The Liberal democrat. [volume] (Liberal, Kan.) 1911-1924, 1915-11-05

The First National bank Of Hominy,
capitalized at $4,000, has deposits OF
$235, 900.
The Cheyenne Indians are holding
their yearly dance of "the dried corn"
at Watonga.
An explosion in the powder house
of the Rock Island Coal Companys
mine No. 40 at Gowen, in Latimer
county, wrecked the house and killed
two miners.
Hearing on the request Of the oil
producers of the Healdton field for
fixed price of 55 cents for oil has been
set for November 10 by the state cor
poration commission.
The cattle-dipping vat at the Buck
horn oil we'll at Ada was dynamited
by unknown parties. This is the sec
ond instance of the kind since dipping
began in Pontotoc county.
That the contract for an addition
to the Oklahoma City front office and
federal building to cost $250,000 will
be let by January l, is the opinion OF
Postmaster Claude Weaver.
Frank Harper, Tor more than five
years secretary to Theodore Roose-
welt, now is resident of Tulsa, with
wife and little boy. He is connected
with the Roxanna Petroleum Com
pany.
President Wilson has committed to
expire Immediately the sentence OF
Oscar Houston, found guilty of hav-
ing broken into the Enid postoffice.
Houston's sentence would have ex-
PRED next January.
Robert st. Marie was shot and
killed at Drumright and Clyde Black-
ley is under arrest in the city jail,
charged with the killing. The killing
took place after a running fight be-
tween st. Marie and Blackley.
Attendance at the Southwestern
State Normal school the past week
reached 400, the highest mark reached
at this time of year in the institutions
history. Friends of the school now
believe it has attained its stride.
The Durant Cotton Oil Company has
made arrangements to experiment with
peanuts this year in the making Of
oil and cake. They will pay so cents
per bushel for the peanuts to start,
but insist that they be cured when
offered.
There's to be no rest for the speed
flends and traffic law violators in
Oklahoma City Mayor Ed Overholser
and the police are going to camp on
the trail Of this class of law break
ers, according to statement made by
the citys chief executive, and all vio-
lators will draw maximum fines.
Oklahoma City's tax rate will be the
same for the fiscal year ending June
80, 1916, as was in force for the end of
the present fiscal year. For the gen.
eral fund mills upon each dollar of
property, as per its assessed valua-
ton, and for the sinking fund mills
on the dollar, were the rates fixed. No
levy was made for the water fund.
L. l. Beland of Guthrie, with large |
interests in lumber, timber and mills |
in several states, and an officer in
several large lumber corporations in
the southwest, has just closed con-
tracts with the Russian government |
which will require immense amounts |
of lumber. One item Of 300,000,000 |
feet of red oak timber will be the !
first to be delivered.
James H. Snyder, Of Oklahoma City, |
Oklahoma's Oldest known resident, eel |
ebrated his 102nd birthday last week |
by getting out and enjoying the warm
and thanking his Maker that |
he has been permitted to spend the |
last few years of his long life in a
climate as pleasant as that of Okla
homa Mr.. Snyder said that he had |
not felt better in months and expects
t.. live to see some more birthdays.
There we're 314 loads of grain, in
GLIDING wheat, maize, kafir, feterita
and corn, marketed in Hollis one day
last week.
With the announcement from the
city health department of Oklahoma
City that five new cases of scarlet
fever and three more cases of diph-
iberia had been reported, there was
a feeling among the officials that a
spread of the contagious
diseases was due. There are now
Lhirty-seven cases of diphtheria and
cases Of scarlet fever in
The city, !