The Liberal democrat. [volume] (Liberal, Kan.) 1911-1924, 1914-01-09


Jan. l7.-sale Of Choctaw and Chicka-
saw lands at McAlester.
Jan. 1921, State Association Black
Jan. 26-sl.-state Poultry Show. Enid.
Eeb. 9-l4 India Temple Shriners FAIR
Sept 22-oct. 8. Isl4-state Fair. okla
homa City.
Muskogee telephone girls are for
hidden to use powder and paint.
The socialists held a state conven-
ton at Oklahoma City last week.
Rolf town of 300 population, has
combined bank deposits in two insti-
tutions of $165,00O.
A thousand chickens were burned
when fire destroyed all the buildings
in the Cope chicken ranch near West
Vile.
The next trial of Mrs. Laura NJ.
Reuter- of Tulsa for the murder of her
husband, is set for Jan. IL at Bar
tlesville.
The directors of the Oklahoma,
Texas and Gulf Highway association
met in executive session at Ardmore
last week
After quarrel, Frank jenkins, a
negro, shot and killed his wife, at
Tulsa, and then turned the gun on
himself. He will die.
d. w. ohern, who has been direct
or Of the geological survey of Okla.
homa university, has resigned. C.
w. Shannon is his successor.
According to the recent census
taken of Sand Springs by order of the
board of county commissioners, that
town now has a population of 1,150.
Less than $50 was secured by burg
lars blew the safe of the postoffic at
Morris, an oil town on the Frisco rail-
road ten miles southeast of Okmulgee.
A thousand dollars worth Of Jew
elry, stolen several weeks ago from
the home of DR.. II. B. c. Mckenzie Of
Enid was recovered by officers from
three boys.
Two men have resigned the position
OF county assessor of Coal county
and the office is going begging. 1t
yields $1,000 per year, but the assessor
has to pay all expenses, including dep
uties.
The wealth of the Indians in Okla
homa makes it difficult for mission
aries to direct them in the ways they
should go, said Mrs. John Markoe to
the members of Indians Hope Asso.
citation, at Philadelphia.
Believing much difficulty will be en-.
countered in securing a jury to try
the Reuter- case, District Judge R. c.
Allen at Bartlesville, ordered a special
venire of 200 jurors drawn. This
makes 270 jurors already drawn.
T. A. Parkinson of Wagner has
been appointed county clerk to serve
during the suspension of ]. e. Nc
Elroy, the regularly elected clerk.
The suspension of McElroy was done
by the county board of commissioners.
AS the result of pouring kerosene
into a stove Of burning wood, Mrs.
Lew Hawkey and small child who
lived a short distance from Inola,
twelve miles south of Claremore, were
both burned so severely that death re-
suited.
After living as common law" hus.
band and wife for more than three
years, c. Fuchus and May Fuchus,
who were arrested at the Central
hoel at Tulsa, for violating of the city
ordinance, were married in the ma.
irons office at the police station.
The first public reception and ban
| quet ever given in Wilson were tend
cred by General Manager Jake L..
Hamon of the Ringing railway to a
party of twelve citizens of Ardmore,
constituting the Ardmore committee,
that guaranteed bonus of $4,000 to
Hamon and his associates.
Gus Tuition, who, with his brother,
Tol Tuition, and Gal Christian, is
charged with the murder of John Sims,
came to Durant and surrendered to
the officers.
Dave Humphrey, %, foreman of the
Northwestern. railroad section at AL.
tus, was arrested last week at the
instance of the sheriff of Pontotoc
county on a charge preferred by a
15.eyar-old girl at Beebe, over year
ago.
The amount of the shortage of
former County Treasurer Wainwright
of Muskogee county probably never
will be determined exactly. 1t is
claimed that Wainwright embezzled
the first cent of money received in his
office. The shortage grows daily but
an estimate places the total at
$4,000.
Figures compiled by r. e. Inglish,
federal statistician for Oklahoma
county, show that 9,537 bales of cot
ton have been ginned in the county
this season prior to December 10.
This is a gain Of 1876 bales over the
same period for last year, the figures
| a.. A. eo,.o,, 90 1910 ~ 30