The Liberal democrat. [volume] (Liberal, Kan.) 1911-1924, 1915-09-24

Charles Messer died at Clinton from
the effects of rife wound received
while hunting.
Burglars entered the home of julius
Kahn of Tulsa, at MONDAY and took
away jewels valued at S1.585.
Four store buildings were burned at
Chattanooga, last week. The loss on
buildings and contents was given at
$4,000.
Governor Williams has made requi-
sition on the governor of Arkansas for
the return of Frank Sterling, wanted
at Tulsa on the charge of assault with
intent to kill.
Senator James Reed of Missouri will
be the principal speaker at the Okla
homa State Fair Oh October /, "Mis-
souri, Day." if plans of the Missouri
club do not go astray.
Oil will be spread over the surfaces
of most of the principal highways III
Tulsa county in the future This was
determined upon at a recent meeting
of the Tulsa county commissioners.
Requisition was issued by Gov. Will
Jiams en- the governor of Kansas, ask
ing for the extraction of Nels Lett,
wanted in Nowata county on a charge
of bigamy. He is under arrest in Cot
feyville Kan
w. Booth Merrill of Elk City was
appointed assistant United States dis.
trict attorney for the Western Okla.
homa distrist, succeeding w. B. Her.
cd, resigned. Merrill has practiced law
at Elk City since 1908.
w. L. Peck of Oklahoma City is
at Ada with proposition to locate
glass casket factory there The
company will be capitalized at $780,.
600. Ada interests are asked to take
100000 in stock and donate ten.
acre tract
The McMann Oil Company was or.
dered to deposit 100000 surety bond
forthwith in order to continue opera
ton of the Emma Coker allotment in
the Cushing field after a hearing at
Muskogee before Federal Judge Ralph
Z. Campbell.
DR.. F. w. Turner, who was shot
five times by his business associate,
DIR. William Dougherty, is expected to
recover from his wounds. The two
men have been conducting a drug
store at Sapulpa and quarreled over
business affairs.
Throwing himself under the trucks
of a moving train at the Frisco depot
at Tulsa. w. H. Keep aged 80, of
Bartlesville. committed suicide in the
presence of a large number of peo-
pie The dead man was adjudged in
sane by the insanity commission of
Washington county and in the care of
his father was being taken to the asy-
lum at Vinta.
On August Is Mr.. and Mrs. W. G.
Broyles, northwest of Alton, became
the parents of their seventeenth child.
fifteen Of whom are living. These par.
ents hold the record in this part of
the state for having the most children
DOTH INTO one FAMILY.
Two applications for voluntary bank.
ruptcy proceedings were received at
the United States district court clerks
office at Oklahoma City. Granville C. !
Blackwood, merchant of Walter, in
Cotton county, gives his liabilities as
$11,075, and his unexempted assets as
SAB. The other petition is from M.
Francis, broker of Fairview. VINO
lists his assets at $4,000 and his liza.
bilities at $2,770.S7
Following their sensational escape
from the Tulsa county Jail. Fred Muir
ply, Charles Smith and F. E. Moore
committed a series of hold-ups that
have aroused that entire section of the |
state. D. c. Conley and wife. the vic |
Tins of their attack at the time of the |
escape, are near the point of death. |
the jailer still being unconscious from
the blow on his head which was deliv- |
cred by piece Of iron pipe
An order issued by District Judge
George w. Clark, of Oklahoma CountH, |
restores to DR.. William Cornwell OF |
Beaver the right to practice medicine |
in this state, taken from him by the
Estate board of medical examiners after
meeting April 10, 1915.
Fire, the origin of which remains
mystery, started in the Office of City
Engineer E. E. Colby, of Chickasha,
and did $4,000 damage to the municipal
building before the flames were sup.
pressed. All maps and plats belonging
to the city and not in the city clerks
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