Oklahoma Leader. (Guthrie, Okla.), Vol. 11, No. 29, Ed. 1 Thursday, July 23, 1903 Page: 1 of 8
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ONE YEAR
FOR ONLY
$1
STANDS FOR
DEMOCRACY
First, last and
All the time.
VOLUME 11
GUTHRIE, OKLAHOMA, THUKSDAY, JULY 23, 1903.
NUMBER 29
Fresh Country Correspondence
West Lone Star.
Mr. Shaffer is plowing cotton.
Mr. Kessenger is chopping cotton.
Mrs. Stallman was in Guthrie Mon-
day.
Mr. Johnson is at Redrock renewing
his lease.
Roasting ears and cabbage are the
diet of the day.
Miss Bertha Johnson returned to
Guthrie Wednesday.
Mrs. Mukle called on Mrs. J. L.
Smith Monday evening.
Mr. Glee son has sold his farm to
Grant Barnard for $2,500.
D. W. Walton la through cutting and
haa commenced stacking.
Mr. Craven haa Albert Merkle and
Thomas K-sslnger helping him stack.
Mr. Errickson has threshed the
wheat that was on the lease he bought
out on Bear creek. It made 34 bush-
els per acie.
School meeting well attended.
Twelve mills levy. Hartle elected
clerk. Gleeson elected treasurer. Six
months' school. Organ Fold to Viola
York. Coa! hauling let to Mr. Merkle
at eighty cents a ton.
nolds and will start next week for
Huntington West, Va„ on a business
trip of perhaps two months.
G. C. Foster and family made a pros-
pecting trip to southern Kansas the
last of the week.
Mrs. Dorland, an old Illinois friend
of Mrs. P:of. Roberts, came in last
Thursday from Guthrie for a short
visit.
Mrs. Emma Soar, of Lawton, has
been vlsit'ng her sister, Mrs. Lydia
Wanch at Wichita, Kansas, for some
time and Saturday they both came
here to visit their sister, Mrs. J. W.
Pickard, west of town
Dick Woldon has returned from a
two days' trip between here and Guth-
rie looking for a cross In the Independ-
ent's telephone line. It was found
about two miles north of town and | carron
was probaMy done by some of the
Sunday v sitors at the oapitol, re-
turning home Monday. They were on
business also looking over the pro-
gress of ttat city since it was their
j home about five years ago.
Mrs. Caf tor and her niece, Miss
Bessie, were guests of friends while
sight seeing in Guthrie Thursday and
Friday of last week.
Mrs. Wyckoff has commenced the
building of a residence on her lots
near Miff's home.
The Farmer's State bank will erect
a new building.
Several new residences are being
built in Marshall.
to Cushing leturned from Grand Rap
ids, Mich., on last Friday bringing his
family with him. Mr. Rowe was also
accompanied by Dr. Beard and wife,
and Mr. £bumaker, all of whom will
locate here permanently.
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Bpeclal to Daily Leader.
Chickasha, I. T.t July 20.—Choctaw
Indians from all over that nation are
coming int1 Chickasaw nation to claim
w. L. Helton has been elected a | their allotments. They say the lands
crimes—Ge-onJmo has become a Chris-
tian.
Last Sunday morning; in the taber-
nacle of r.edIcino, with the Coman-
Speclal to Dally Leader.
Pond Creek, Okla., July 18.—Wed-
nesday morning at 11:45 Are was dis-
covered in the sheds back of the O.
ches sitting upon the ground on the K. barn, owned by Charlie Walden.
one side and the Apaches on the other. The Are department
each tribe with its interpreter stand-
j ing in the foreground repeating the
| message cf the pale face, a preacher
J stood and told the wonderful story of
love, of thi- Christ who died for the
member of the second board.
Hennetsey.
The Senior Endeavor of the Chris-
tian church elected the following of-
ficers to eerve from July to January.
President, Miss Madge Smith; vice
president. Cary Glllispie; secretary,
Mabel Hazelrlgg; treasurer, Hugh
, A company of farmers has purchas-
Guthrie strikers as the wire was ed the Klock & Ca elevator
of the Chickasaw nation are much bet-
ter and mere fertile than their own,
and they want to come here. Near
Pocasset urd Minco more lands have
been allotted to Choctaws than Chirk
asaws. while around Chickasha they
are coming in in large numbers.
One hundred carloads of pipe will
be used In the tankline from Bartles-
ville to Neodesha.
Mulhall.
The Misses Naomi and 1-fattle Howe
of Guthri3. visited the Brown girls home plac
last Sunday lage Df ^
Special to Dally Leader.
