The Liberal democrat. [volume] (Liberal, Kan.) 1911-1924, 1914-04-24

May 5-S-Confederate Veterans Re-
union. Jacksonville. Fla.
May S-9-Stete Editorial Association
July 6-Aug. IA. & NJ Cotton School,
Saltwater
Sept. S-9-lO-Caddo county fair Binger.
Sept S-l0-Photographers convention.
Sept. 22-oct 8, lsl4-state Fair, okla
homa City.
Oct; 7-17-Dry Farming Congress,
October-Southern Commercial Con-
gress, Muskogee.
Two banks of Tecumseh have COM
bined deposits of $1S5,00O.
The Blackwell Brick Co., owned by
V. G. Hagaman, has been sold to
Wichita parties.
The board of city commissioners Of
Tulsa adopted a resolution formally
inviting the 1915 gathering of the
United Confederate Veterans to that
city.
John jenkins, of Hickory, was kill
ed by Dick Elliott, his stepfather, who
says that he shot Jenkins after the
latter had attacked him with a knife.
Elliott will plead self-defense.
Sunday evening, while all Chicka-
sha was at church, thief entered the
First National Bank building, forced
the doors to three dentist offices and
procured total of over $500 worth of
gold.
For threatening to behead his 49,
year-old daughter with a butcher
knife, VIII Hinton, proprietor of a
rooming and boarding house at Tulsa,
was sentenced to jail for forty-fve
days.
W. F. Kelly, Crowder postmaster,
chargd with killing James Bates,
city marshal, is in the hospital suf-
fering, doctors say, from a fractured
skull the result of the blow from
Bates gun.
F. w. Holmes of Sayre was elected
president of the Oklahoma Retail
jewelers. association at the Oklaho.
ma City convention last week.
Holmes was secretary-treasurer Of the
organization during the past year.
The Colonial Knickerbocker Trust
Co. Of New York has underwritten
five and half million dollars in two
year notes for paying off receivers
certificates and current debts and
taking the Orient railroad out of the
receivershlp
Sam Ford, a white man, section
foreman Of the NJ, o. G. G.. railroad
at Bernice, pleaded guilty in district
court at Jay to padding the payroll of
his section gang, and was sentenced
to year and day in the penitentiary
at McAlester.
Florists who gathered from all Soc
tions of the state formed a permanent
organization at Oklahoma City known
as the Oklahoma State Florists and
Ornamental Horticuturists' associa-
ton. ]. w. Furrow of Guthrie was
elected president.
For several weeks number of
wolves have been in the vicinity of
Durant and they have already carried
off some young livestock. They are
said to be numerous around the Buck
horn ranch and Lewis Paullin, the
owner, has seen them frequently.
Justice Mathew ]. Kane of King.
fisher. was elected chief of the state
supreme court, succeeding Judge Sam
uel w. Hayes, who resigned to run
for the United States senate. Chief
Justice Kane thus begins his second
term as presiding Judge. His first term
was in 1909-10.
Tillman county's second annual
poultry show will be held in Freder-
lex December IA to 10.
A party Of fourteen students in
geology at the University of Okla
homa went to the Arbuckle noun
tains in the vicinity of Prices Falls
where they spent three days making
contour maps of the Arbuckle region
north and south Of the falls for the
Oklahoma Geological survey.
After watching Fred B. Jones,
veterinary of Atoka, Okla, for sew
eral weeks under suspicion that he
was an agent for white slavers, st.
Louis police arrested him at his room
after he had escorted woman from
the union station to a rooming house
under guise of offering her protec-
ton.
Mrs. May O'Connor of Arcadia was
found wandering about Belle Isle park
at Oklahoma City, apparently under
the influence of drugs and died in
the matrons ward Of the city Jail.