea from a beer schooner.
The government engineer has de-
cided that Dunbar Springs would fur
nish only one-third the supply Of wat
er necessary TO operate Lawtons wat
erworks system.
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