The Liberal democrat. [volume] (Liberal, Kan.) 1911-1924, 1915-01-01
OKLAA0dA NEWS NOTES

ton. Enid so'
Elk City.
Jan. n-16-short course for farmers.
| saltwater.
Jan. l5--oklahoma Municipal League
meeting, Oklahoma City.
Jan. 1S-25-Oklanoma City Poultry
Show.
Jan. 2S-Farnlers' Union state meeting.
Feb 2cs-Logan County Poultry Assoc
cation, Guthrie
Feb 1920, Central Oklahoma Educa-
tlonaI Association, Oklahoma City
Feb 22-26, Oklahoma Breeders Sale.
Oklahoma City.
April $3.50 southern Commercial Con-
eress, AIuskogee.
May 2l2i-state Firemens meeting,
Sapulpa.
Fire OF unknown origin totally des-
troyed the Rock Island roundhouse
at Mangum. The building was full IN.
sured
Modern systems Fairgrounds have
been installed by the government at
the Rainy Mountain Indian School.
fourteen miles southeast OF Hobart. A
band is one OF thu features OF the
A convicts' hosDital. with convict
nurses, patients and doctors. has Just
been completed at the penitentiary at
McAlester. The convicts constructed
the building, which will house more
than so patients. DIR. J. w. Echols
is the doctor in charge, but convict
doctors will be his assistants. Sur
glcal instruments, operating tables and
such equipment is being bought by the
board OF affairs.
The most novel plan yet adopted in
Sapu!pa for the purpose of aiding the
poor Of that city is that of a local
theater manager, Walter Sornberger,
who is admitting children under 10
years of age to his amusement house
for the admission fee of an egg or a
potato. On the first day the plan was
put into execution over one hundred
and eighty eggs and potatoes were
brought to the theater.
Secretary John R. Williams OF the
state school land department has been
admitted to practice law before the
supreme court. Mr.. Williams was ad.
mitted on motion OF A. c. Cruce,
brother of Governor Lee Cruce. VIII
liams practiced law for number of
years before statehood. lie has been
secretary of the school land depart.
ment during the present administra-
ton.
An oil vel! which is now believed
to be about 300-barre producer,
was brought in just about two miles
from the western edge OF the Musko-
gee city limits, IN an entirely new To-
cation. Josia Fisher, who declares
that he is an Indian more than 30
years old, unable to read or write,
brought suit in the superior court, al,
leging that oil men had secured by
force deed to q siXty-acre tract,
only three-quarters of mile from the
we'll. The Indian claims that an agent
induced him to sign lease to the
property for so cents an acre, telling
him that the we'll drilled had turned
out to be a dry hole He says he
would not have sold the lease for less
than $25 an acre II he had known that
a well had been discovered.
Judge Ralph E, Campbell of the
United States district court, in sus-
tanning demurrer to liquor indict-
ment held thar under the federal law
for Oklahoma proof of the actual sale
of liquor was not enough to secure a
conviction in a case. The decision of
Judge Campbell follows and amplihes
the recent decision of the circuit
court which held that mere possession
of liquor in Oklahoma did not alone
constitute introducing it into this
state. The finding of the court means
that liquor convictions can be taken
only in cases where 1t Is shown that
the liquor has been brought into the
state from point outside. The Unit
ed States attorneys Office here an
nounced that 1t will take the case to
the supreme court on writ of error.
Charles E. Crabtree, clerk in the
Lawton postotf'ce, and John F. Math-
ews, a clerk in the Durant postoffice.
have been arrested by fedora! officers
on charges of riflng Unite States
mails, it was made known by Postoffice
Inspector o. C. Pierce OF Oklahoma
CITY. Confessions were obtained from
both men the Inspector said. Math-
ews was arraigned before United
States Commissioner \. G. Cochran OF
Muskogee and was remanded to Jail
after waving preliminary hearing He
was unable TO make bond of $4,000.
Crabtree was released on $500 vail by
Commissioner II. r. Blanding Of Law
on Inspectors w. r. Walters, T. +.
Hopson and f. L. Clampitt arrested
Mathews after watching him for sew
eral hours from secret point OF van
tage. He had charge OF the office from
II o'clock at night until 7 o'clock in