Chickasha, I. T., July 20.—The Com-
mercial club of Chickasha is advertls-
__ Geo. W illP for samples of grain, fruit, vege-
wrapped by what appeared to be ex- (;r|m gr |g president, an() c. Klock tables, etc for the Indian territory
^ Is secretary of the new company. j exhibit at the Louisiana Purchase ex-
Oklahoma County. a new fwning has been erected in position. A portion of the club room
Henry Miller had 100 acres of oat3 front of thp cjty ha)] The cjty han jh(ls been srt apart for th<?,r recept|oni oluolu u, uw
and t le ot er day when threshing his has had Rt,vera| good improvements ! as they come In they will be lag-' been superintending the harv
000 buahel3 of Wheat, which is much John Mellenrv of h™.],
There are so many alum baking ' less than he expected. He believes ,,d h|s wh„at and folm , that one field
nessey school teacher. Is in the city j P^rs about, most of which are rep- j that the wll0a generally over Kansas | averaged 'thlr^-elght bushels to Z
responded
promptly, but before the boys arrived
the Are had spread to all the buildings
In the rear of the barn and threaten*
ed to take It at any time. Two
streams of water, however, checked
sins of the world, of how the Indian the tire in a very short time, and it
could have a full and free salvation
and pass through death to the real
Happy Hunting Grounds of the skies.
The aern on closed, an Invitation
was given for sinful men to repent
Geronimo and a dozen of his braves
came forwsrd and told their interpre-
ter of how they had learned to love
the Christ, and asked to be received
into His church.
At 2 o'clock on the same day, In the
midst of a multitude of people, the
minister sirlnkled the clear water ov-
er the old chief's head and repeated.
"In the name of the Father and of the
Son and of the Holy Ghost," and Ge-
ronimo became a Methodist.
was soon under complete control.
Two Jacks, one the property of C.
■M. Sink, and one belonging to Wes
Farrel, of Missouri, were burned. This
was the extent of property loss except
the buildings, which were Insured.
The total loss was $1,500.
LEADERETTES.
Local Happenings of City and Terri-
tory Briefly Told.
_ , . The Vega hay crop in Beaver coun-
Special to Dally Leader. ty ls ready for mow,ng The oyer_
Bliss, 01- la., July 18. J. C. Miller, flow in the river valleys this year has
president of the 101 ranch, who has j not been sufficient to produce a full
est on hay crop.
of it and it made 50 bushels to the the bulldir,} very much
acre. Heniy says the balance of it is M)sg M,.Ue Fafn former|y ft Hen.
no so good as this. His wheat on the
195 acres, made an aver-
bushels. On another 52
Roy B. Reac-an received a telegram acre patch it averaged 17 bushels.
Monday afternoon stating the death John Kert's 100 acre patch run
of his friend, Miss Laura Bailey, at lfiy2 bushels to the acre.
•Grove, I. T. I it is reported that A. J. Strickland's
The regular annual school meeting soft wheat run 27 bushels and the
held July 14th, passed off smoothly, hard whear 22 bushels to the acre.
G. W. Builord was reelected tr ;asur- jGhn Ka • had in 90 acres of wheat
er. A levy of ten mills on the dollar but he didn't thresh it all, that which
was voted for school purposes and an he did thresh run a little less than 14
•eight months' term determined on. bushels.
R. M. Kiucald, while in Guthrie last w. S. Hunsecker's 82 acres run 17
~weelt, wa.i shown the plans of the pro- bushels to the acre.
posed high school building. He de- e. A. Binder's wheat run 15, 20,
scribes it as very fine. It will con- an(j 25 bushels to the acre.
tain 38 rooms and an auditorium that j ^ Pauley was in town Tuesday,
will seat J .500 people, is to' be thor-1 and expected to go to thresh-
on a three weeks' visit to her sister, 'fsented t, be made of cream of tar- and oklahoma will not come up to the acre and anoth r o v two bushes
Mrs. W. 0. Armantrout. ,fr> ,hat tl,e following list of powders expectation 01 the farmers. The
Manley O. Vineyard has been en-' 'P which chemists have found alum
•vyill be of value:
; k. c.
I CALUMET.
| CHAPMAN'S.
; BON BON.
; The housekeeper should bear in
written back to an old fiiend telling tyiind that alum makes a cheap bak-
gaged to teach the Buffalo school,
north of town, next term.
W. S. Tryon, who sold out his inter-
ests here, on the first of July, and
his family started west to seek a home
beyond the Rocky mountains, has
him of his pleasant trip and arrival at
Tacoma. Washington.
