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THE LEADER GUTHRIE OKLAHOMA.
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Entered in tee postofflce at Outline Ok t a. as
second .class mail matter..  
Official Paper of Oklahoma Territory.
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BOllSOItHTION IIATK8.
DAILY
One month' fiollvered In city.. M.....M.. I in
: One month by mall bo
Three months. -. -.... 1 BO
Six months. - 8 00
One year..-.... 0 00
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i' Six months.. . .. 26
4 !On"vear. . T 60
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j WEDNESDAY FEBRUARY 58 1000.
I Ovnu at Jiiplcy they assoss a $80 fine
1 iiridvthirty days in jail for carrying
J' concealed weapons.
Titu Ripley .people are preparing to
''build a bridge across the Cimarron
' nor lb cast of that town.
X TuE amcst tWng tho ndtainlstratlori
fjbaa yot undertaken is to pooh-pooh ox-
jAComuil Macrum's charges.
; The war In tho Philippines is ended.
; Times-Journal
 $t Jlut Gen Otis kcepa right along
sending his daily list of casualties.
J. P. UlNKXiB has been appointed
pOBtmaster at Ripley and will at once
Snrnet n. hnUritrirr nnlt.nliln fnc ihni nnr.
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?oso and a newspaper ofllcc.
Cr.I3VMT.ANI n.mintv onrtrrrnfulntoo l
nrolf upon having reached a cash basis.
$Hs wholo bonded debt exclusive of
-University bonds amount to 808500.
v
 Wk haven't hoard a word about
' TJudgc Birang being taken completely
by aurprisc when the governor tender-
ed him tho appointment as attorney
: general.
 Ir ex-Consul Mucrum is not the big
' .kcat llr In tho country he -will havo
secretary of state John Hay on the
i hip whon that congressional mill
'cornea off.
Deleqa.tr Flynh is making a Btrong
effort o keep the negro vote of Logan
county in line ana nas introduced a
bill appropriating 315000 for the
. i'iB"ngBtbn university.
VTnicnew town of Ripley on the
. janta 50 eastern extention is prcpar-
-iing to incorporate. At the prelimin-
ary meeting D. n. Goode formerly of
'Guthrjo was chosen treoBurer and
Hon. "W. A. Knlpo aiid J. P. Oldham
facial cpmmittcp.
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 And now comes the charge that the
fine Italian hand of Marshal Harry
Thompson had much to do with the
'distribution of the census patronage
.v?hioh will be revealed later on in the
election of delegates to the Repubil-
 cn patlonal convention
'AcoamiNa to the Arapahoe Bee's
interviews with Judge Strang Amos
Ewlng and John Pugh will soon re-
sign that is "as soon as things quiet
down a little It ib not to be under-
. jpood from this thut their resignations
aro already on cold storage
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' Tho Anti-Saloon Iloraid published
In Guthrie prints tho names of 112
Sersons attached to petitions for saloon
censca'ln Mulhall. Just how this will
. strengthen tho anti-saloon causo is
' not apparent. When a man signs his
r name tq a petition for (50 inn fellow to
 run a saloon It is public property any.
;$jpy t0 floen n"d read by anybody
f?ho crH to take tho trouble to ox-
'amino the petition and a fallow who
signs such a petition under the Idau
that ho is doing something1 In a soarot
Afiort "of way that will uot be found
' out is too unsophistimted to let run
s&l largo.
jJ.O Stiunq passed through hero on
route to Taloga iq look after Lis in-
terests there. lie intimated thut In
V(as to bo tho new attorney geuoral
for tlie territory 1.1 o thought there
would bo some other tibangofl In Gov
Uarnqn staff boon. WUU he would
ryot say It is believed tbt the coal oil
'..Inspector Anion A. Ewlng and bank
' examiner John Pugh will resign as
oou as things etilm down a littlo bit
Amos might enshroud his resignation
in mystery by dating it tha beginning
Qtfih nlnMteenth century r.Arapboe
ifjPtWpub'Mcan.)
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Ttmiuht
Uyltrr liver in ouj f oHfr im&fia
Wni&icm Sick 'lUa&mib Mart-
burn or ConKiJpation take a dose of
HomF Pili
On retiring untl tomorrow your.ul-
gestive organ will be regulated and
you will be bright active nnd ready
lor any kind o( work. This hns
been the exporienco of others; it
will bo yours. HOOD'S PILLS nre
Bold by nil modJoino dealore. 25 eta.
