Volume 18 , Issue 34

1893, September 12, Personal And General

According to The Guthrie Daily Leader, out of Guthrie, Oklahoma, 13 September 1893, Wednesday, on page 1, the headlines read: "Personal and General."

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Bill Grunter was arrested by deputy Marshal Tilman, 12 September 1893 on the charge of stealing horses in the Chickasaw country.

Major G. F. hermit was here from St. Louis to participate in the rush.

Messrs, P. S. Hoffman, George sTrode McKee and Cruikshank were visitors from Chandler.

Judge John Enright of Chandler was in the city.

C. J. Wrightsman, Esq., of Tecumseh was in the city.

Dr. S. A. Moore of Oskaloosa, Iowa, and R. B. Norton were preparing to open a loan office at Perry.

Presiding Elder Murray of Oklahoma city was in the city the day before conferring with Revs. Buck, Smith and Green regarding the holding of the annual conference in that city on December 25, 1893. Bishop Newman, of Omaha, would probably reside.

R. B. Hill of Ardmore was there to make the run.

A. G. Black of Bentonville, Ark., was there with a view to locating. He was formerly private secretary to sEnator Berry.

Engineer Journey of Nevada, Mo., was here for the purpose of stripping.

Charles Wenner, of Galveston, was the guest of his brother, Fred.

Judge Faulkner of Washita county and Colonel Robert L. Greer of Lafayette county, Missouri, were visitors in the city.

E. F. Tebbe of Denver was the guest of A. G. C. Bierer.

Judge B. F. Green of Chicago was there visiting Judge Charles Brown and preparing for the strip rush.

W. T. Burgess of Wichita and editor Richey of the Wichita Bee were in the city. Mr. Burgess would prepare a magazine article on the strip opening.

A boomer was drowned in a creek north of Winfield the night before.

From the amount of stuff some tenderfoot boomers were taking to the border, one would thin they were going around the world and stop six weeks at every summer resort.

The governor and secretary of Oklahoma had been instructed to take the necessary steps to strictly enforce the prohibition against the carrying of deadly weapons upon the day of the strip opening.

Ex-governor Steele arrived at Orlando the day before from Indina with a party to enter the strip.

D. M. Roper and Judge Fred Reeds of Reeds, MO., arrived the day before "to strip." They registered at Arkansas City that Monday.
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