Prof. L. B. Snider, who was princi-
pal of the Hennessey schools six years
ago, was in the city a couple of days
this week cn his way to El Reno,
where tie will be one of the Instruct-
. . 1 ,ors in the normal institute there. Prof.
•oughly fu'nlshed with the most mod- (ing Wednesday. He has 287 acres, gnider.s wife a d chlldren are SDend.
ern appliances for heat, light and ven- ^ pastured it so heavy that he does , th _ ... . . ,f
♦11 n inn if _.:n i „ii _ i ing the suinni6r witn her parents, Mr.
3 W8 Whe&t t0 tUrn °Ut °VerI and Mrs. Myron Smith southeast of
*50,000 to IbO.OOO when completed and 2o bushels. He reports the following {own Th, Sniders haV(} been liv[ng
averages around Eda: C. Castro, 25
furnished.
Miss Hazel Warner returned to her
■home In the capital city Tuesday, aft-
■er a pleasant visit with friends in the
vicinity o> her old home.
Detr Creek.
Threshing is the order of the day.
Amos Perry Is home visiting his
•parents.
Mr. Shaffer was a visitor in Guth-
rie Monday
Bill Ninemires has been chopping
•cotton for Mr. Bearth.
Mr. Errickaon was down to his
place last Wednesday.
Mr. Dwyer has been stacking wheat
and oats for Mr. Lambert.
Mr. Perry's and Mr. Goss' spent
•Sunday at Mr. Lambert's.
Mrs. Peiry and Mrs. Dwyer were
•visitors in Guthrie Monday.
Mr. Nlntmires' have moved In Jack
McPeek's house by Enterprise.
The Mioses Barnes from Guthrie,
visited with Mrs. Bearh last Satur-
day and Sunday.
Victor Items.
Mr. Humphrey finished stacking his
wheat last week.
Everybody seems very anxious to
get their threshing done.
Miss Cairilla Simmons called on
Mamie Gray last Tuesday.
The Robinson boys have been busy
stacking tleir wheat all week.
Miss Edna Ellis has been working
for Mrs. Humphrey the last week.
Mr. Frel Weldon is working for his
hrother-in-iaw near Marshall this
week.
Some of the young folks in this
vicinity attended the show in Mulhall,
Saturday evening.
There was a rain Saturday night
which came just in time, as the crops
were need'ng rain pretty badly.
Mr. Woodford, who has been visit-
ing Mr. Gray for several days, start-
led for his home near Edmond, last
Monday.
Edmond News.
Mae Thatcher will leave soon for
Roswell, y M., for a summers' visit
with her sister, Mrs. Bowman.
J. W. Merrick and wife are over
from the new country and report
crops looking well. They are visit-
ing with their son-in-law Joseph Rey-
bushels; Green Smith, 24%; Mr. Pet-
erson, 20.
Perkins.
Miss Mabel and Jane Rlnehart of
j at Pawnee for the past six years.
Kingfisher.
Foundation work for the Brownlee
Guthrie are visiting at the home of j building, on the lot north of the
Mr. and Mrs. Beinson in this city this j Grand opeia house, is being pushed
week. ; rapidly.
Rev. J. W. Caldwell of Guthrie, j George Aiyea holds the appoint-
preached at the Baptist ;!i'."ch tain j ment as stieet commissioner, made to
day morning and evening. AH the vacancy by L. A. Walton's res-
Miss Estella Kieth of Stillwater is i ignation.
visiting friends in Perkins. j Wheat is coming in steadily to the
The annual school meeting for Per-; elevators at the rate of 23,000 bushels
kins met Tuesday afternoon and elect-' per day. \ larger supply of cars has
ed H. L. Diffenbaugh as a member of been the role this week, so that ship-
the board of education and voted a j ments hav > increased.
school levy of 20 mills and seven j The contractor for the Catholic
months scaool. ' church bu:iding has a gang of work-
Mrs. Marion James died at her j men steadily employed and a large
home in th's city Saturday afternoon j amount of material on hand. The
tng powder It costs but two cents a
pound, while cream of tartar costs
(hirty. The quality of the powder, Is,
Sherefore, usually indicated by
Tlce.
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ranch raised forty bushels to the acre
upon one piecc of land, but this was a
special brand. This fall the ranch
The Oklahoma university geological
survey paity found the altitude of
Kenton, Beaver county, to be 3
and was interred in the Perkins cem-
etery Sunt ay. The funeral services
were held at the Baptist church by
the Rev. J. W. Caldwell of Guthrie.