" - riTin . 1 1 - in. i...i ..- -a  - 1 1 1
Iloods Pills aro for sale at tho Eagle
Drug Store.
JKWxnBott tiAivi
Iftbcrooanbo ono principle more
deeply written in tho mind of overy
Amerloan citizen It in that wo should'
have nothing to do with conquest.
ASTosismsa
On Lincoln day. 1000 tho orators
and OrimnK of thft Tlnntihltunn nnfiw
the academic theorist nnd imnorialinU
oxpresod their wondor and amaze
meot thatAbnham Lincoln born and
bred in poverty and deprived of edu-
cational facilities should have devel
oped to such wisdom statesmanship
and executives ability If Mr. Lincoln
could roturn and express his opinion
ho would be amazed at tho lack of
wisdom statesmanship and cxecutlvo
ability displayed by his highly fed
and educated succcsGurs.
J. W. McNkal of tho Guthrie Na-
tional Bank and Mr. Brewer of the
school land office wero here tho first
of the week to organizo a bank. They
decldod to start a bank and will open
up for business March 1 Arapahoe
Bee.
Wk do uot need to surrender a single
syllable or idea of tho Chicago plat-
form. Like tho inaugural speech of
Thomas Jefferson It was made fox al
time. But when new nnd important
issues como up wo can toko them Into
the family and fight on them without
apologizing for any previous fight wo
have made. When the Democratic
pnrty once comeB into power and Dem
ocratlc principles havo been tried the
Republican party will dissolve and be
lost forever.--Bryan at Des Moines.
UNTRUK CONDITION.
John and Matilda Hagufc of Western Okla-
homa Interviewed.
John and Matilda Hague are two
GcrmanB husband and wife who had
a farm in western Oklahoma and lost
it by mortgaging and trying to go in-
to the cattlo business They recently
returned to the east expecting
to
make their wav back to Gernianv. an
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jxicnu ana a Bon wmie mere they
told a miserable story about Oklr.no-
ma farmers and atato affiirial W
ruined and handled hv tho Wn.i
wire trust u story that has not the.
semblance of truth in it but it Rav
them notoriety in tho rsew Yor
Journal of January 28. Tho Intcrvio
was cut out and Bent hero to a lcadin
money loaner by a New York man
who haa nearly 85000 in Oklahoma
farm loans. It is in part as follows:
" 'Wo have just como from Okla-
homa' they said. 'Only a few dollars
aro lest of the little fortuno wo had
when wo started out to l'nrm. Wo
worked a good sized farm and for a
time did well. Last year was a year
of prosperity but our expensed becamo
vory largo. Raising the crop coat us a
lot of money. We wore compelled by
law to build a fence around our prop-
erty but this was bcrned down
Whether It was dono by tho wire trust
gouts or not we cannot Bay
" 'After our fence was built wo wero
told by tho county authorities that wo
must put a wire fonce around tho
furm. r a long timo tho price of
the wltc o'r coil was P'25 but when
tho truBt commenced to sell tho wire it
went up to $fi.75 a toll. It was impos-
sible for ua to exist on tho farm and
psy Buoh a high prloo for wire. The
BtaU and aounty ofllclala notified us
that if wo didn't put up a wire fonco
we would havo to soil tho farm Wo
askod if wo couldn't get wire from
some oth&r concern than the wiro trust
and woro told that wo could not.
"Now wo aan sweat to it and wo
havo po&tlve proof that tho State and
aounty ofllelals aro in tho pay of the
Cainuoglo Stoel Company or In other
words tho wire TruBt. That Trust Is
cutting tho throats of tho farmers all
through Oklahoma. It is making
paupers of thousands who cannot af-
ford to pay tho outrageous pneca
ehargod by the trust for wire.
"In the hand of tho wiro trust means
wo woro as helpless as babies. There
was nothing left for us but to Bell for
a sang and got out.
"Stay away from Oklahoma' that la
our advice."
