The Liberal democrat. [volume] (Liberal, Kan.) 1911-1924, 1915-02-05

HlOson' WIN capital OF Sz0,UOU, mas
deposits of $125,OOO.
Mrs. Charles Perry died al El Reno
as the result of coughing spell. A
blood vessel was ruptured during the
coughing.
In a freight wreck near Muskogee
last week $4,000 worth of oranges and
lemons were total loss. Nine cars
of the fruit were saved.
AT meeting of the board of direct
ors of the Oklahoma State Fair and
Exposition the dates of the 1915 State
Fair were fixed for September 25 to
October 2.
Governor Williams has accepted an
invitation to deliver the address of
welcome at the opening session of
the Southern Commercial congress at
Muskogee April rs.
Buck" Stigler, member Of one of
the best known Choctaw Indian fam
lilies on the eastern side of the state,
is now the Ringing railroad station
agent at Lone Grove.
The annual reunion of the Scottish
Rite Masons closed at Guthrie with
banquet. More than 1000 people at
tended the cOnvocation. Members of
the class of 112 finished the thirty
second degree.
The criminal term of the Creek
county/district court is now in session
with Judge F. B. Hughes on the bench.
The docket is an unusually lengthy
one, ten murder cases being set for
trial.
The new state banking board held
its first meeting last week and effect
ed organization. John j. Gerlach of
Woodward was chosen chairman and
p. C. Dings of Ardmore treasurer.
Melven Cornish of McAlester is the
third member.
President Frank Gault of the board
of agriculture, desires TO return to tine
state $34,366.67 appropriated for the
use of the Aggie department by the
1918 Legislature, but not expended, he
informed Gov. R. L. Williams in a
letter recently. The money was to
have been used for demonstration
farming, women's auxiliary boards and
farmers institutes.
A campaign to interest more farmers
of Jefferson county in growing peanuts
has been launched as the result of a
visit to the county by V. H. Schoffel-
mayer Of Chicago, editor of the South
west Trail. He believes peanuts to
be one Of the most profitable crops
for this section, and he announces
that the Rock Island Railroad will find
a good market for them.
With sixty-six applications for high.
er degrees constituting the Lodge OF
Perfection, the midwinter reunion of
Scottish Rite Masons of the McAlester
Valley was held. Although the class
was smaller than was expected the at
tendance was unusually large, Okla
homa City, Bartlesville, Holdenville,
Tulsa, Muskogee and Tishomingo
sending large delegations.
A 2-year-old baby at Allen, while its
mother was washing clothes out in
the yard, went to a machine where
it found a box of medicine, which it
ate. When the mother came into the
house she picked up the child and
asked what it had been doing. The
child said to her it had been eating
the candy" Within a few minutes
the child died in it's mothers arms.
The corporation school tax must be
proportionately divided among the
counties of the state, the division to
be made by the state treasurer, ac-
cording to an opinion by Attorney Gen.
eral Prince Freezing, furnished at the
request of State Treasurer w. L. AL
exander. Counties in the eastern part
of the state, where the corporation tax
is heavy on account of vast property
owned by big pipeline companies, will
SuHeT HOSJ as result Oh LnlS ueCl'
sion, it appears, whine other counties
will benefit.
The corporation commission has al
lowed the Skiltook Telephone Com
pany to increase it's phone rates. but
not exactly what the company asked
for. A rate of 81 for residence
phones and 81 for business phones g
month had been charged by the com
pany. On this rate a showing was
made that the income of the company
for the past year was $1,21S10, while
the expenses were $1,346.19. Tht
company wanted to charge $3.50 foI
residence and $3.50 for business
phones, The commission allowed {
rate of $1.25 month for residenc,
and $3.50 for business phones.
Frank Chopick, Bohemian coal min
err, was shot and instantly killed b.
Sam Snyder mine foreman. The kill
ing was the outcome of a quarre
about employment between the two
several months ago.
Sheriff Biffie of Jefferson count
and Frank Driskill, undersheriff, wer