The Oklahoma miner. [volume] (Krebs, Okla.) 1912-192?, 1913-05-01
OKLAHOMA NEWS NOTES

are among Oklahoma towns that have
voted out poolhalls
Ryan, Okla is to have a band. Prof.
Ward, late Of the q. S navy, has been
secured as director
Among other assets owned by the
McCurtain state bank is the local
electric light plant.
While drilling for oil IN Pawnee
county, twentyfoot vein Of coal was
struck by the drillers.
The Marietta Monitor is suggesting
the organization Of an oldfashioned
county fair in Love county.
A vast acreage Of wheat has been
sown between Aline and Cherokee, ac-
cording to the AlineChronoscope.
Robbers blew the postofice safe at
CARRIER recently, obtaining a few dol
lars in change and leaving package
OF stamps untouched.
Ed. NUM- Of Lawton was fined $1,000
and sentenced to prison for two years
for whipping with a blacksnake whip
an orphan employe.
So many Guthrie citizens attended
the Crescent opening celebration"
that no one was left in town to blow
the whistle that day.
Lightning recently killed four
horses for Mr.. David, who lives north
of Eel Reno Mr. David was plowing
with the horses at the time.
Two Kiowa county citizens went to
law over $40, and one received
judgment Of $1.75, after the total costs
in the case amounted to S175.
The baccalaureate sermon to the
graduating class of the Lawton high
school will be preached by a member
of the class receiving the diplomas.
Robbers blew the safe in the store
of Tom Allen at Blue and escaped
with $35 in cash and S65 in checks.
Nothing else in the store was taken.
Newspaper subscriptions will con-
tinue to remain on the free list. not
withstanding the governments action
Of several years ago, says the Thomas
Tribune
Possibly the most interesting fea-
ture displayed at the Bartlesville press
meeting will be a linotype machine,
accompanied by a receipted bill for
the same.
Robbers secured $4,000 at the noon
hour recently from the Calvin Ma
tional bank. The robbers, it is be-
lieved, entered the bank room through
a cellar beneath the building.
The Muldow Press wants the state
capitol buildings built on wheels, so
that they may be dragged around from
place to place, and every town in the |
state may then have the honor, once |
year, Of being the capital
An Oklahoma editor gave out the !
information that he knew a secret |
that did not rebound to the credit of |
a certain citizen and under particular
circumstances would publish an ac-
count of the affair and name the indi- |
yldual The next week he received |
two hundred letters, vowing dire !
threats against his life
An information was filed against
Mrs. Mary e. Rose of Muskogee, who
conducts the Ohio roo~ling house
charging her with being an accom-
plice with Mrs Laura Reed in setting
fire to a house at 329 North N street
In which Mrs, Reed resided. II is
claimed that Mrs Rose employed the
transfer man who hauled the goods
from Mrs Reeds home a few hours
before the house was set on fire.
The burning gas well on the ]. d.
Mayes place, near Shay, has attracted
the attention Of gas men and as a re-
suit leases are very much in demand
After eight months of continuous
work water has been turned into Ho-
barts new 3OOO0OOOO gallon storage
reservoir, covering seventy acres of
land. Water is taken from Little Elk
creek, five miles above Hobart
through an eighteen-inch flow line and
the fall is thirty-eight feet necessitat.
ing no pumping 1t is estimated It
Will take eight months to fiji the res.
ervoir, but the water shortage of the
past Is believed solved The reservoir
is owned by the city and constructed
at a cost Of $4,000
Active deveopment Of the bia
dolomite quaries at Creta, IS miles |
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