This Ib absolutely Improbab'e. One
spool of barbed wire will measure 100
rods or one rod to tho pound 1Q0
pouuds to a spool. A farm in Okla-
homa is 100 rods square and Is seldom
fonaed with more than four wire? ex-
cept a small portion with perhaps
or tan wires for a hoj Jot. Ii lastB
from six to ton years. One can figure
on tho above mentioned prices and
learn bow much of this fortune was in
tho fence oven if thoy had more than
ono farm. It is true that tho price
has gone up from 82.25 to 81.76 per 100
pounds. Prairie fires fcomo times burn
over a district and burn up eevorul
posts in a milo of fence but pos.t are
ehcap and cost but AH cents oaah.
No spot In tho nation is raoro pros
porous condition than Oklahoma and
it stands a proven lio that no j incident
Is on record as abovo mentioned. 1
Como on to Oklahoiiitv If you desire. 1
Wo'ro all right. n i

MtYAN.
Niuitthi IVrfornirrt 'J
XliU Afternoon al byr
f 
A pleasant
his afternoon
fNowman. nn I
Newman Homo
homo wedding occurred)
at the homo of Mr. Paul
Newman on East Noblo avenue. Mr.
John 0. Dulaney of Perry and Mies
Gertio Ryan tho only daughter of her !
parents were united in marriage. Rev
Nicholas of the EpIncop.il church offi-
ciating. Tho brido is a charming young lady
with hosts of friends wnilo Mr. Du-
laney la one of Perry's leading busi-
ness young men woll Known horc.
A. nico spread lollowca tuo-cox
nyTTTCTTftreatB bftho occasion
were; Messrs. and Mesuaraes II. W.
Painter Felix Adlor II. F. Ardory.
Messrs. A. A. Wadsworth Perry; J
E. Plckard Perry; Okas. E. BlIllngB-
ley Moritz Behr John Golobio. Miss-
es Dora Rodman and Edith Tipton.
1'iilmor Longs Oat.
An Enid special says tho political
bickerings between T. J. Palmor ed-
itor of the Medford Patriot postmas-
ter of Medford andUnitcd States com
missioner and John P. Rcn6hawclcrk
of tho court of tho Fifth judicial clr
cuit.seem to have taken an unexpected
turn for Palmer Both Palmer and
Ranshaw are Republicans. Palmer
has been scoring Renshaw lately in
the Patriot alleging that his appoint-
mentlunder Judge McAtec Democrat
was a deal against thedntercstsof tho
Republican party and that Renshaw
should bo deposed as a member of the
Republican central committee of Grant
county because of alleged non-rcsl.
dence Now comes &cothcr chapter.
In tho Fifty-third congress Dennis
T. Flynn caused to bo passed a bill
creating the office of United Stn-tns
court commissioner boforo whom fin-
al proof should bo made in homestead
entries and giving the chief justice
tho power to appoint. Palmer suc-
ceeded In getting an appointment
from Judge John H. Burford. His no
sltion proved to bo luoratlve. It ex-
cited the desire ot a citizen of Man-
chester to havo the place. Upon In-
vestigation It was discovered that in
March 1800 congress repealed tho
law under which Palmer was appoint-
ed but enacted another which differ-
ed from the old law only in the fact
that tho appointive power was lvcn
to district judges. Judge McAtee ap-
pointed the Manchester man and it is
now held that Palmer is without office
as Judge Burford could not make an
appointment outside of his district.
Knjo
KtrcmiK Cl.Ult
Knjoyublj Kntertnitted Yesterday After-
noon lv Btrs. J. M. Hiile
 m .  xl
The Tuesday afternoon euchre clubN
rBB enwriaineu 7 M
 UUUU il. UU1U
'yesterday in a
most dolightful man
ner. It was Mrs. Hale'a last meeting
with the club as feho will Boon go to
Chandler to resido owing to tho fact
that her husband Is caBhler In a new
jank there. The menu which was
very nice was as follovs:
s
Chicken salad sandwiches tomato
jolly stuffed dates picklos olives sal-
Vied nuts and coffee orango sherbort
nu oftkt.
Mesdames GrlSBoll Beadle and Mc-
Neal won prlzoa. The ladles present
were: Mosdamcs Burford Barker
BrookB Saunders VanVoorhees Cot-
tlngham Heton Beadles Be.rde Barnes
Thompson Harry Barnes Carl Havig-
horst Neal Bagan McNcal Carl in
Asp Grlssol HavighorBt. Kimball Fil-
Bon Ornor and Morris.
