The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1911-11-22

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Republican
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The four corners OF the earth just
now. so far as Oklahoma is concern.
ea are the wheat corner the broom-
corn corner. the cotton corner ana
the iiVc stock corner -Renfrow's Rec.
ord
McAlester Special: Tony Rosser.
-. married, "A shot firer. was killed
sometime Monday night in Usage
mine Nc 3 Nv an explosion suppOs.
I'd 10 have been caused BY "A wlndye
shot
The Gage Record. which announced
the T. lth of ben Shollenberger the
well known tramp printer some three
months ago received letter last
week purpCrting To come frlm HIM.
The Record could not exactly locate
Ben's wnerea bouts as all they could
maze out OF the post mark was ell.
-Four months OF alfalfa, cotton.
seed and corn in Oklahoma make just
as goad a steer as six months OF corn
and timothy IN Iowa said l. c swift
ol Kansas City ID you realize the
economic value ef chat difference of
time in favor OF the Oklahoma live.
stock grower?-Osage Chief
George Skinner who lives near
EdgewOcd in Grant county. claims for
his sen. Harry. the distinction OF be-
ing the Youngest son OF civil war
Union army veteran in the United
States The hoy is four years old.
George skinner served four years In
the Union army in Massachusetts
regiment. was with Grant in Vfcks.
burg. with sherman to the sea, and
in the grand review in Washington
at the wars close
Ii is interesting to note that the
new local option bill prepared by the
liquor interests carefully eliminates
any chance Of Jail sentence Tor VIC.
lation Of the law. A man Who is
convicted Of violating the local op-
uon Law. If the voters adopt the law,
may be fined anywhere from one
cent to five hundred dollars. the
minimum penalty not being fixed.
This provision would exactly suit any
saloon keep nabitually violating the
lsw.-Ninita Leader
Both the state and the Santa Fe
Railroad company filed notice OF ap-
peal TO the Cniteu States circuit court
81 appeals IN the case OF the Santa
VS.. r W. Ritterbusch. treasurer. and
B. W. Murphy, sheriff, of this county.
involving the collection OF state taxes
assessed against the plaintiff com
pany for the first 10 IL months OF
statehood The case was only recent.
iy decided by Federal Judge Cotteral
here. who held that certain portions
cf the taxes, as assessed. were illegal
because OF the TAX law conflicting
with the state constitution and an or.
der was issued restraining the county
officers from collecting such taxes
ne railway company was ordered to
pay however. $2,2S795 taxes. when
Judge Cotteral held were legally as
sessed. The court also ordered the
company to pay all court costs in the
case up to April "a, inst. and 10 pay
: ne accrued costs since that date.
While eXcavating in the sand nit |
Jim HUDSON OF near Dalhart unearth-
ed the bones of some strange animal
and brought to Guymon a large tooth
about four inches long and an inch |
and a quarter in diameter The tooth
was sent to the Smithsonian institute |
AZ Washington. d. C. and the fol-
owing information returned The |
tooth is an upper molar or cheek |
Goth Of horse. IT probably repre-. |
sents the extinct species. although !
thls point can not be certified from
the single tooth sent for examination
as IL so nearly resembles the CORES. |
lOnding tOotn of a dOmesuc horse. |
The skeleton were encountered Is |
.eet below the surface of the ground |
md about forty feet from the edge |
the canyon and from their location /
l is impossible that the bones are |
nose OF the domestic horse
A eoroner's Jury at Nassar IN Dew
ay county Tuesday discharged from
ustody ,FranR Harper, a prominent
.armer OF that locality. who last night1
shot through his bedroom door and
instantly Killed jim Earp. a stranger Z
'seu perhaps 80 years. who had asked /.
hisht !odglng Aarn aiJrised Har. IL
'er suspicious during the evening =
~ asking If he had good saddle Il
Iorse IN the barn and if he had mon II
y 10 pay Tor a COW he had nurcnas Z
a. Harper during the night heard II
carp fumbling al the door of his bed II
oom and called 20 him three times
o away. carp persisted, however.
nd itarper shot through the door.
llilng him Instantly. Harper immed
'tely notified the authorities at Ia
9ga Of what he hsd done. .
There could be no better medicine 4