The Liberal democrat. [volume] (Liberal, Kan.) 1911-1924, 1915-01-08

A Bartlesville father was placed in
Jail for having failed TO send his
children to school.
Five licenses to wed within per-
iod of twenty-five minutes is the new
record established by the marriage
license clerk in Pittsburg county
Gabriel E. Parker. who resigned as
register of the United States treas
ury to become head of the Indian
bureau in Muskogee will take charge
Of the bureau at once
With nearly four hundred delegates
and visitors present from al, coun-
tries of the state. the annual conven-
ton of the socialist party OF Okla
homa was held at Oklahoma City
Cupid in Oklahoma county has been
busy this year. Indications are that
the marriage license bureau will have
issued as many licenses in 1914 as
the year previous The total in 1913
was 1888
Two masked men entered pool
hall at Muskogee, drew reyolvers.
backed the proprietor and eleven
players into corner. relieved Ave OF
the men OF total of SIPS and made
good their escape
George II. Kelley. recently director
OF the Altus band. has been secured
as leader of the Newkirk band to
take charge the first OF the year. Mr..
Kelley was leader of the Newkirk
band some five years ago.
Word has been received of the
death on a steamship in the Atlantic
ocean of +. o. Lutz, prominent and
wealthy Guthrie business man and
vice president Of the Kerr Dry Goods
company OF Oklahoma City. News OF
the death was flashed to land by wire
less.
A. c. Baker, who is well known in
the vicinity of Alton. was given three
years in the state penitentiary for
horse stealing. The case came up be-
fore District Judge Davis. The horses
were stolen from a place near Miami
several months ago, but were recover
ed before taken from the state.
Seventy.eight dollars were secured
by an unmasked man who robbed the
money drawer Of the Frisco railroad
depot at Alton. When the night
operator went out to lunch the man
was seen sitting in the waiting room.
The money drawer was found to have
been prled open, when the operator
returned
More than 46 per cent more cotton
has been ginned in Oklahoma county
this year than during the same period
in 1913, according 10 the report OF r.
+ English agent of the federal cot
ton bureau, Prior to December IL.
1918, there we're 9,537 bales ginned
in this county For the same period
in 1914 the ginning was 1883 bales.
Undersheriff M. G. Patton left
Claremore In company with seven
prisoners to be placed In the state
penitentiary at McAlester They are
May Denien, two years arson; ]. B.
Murphy. TWO years, burglary; Doris
Wall, five years, horse stealing; Frank
Webb, two years, forgery; Carl HooIe.
four years. burglary; Julius Jackson
five years, horse stealing, and Jim
Williams. two years, burglary
The board Of city commissioners
has taken under Amusement The re-
| quest OF number of citizens that a
special election be called to vote on
the city manager plan OF government.
Amendments. providing for a change
from the present commission form to
the managerial form were presented
to the board Monday morning, accom-
panied with The request that the
board submit them 10 a popular vote
before The regular city election next
April.
Amendment of present revenue laws
so as to exempt from taxation FOR the
year 1915 all cotton that is held In
storage by farmers for better prices,
will be included in Governor.elect r.
l.. Williams concentrations to the
legislature. The amendment recon-
mended will provide that all farm
products so long as they are held by
the producer whether on his own
premises or elsewhere. shall not be-
subject to taxation for me year OF
1915. Cotton will be practically the
only farm product affected and the ex-
emption will apply to that product
only so long as it remains in the
hands of the producer.
After nearly years work, the state
auditor has completed his final re-
port on the embezzlement OF W. H.
Wainwright, formerly county treas
urer OF Muskogee county, who is now.
in the state penitentiary az McAloster
serving a term of IA years The au-
ditor found that the total amount en-
bezzled by Wainwright was S5i6i7.
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