The Liberal democrat. [volume] (Liberal, Kan.) 1911-1924, 1916-01-21

A Shawnee factory turned out dur
ing the past year s25O,OOO worth OF
oyeralls and jumpers.
There were $50 marriage licenses is
sued and ia divorce actions filed in
Dewey county last year.
Prof, Uly Griffith, former head of
the Weatherford normal, is now teach
ing in the Oklahoma City high school,
James Y. Callahan of Woodward
was nominated by the president for
registrar of the land Office ut Guthrie,
Okla
The wife OF Hobart farmer sold
during one year $669.50 worth Of milk
butter and eggs. The woman owned
six cows and 100 hens.
The safe in the postoffice building at
Dustin was blown open by robbers and
500 in money, $25 worth of postage
stamps and several registered letters
taken.
Counterfeit silver dollars, said by
the police to be the most perfect imi-
tations of genuine United States coin
age that they have ever seen, are in
circulation in Oklahoma City.
Bishop E. f. Hoss of the Methodist
Episcopal church. south, after an alb
sence of six months time, during which
he visited Australia, Japan and China,
has returned to his home at Muskogee.
Secretary of State Lyon, in his finan-
cial report for the year just closed,
shows that the total receipts of his Of
flee aggregated $72,295,77, as compared
with $62,2561l for 1914, showing
gain for the year 1915 of $9,937.
Charged with manslaughter for the
killing Christmas eve of Solomon Bile
win. Choctaw Indian, who resisted
arrest, City Marshal Emmett Pullen of
Boswell has executed "A bond of $1,000
for his appearance at the next term OF
district court
The Magnolia Petroleum Company,
under the written consent OF the cor
poration commission, has purchased
all the property of the Magnolia Pipe
Line Company and will take the same
! over as early as possible and thereafter
operate the pipe line.
A loss of $685. is shown on Okla
homa City's books for the past year
on account of the law forbidding for
tune tellers TO operate and making the
use of slot machines Illegal. The an
nual loss in license fees due to the de-
parture Of the forecasters is 1925, and
to the slot machines is $2,5l0.
Out of a class of twenty.siX men
that recently took the bar examination
in the state of Montana, Jess Owen
formerly of Guthrie, received the high
est grade. Mr.. owen left Guthrie a
few weeks ago for Montana for the
purpose of entering the practice Of
law. He located at Great Falls.
Lum c. Campbell was shot and
killed at Goose Neck Bend, southeast
of Muskogee, by A. J. Cobb, a youth
| of about % years. Campbell was killed
within a hundred yards OF the spot
where he killed man five years ago
and his body lies in the home of his
victims widow Cobb surrendered.
State Auditor T.. b. Howard declared
that the practice in the past of extend
ing the time in which public service
corporations are to file their returns
with the state board OF equalization,
listing the value of their property in
Oklahoma for taxation purpose. will
be discontinued and all companies who
fail to make the return by the time
provided by law will be subject to the
penalty provided for corporations de-
linquent with their reports. The law
provides that the returns must be
made to the auditor not later than
March l.
AS result OF shooting at Allen
in Pontotoc county, Walter Smith,
lad OF IS, is almost dead, and Will
Stokes, pool hall keeper, is at Ada,
in Jail charged with doing the shoot
ing.
The stringent general anti-gamblInp
law passed by the 1913 Legislature and
which, among other things, put an end
to the operation of slot machines,
punch boards and dice-shaking on
cigar stands in Oklahoma, was rend
cred imperative by decision Of the
supreme court in granting writ OF
habeaS corpus TO p. J. Smith, held in
the Oklahoma county Jail on a charge
of violating the law.
Representatives of workmen's com
pensation. insurance companies in Ok
lahoma. in conference here with the
state insurance board, gave their as
surance of cooperating with the board
in it's efforts to make uniform cOmpen
sation insurance rates in this state
1t is the plan of the representatives to
form an association to be conducted
under the supervision of the local rat
ing bureau. The purpose will be to adj
lust rates to the satisfaction of the
state board.