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To right 11 Trust.
Bcrlpps-Mcltac League.
8an Francisco tTeb. 28. FIto west-
am firms with a capital of 88000000
have organized to fight tho tobacco
trust on the Pacific coast.
Tho Farm Journul Ib tho boiled
down hlt-the-n.Mi-on-the-hcad paper
out to fit the farmer and villager who
know what's what. Tho Farm Journ-
al for nearly 5 years remainder of 10-
HO and all of 1001 1002 1003 and 1004)
and tho Weekly Leader ono year will
both bo scut to every new subscriber
to our papor.aud tsovory old subscrib-
er who pays 50e. Walk right up to
the captain's ofllce.
Congratulate IlobertH
Scr'pps-McRao Loaguo.
Osborne Isle of Wight Feb 38Tho
Queen upon rouelpt of the news of
Oronjo's surrender sent a tolograra of
congratulations to Roberts.
Mr. It. S. Lytle of Indianapolis is
now permanently located Ic Guthrie
and is connectod with the well known
and popular shoo house of Eison-
schmldt & Wcckol. Mr. Lytic Is moat
thorough In tho shoo buelneiia having
devoted the greater part ot hla life to
hla chosen calling. Ua knows every
part of the manufacture of shoes and
can Qt any and every shaped foot.
TWO VERY PROMINENT PUBLIC MEN
Owe Health and Happiness to Pe-ra-na.
Ion. Win. Younjbloqd Auditor for tho
lutorlor.
Washington D. 0. Doo. 10 1898.
Po-ru-na Drug MTg Co. Columbus O.:
Gotitlomon I'vo ofton heard of your
roat medicine nnd havo porsuadad my
wife who has been much of a sufforor
from catarrh to try Po-ru-na and after
using ono bottlo sho has wonderfully
Improved. It has provod all you havo
claimed for it and X tako ploasuro In
rooommonding It to anyono who Is af-
flicted with catarrh. Yours
Wm. Youngblood
Auditor for tho Interior.
Catarrh In its various forms is rapidly
becoming a national curse An un-
doubted roraody has bocn discovered
by 'Dr. Hartman This romody has
boon thoroughly tested during tho paBt
forty years. Po-ru-na cures catarrh in
all stages and phases. Thero la no rem-
edy that can bo substituted.
AN ARTFUL GAME.
A Clover Swindle "Which "Wn Sne-
ccNxfully Worked In l'nrlM.
Swindling is as monotonous as ethics
or mathematics nnd tho various wnya
and uieaiw resorted to in tho last decado
of tho nineteenth century for obtaining
possession of other people's money wero
mnttflrH of common knowlcdgo in tho
Egypt of Rameses tho Great But tho
Parisian pollco now affirni thnt a new
departure has beon nindo on the banks
of tho Seine. And this is how it was
worked:
An office was hired in u good. bnBi-
nees street by tho inventor of tho trick
who assumed tho title of somebody nnd
company chemical ngentfl. Being con-
vinced advocates of women's rights
they employed some members of the
fair sex who dressed in the height of
fashion used tho most fashionable per-
fumes and then visited singly the besV
apothecaries' shop. Ono of these fair
false emissaries would Btop her cab at
tho chemists como in and taking out
her purse aBk for another .bottlo of Dr.
Beaumont's elixir. "Dr. Beaumont's
what?" said tho young man behind tho
counter. "Tho elixir. Don't you know?"
"No; I am afraid I novor heard of it"
"Oh how tiresome and my poor rheu
matic husband will bo so disappointed!
ro yon anro It was not horo that our
rvant bought it before?" "No ma-
dhme; it was not here. Whoroia it sold
wholesale?" "It Ib sold wholesalo. I
nk" And horo tho lady showed tho
kot on tho bottlo. 'It costa 8 franca. ' '
rrhat snmo day tho chemist bought
elixir wholesale laying in a fair
etpek of it and mennwhilo many of the
couireres wero aomg jikowibo. inn as
nolody culled any inoro on tho obliging
'chemists to buy tho elixir ono of tho
curious confraternity analyzed thia
specific which v as supposed to relievo
rheumatics. Ho found that it was at
least perfectly harmless consisting of
water colored by coffee grounds. The
polico were then lot looso upon tho la-
dies and tho chemical ngonts but they
bad. all rnovpd on leaving no address.
