The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1908-04-10
SALAMAGUNDI.

The firt automobile police nairoi
wagon Is now Ia operation ip Chicago !
Three carloads of honey have been /
exported recently from Texas to Eng
land
Nine hundred miles Of naw railroad
are to De constructed In German !
Southwest Africa
Orchard grass is richest IN protein.
being 80 to 10 pounds. almost double
chat Of timothy.
Tho British Columbia Grand Lodge
OF the Ancient Order of United Work.
men has seceded from tie American
supreme Lodge.
John Browns wagon in which he
made many pilgrimages during his cfn-
sade against slavery. was burned al
Iowa City, Iowa. Thursday
Constant TrOyon's painting, Return
Of the Flock Evenug" has been sold
at the sale Of Ochme and Enhrich col
lecfions in New York 10 Alexander
Barrie for $4,000
The attempt to convert Brandywinc
Creek, Ind into a ditch, thus destroy
ing the identity of "The Old Swimmin
Hole" which James Whiteomb Riley
made famous in q poem. was defeat
ed yesterday by decision OF the In
diana supreme court
| The marriage contract of the present
emperor of China has been discovered
In possession Of German family. and
has been returned by them TO the i'm
perial archives in Peking
Chicago police has given vaudeville
theater managers notice that they had
beiter cut out slurs against Rocke-
feller. Carnegie and other rich men.
Such slush tend to inspire anarchists
and cranks
To determine whether or not they
will be practicable for general use TWO
slot machines for the vending OF post
lago stamps are to be placed In the
corridor Of the New York general post
Office Monday
The aerial coming tower Is The lat
est device of the Chicago department
cf smoke inspection, Its value con.
sists chiefly In that the owner Of The
offending chimney can be notified i'm
mediately by the inspector stationed IA
the lookout.
"A copy OF the cipher of the American
lstate department used in private cor.
lrespondenee between Washington and
the various American legations and
Ienbassiess was stolen recently from
1.-The American legation nt Bucharest.
Roumania By French employe, who
escaped TO C0nsiantinople.
A group OF mfnonaires' wives, con
isisting of Mrs Bayard Cutting. Mrs.
Nv. II. Vanderbilt. Mrs w J. Sloane,
Mrs Potter Palmer Mrs. W. X. Van
lderbiit, Mrs II Mckay Twombly and
Mrs George Gould. have organized
society for missionary work among the
Indians under the dissection of Syhil
Carter
MOI many years ago q well-llnown
dealer was visited by a would-be seller
who had IN his hand an envelope con
uel Pepys, which he said he had just
cut OFF the original letters TO save
trouble! by so doing he had diniin
ished the value Of his propery by near
ly 200 pounds
The French Acamedy refused the
500. 600 bequeathed TO It by Mile
Louise II. I.eclerc who died in New
". 4. l., aaonYH
10 the terms Of her will, in raising
the moral tone OF France The acad-
envy holds the acceptance of this fund
would be tantamount TO admitting the
opinion Of the testatrix, who regarded
her native country as sink OF in
iquity.
The barbarous custom Of using con-
yicts in treadmills is stiil practiced in
some English prisons, declares Popu-
lar Mechanics, and an interesting pic
lure shows the convic.s at this trying
task, The speed Is about thirty steps
4 minute; and IL a man misses a step
a crossbar strikes the calves Of his
legs.
The lower house of the New Jersey
llNNliinh NttIttdlA ~ NNi AT hhN
inviting secretary OF war Tait and
Baron Takahira. the Japanese amhas
r sador 10 speak before the assembly
\ I Monday evening.
Zinc eohiins are largely nsed ~
= Vienna but the more expensive ones
! are made OF copper and cost as much
as S2.500. while a bronze aud copper
coffin recently made for Russian
, Archdukc cost over $4,000
Tho last OF the American war yes
sells which for more than a year have
! lheen continually IN the Caribbean Sea
! helping 10 preserve peace in Central
America sailed away today u was th'
collier Lebanon.
Il is reported that Beneal Is about
"a adopt the Pltman system OF shorp
lhand writing 10 the hensQh language
+ A smail cpmnilttea consisting qf ex
+ lperts in shorthand and certain ednca
] tional officers was appointed io con
slider the matter.