The Liberal democrat. [volume] (Liberal, Kan.) 1911-1924, 1915-10-15

R. H. Allen. a Garfield county stock
and wheat raiser, committed suicide
last week by hanging himself.
Building permits for $132.745 worth
of building improvements in Oklahoma
City is the record established for the
month of September,
Lincoln Bennett died from the effects
of gas in a well thirty-two feet deep
which Bennett was digging on his farm
ten miles west of Chickasha.
j. F. Limerick, convicted of prac-
ticing surgery without license, was
! fined 500, at Durant. He will appeal
the decision of the county court.
Frederick W. Hawley of Tulsa,
widely known in Presbyterian educa.
tional circles. was elected president
of Park college OF Parksville, Mo.
NJ. L. Fife, vice-president of the
First National bank of Blackwell and
one of the most prominent gas and
oil men of Oklahoma, died of apoplexy
last week.
The first report of the Creek county
| grand jury under the new dispense
ton was an accusation against NJ. S.
! Gooch, town trustee of Drumright.
District Judge E. B. Hughes imme-
diately suspended Gooch from Office.
Work has just been started upon the
two new factory buildings in which
will be centered all manufacturing in
situations at the state penitentiary.
The buildings will be of equal size,
75x200 feet in dimensions, three stories
high with Easements.
With nine state educational institu-
lions competing for first honors at the
Oklahoma State Fair, the Northwest
ern State normal school of Alva has
been awarded the coveted prize. The
exhibits were all elaborate and some
of the schools made exceptionally fine
showings.
Having passed the $4,000 mark in
issuance of tags and receipt of appli-
cations for automobile licenses, State
Highway Commissioner George Noble
says he is certain the total number of
tags issued for the year will exceed
10000. Applications are coming in
at the rate of $50 day.
The Muskogee Coffee Company, Of
which B. B. Rice is president, filed a
| natitinp Of vnIuntarv hankrnnov IL,
the United States court The COM
panys debts are listed at $4,131.S4,
and the assets are given at $4,000,
of which $500 is an insurance pol.
icy that may be contested
A petition is being circulated at Du-
rant and almost unanimously signed,
asking that an election be called for
the election of board of freeholders
to prepare a charter for commission
form of municipal government for this
city.
The state industrial commission
awarded Alph Brewer, negro, compen-
sation' at the rate of Sc per week for
$50 weeks for the loss of an arm. He
was employed by the Pine Belt Lumber
Company at Fort Towaon and it
was while employed there that he
sustained the injury This is the first
case to be heard by the commission
and the first award of compensation
1t has made.
: Yeggmen blew open the safe in the
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mately $4,000 and escaped Citizens
who were awakened by the first ex
plosion assert that three other eXplo
sions followed. The safe was com
pletely wrecked. Maud is in Semi
mole county, and a posse of officers is
following the robbers east toward We
woda, the county seat. Four men are
believed to have constituted the party
of yeggmen.
With twenty-three towns repre-
sented the Negro State Postmaster
Association was organized in Okla
homa City. Caesar F. Simmons
. postmaster at Boley, was elected pres
ident, and Williams Brooks of Brooks
: vile was named as secretary. Post
t masters from the following towns
y in Oklahoma compose the member
l. shin of the organization: Boley
/ Brooksville, Crayson, Langston, Tath
r UNI, Red Bird, Vernon, Tabor, Lima
, Clear View, Lewisville, Taft, Reutis
+ vile Ran, Tallahassee, DIRK, Haynes
Mybark, Gibson, Wallace, Ferguson.