The Liberal democrat. [volume] (Liberal, Kan.) 1911-1924, 1915-12-24
SHADOWS OF COMING EVENTS.

VINO moulded the Liberty Bell.
The explosion of "A gasoline stove
in the Healdton oil field resulted in
the death of Miss Nellie White.
An election to vote bonds to the
amount of $4,000 for city improve
ments at Saltwater failed. Only 259
votes were cast.
Citizens of Walter, by vote of 67
to 90, voted in favor of issuing $500
in bonds the proceeds to eb used in
providing the town with system OF
water works.
]. B. Cross, 65. an ice manufacturer
of Kingfsher, died suddenly of heart
failure, while leaving picture show
at Enid. He was past grand master
of the Masonic lodge.
Herbert Fringer was shot and killed
at Calvin while he was standing in
front of his livery barn. FINGERS
slayer escaped and no clue as to his
identity has been found.
Quincy Jones, negro porter in bar
Der shop at Hobart, was found dead
in the shop where he was employed.
Investigation indicates that he was
killed by poisoned whisky.
J.B. Hendricks, a middle-aged farm
err living about six miles east of Fair
land, put u loaded rife to his head
and pulled the trigger. The top Of his
head was blown completely off.
The body of William Schrader, a
farmer, who recently purchased tract
of land on Red river, twenty miles
southeast of Idabel, was found on his
farm with a bullet hole in his head.
Final count of the vote in the spe
cial election on the question of issu-
ing $4,000 in bonds for the construc-
ton of a modern high school building
at Alva, showed the bonds carried by
a vote of 81 to 243.
A ten-story annex for the Hotel
Tulsa, at Tulsa, is being planned.
II. F. Sinclair, the Tulsa oil man and
banker, is a candidate for republican
national committeeman for Oklahoma
to succeed James A. Harris of Wag-
oner.
Locking II. M. SmiitIe in the refrig-
orator of his grocery store in Tulsa
and threatening to blow out the brains
of little girl who ran into the store
Immediately afterward, a masked rob-
Der rifled the cash register of some
thing more than $4,000 and then made
good his escape.
H. Stepp. a farmer residing eight
miles northwest Of Miami has been
making much money selling nncans
this year. Mr.. Stepp is an enthusiastic
pecan grower and makes it his bust
ness. Pecans this fall have brought
to s cents pound or an average of
$500 to $500 a bushel.
Mrs. Minnie Abrams, convicted in
the district court at Lawton of the
crime Of pandering, was sentenced to
serve two years in the state peniten-
tiary and to pay fine of $500 George
Abrams, husband of the defendant, re-
ceived a similar sentence last week,
when convicted of the same crime.
Articles of agreement binding Jess
Willard, the Oklahoma pugilist, TO a
match March 4 at New Orleans, with
Fred Fulton, of Rochester. MINI, for
the worlds championship, have been
signed. Under the articles of agree.
ment Willard is to receive $4,000,
win, lose or draw, and Fulton is to
get $500
The Waynoka Mercantile Company's
store at Waynoka was broken into
and goods stolen to the amount of
$500 in value. 1t is believed to have
been the work of auto thieves, but no
clew as to their identity has been
secured
Complete Identification of Frank
Williams as Lige Higgins and Charles
Lewis as Joe Kitterman. members of
the notorious Henry Starr gang Of
bandits, under arrest in Pueblo, and
wanted in Oklahoma and Kansas for
several robberies was made by Sheriff
]. Fl. Powell of Sedan, Kan The men
are held in Pueblo for the murder
of Detective Langdon of the Santa Fe
special service.
The new Oil Fields & Santa Fe Rail
road Company has been cited to ap-
pear before the corporation commits
sion on January 10 to answer a com
plant alleging that it has collected
freight rates in excess of the legally
published tariff rates applicable on in
terstate shipments. The complaint
was filed by p H. Nolan of the rate
department of the commission. The
road began operation only short time
ago.
Oklahoma oil reached the highest
price in y years whene the Prairie
Oil and Gas Company posted a ten
cent advance, sending the quoted price
up to S1.l0. Oklahoma is now in the
throes Of the greatest drilling boom
1t has ever experienced.