The Southwest World (Guthrie, Okla.), Vol. 4, No. 4, Ed. 1 Saturday, March 21, 1903 Page: 1 of 8
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The SOUTHWEST WORLD
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give me. It was lully
for the Latest Styles and Most De-
pendable Shoes of the Celebrated
L. Douglas
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A PAIR,
They have the Union Stamp
which is & guarantee of being
made by skilled workmen. Spring
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GUTHRIE. OKI A.
SOLE AGENTS.
A
Nf ACCUSfS
Woman With Having
Shot Him.
would not
half hour
after she had shot me before
she left the parlor. As she pass-
through the office, Mr. Harris
was still in the office, and he ask-
ed her if a shot had not heen fired
in the house, but she made no re-
ply and passed out of the build-
ing. Finally Sheriff Dan Bain,
and City Marshal Paul Meade en-
tered the parlor where I was ly-
ing. Mrs. WUlhour also cam:
back. The officers looked for the
revolver with which the shot iiad
been fired, and being- unable to
find one in the parlor started in-
to the bedroom. Mrs. Willhour
protested against them searching'
the bedroom, but when they told
her they were going to search it
for the revolver, she went with
thetn and drew the revolver out
from behind the mattress on the
bed, where she had concealed it.
It was then taken across the
street to the Denver house where
I was waited upon by physicians.
Coleman is a Kansas City
printer and recently came to Ok-
lahoma. He will prosecute Mrs.
Willhour.
deputy's instruments cost $40 and
are subject to breakage. John
Dillon has not qualified as inspec-
tor and it is not believed that he
will do so.
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Was A Lover's Scrape,
As a Sweetheart, He Went to
Call on His True Love, and
Was Shot by His Intend-
ed Mother-in-law.
Ed Coleman who was shot in
Tonkawa a few weeks ago, has
recovered. He was in Blackwell
a few days ago and gave out the
following s atement:
"There is no truth whatever in
the report that I attempted sui-
cide. On the contrary a deliber-
ate attempt was made to murder
me. It was on Monday, March
2, that I called at the Commercial
hotel at Tonkawa for the purpose
of having' a talk with Miss Ger-
trude Willhour, whose parents
ruii the hotel. At one time I
kcpt company with Miss Will-
hour, but owing to a misunder-
standing, there has been an es-
trangement between us, and on
the day in question I called at the
hotel to talk the matter over with
the young woman. When I en
tered the office of the hotel, I met
Mrs. Willhour. I told her I de-
sired to speak with her daughter
but she replied that her daughter
was at Ponca City. I told her I
knew her daughter was in the
city and that I was going to see
her. Mrs. Willhour then told me
that if I would give her my re-
volver, which I carried in my
pocket, I could see her daughter
I then took out my revolver and
handed it to her. I then proceed
ed to remove my overcoat and
just as I had my coat pulled back
over my shoulders, with my arms
back of me, my hand grasping
the cuff of one sleeve in order to
pull my arm out of the sleeves,
she suddenly stepped in front of
me, raised the revolver and fired
point blank at my heart, the bul-
let passing clear through my left
lung, just missing my heart and
lodging under the skin in my
back, from whence it was remov-
ed by a physician. I did not fall
immediately, but staggered to
the sofa, upon which I sank, and
then rolled oft on the floor on
my face. I arose severil times
and fell. I struggled into the
dining room and then back to the
parlor and as I entered the par-
lor door I caught hold uf a por-
tiere curtain and again fell, this
time upon my back. bhe stood
and looked down at me while I
begged her repeatedly for a drink to
Blundered.
The repeal of the county as<
sessor system by the last legisla'
ture which enacted the township
assessor law, is already before
Attorney General Robberts for
interpretation. While the inten-
tion of the legislature undoubted-
ly was that there should be
change this year, the county sys-
tem was abolished without con
tingent provisions for enforcing
the new law. The county asses'
sors began their work of listing
property last March. This work
must be done again by township
assessors to be appointed by
county commissioners.
The new law provides that the
township assessors shall meet in
the office of their respective
county clerks in January for the
preliminary assessing and listing
of property. It is now impossi
ble to have this meeting in 1903
There are other similar provis
ions, all of which will be held to
be inoperative this year.
Legislative zeal to cut and
slash the fees of the oil inspector
has crippled the enforcement of
law by making the inspectors
salary only $1,500 ander the new
law. It is asserted that a compe
tent inspector will be difficult to
find at this salary. ( Deputy in
spectors are given a salary not to
exceed $5U a month, to be taken
from 25 per cent of their inspec-
tion fees. This percentage, it is
said, will produce far less than
$50 a month and will be no in-
ducement for a competent person
accept a deputyship. A
Seedlings.
The United States superintend-
ent of the Indian schools is now
engaged in distributing flower
and vegetable seeds to the various
boarding schools throughout the
Indian territory. The seeds arc
supplied by the agricultural de-
partment at Washington and the
idea is to give the Indians a prac-
tical knowledge of farming and
gardening and teach them how
beautify their homes when
they come into possession of their
allotments. The seed experi-
ment was tried last year at the
Wetumka school in the Creek na-
tion and at the asylum for or-
phans in the Cherokee nation
with gratifying results. Kach
child pledges himself to plant and
cultivate the seeds.
V
Looking for Lands.
Silas Smith and Henry Captain,
chiefs of the Seneca Indians in
the United States, have spent the
past week in Pawhuska, O. T.,
the capital of the Osage Indian
ration, where in conference with
Governor Bigheart, of the Osage,
plans were discussed for the pur-
chase of Osage lands by a tribe of
Seneca Indians, 1,500 in number,
now residing on an alleged barren
and sterile reservation in Can
ada.
They desire to come to the
Southwest to be near their bro-
thers in this country. The Sene-
cas here are a small tribe only
350 strong, and they have not
sufficient lands on which to locate
their Canadian kinsmen. Chief
Smith says the negotiations have
been pending for two years and
that the Canadian Senecas have
money sufficient to make the land
purchase.
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SSI
or:
Good Enough-
Hon. Dennis T. Flynn, who so
ablv represented Oklahoma at
Washington for eight years, spent
a portion of the past week in
Guthrie. Mr. Flynn is enjoying
the best of health. In reference
to a rumor that he would here-
after make Oklahoma City his
home he said. "I wish to deny
any such statement and brand it
as a falsehood. Guthrie is good
enough for me and I would not
live in any other place in Okla-
homa." Guthrie is deeply indebt-
ed to Mr. Flynn for his having
secured an appropriation of $100,-
000 for a public building in this
city.
Clean rags wanted at this office.
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Booth, H. A. The Southwest World (Guthrie, Okla.), Vol. 4, No. 4, Ed. 1 Saturday, March 21, 1903, newspaper, March 21, 1903; Guthrie, Oklahoma. (https://gateway.okhistory.org/ark:/67531/metadc88998/m1/1/: accessed April 19, 2024), The Gateway to Oklahoma History, https://gateway.okhistory.org; crediting Oklahoma Historical Society.