The Liberal democrat. [volume] (Liberal, Kan.) 1911-1924, 1917-05-24
Jury in Allen County Murder
Case Returns Verdict Of
AcqnittaI.
WAS OUT LESS THAN 4 HOURS
Result Of Trial Ends Attempt to Clear
Up Mysterious Murder Of
Mrs, Ard.

tn0 murder or his wife November IL
1914, was acquitted by jury at Iofs
the other night. The jury was Out
about four hours. There was nc
demonstration in the court room. AL
most all those present when the case
was given to the jury had gone to
their homes.
The acquittal of Ard ends-though
1t does not clear up-one phase Of a
series Of mysterious attempts on the
lives Of several members Of the Ard
family. Mrs. Viola Ard, rs years old.
q bride Of few months, was shot as
she and her husband and sister, Miss
Katie Latimer, were returning in a
motor car from visit to a friend
north Of Elsmore. The bullet struck
Mrs. Ard, who was driving, in the
back and entered her heart
1t was not until two and a half
years had elapsed that Ard was
charged with the murder. There were
no powder burns on the clothing Of
his wife. The testimony of the dead
woman's sister, Katie Latimer, also
was regarded as favorable to Ard
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kansan French lieutenant-Clyde
Runyon, former Wellington man and
member Of the Kansas state militia,
who had been missing fer a number
OF years, has written his brother in
Wichita that he is lieutenant now
IN the French army.
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Cornell Man to Ottawa U.-Dr Ches.
ter @. Camp Of Grinnell, Ia, now at
Cornell university, Ithaca, N. Y, has
been elected to the chair of mathe-
matics in Ottawa university.
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Beer From Soda Fountain-The sale
of near beer is to be stopped at
Hutchinson because soda fountain men
slip in the real stuff to good custo-
mers. City officials enacted an or
dinance prohibiting the sale of near
beers in less than gallon lots.
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For Liberty Loan.-Reno County
bankers, at recent meeting, agreed
to handle their share of the Liberty
Loan and pledged support of any
bther financial aid needed by the gov.
eminent. Every bank in the county
will subscribe.
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Former Senator Dead.-eAlexande
Caldwell, ex-United States senator
from Kansas and for years president,
of the First National Bank of Leaven,
worth, died recently in Kansas City
where he was taken for treatment.
About year and half ago Mr.. Cald-
well suffered stroke Of apoplexy.
He had never recovered from that.
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Plan to Save Fruit crop.-The Kan.
sas Arkansas Valley Apple Growers
Association, composed of fifty men in
Sedgwick, Sumner, Reno and Cowley
counties, who control three thousand
acres of apple and other orchard trees,
has been called to meet at Belleplaine,
June 2, to work out plans to increase
and conserve the fruit CROP which
promises to be large this season. At
p preliminary meeting held at Belle.
PLANE committee was named to meet
In Wichita May 20 to take initiatory
steps towards perfecting thes organi-
cation and to get expert speakers for
Eha Rallanlaina session
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So Children May Buy Cows.-John
p. Wagner, president of the First
State Bank of Larned, announced that
although too old to go to war, he
would do his bit by offering to lend
any boy or girl in Pawnee county the
money to buy COW, calf or a pig
with no other security than the animal
Itself, the loan to be repaid entirely
out Of the profits made from the ami
NAL.
River Is On Fire.-The Walnut river
Us on fire. Oil refuse on the water is
burning. The fire extends from the
Butler county oil fields to Winfield.
The blaze is causing no damage, but
is deplored by many farmers who in
the past year have been Swimming the
oil from the river and making con-
siderable profits from its sale. :.
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Gideons at Salina.-The annual
meeting of the Kansas State Gideons
was held in Salina recently. More than
two hundred travelling men were in
attendance. The Gideons are respon-
sible for Bible being placed in each
room in every hotel in Kansas.
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on One Farm a Years.-Charles
Lange, 81 years old, farmer OF
Atchison county who had lived forty.
four years on the same farm, is dead
He, is survived by widow and six
children.
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GRATED Leg Bone Into Arm.-Harry
Harris, young electrician of Arxan
sas City, believed permanently injured
four weeks ago when his motor car
turned over, smashing his arm, has
fully recovered. A portion of bone