The Liberal democrat. [volume] (Liberal, Kan.) 1911-1924, 1915-03-12

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While trying to prevent her hus.
bands team from running away, Mrs.
w. w. Rutherford was almost instantly
Killed at Carnegie, by the animals
knocking her down and tramplng upon
her.
Conthenia Madalina, an Italian
miner, was killed in the Rock island
Coal Companys mine No. Az, a,
Gowen, when a trip car half way down
the slope struck him. The body was
badly mangled.
Kelly Roach of Oklahoma City, we'll
known banker. has secured charter
for the First State bank of clifton and
will be ready for business in the near
future. The building for the bank is
practically completed.
Only six votes were cast against
the franchise granted by Bristow to
the Bristow Electric Company One
hundred and fifty-six votes were cast
for the franchise which runs for pc.
riod of twenty-five years.
Two deputy sheriffs have been as.
signed to clifton oil field by the sheriff
of Creek county at the request of Oil
ten officials and Jail is being erect
ed. Prisoners will be worked on the
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Rather than face the world after
having been convicted of stealing
meat from his brother-n-law, Win
Shepherd, aged Sc years, of Box
chito, took a large dose of arsenic
and died from the effects of the med
icne in the Durant Jail.
Six bench warrants have been issued
for the arrest of Robert Warren, who
escaped jail at Purcell after having
pleaded guilty to six charges of EN-.
bezzlement, during the October term
of court. Warren was sentenced to
serve six months in the county Jail
for the alleged offense.
The farmers in Ottawa county are
planning on doing considerable
amount of truck farming this year
Some are using FIVE and ten acre
tracts for truck farming alone AL.
though a considerable amount of
wheat has been sown, the farmers
realize that the climate here is ideal
for vegetables, and that there is a
ready market at Joplin, Tulsa, Okla
iona City and Kansas City.
After forty years continuous serv-
ice for the government in the Indian
department, John II. Seger has re-
signed his position at Colony as Indian
farmer aid VIII retire to private life.
Mr.. Seger has probably been in the In.
dian service longer than any other man
now residing in Oklahoma, and has
been great source Of influence and
help among the Indians of western
Oklahoma.
Action to settle the question of title
to the two tracts Of land upon which
the buildings of the state peniten.
tiary are located, and the other ad-
joining, has been instituted in the
district court at McAlester The &C.
ton is brought by James BRAZIL, who
claims the title to the land, and seeks
to dispossess the state and also asks
$4,000 damages for the six years the
state has occupied the land.
Claude Weaver, present congress-
man from Oklahoma, was appointed
postmaster of Oklahoma City BY
President Wilson to succeed II. G.
Eastman, resigned. Weaver will prob.
ably take Office soon after March a.
when his term as congressman. ex
pres. Other Oklahoma postmasters
named last week we're as follows:
Tecuuseh. NJ. M Henderson, editor
Tecumseh County Democrat; Wag.
oner, II. e. Thompson; Wapanucka,
Lula A. Ball.
Walter Gilbert, secretary to the
state highway commission, is prepar
ing series Of maps showing routes
in different directions iron: Oklahoma
City TO various parts o? the state.
Each route in each direction is clear
ly outlined, and the map will show
the tourist just how to go and where
he is going. The route reaches the
Kansas line, one to the Red river, an
other through the oil fields and an
other through the western part of the
state, with Oklahoma City as the huh
General information as to touring lines
to the north, south, east and west
are given. This includes the interstate
lines.
Thomas ]. Smith, Haileyville |
barber, was run over by an interurban
car near Haileyville and was instantly |
killed. One leg was cut Off and
Smiths head was crushed.
While nearly 1000 mobiles watched
the ceremonies, 1875 novices Travelled |
from the coasts of barbarism to the
inmost courts of the Shrine Washing
toms birthday in the Masonic temple
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