The Liberal democrat. [volume] (Liberal, Kan.) 1911-1924, 1915-01-22

Two banks in Marietta have de-
posits totaling $29S,S9O.74.
The First National bank of Hominy
with a capital of $4,000 has deposits
Of $2O0,244.24.
Peoples National bank of Kingfisher,
with a capital of $4,000, has deposits
Of 1896, 7O112.
The Union National bank of Bart
lesville, with capital of 100000, has
deposits of $500, 425.22.
Fire was discovered in the Hough-
ton-Oouglass cotton gin at Crescent
and in short time the gin proper was
completely destroyed by the flames.
Federal officers captured ten kegs of
whisky at Ardmore and poured out the
contents into gutter on Main street
in the presence of a big crowd. No
arrests were made.
Charles Lane, former postmaster at
the North McAlester station, died in a
local hospital from injuries received
in a coal mine at Pocahontas. Both
legs were cut off by runaway car.
The First National bank of Wilson
and the Oklahoma State bank of that
town have been merged under the
name of the former, which thus be.
comes one of the strongest financial
institutions in that district
A Grady county farmer Saturday
and the sheriff of Grady county on
Monday was the change that Hodge
Bailey, the new sheriff of Grady coun-
ty, has just gone through. Bailey is
the first farmer sheriff of Grady
county.
Because he could not sell his cot
ton crop, Adolph Janda, 35 years of
age, a Bohemian farmer who had been
living on his farm three miles south
of Anadarko, swallowed over fifty tab
lets of chloride of mercury and lived
ten days.
A commercial club of 200 members
has been organized at Bristow, officers
have been elected, and steps have
been taken toward getting quick &C.
ton on the erection of an electric light
plant to be in operation some time
during the coming summer.
The annual convocation of the bod
les of the Ancient and Accepted Scot
fish Rite Of Free Masonry, under the
supreme council of the sovereign
grand inspector general, southern jur.
isdiction, will be held at Masonic
Temple, Guthrie, the week of Monday,
January IS.
A father and son, former president
and cashier of a Coweta National
bank, appeared in federal court at
Muskogee, where they asked that the
court appoint lawyer to defend them,
which adds that the former bankers,
now under indictment, pleaded that
they possessed but $500.
The guarantee of $1,000 for purses,
just raised by the McAlester Gun cue
makes certain the prospect that the
hold the annual shoot there this
spring. The date fixed is April 1921.
There will be twenty-six events,
twenty-five of them open to all con-
testants, one limited to Oklahoma
marksmen, to decide the state cham
pionship.
Last week elevator men at Black
we'll offered $1.21 for wheat Of mum.
Der two grade This breaks all rec
ords for the wheat market in that city
during the twenty-one years it has,
been in existence. Very little was
marketed at that price, for the farm
ers continue to believe there is
higher price coming. Between 80 and
40 per cent of the 1914 crop still re-
mains in the farmers hands.
Changes in the present law con.
corning the assessing of property for
taxation were considered at a meet.
ing of the state association of county
assessors held in the Lee-Huck.
ms hotel January 9. Assessors and
SA-dooSSbOlS VI every COuHly III the
state form the membership of the or
ganization and will attempt to have
changes made in the law creating
their offices. j. w. McCracken of No
wata is president and Porter Spauld-
ing of Muskogee, secretary.
Validity of $4,000 of warrants is
sued by the city of Sulphur in 1908 &c
attacked in ten appeals from judgment
of the district court of Murray count
filed in the supreme court by attor.
neys against the city had been OBJ
tanned by persons who had bought the
warrants. 1t is alleged the warrants
are illegal and void for the reason
that they fail to show, on their face
the amount of funds in the Sulphur
city treasury at tn time they were
issued. 1t is alleged further that the
amount represented by all the war