They nre Bald to havo netted about 10-
000 franca by tho trick. London Tele-
graph. THE BEDOUIN.
How Thla True Child of the Desert
floe ThroiiKh. I.lfv.
now dreamily that Bedouin life
with its nnovontfnlnosa and its fatal-
ism fitted tho timo and tho placet
Horo waa a poor Arab who did not
know how old h wns bnt ho could
look farther into heaven than I could.
His mother hnd borno him while tho
caravan was on its way to Mucca. Ho
had worked as a laboror on tho Suez
canal and ho had beon a dog knack or
in Constantinople boforo that Ho bad
gono hungry in tho wadies of Iduimon
nnd had run as a cameloor barofcat in
tho burning sands of Arabia Fotrrea.
Ho had vegotated into manhood on tho
lower Btratum of thia Btrange oriental
existence content to beliov that life
waa nn unavoidable onrso with a drow-
sy intimation of eternity in it always
assooiated with tho tinkling of belli
the ruttlo of castanots and tho sweet
smell of Beirut tobacco.
Bnt ho could boo koiiio things that
were beyond U17 vision and I wondered
if this trno child of the desert born un-
der indigo Bkies of a race that had been
guided since tho days of Moses und
Menopbtah by tho pillars of fire by
nitrhV. bad not preserved some powera
Congressman Howard from Alabama.
Wxsnis'OTON Feb. 4th 189.
Po-ru-na Drug M'f'g Co. Columbus 0j
Gfjntlomon I havo taken Po-ru-ao
now for two weeks nnd find I am very
much rdliovod. I fool that my euro will
bo permanent. I havo also taken It foi
la grippo and I tako ploasuro in rocom-
mending Pc-m-na as an oxccllont xom
edy to ull fellow sufferers.
Vory Roepectf nlly M. W. Howard.
Congroasman Howard's homo address
Is Fort Payne Ala.
Any man who wishes perfect health
must bo entirely free from catarrh. Ca-
tarrh is well-nigh universal; almost om-
nipresent. Pe-ru-na Is tho only abBO-
luto safoguard known. A cold is tho
beginning of catarrh. To provent coldfl
fo euro colds is to cheat catarrh out ot
itavlctlmB. Address Dr. Hartman Co-
lumbus O. for a f roo catarrh book. t 1
11 uimimttmm Mw mmm wnw'
The Wronflf Ilonse.
A weather beaten momber of tho
tired fraternity who had lost a leg and
had it replaced by a wooden substitute
stumped hia way np tho main street of
a Lnnarkshiro village tho other day
and paused at tho door of tho fkat like-
ly looking dwelling. Knocking at tho
uuv uMiuu vrar upejieu vjr !...
businesslike honsowife tho man began
his stereotyped whine:
"If ye plcaso mum I lost my leg"
And before ho could unfold another
word of his talo tho aharp retort came:
"Aweel yo didna lose it here I"
And bang went tho door in his face.
Liverpool Mercury.
Satisfied.
Opulent Father-in-law "What aila
you George ? Slnco yon have married
yon seem to havo loat all your ambition.
Georg -Well yon see sir I reached
tho height of my ambition when I be-
came your son-in-law. Harlem iiifo.
I'oetlcH Stinelolied. -
Weary Wntkins Oh that I had tho
wings of n bird 1
Hungry Higgins They's less meat
on thw wings than thoy is on any other
pirce. Indianapolis Journal.
Not Untitled to U.
Ho wants a divorro." scid tho law-
yor "because ho says his wifv rpfunin
to copl: for him "
"He's not ontitlcd to it." replied the
dyspeptic partner. "No man is inti.llttl
to a divorce unless hiswifo im:ii-ui.n; 11
cooking when sho can't" Ciu..cv
Poht
On the Yukon at u distance of from
700 to 800 milea from the son tfimv -uo
many points whero tho river :3 'JOuiih i
wid'j.
Ilreiti with 70a whether 70a rontinaa tb
nei-Te.klllluB'lobftcrotit.blt.MO-TO-UAQX
rcnuToi toe ueiir tor louicco wiln
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