The Liberal democrat. [volume] (Liberal, Kan.) 1911-1924, 1915-05-14

lS'Vfi DdleS VI COIlOu WSI0 bulppSu
from Wynnewood during the past sea-
son.
The Oklahoma Eclectic Medical AS
ISOLATION held its fourteen annual ses
sion May and at Oklahoma City.
From the thirteen railroad stations
in Blaine county, 1909 cars of wheat
were shipped during the year 1914.
A campaign is being waged at Law.
ton by eleven committees soliciting
funds and pledges for the purpose of
establishing local Y. M. c. A. Pledges
for $3.50 have been received.
Word has been received at Shawnee
that an increased appropriation has
been made for the Rock Island for the
month of May and as result full
force of men will be employed in the
shops beginning the first of May.
Governor Williams has issued proc
lamation, designating May IS as Peace
Day, and urging all schools, churches.
societies and fraternaI organizations
to Observe this day by such exercises
as will stir the emotions of love and
good will in our hearts towards all
mankind"
Henryetta was chosen by the mem.
bers of the Independent Order of Odd
Fellows as the meeting place for the
western Oklahoma division Of the or
der for next year, at the close of the
Okmulgee meeting. William Killius
of Henryetta was chosen president of
the celebration association.
The state fire marshal's Office re-
ports the arrest of Frank Barber and
Allen Boatman, charged with tlfe
burning Of the store of the Swink
Mercantile Company, twenty miles
east of Hugo. The fire occurred on
the night of April 20, when several
other buildings were burned.
]. c. Nelson, a soldier in the Fifth
Field Artillery, Fort Sill, was sen.
fenced on plea of guilty, to serve
one year in the state penitentiary at
hard labor for bigamy His wife was
the complaining witness which result.
ed in Nelson's arrest. The couple was
married at Lawton last March.
ID. V. Monroe, of Lindsay, with his
attorney appeared before Justice of
the Peace at Oklahoma City and
waived the reading of the information
and entered plea of not guilty of first
degree murder in killing Marguerite
Ellis, who was shot in a resort in this
city during the latter part of Deem.
Der.
Attempting to ride his motorcycle
past street car at a high rate of
speed, at Oklahoma City, John B. Gel
ger collided with Miss Ethel Shirley,
knocked her to the pavement and
caused himself to be thrown from his
machine with such force that he struck
his head against the curb and died of
fracture of the skull.
County Judge Thomas w. Leahy at
Muskogee held that an Indian might
dispose Of all his property by will
and that the provision of the state
constitution which says that a person
may dispose of only two-thirds of
the estate to one person by will does
not apply to Indian homesteads pat
ented by the United States govern.
ment.
The April receipts at the Oklahoma
City postoffice amounted to $3S,7S2.32.
The receipts for April, 1914, were 1884,.
424.91, showing an increase of nearly
10 per cent. The stamp sale last
month amounted to $34,642.05, an in.
crease of IA per cent being shown in
this department. A general increase
in all branches of the postoffce is re-
ported.
The Rock Island shops at Chickasha
will put on a full force of men on full
time on May l. This will give employ
ment to an additional 800 men. The
shops have not operated on full time
with a complete force during the past
six months. The force is to be in
creased in order to get the rolling
equipment in condition to handle the
coming wheat crop.
Governor Williams has re-appointed
| Captain C. G. Hammonds state fire
marshall. Hammonds also will be a
member of the new insurance board
which was created by the last legis-
lature. The new board, composed of
w. R. Samuels Of Vinita and A. L..
WEIGH, insurance commissioner, and
Hammonds organized. Samuels is
secretary and will draw $250O Ga year.
Preliminary organization of the
Arkansas River Improvement Associa-
ton, so far composed of the civic or.
CARNATIONS of Tulsa, Muskogee, Fort
Smith and Little Rock, came as the
direct result of speech at Muskogee
by Senator Joseph E. Ransdell, chair
man of the river and harbors commit
tee of the senate, in which he declared
that the Arkansas river was "suscep-
tible of navigation"