The Liberal democrat. [volume] (Liberal, Kan.) 1911-1924, 1913-10-31

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A new national bank will be organ
lied soon at Bixby.
School children Of Dewey held
flower carnival last week.
The Wan court relieved Wan gamb-
lers of $3.50 at one haul recently.
United States Senator Thomas P.
Gore addressed the Latimer county
citizens at the county fair
Ripley is in the race for county seat
OF Payne county when the relocation
election is held, December 16.
Fire in the business section of Ida.
bel caused a loss of $4,000 This is
the third disastrous fire in Idabe1 with
in less than a year.
The Artesian Oil company has
brought In two 100-barrel wells on Sec
tons and IL, Township IL, Range II,
just west Of Henryetta.
District Judge L. NJ Poe Of Tulsa
has been added to the list of possible
Democratic candidates against Con.
gresham ]. s. Davenport
AhO jury III Ine case OF Ike huOne,
charged with killing William Stewart,
announced to the court at Hugo they
could not agree and were discharged.
Boys discovered an old-time Indian
armament containing LOO arrow
heads recently near the junction OF
the Grand and Cowskin rivers in Del
aware county.
T. P. Meadows, aged 49, was found
dead in her bed at Lawton by his
wife shortly after she had assisted
him to his room. His death was due
to acute alcoholism.
A new bridge is to be built across
the South Canadian river four miles
north Of Dustin, and the counties of
Hughes and Okfuskee will raise the
money to do the work.
The proposed union of the Metho-
dist Protestant and United Brethren
churches was approved by the Okla
homa conference Of the United Breth-
rem church in session at Alva.
The S-year-old daughter of Mr.. and
Mrs j. H. Note Of Curtis, ate the
heads Of nineteen matches, and after
suffering for several days, died Doc
tors called into the case declared there
was nothing to be done In poisoning
Of that kind.
Forty-three children, grandchildren,
great-grandchildren and great-great-
grandchildren gathered at Webbers
Falls last week to celebrate the 99th
birthday of G. Eiffert The aged man
is in good health and expects to pass
the century mark next year.
Changes in the charter of the city
OF Enid recently adopted at a special
election in that city, have been form
ally approved by Governor Cruce. The
amended charter reduced the number
OF commissioners from four to three
and eliminates certain minor offices
by consolidating them with other Of
fees.
Pawhuska, fearing a premature ex-
haustion of natural gas in Oklahoma
by the great drains being made both
in the state and by mains leading to
Kansas and Missouri cities has asked
an injunction in the district court here
to restrain the Pawhuska Oil & Gas
company from putting in an eight-inch
| pipe line to the state line to connect
with foreign gas pipe line companies.
Cecil Blank, daughter of s. A.
1 Blank the latter who is under so many
| charges in connection with the murder
of Mrs George Webb and her two
children, about year ago, was mar
rled at Hugo. The Blank girl is the
only one of the name there who is not
in trouble over the Webb murder
On condition that he will leave the
, state, Red Love, now serving a SEN
. tence of ten years in the penitentiary
, for assault with intent to kill will
soon apply to the governor for a pa
role. Love, it is said, will agree to
: 60 to California and leave Oklahoma.
He was at one time one OF the most
notorious characters in Bryan county
B. Herndon and L. Reynolds have
| been arrested at Durant on complaint
of Clarence Dyer and Lawrence Lee
| for killing cattle belonging to the lat
| ter two men. Herndon and Reynolds
| claim innocence and gave bond Dyer
\ and Lee have had several head Of cat
H tie in the Red river bottom, and not
Il less than dozen of them have been
\ killed, while others ahve been wound.
H ed. Both Herndon and Reynolds say
H they know who killed the cattle, but
h that they had nothing to do with it.
The Oklahoma State Fair associa-
\ ton, which had hitherto spent con-
siderable money on billboard adver-
| Using did all of its advertising in the
1 newspapers of the state this year and
found the results much more salts
4 factory.
]. T. Hawkins Of Oklahoma City.
business manager Of the city health
department and former superintendent
r Of the United Provident association,