The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1905-07-17

70 get up Tho horse az the other end
Of the lssso Is trained to keep ihe rope
pulled tight. thus materially uHsistinr ia
The operation of tying the steer.
" something happens that when
big steer r. roped and the jerk comes
which Is TO throw the animal that the
horse Instead Of the steer IS thrown
down and the rider badly hurt.
II is remarkable with what proficiency
roplng Is dore, With hosse on its high
est gallop. and the steer doine It's level
best. u Is no easy trick to swing a half
men rope with a running moose at one
end 70 that this moose will drop over
the head OF the madly gailoping steer
Not only the men hut sometimes the
women do this work. AT this entertain
ment one OF the contestants In these
ropinE contests was Lucille Mlllhall the
cowboy queen. She was a girl Of slight
build, but rode "A horse with great dex-
terity. She ran down. roped ani fictr
ner steer In as short time as tie besf OF
men. When her turn came great
vice horned steer WIS turned loose and
she promptly took after him Inside Of
totiy seconds she had caught roped and
led The animal and raised her hands IN
,n, we ar TO notify the Judges hat her
one Of the greatest sights OF the en-
teflainment was the crowd Imagine
" you can, sixty thousand men xot.rn
and children gathered on treeless
prairie. without house IN sight II
was a perfect sea Of humanity When
the performance was concluded and the
people poured down TO the railroad
ifatk. Il seemed as though hundreds OF
acres were covered with "A stream on liv-
ing humanity.
The Miller brothers farm on big
scale. They have twelve TO Hftern fhcits-
ana acres Of whaet fields They piow
WIN traction engines which have wheels
with four foot tires and draw a dozen
gang piows. Dozen of bic3ers f1low each
other through the fields when harvcst
time comes 'rhfr tt.t
fonca Indians, and rent the lands at
nom 20 cents per acre and upwards.
IN this entertainmcnt the Miilers
MADE no charge for admission rhe
general public were required a. pat *
cents for sents in the stand and II is
estimRted the grand stand receipts we're
zen OF twenty thousand donsrs. There
were other receipts for 1tand p~ivilores
etc so that the Entertainment was orob-
aDiy not losing venture financially
The visiting editors Will long -emeln-
per ne Miller brothers and the novel en-
tertainnent provided for them. not for
getting the kindly hospitality showered
on them by their hosts.
Lichheld (Minn) Independent: Sath-
ile rs certainly wonder lt har-- All
INC modern utilities and the right kind
OF people.
Mapleton Entrprise; As already stat
q.
ing and after a good nights rest we yisi-
ted some OF the local points OF interest
sixteen years ago Guthrie was 4 wild.
err ess today II Is metropolitan city
or twenty eight thousand people paved
streets, electric lights modern buiid-
lngs as wen as public structures OF
which any city might well feel proud
among the latter Is Masonic temple
rooms for the various Masonic orders
irons the Blue lodge up, including the
Eastern Star. Then they have a mag
hlhcant city hall and nearly dozen
school buildings. As we gazed upon the
Carnegie librafa, we wondered what had
been the action OF the Mapleton council
ana as We mounted its steps and enter-
ca us magnlhcant rooms we thought
coud friend Spaulding have viewed the
sight which met our eyes. he wolld
never have been found guilty OF opr,os.nQ
a public 1srary for Map1eton In the
pasenleNt Is FOUND gymnasium which
ls patronized BY business ipen as we'll
as the boys. Then there are beautiful
rooms for meetings OF the various clrbs,
Ihese are OF course In addition 70 the
,9 pook rooms, reading rooms. etc Every
lie library and the stranger within ner
gates who does not visis the Institution.
passed Il up OF his own violtion as he Is
told of it often enough
The city Is In gay attire as O welcome
10 the visiting editors: flags and streNin-
ers float from everywhere while In The
evening thousands OF esectrIc lights ar
ranged In arches pronounce welcome to
the visitors The one thought that 4,
upPermost in the minds OF the people OF
Oklahoma is statehood.
Cloa Sity (MinnD Herald: The eoun-
" on whole looks good deal like Min
nesota 5,e or chiadewa county Around
Guthrie. the country IS rolling and very
productive. West and north of Guthrie
around Enid the country seems to be
sun better while southwest Of Enid to-
wards Snyder are the Wichita mountains
which nothing but rock and of course
nom present indication no good snyder
Dy the way is the place which was visit
ed by cyclone "a month ago to-day 1O9
people were killed outright and a great
many other injured. Only day before
yesterday lady Victim died IN the hos
pital Most of the wreckage has been
cleaned away but the prairie northwest
OF town Is still strewn with lumber, etc
This country Is, however not subject to
cyclones any more so than Minnesota.
nom what 1 can learn a resident OF
snyder told me that this was the FIRST
one In his part OF the country
The sold here is not just the same as
YOU md II In Minnesota. Around C,'th-
rie It is exceedingly red while further
west Il seems 10 get blacker The red
son seem TO be tuEt as productive. how
ever. Tor the crcss everywhere look good
In some places the farmers are busy
cutting their whaet Corn cotton und
fruits with wheat are the staple crops
here, Farmers make as high as thirty
TO forty dollars an acre from cotton. nut
there Is lot OF work In raising II and the
people are more iogy and take things
easier than they do IN Minnesota
AS ] wrote last week this Is a great