Rensselaer Republican, Volume 21, Number 35, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 May 1889 — Guthrie’s “City Dads. [ARTICLE]

Guthrie’s “City Dads.

The latest from Oklahoma is that Col. D. P, Dyer, of Kansas City, a Republican in politics, and formerly an Indian agent under President Arthur, has been elected mayor of Guthrie. One es his first acts was to give the gamblers twenty-four hours to leave, and the next train north took away a good many of them. Two big wall tents have been erected and are called ihe city buildings. Police Judge E. M. Clark, of Kansas, holds his court there, and the city council and other city officers inhabit them. Several good buildings have been put up and improvements of all kinds are in rapid progress W. V. Heraneourt. special aitiat for Harper’s Weekly, dropped dead, in front of his tent in Guthrie> Sunday morning. The remain? have been sent to his horns in Dubuque, lowa.