The Liberal democrat. [volume] (Liberal, Kan.) 1911-1924, 1913-11-21

Jan. s.zsale Of Choctaw and chickasa"
Jan. 12.-saie of choctaw and Chicka-
| saw lands at Poteau.
Jan. 15.-Sale OF Choctaw and Chick
asaw lands at Wilburton. oA,o,,.-
saw lands at McAlester.
Jan. 26-sl.-state Poultry Show. Enid.
The county Jail of Kiowa county at
Hobart is empty.
Combined deposits of three Davis
banks total $26O,0O0.
Three banks of Hominy show com
bined deposits of $285,000.
Activity in the oil fields is bringing
many people to Oklahoma, according
to railroad officials.
Two banks of Welch have combined
! deposits Of $125,0O0 a substantial in.
crease over the same date last year.
Oil is running from the waste at
the rig Of the Oklahoma Mutual Oil
and Gas company near Oklahoma
City.
John Hoskins, Shawnee farmer,
was fatally injured when he was
thrown from a buggy while his horses
were running away down steep hill
His body horribly bruised when he
was caught in one of the big belts at
the Weleetka oil mii Jim Brookshire,
an employee, died few hours later
Stephens county now has taxable
property assessed at $7,52S,559. The
county has 1872 head of horses, 4,702
mules, 9,017 hogs and 23,375 head Of
| cattle.
Rev. A. ]. Tant, known as the
father Of Grandheld," died there last
week. The town was located soon aft
er the opening of the country on the
claim of Tant.
Citizens Of Evansville request the
corporation commission to require
the Rock Island to give better train
service on the Ardmore & Haileyville
branch Of the road.
Secretary Hoffman of the Canadian
County Poultry association, is max
ing final arrangements for the poultry
show, which will be held in Ell Reno,
December Is to 81.
L. F. Lee, an Oklahoma City con-
tractor, was awarded the contract by
the state board of affairs to construct
buildings for the Granite state reform
atory, estimated to cost $26O,OOO.
The Pittsburg County Fair associa-
ton is satisfied with the free admis-
sion feature introduced in the annual
county fair in September and will
make that a permanent feature.
The Wakita acetylene light plant
suspended operations and will be sold
publicly to satisfy judgments secured
by patrons who deposited $40 for
meters but failed to get their money
back.
After long services in congress from
the First Oklahoma district, Repre-
sentative Bird s. MCGUIRE will retire
from public life next spring and en-
gage in the practice of law at Tulsa,
where he will form a law partnership.
James Pappan, William and Frank
Galloway, arrested two weeks ago
through the efforts of the county at
torney, have been released from GUS
tody as the result of their prelimin-
airy hearing before Justice Hargis on
charges of having murdered Saucy
Calgan, aged Usage Indian chief at
Pawhuska in April, 1912.
T. l.. Vail, superintendent of the
Snyder municipal water and light
plant, is charged with embezzlement.
An electric supply house has present.
ed bill to the council for 5000. In
the list of supplies is a washing ma.
chine. A coal company wants pay for
three cars of coal, alleged to have
been sold to private consumers, al.
though ordered for the city.
c. R. Estes, former employee OF
the Clinton & Oklahoma Western
| IdllIOdut anu AlucIl7 DuHu VI SilllOH
are in jail at Arapaho charged with
stealing groceries of 800 value from
freight car in the yards of the rail
road at Clinton.
To enable the good roads workers
to complete the stretch of model high
rway between Tulsa and Sapulpa last
Wednesday was declared a "goot
roads day" by the commercial clut
and the 300 men answering the cal
continued their labor. This viii
be one of the finest pieces of roat
in the state when finished.
For the first time in the history O
McAlester, the second time in Okla
homa, the thirty-third degree of Scot
fish Rite Masonry was conferred there
last week, the supreme council of thu
southern jurisdiction having author
lied the organization of a special su
preme' council to confer that degree
Those to whom the degree was con
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