Mrs. James was a consecrated Cu. s
foundation
pleted.
work will soon be com-
Cushing.
Mrs. Beord, wie o Dr. Beard, dent-
tlan lady and a good wo K r in the ist, who arrived here last week In
Baptist chinch where she w.is recog-
nized as a leader of the Christian
work.
Miss Ada Williams at the recent
county examination held in Chandler
received a certificate to teach in Lin-
coln county.
Frank Harding is the new depot
agent at this place.
Miss Myitle Rotchford of Stillwater
is visiting friends in Perkins this
week.
company wth Mr. Rowe rom Grand
Rapids, Mich., took a large dose of
aconite Wednesday night thinking it
was Jamaica ginger. Dr. McHenry
was called in mmediately andfortun-
ately succeeded In relieving her of the
deadly poison.
On last Tuesday afternoon a school
election w^s held at the school house
for the purpose of electing a trustee
who will also be treasurer of the
board of t'ustees. The meeting was
The family of Mr. Harding, the new j fairly well attended and L. H. Owen
depot agent, arrived at Perkins Wed-; was elected.
nesday afternoon. j Mrs. Lerndra Wilson of near Bris-
j tow andhe- daughter, Mrs. Ina Capp
Perry. j and children, alsoMrs. Capp's mother-
Mrs. J. P Barnes has left for a visit j in-law, were visiting this week at the
with relati es at Fairview, Kas. ! home of Fred Wilson southeast of
The funeral of John Baker, who was,here. They formerly resided in this
killed by a Santa Fe passenger train, neighborhood and have many friends
was held Saturday. herewho were glad to see them.
a new school building will be erect- [ Work on the brick business building
ed. The board of education is con- j which are being built on Main street
sidering pli:ns and specifications. i still contir.ues. L. H. Owen's large
The Coir mercial club band, which j store building is fast assuming prep-
secured second prize at Guthrie dur- j arations. H. N. Ferrin's furniture
ing the recent carnival, gave a fine
concert Saturday evening.
new school
Marshill.
Marshall will build
building.
A. W. Heeby and wife were over
store has been removed to the back
end of the lot and a substantial brick
will occur:' the site. Work on the
other builu ng will be pushed as soon
as possible
George 7 Rowe who has purchased
a number oflotsJn the south addition
the grain. Just now there are three
threshing mr.chines working on the
ranch and they are loading wheat at
three point s— Bliss, White Eagle and
Red Rock. All the wheat for which
j room can Le found will be stored on
"ie | the ranch, aa Mr. Miller says he is
| confident the price will advance from
fifteen to twenty cents from what it
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Special to Daily Leader.
El Reno, Okla., July 18.—Judge Ir-
win, of the district court, has dissolved
the injunci.ion preventing the Rock Is-
land from constructing its tracks
across the cemetery here, and the
case will be appealed to the territor-
ial supreme court. The suit will be
decided on its merits. The contro-
versy between the city and the rail-
road company has been on for several
weeks.
Special to Dally Leader.
Lawton, Okla., July 18.—One of the
most cold bio ded murders known to
have been committed In Oklahoma oc-
curred twelve miles north of this city,
on Medicine creek, about 10 o'clock
last night. A. a late hour this evri.i-
ing Felix I Crow lies at the point of
death, with two bullet holes through
his head, and no possible chance of
recovery. An Apache Indian, the mur
derer, Is still at large and a posse ot
deputies accompanied by Captain
Sayre and a dozen Indian police of Ft.
Sill, are on his track.
Yesterday evening about 6 o'cl .ok
Crow left this city with a wagon loa!
of provisions for the government ta
camp In the reservation. At the fate
of the reservation, four miles from tbo
city, he was accosted by an Indiin.
who was sitting on the gate put
awaiting him. He asked of Crow per-
mission to rie'e. Crow give the ptt-
mlssion and they went on into the
reservation. At Medicine creek, wh-; -o
the murder was committed, the wagrn
was stopped. The Indian demanded
that Crow take him on to Mount Sco",
eight or teT miles north. This Crov
refused to do telling him this was his
destination. Crow then walked away
to the spring for a drink, leaving 'he
Indian on the wagon seat.
Two other employes of the camp
came up to the wagon and entered
into conversal.nn with the Indian. He
asked if there were any weapons in
the camp, saying he lived beyond
Mount Scott and did not feel safe in
proceeding further unarmed. Crow
presently returned from the spring an 1
came within a few feet of the wagon,
when the 'ndian drew from his bosom
a revolver and began firing. He fired
two shots, both of which took effect
in Crowe's l'>?ad. The Indian then
made his escape.
