The Liberal democrat. [volume] (Liberal, Kan.) 1911-1924, 1914-10-09

Samuel B. Hayes has opened a law
office at Oklahoma City.
Gov. Cruce has returned from the
cotton conference at Washington.
The price of gas may be reduced
ten cents a thousand feet in Sapulpa
as the result of new gas line which
promoters are proposing to build
there within short time.
Congressman Charles d. Carter has
instructed the Hugo chamber of COM
merce to purchase for him bale Of
distressed" cotton. The bale will
be purchased and held in storage.
Not until four months and five days
had elapsed from the time of his death
in the Philippine Islands, did the body
of Private Everett Rodgers of the
United States army find burial at
Grove, his former home.
John Cornish, who founded the old
town of Cornish, twenty-six years ago,
has been named cattle inspector for
the Ringing railroad. His duty will
be to examine all stock injured or kill.
ed by Ringing trains, and report the
damage to the company.
Another of the counterfeit $1,000
bills which have been circulating In
Oklahoma City during the past ten
days has turned up. The fraudulent
bills are on a bank at Chandler, and
are a very good imitation. About six
months ago a bunch of bad bills of the
same denomination were passed in
this section, and 1t is supposed that
the counterfeit money which has re-
Gently been passed here was placed
in circulation by the same gang.
No agreement was reached by the
superior court jury at. McAlester be-
fore which was tried w. F. Kelly,
charged with having murdered James
Bates in bank at Crowder, Okla, and
the jury was dismissed by the court.
Kelly at one time was postmaster and
city councilman at Crowder, and at
one time was city marshal of the town.
The killing was the result of an old
quarrel which originated between the
two men while they were holding Of
fee
Under a recent decision of the SUI
preme court, penalties on delinquent
taxes can not be collected unless no
tice by mail is given by the county
treasurer to each taxpayer whose
name appears on the records as delin-
quent, according to an opinion by AS
sistant Attorney General Smith c.
Matson to County Treasurer A. A.
Watson of Pittsburg county. Where
such notice is not given and the prop
erty in question is sold, the owner
may redeem his property without
panalty.
Clinton witnessed the formal open
ing of the democratic division of the
state electio ncampaign. CARRIED in
its gala dress, the town turned itself
over to the democracy with R. L. Will
liams as the principal speaker.
One hundred bales of cotton were
bought; $1,000 subscribed to be loaned
to farmers and producers of this coun-
ty at a "buy-a-bale" meeting of the
commercial club at Sapulpa. Articles
of incorporation for the erection of a
bonded warehouse were drawn up and
will be forwarded to the secretary of
state. Mrs. Fred Kaufman, wife of
local merchant, was the first Okla
homa woman to buy bale.
Four warehouses have been erected
at Bristow to care for the cotton baled
at the seven local gins. The ware
houses have a capacity of $500 bales
Of cotton. All of the local gins are in
operation, some of them being run
both night and day in order to care
for the staple being brought to this
market Very little cotton is being
sold. Farmers are taking an optimis-
tic view of the situation, which has
arisen out of the European war, and
are storing their staple.
A farmer 70 years old. living near
Muskogee has cleared $1,000 on water
melons during the past summer and
expects to reap an additional $500 be-
fore the frost is on the pumpkin. The
farmer raised 10000 melons on fif-
teen-acre tract.
A feeling of distrust for banks
caused Mrs. E. R. Tillison, widow
living in seemingly abiect poverty
in the rear of ramshackle second
hand furniture store in Oklahoma City
to lose $1,000 in cash, the savings Of
lifetime, when visited by a negro
burglar.