The Liberal democrat. [volume] (Liberal, Kan.) 1911-1924, 1916-02-18

The school building at Fitzhugh was
burned. The loss amounts to about
$4,000.
First National Bank of Ringing, cap
italized at $4,000, has deposits Of
1894, 219SO.
As the result OF taking an overdose
of headache medicine, Mrs. H. c. Reed
died at Pond Creek.
A. D. Lane, county clerk of Rogers
county, resigned on the eve Of an in
vestigation of his office.
The number of jack rabbits killed in
Jefferson county during the last few
weeks runs into the thousands.
The Frisco railroad company has
filed suit in the district court of Craig
county asking the return of $1,S5O.12
taxes paid under protest.
After being without regular minis
ter for some three months the Alton
Baptist church has called Rev. Will
liam N. Whioker, of Tonkawa, to be
the pastor.
Consolidated school district No. 2,
east Of Jones in Oklahoma County, has
voted $4,000 in bonds for the purpose
of erecting consolidated school
building.
Miss Faye Matteson, who married
last week, is the fourteenth telephone
central girl of CARRIER to be married
in the twelve years the system has
been established.
Loren Johnson and Ed Wilder we're
arrested at Shawnee charged with
robbing the Macomb State bank. John
son confessed and the money taken,
nearly $4,000, was recovered.
Animals valued at $4,000 were
killed at Sand Springs when big dane
ing pavilion, under which the animals
were housed was destroyed by fire.
The zoo belongs TO Charles Page.
Tom coley, negro who was ar
rested in Oklahoma City three weeks
ago and confessed to the murder Of A.
T. Hopkins in Lawton last November,
was given life sentence in the penj-
Tertiary by District Judge Cham Jones
Of Lawton.
Origin Of fire that totally destroyed
the main building of the Midland Val.
ley railroad shop at Muskogee is not
known. Even while the flames were
not yet conquered Midland Valley Of
ficials estimated the loss at between
100000 and 100000.
All the unalloted and most OF the
segregated land offered in the sale
just closed in Latimer country was
sold at good prices, farm lands going
as high as $45.50 per acre and town
additions at $55 per acre. The govern
ment party now is at Coalgate.
A fund totaIins $14,152.92 has been
raised by the Oklahoma committee Of
the commission for relief in Belgium,
according to the report of G. G. Sob.
berg, the treasurer. or this amount
$1,754.92 has been raised since June
IA, 1915, when the last previous report
was made.
Judge Charles M. Campbell, aged Sc.
died at his home at Ardmore following
a stroke OF apoplexy. The widow and
one daughter survive. Judge Campbell
moved to Ardmore in 1891 from Paris,
Texas. In October, 1897, he was ap.
pointed clerk OF the federal court there
and held that position until the office
was abolished at the time Of statehood
Frank Knight, a Cherokee Indian, of
Vinita, has been decorated for dis
tinguished bravery in delivering dis
patches to an English general under
heavy fire. He is serving in English
regiment.
Fire caused by defective insulation
OF electric light wires started about 3
o'clock in the morning and almost COM
pletely destroyed the house occupied
by the Beta Theta Pi, Green letter fra
ternity at the University Of Oklahoma
Three we're drown at the water
works lake, one mile north OF Forum,
while they were trying to rescue Stella
Anderson, who went through the ice.
The dead are: Orbek Anderson, 20;
Leonard Johnson, %; George Steiner,
20.
Two big railway propositions are
just now knocking at Oklahoma City's
door, one Of which, II carried out, will
give the metropolis almost bee line
road to the northwestern part Of the
state; the other to leave the city by a
western route to connect with the
Wichita Falls G Northwestern line,
which also traverses the northwestern
counties by ID more devious route than
the former.
President Gault OF the state board
OF agriculture, addressed letter last
week to the president of the A. and
M. College at Saltwater, refusing per.
mission to Eugene V. Debs to make a
speech in the auditorium OF the insti-
tuition.