Crow was brought to this city im-
people win bvlld an elevator at Bliss |fest. The altitude of Black Mesa is
that will be a great help in handling 14 500 feet.
Oklahoma City, Okla., July 20—The
date for the first meeting of the Kaa-
sas and Oklahoma Fair and Racing
association was made public (oday.
The first meeting will be at Shawnee,
commencing August 17, with OkU'uv
ma City, Newkirk, Hutchinson, Ka),
and Chickasha, I. T„ in the order
named. The directors hope to get Dan
Patch, the famous pacer for the Okla-
homa City meet. It is announced that
the unique feature of an ostrich race
will be provided for this city's fair.
Special to Daily Leader.
El Reno, Okla., July 20.—Judge and
Mrs. C. F. Irwin left yesterday for
Colorado to spend several weeks in
the mountains. The judge has not
entirely recovered from the surgical
operation which he underwent last
summer, nnd goes to the mountains
to rest. This is Judge Irwin's first
vacation for a year. During the spring
he spent .1 week at Hot Springs.
While in Chicago last week, his phy-
sicians advised him to rest for a few
weeks.
Special to Dally Leader.
Pawnee, Okla., July 20.—as a result
of an altei cation near Pawnee with
Joe Wood and Tom Miller, Tom Hutch-
inson was cut in the back with a knife.
The quarrel was over a debt and
stones and knives were used in the
fight The preliminary hearing of the
participants in the fight will be held
on the 24th
Special to Daily Leader.
Ponca City, Okla., July 20.—The
Courier prints a Lawton story to the
effect that Geronimo has became a
convert to Christianity. It says:
Bent and broken from the toils of
many a chase, bowed neath recollec-
tion of many a bloody crime, humil-
iated by chastising imprisonment in
the soldleis' reserve, old Geronimo,
the warrior of the plains, the human
tiger of the forest, the old time terror
of the great broad west, the grim
Apache br.ive, whose ghostly form pa-
rades in the dreams of a thousand
expectant frontiersmen In the days of
yore; Geronimo of whom the wide
world has known and talked, upon
Charlej Barrett, sentenced at South
McAlester to be hanged for murder,
was baptised In a bathtub by a min-
ister who Induced Barrett to Join the
church.
Hobart will hold a state fair, to be-
gin August i and continue for a week.
Guthrie is agitating the proposition
of organizing a manufacturers' associa-
tion.—Kansas City Journal.
El Reno merchants now talk of get-
ting up a harvest carnival for som
timo In August,
Hobart lias an opportunity to pull a
business college its way by offering
some substantial encouragement to a
man from Chickasha.
L. H. Mitchell, a Wellston drayman,
has sued that town for J 1,000 damages
for a broker ankle, caused by stepping
on a defective sidewalk board some
months ago.
Stroud citizens are greatly interest-
ed in good roads. Along the Deep.
Fork bottoms, between there and the
Sac and Fcx agency, they are endeav-
oring to have the main highway Im-
proved and to that end have raised
*1,800.
whom millions have gazed and turned ,mediately, where he now lies In a pre-
away to recall his great calendar of carious condition.
BREWER-CRAWFORD.
Nuptials 1 hia Afternoon at the M#.
Connell Home.
The wedding of Miss Laura 6.
Brewer to Mr. J. E. Crawford of Oklv
homa Cltv. took place this afternoon at
3:30 o'clocV at the home of Mr. and
Mrs. J. M. McConnell, 801 Nonh Ash.
street.
The rooms wore effectively decorat-
ed with the season's flowers The
ceremony vas performed by the Rev.
J. T. Ogla, pastor of the First Chris-
tian church, and was witnessed by the
immediate lelativos and a few friends
of the contracting parties.
The !>ride has been a resident of
Guthrie since girlhood and is a gen-
eral favorite in a wide circle of friends.
For the patt few years she has been
an efficien* member of the corps of
teachers in the city schools.
Mr. Crav, ford is the manager of the
Pine Tree Lumber company at Okla-
homa City director of the Apollo club,
a musical organization at that place,
and also leader of the Presbyterian
church choir of his home city.
The bridal couple left on the after-
noon train for Colorado points where
the four weeks' honeymoon will be
spent. Ti c usual rice throwing and
other pranks Incident to the starting
off on life i Journey took place at the
depot, participated In by the friends
of the bride and groom. They will
reside in Oklahoma City.
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