The Liberal democrat. [volume] (Liberal, Kan.) 1911-1924, 1916-02-04

There is not vacant house in the
town OF Grandfeld.
The Love County National Bank, cap.
ltalized at $4,000 has deposits of $685..
64306.
The Fourth district republican con
vention will be held at Shawnee,
March 90
The price of Oklahoma and Kansas
crude oil advanced cents a barrel
The new price is SIPS.
J. M. 5Iankenship, an old citizen
of Courtney Flat, in Carter county,
was assassinated near his home.
The Missouri, Kansas and Texas and
number of other railroads no longer
carry shipments of money on their
trains through Oklahoma at night.
Work is to begin Immediately on
construction of the extension of the
Norman-E Edmond interurban line from
Edmond to Guthrie.
The Norman board of education, set
ting forth insufficient school facilities
for rapidly increasing enrolment,
has made an appeal for bond issue
for $55, 900.
Following an illness of three weeks,
the Rev. d. G. Murray, one of the best
known figures in the Methodist church
in tho Gtutn linH NJ h, 90 I,
pital in Guthrie
Samuel c. little, aged 65, who died
at Hobart was the father of twenty.
two children. He leaves a wife and
six children and was the rather of six.
teen children by former marriage.
Moses M. Stanley, aged rs years,
has brought suit in a Guthrie court
against Douglas Townsend for $5,125
damages as the result of being hit by
an automobile which Townsend was
driving
D. ]. w. Phillips of Hugo, has re-
ceived from Gov. Williams a state
warrant for $500 as his reward for
the apprehension of Madding and Wal
lis, who robbed the bank of Grant the
first time.
The republican congressional COM
mittee for the third Oklahoma district
met and selected Durant as the place
for the meeting of the congressional
convention and selected April as the
date for the meeting.
twenty-five head of cattle out of a
herd of 100 belonging to William Boil.
ton and A. Burden of Avery, were
killed as the result of the $4,000 barrel
tank of crude oil bursting south of
Gushing. They drank the OIL
James johnson, a farmer living three
and half miles west of Temple, ended
son was 3S years old and is survived
by the widow and five children. He
came to Oklahoma from Texas ten
years ago.
One hundred families were rendered
homeless, scores of business houses
flooded, three people were drowned,
and the entire city of McAlester left
in darkness and without electric mower
as a result of terrific rain which fell
in five hours last Wednesday after.
noon.
The mystery of the death of J. NJ
Blankenship, prominent Courtney Flat
Jefferson county, farmer. remains I'M
solved. The Green brothers, one of
whom is only Is years old, are sus-
pected of having killed Blankenship
and are being held in the county Jail,
but motive has not been established.
The proposed bond issue of $4,000
to have been issued in constructing a
highschool building at Alva was de-
feated.
Walter Roberts, negro, was found
guilty by jury in district court at
ClaremOre, on charge of manslaugh-
ter in the first degree, and sentenced
to forty-five years in the penitentiary.
Roberts killed his aunt, Georgia Busby,
with an axe, near Inola, twelve miles
south of Claremore, last September.
George Carey, son of Alderman Fred
Carey, and Miss Edith Gray, daughter
of Mrs. Jennie Gray, have just closed
q record of attendance at 26O sessions
of the First Presbyterian Sunday
school at Shawnee in five years, not
having missed single session in that
time. There were special exercises in
the Sunday school in their honor.
The climax of one of the most bru-
tai murders ever committed in Okla
homa came when George Hopkins, son
of the victim, was arrested at LAYTON
together with his brother-in-law, Elmer
Akers, and when Tom Colley, negro,
made a complete confession to the
killing of A. G. Fatty" Hopkins in
Lawton on the night of November 7.
The Scottish Rite consistory at Guth-
rie plans making an addition to the
Masonic temple. The purpose Is to
purchase the entire block of ground on
which the temple stands, and to erect
four-story 81" addition at a cost of