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THE SAYRE WATERWORKS CONSTRUCTION BONDS HAVE BEEN SOLD KILLED HIS STEPFATHER Guthrie, O. T., Oct. 9 Ira E. Miller, aged nineteen, residing
twenty miles north of here, killed his stepfather, Edward Gilpin, last night. The boy and his stepfather had been
having considerable trouble of late, and the young man received orders not to come on the farm again. Last night
he visited his mother during his father
s absence, and the latter returned and found him there. A quarrel ensued and young Miller shot him through the
head, killing him instantly. He went to Stillwater and gave himself up.
A TERRIFIC ROAST A Republican Taxpayer on the School Board EDITOR LEADER: Of all the gross and damnable outrages ever heaped upon this innocent public, the school board is the worst. The present board far eclipses the old board. I am a Republican and a taxpayer and send two children to school. Today my two children came home. They had nothing to say of their studies but, all their talk at the table was about Mrs. Scott and what "an awful woman she was." "Why, papa," said my youngest, "the girls say that Mr. Boggess talked about her in his preaching Sunday morning and said she was not a good woman." And thus my little one rattled on, not knowing what she was talking about. 1 toll you this school board Is destroying our entire school system. Every member has an ax to grind and Prof. Mallory is adding fuel to the trouble by trying to run in Junction City, Kan., teachers to the exclusion of Guthrie people. I have taken the trouble to investigate this Mrs. Scott trouble and find that this here so-called preacher, Boggess, is making an unmitigated ass of himself. He and Furrow, McCoy and Martin are the fellows who have caused all the trouble. Boggess put the women up to make charges and at the last meeting of the school board Boggess tried to accuse Cuppage of doctoring minutes. Then he and Furrow, who ought to be in a kindergarten, raised the row and hadn't the manhood to allow the attorney of Mrs. Scott to read her affidavit, denying the charges made against her. Mrs. Scott has a contract to teach. Before she was elected a teacher all the charges were laid before the board. If she is so bad, why did the board elect her? There is a whole lot of rottenness in this preacher-school board. A preacher is supposed to aid and elevate humanity, to help the down fallen and administer to the weak and erring. On Sunday morning Boggess in his pulpit by intimations and innuendoes besmirched the character of a woman. Does God approve of his course? Does God drag down the weak? Does God call such men to the pulpit? If He does then he is not my God. I am a christian, but if God approves of a minister in or out of the pulpit dragging in the mud the name - her all - of a woman, whether she has sinned or not, a woman who if her school contract is revoked must depend on charity to provide for herself and child, then I don't think we worship a just God and I shall hereafter worship Nature, Friendship, Benevolence and Charity. Rev. Boggess is moving heaven and earth to get Mrs. Scott out of the schools. He actually drew up resolutions in which he charged her with breaking every law of the decalogue. Mrs. Scott has denied all these charges. I understand that this morning Boggess notified the janitor of the 6th grade school to lock the doors of that room if Mrs. Scott entered. Whether this is true or not I know not but I do know that Mrs. Scott was not allowed to teach by Prof. Mallory who hired a man to teach the 6ith grade. Now the fact of the matter is Mrs. Scott is a good teacher and her pupils like her. There are some pupils who do not, at the request of their parents. If Mrs. Scott's moral record is to be searched, why not search the records of two female teachers in one of the ward schools? If Rev. Boggess wants to raise a big kick on morality, why don't he investigate nearer home? Everyone opposed to Mrs. Scott has reasons obvious. Mrs. Scott will make Rev. Boggess and those women prove their charges in district court. I hope to God she will prosecute Boggess to sheol and back. He is being roundly condemned by all fair-mind people and his own congregation, except a few soreheads. 1 say, let Mrs. Scott teach, If Dr. Marlon did visit her. I don't suppose he committed any more sin in calling than some preachers and business men in this town who call on married women. What if she did say "damn it," and I am assured she did not-- she treats her pupils right. The fight made on her has set the little school children to talking and gossiping, and they conjure up all sorts of things in their imaginations. This is very pernicious. There are only five members on the school board who have any degree of fairmindedness in their make-up. The others are fossils. The action of the school board is outrageous. The idea of trying to beat a poor woman out of sustenance by the trumped up charges of a preacher, several decrepits and a single lady teacher who should keep her own name above reproach, by steering clear of the affair. Now there are other reasons why the board is incompetent. Yesterday the negro schools were not opened on account of race prejudice. I reiterate I am a Republican, have lived here but a short while, but it does not take me five years to catch on to some things at least. I do not like tills thing of Ignoring the negro. If I were a negro I would resent it too. The board showed its utter incompetency further, by having two principals in the West Guthrie schools. This precipitated a dirty muss yesterday. I will head a petition, with $25, if money is needed, to abolish the present school board. The above are facts, I'm not talking through my hat, but it makes me mad to hear my wife and children gossip about matters of which they should know nothing. Yours In the interest of good schools. A.B. Carroll Guthrie, Sept. 24 [Guthrie Daily Leader, Sep 25 1894. Transcribed by Tonya Neuweiler] KILDARE KINKS. Interesting Batch of News Items From a Good Town Special to the Leader Kildark, Sept. 24.-- A cold wave is now blowing over Oklahoma; something very unusual for this season of the year. General rains throughout the country have lessened the demand for hay and prices have declined somewhat. We quote today fair to prime hay, $3.50 to $4.00; bleached, $3.00; market active. Wheat-sowing is progressing finely and we find many 160 acres now looking green, having been sown just after the fine rains on the first of the month. The grass In the Kaw and Osage countries is now, since the rains, better than for months and the cattle shipping will be later than was thought some weeks ago. The telephone wire is now being put on the poles of one or two lines radiating from here with strong talk of the fourth line going from here which is intended for the Kaw agency to reach the hay fields and cattle pastures tributary to Kildare. K county being the most populous county in Oklahoma, containing more people the first six months than all of old Oklahoma, and being on the border of Kansas it was the most heavily contested and yet there has been fewer difficulties, less killing and more satisfactory settlements or adjustments that prevented difficulties than any county in the now country. We find the cause largely attributed to our probate judge who did most of the business of the county for the first six months. He settled all disputes fairly which is a good recommendation for his re-election. J.G. [Guthrie Daily Leader, Sep 25 1894. Transcribed by Tonya Neuweiler] SCHOOL BOARD MEETS But Takes No Action In the Case of Mrs. Scott The school board met last night but the session was dull and monotonous, the only diversion being an expression from Martin, the chronic kicker, that "this board can do anything." Several motions were made, and a number of bills were allowed. The selection of additional teachers was deferred until Friday night. The minutes of previous meetings were read and approved; however, not without kicks. A motion to erase the words "Mrs. Scott and by her attorney to appear before the board" in the minutes of last meeting, was lost. The case of Mrs. Scott was not touched. [Guthrie Daily Leader, Sep 25 1894. Transcribed by Tonya Neuweiler] ADS AD: Boots and Shoes 118 Oklahoma Ave. West. Eisenschmidt & Hetsch, proprietors AD: Anheuser-Busch R.W. Black, Agent AD: Guthrie National Bank J.W. McNeal, President; Geo. M. Herriot, Vice President; A.J. Gray, Horace Speed, Robt. Martin, Henry Linn, Board of Directors; W.J. Horsfall, Cashier AD: The Silver Dollar Bar, 110 West Harrison, Wyatt & Co. proprietors. AD: Capital National Bank, Guthrie, Okla. George A. Metcalf, President; M.L. Turner, Cashier Awarded31 AD: L. Haynes Buxton, M.D. Oculist and Aurist. Guthrie, Oklahoma
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