The Liberal democrat. [volume] (Liberal, Kan.) 1911-1924, 1915-12-17
OKLAHOMA NEWS NOTES

Dec: 7-Jan. 1. Eastern Oklahoma Poul-
try Show. Tulsa.
Jan. 3-S, Swine Breeders. State Poultry
Association, Bee Keepers and Dairymen
meet at Saltwater
Jan, 3-S-Newspaper week, A. q NJ
School. Saltwater.
Ian. 3-18-Sale CT Indian lands oil
Cnoctaws and Chickasaws.
March S-8-LivesIock Snow, Oklahoma
City.
Sept. 2S-SO--state Fair. Oklahoma City,
A number of counterfeit silver dol
lars have been found in circulation at
Hobart
Work on the union station planned
for Durant has begun. The new de-
pot will cost about $4,000.
j. ]. Huey, a farmer, SO years old,
was thrown from his wagon and
killed while unloading corn at Pocas'
sett.
At an election at Saltwater the Still
water-Pawnee Gas Company was
granted a gas franchise by a vote OF
1853 to 8.
Lyman Ford, charged with bank rob-
berry, and four other prisoners, escaped
from the county Jail at Miami and are
still at large.
Four cars of turkeys have been
shipped from Grandfeld in the last
month. for which the farmers have re-
ceived $4,000.
Washita Valley Bank, located at
Fort Cobb, is capitalized at 100000;
has a surplus fund of $4,000, and de-
posits of $116,20597.
A moonlight school for negroes has
been organized near Bridgeport. Eight
adult pupils, including a woman 70
years old, are in attendance.
The Tulsa chamber of commerce and
allied business interests are formulat.
ing an appeal to John d. Rockefeller
for a million dollar endowment for
Henry Kendall College.
Vivian May Silver, II years OLD, was
held on charge of second degree
murder at Joplin, Mo-, in connection
with the death of her sweetheart,
Frederick Herman, So, of Miami.
The Interstate Compress Company
will build a compress at Altus on the
site where the big compress recently
burned The new compress will have
storage capacity of 10000 bales of
cotton.
The sale of state school land in Lo-
gan county was finished last week, 10
out of 129 tracts being sold at $3.50
in excess of their appraised value, ac-
cordlng to announcement at the school
land department.
Ray 9. Weems, for the past six and
One-half years secretary of the farm
loan division of the state school land
department, has rendered the commits
sloners of the land office his resigna-
ton to take effect January 1.
Three months In the county Jail and
a fine of $500 and costs, was the pun
ashment assessed by Judge Cham
Jones at Lawton against Bait Carr,
convicted of killing his son-in-law,
Frank Lutz, at Cache. July l6.
Floyd Akin, one OF the three young
men who murdered p. H. Hern, Frisco
agent at Antlers, was found guilty and
given life term in the penitentiary.
Edward Hembree was previously given
a life sentence on the same charge.
One cent stamps only are being used
In Shamrock, the new oil town in Creek
county. This is because they are
green in color and are symbolic of the
shamrock and the Emerald Isle, Post
master Morgan has been asked TO
make acquisitions solely for the penny
stamps.
The interior department IS contem-
plating making final per capita pay
ment to members of the former Cher
okee Indian tribe. The payment when
the tribe went out of existence some
time ago was $11, leaving $150,000 to
their credit. This will amount to about
$3.50 per capita.
Mrs. Charles Tvers died at FL Reno
from burns. Her clothes caught fire
while she was closing the heating
stove door after putting some papers
into the heater. In closing the door
her apron became fastened and as
soon as she released it, the flames
hared over her.
Mrs. Marian Howell, aged 50, Of
Pawhuska was killed and Mrs. j. NJ
OldAeld, aged 40, of Muskogee, anC
Jacob Whitinger, aged rs, a tourist
driver, of Colorado City, were seriousl!
injured when the automobile in which
they we're riding plunged over an EN-
bankment sixty feet high above Rain
bow Falls, in Ute Pass, west of Mani
tou, Col.
Joe Maroney, a prominent farmer a
Grant, Choctaw county, was shot from
ambush and instantly killed Thursda,
morning. His wife, hearing the shot
ran to the field where her husban