The Liberal democrat. [volume] (Liberal, Kan.) 1911-1924, 1913-09-19

The Oklahoma State institute vi
Technology was opened last week and
before noon the first day 1858 students
had enrolled,
Cliff Dean, farmer, and his wife, liv-
ing three and one-half miles north
west of Washington, were instantly
killed by lightning during a severe
electrical storm.
Thomas O'Keefe of Oklahoma City
presented the lowest figure, when plds
for the construction of the Tulsa con-
vention hall were considered by the
city commissioners. His bid was
$S1 sol.
For the past week the Methodist
Episcopal church of Guymon has held
services each night, dedicating It's
new house of worship just completed
at a cost of $4,000 In the Sunday
services, $4,000 was raised to COM
plete the payment of the building con-
tract.
L. w. Booth and Rich Watson were
bound over to the district court at
Guymon after a preliminary hearing
+ on a charge of stealing cattle. Booth
and Watson are out on bond. The
cattle it is alleged, we're stolen from
j. R. Anderson and NJ. Brodie, farm
ers in the east end of Texas county.
Northwestern Oklahoma needs little
or no rain to mature its crops. This
was proven again during the past sea-
son when two-thirds of a wheat crop
was secured in Ellis, Harper and
Beaver counties with practically no
rain since early in the spring. Also
good crops of kafir, milo maize, broom
corn and feterita resulted where prop
erly tended.
Victor NJ. Locke, Jr., principal chief
of the Choctaw nation, and Mrs. Viva
Nail Robertson of Caddo were mar
ried at the home of the bride by the
Rev. Luther Roberts, pastor Of the
Methodist Episcopal church, South, at
Caddo. Only a few intimate friends
were present at the ceremony. Chief
and Mrs. Locke have gone to Palmer
Lake, Colo, to be with Mrs. Locke's
brother, who is very ill. They will
reside at Antlers.
George P McClenathan of Bartles-
vile was drowned at Sand Springs
near Tulsa. He was q years old.
The twenty-fourth year of the Cen
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week with an enrolment of nearly 500
students, a large increase over last
year when 91S had enrolled at the end
of the first day.
A referendum petition asking that
the bill enacted at the last special
session of the legislature forbiddng
race track betting be referred to the
voters of the state. has received more
than the legal number of signatures
and will be filed with the secretary
of state in few days, according to
R. ]. Allison, president Of the Tulsa
Jockey club AS no referendum will
be submitted until the state primaries
in August Of next year, Oklahoma
seems likely to have a continuance Of
betting on horse racing.
The trial of Mrs. Lorena Mathews
began in the district court at Guthrie
and will occupy most Of week. She
is charged jointly with James Chap
man, negro, with the murder Of Lew
renee Mathews, her husband, on the
night OF December s, 1908.
Unable to bear her grief over the
accidental killing Of her son. Otis
while hunting, Mrs. Minnie Hume
aged 36. of Oklahoma City. shot and
killed herself.
William Harrison. negro lawyer
OF Oklahoma City, has been elected
president of the National Negro Bar
association. He has just returned from
Philadelphia where he attended the
annual meeting of that organization
and the National Negro Business
league. Harrison is also the attorney
for the National Baptist convention
said to be the largest body Of negroes
In the world.