The Liberal democrat. [volume] (Liberal, Kan.) 1911-1924, 1913-05-02
OKLAHOMA NEWS NOTES

Ward, late of the U. S. navy, has been
secured as director.
Among other assets owned by the
McCurtaln state bank is the local
electric light plant.
While drilling for oil in Pawnee
county, twenty-foot vein of coal was
struck by the drillers.
A vast acreage of wheat has been
sown between Aline and Cherokee, &C
cording to the AllneChronoscope.
So many Guthrie citizens attended
the Crescent opening celebration"
that no one was left in town to blow
the whistle that day
Robbers blew the postofice safe at
CARRIER recently obtaining few dol
lars in change and leaving a package
Of stamps untouched.
Lightning recently killed four
horses for\Mr David, who lives north
Of El Reno, Mr., David was blowing
with the horses at the time.
Two Kiowa county citizens went to
law over $40, and one received
judgment of $175 after the total costs
in the case amounted to $175.
The burning gas well on the ]. d
Mayes place, near Shay. has attracted
the attention of gas men and as re-
suit leases are very much in demand
Newspaper subscriptions win con-
tinue to remain on the free list. not
withstanding the governments action
of several years ago, says the Thomas
Tribune. ygHs q
An auto firm in Duncan has re.
oeived four car loads of autos which
have been placed in the city and
county. Twenty-eight cars comprised
the shipment
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,
A company is being formed at Dur
ant to be Incorporated as the South,
eastern Oklahoma Fair Association
and capitalized at $12,5OO, and 1t ia
stated that the fair grounds will be
built within the city limits.
Plans have been perfected and the
preparatory work is under way for the
construction of an air dome. theater
at Checotah. 1t will be so arranged
that il necessity demands. it may be
converted into an opera house.
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
a year, Of being the capital.
To provide water for domestic pur
poses as well as street sprinkling,
citizens at Waurlka have installed
filters in Beaver creek, the source OF
local water supply. A street sprink.
ling system is being organized by
local merchants.
After eight months of continuous
work water has been turned into Ho.
barts new 100000, OOO.gallon storage
reservoir, covering seventy acres of
lond Watar io talran frap, 7 ittY. U,tI.
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 1t
will take eight months to I'll the res
ervoir, but the water shortage of the
past is believed solved. The reservoir
is owned by the city and constructed
at cost Of $4,000.
Coffeyville has voted to donate $780,
600 to the Siggins Electric Company
and an electric line is now assured as
far as Nowata.
The big round up" that has been
held in Dewey for several years and
which has proven SO popular in that
section of the southwest, is to be
staged again this summer. AS usual,
it is to be held July 4, and 6.
That the fire which destroyed the
City hotel at WiIburton recently waI
purely accidental was the verdict OF
c. C.. Hammonds, state fire marshal
who has been at Wilburton for the
past several days investigating the
blaze.
Active development OF the big
dolomite quaries at Creta, 10 miles
west of Altus, on the Frisco railroad,
in the near future is promised in
letter to Altus capitalists from ]. C.
Drew. Of Dallas, president OF the
Southwestern Quarry Company. which
purchased the properties there three
years ago at cost OF 100000, the
deed at the time being the largest
ever filed in the records OF Jackson
county
The Five Civilized Tribes Of Indians
N Oklahoma will receive salvation only
through congress, according to w. X.
Moorehead OF the Indian commission.
Excavations are being made for the
pit and boot Of a new grain elevator