The Liberal democrat. [volume] (Liberal, Kan.) 1911-1924, 1913-12-26

Jan. e,-Sale OF Choctaw and Chickasaw
Jan. 12-Sale Of Choctaw and Chicka-
saw lands at Poteau
Jan. 1b.-Sale OF Choctaw and Chick
asaw lands at Wilburton.
Jan. H-Sale OF Choctaw and Chicla-
saw lands at McAlester
Jan. 1921 State Association Black
Feb, 9-4, India Temple Shriners Fair,
Oklahoma City
Sept. 22-oct. 3. I9l4-state Fair. okla
homa City
Geary has bad case of the gas
fever.
Have you selected your kafir and
peanut seed?
The Antlers waterworks was out Of
commission several days last week.
Fifty-three babies were born in Till
man county in November
The court house of Custer county at
Arapaho was sold last week.
Fire of the usual unknown origin"
did $4,000 dmage at Foraker.
Washington county's new $50, 900
court house will be completed March
l, 1914.
The town of Bennington suffered
$4,000 fire when two stores were
burned with all their contents.
Twelve cars of stock last week, and
hfty-eight cars of corn during the
month of November, we're shipped
from Binger
Walter Haybittle, a resident Of
Wellington, New Zealand, died this
week at Collinsville. He was buried
by the Masons.
The Oklahoma Improved Stock
Breeders Association was organized
in Enid, with more than fifty breed
ers from over the state present.
B. w. Andrews, Rock Island en-
gineer, is dead as the result or ccsl-
tact with an electric light wire in his
barn as he was attempting to turn on
the light
Six hundred birds, from various
counties in Oklahoma, from Texas.
Kansas, and Arkansas, were entered
In the first annual Pittsburg county
poultry show. -.
Fifteen hundred negroes residing
along the Fort Smith G. Western rail-
way between Fort Smith and Guthrie
have completed arrangements to sail
for Africa the first of the year.
No trace to date h, been discov
cred of the robbers who entered the
large store of Ben Byers at Lehigh,
secured $1,000 worth of merchandise
and attempted to blow the safe.
jury in the superior court at Nc
Alester found Joe Cremeans of Harris
horne guilty of felonious assault upon
Callie Lawson, his 13.year-old sister
in'law and sentenced him to prison.
j. w. Hayden of Calumet is slated
for postmaster of that town, accord
ing to the Chieftain, which says he
secured the highest grades in the civil
service examination for the office.
E. C. Robertson, a prominent young
farmer residing with his father six
miles north of Enid, was killed in
stantly when he fell from his bed
room window on the second floor.
Dennis Swan, charged with the kill.
ing of Bill Hodge, in the eastern part
of Stephens county, was given a pre-
liminary hearing in county court, and
was remanded to Jail without bond.
Two horses belonging to C. e.
Gum, a teamster, were killed when
they collided with a street car at Ell
Reno. The horses were running
away, dragging wagon filed with
coal
The county commissioners of Cana.
dian county have advertised for bids
for the construction of thirty-three
bridges in that county. The bridges
proposed range in length froul 20 to
100 feet, and will be IA feet wide.
A bunch OF Oklahoma lambs, bred
and raised on the Okalohma A. and
M. college farm topped the Kansas
City sheep market last week.
Healthy financial conditions in Sher-
okee county are attested by the fact
that two new banks have been
opened, one at Tahlequah and the
other at Park Hill, within the past
two weeks,
Robert and Ida Garrett, tried in the
district court of Rogers county on a
charge of attempted blackmail, were
acquitted. They we're suspected of
having attempted to secure $1,000
from G. D. Davis, local banker.
d. H. Middleton, former mayor of
Muskogee and for years leading
banker of the city was indicted by the
grand jury charged Jointly with form
er County Treasurer w. H. Vain.
wright with embezzling county funds.
A change of venue to Cleveland
county was granted by District Judge
R. Mcmillan in the trial of John G.