The Liberal democrat. [volume] (Liberal, Kan.) 1911-1924, 1913-08-15


Sept. 16-1s-BlaIne County Fair. Wa
Sept. 16-2O--Pawnee Fair, Pawnee.
Sept; 16-2O---Pawnee County Fair
Sept. 1s-2c-Pittsburg County Fair.
McAlester
Sept. 1s-1O-Pottawstomie County Fair.
Sept. 17-2O-Sterllng Fair. Sterling.
Sept. 25-27-North Lincoln County Fair
Agra
Oct. 1-4-Jacnson County Fai-. Blair
Oct. 14-l6-Tulsa County Fair, Broken
Arrow.
The state militia is in camp at
Chandler.
For the first time since statehood
the county Jail at Waurika was empty
last week.
Robert Ethel, aged 10 years, was
killed by runaway team here at
Gotebo.
The old Santa Fe depot, the first
building erected in Oklahoma City,
was burned by firebugs.
Mrs. Clara Sellars has been appoint
ed manager at McAIester of the Postal
Telegraph-Cable company.
Charles Peters, editor of the Paw
huska Capital, is thinking of running
for corporation commissioner.
Peter Snyder, the sixth victim of
the well explosion on the Gladys Bell
Oil Company's lease at Lost City, is
dead.
Walter A. Falwell, formerly super
intendent of the Creek Indian schools
died at his home in Muskogee last
week.
Orville M. Stephenson, 50, an oil
field worker from Ardmore, was in.
stantly killed in the fields near Tulsa
when oil rig was pulled over on
him.
While using a gasoline iron, a wom-
an near Sterling wa sburned to death
when a quart can of gasoline near
her exploded She was a widow and
mother of four children.
Two negroes engaged on public
road work four miles north of Madill
unearthed human skeleton supposed
to be an Indian.
Worry over being in debt caused
George w. Kinney of Bartlesville,
father of nine children, to fire a bull
let into his brain causing death with
in an hour.
Five horse and cattle thieves, be-
lieved to belong to a band that has
operated in southwest Oklahoma for
years, were sent to the penitentiary
from Hobart.
The sheriff of Pawnee county poured
out 1900 bottles of beer and 1876 gal
Ions of whisky, an entire carload
taken out of a freight train passing
through Pawnee enroute to Keystone.
The Santa Fe has completed the es-
tablishing of its grades, made estimate
and arrangement of trackage and is
now pushing ahead with the founda-
ton of the new 100000 passenger de-
pot at Perry.
The Pittsburg county excise board
found that with the limited tax levy
the county will get along the coming
fiscal year with 40 percent less money
than was expended last year.
Francis M. Dawson, pioneer of the
Cherokee nation, died at his home
near Alton, aged II years Major
Dawson was born in Arkansas, and
was Cherokee leader in this nation
and won the rank of major In the
conferedate army.
At Gates Valley a 6-year-old child
took a spade and went into a cavern
in the side of sand hill to play.
After the child failed to return home
several hundred neighbors secured
the countryside for thirty-six hours
looking for the lost boy. Noticing
the sand hill cayed in, searchers dug
back through the sand and found the
dead body of the boy where he had
been buried alive blythe caving sand
A 16-year-old boy from Cherokee,
WHO NOulu uOJ give his OW1 name,
but said his stepfather's name is W.
H. Hunter, surrendered to the police
in Enid saying he had forged his
stepfather's name to check for S..
Harry Pentecost was drowned at
the Cimarron river beach while bath
ing with large party of Guthrie
young people.
w. Woolley, Frisco agent at Hobart
for two years, was transferred to Clin.
ton to take the joint Rock Island and
Frisco agency.
Following a preliminary examina.
ton at Saltwater, Mary Hall, ne
gress, was bound over to the district
court ON the charge OF having muir
dered her husband, by administering
poison.