The Liberal democrat. [volume] (Liberal, Kan.) 1911-1924, 1914-01-02
The state insane asylum at Vinita
is to have a broom factory,

More than thirty county poultry
shows have been held in Oklahoma
this month.
The products of the zinc and lead
mines near Miami last week were val
ued at $4,000.
The local agents association of the
western division OF the Frisco lines
met in Hobart last week.
The old time political and business
friendship Of Geo. G. Priestly and l..
G. Dizney is broken. Dizney has sued
Priestly at Atoka for a divvy-up and
some oil speculations.
The Hartshorne high school by de-
feating McAlester high school won its
first preliminary contest in the series
for the championship of the Oklahoma
State High School Debating League.
The frozen body OF Walker Smith.
negro, better known as owl" found
at daylight lying beside the new negro
Methodist church was the aftermath
Of an ARRAY in George Buffers negro
joint at Shawnee.
Mrs. Albert T. Patrick, wife Of the
New York attorney who was SEN
fenced to death for the murder Of
William M. Rice, Texas millionaire,
and pardoned year ago after serv.
ing several years in Sing Sing, died
in a hospital at Tulsa.
The store Of the Canadian Trading
Company of Canadian, a small town
in Mcintosh county, was completely
destroyed by fire. The entire stock,
together with the building, which was
owned by the company was burned,
causing loss of about 100000.
The body of William Parker has
been recovered in the Rock Island
mine No. at Hartshorne, after seven
teen days burial 1t was Parker who
accidently caused the Hailey-Ola.
disaster in 1908, in which 20 were
killed, by firing barrel of oil.
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railroad is completed to Joiner and if
nothing unforeseen happens steel will
be laid to the end of the grade before
New Years, which will put the road
to within four miles Of Cornish, closer
than that town has ever been to a
railroad.
The Crawford Cotton Exchange
bank and the Strong City Cotton Ex-
change bank we're sold last week by
W. o. Horn of Elk City to ]. w. Coo
per and c. L. Barton of Cheyenne
The Strong City bank then was con-
solidated with the First State bank of
Strong City
Following her from their home near
Walter, to Tulsa. Louis Rea, a veal.
thy young farmer, shot and fatally
wounded his wife, Blanche, and then
turned the gun on himself, when he
found her in the dance hall in the
segregated district He is dead, but
she may recover.
The accidental discharge of shot
gun in the hands of Deputy Sheriff L.
P. Barker of Norman, resulted in the
death of June Burrage, ranch mana
ger for Steve Hutchin, near Denver,
ten miles east of Norman. Barker
and Burrage were hunting rabbits
when the accident occurred.
The lure of the possible profits in
the sale Of contraband liquor led Oil
yer Weston to his death and his broth
er, William Weston, to a cell in the
Nowata county Jail, where he awaits
a hearing on a charge of introducing
liquor into the Indian country of Okla
homa. Oliver was killed by Sheriff
Mayfield.
The school land lessees organiza-
ton of Blaine will hold a meeting at
Watonga in the courthouse on Deem
Der 30, at which time it is proposed
to take up the matter of reconsider
ing the appraisement of unsold school
land. The annual election will also
be held and other important business
transacted.
The case of H. Trigg Of Guthrie,
against the Western Union Telegraph
Company for $1,000 damages for fail
ure in the prompt delivery of tele-
gram, tried at Guthrie, was concluded
very suddenly when the del.ldant
moved the court to instruct the jury
to return a verdict in the sum of $50,
that being the maximum amount in
the contract on the back OF the tele-
graph blanks.
Mrs. David Bender, aged 70, of
Blackwell, died from the effects of
fall to the sidewalk a week ago in
which she sustained broken hip.
Jim Taylor, farmer, was shot and
killed by VIII Arthur. Both lived
near Luther, Oklahoma county, where
the killing occurred. Arthur is road
overseer and Taylor with others were
working the road. Differences came
up between Arthur and Taylor in re.
gard to how certain work should be
done Arthur gave himself UP. Fay
lar leaves a family.