Woodruff County news., 1901-11-02

Little Boy lowered the worlds trotting record at Memphis, making a mile in 3 :01 3-4
 Joseph F. Smith has been elected president of the Mormon church to succeed the late Lorenzo Snow.
 The Carpenter Paper Company's plant, wholesale paper dealers of Omaha, was burned on the 18th.
 Gen. Walter Payne, for number of years commander of the Sons of Veterans, died last week in Chicago.
 President Pritchet, of the Boston Institute of Technology, is being se- verely criticised for advocating the use of beer and tobacco by students.
 F. D. Lyons, a socialist, who ex- pressed anarchistic sentiments, was taken from jail at Beaumont, Tex, by a crowd, and given severe beat ing.
 A plot to murder the shah of Per sia has been frustrated by the arrest of the conspirators. Two of the shah's brothers were in the plot, and they have been banished for life.
 MT. John B. Harlow, of the United States civil service commission and former postmaster of St. Louis, has resigned his place on the commits sion. MT. Vim. Dudley Foulke, of Richmond, Ind, is to succeed him.
 One of the greatest natural gas wells that has ever been discovered in the United States was struck about three miles northeast of Law ton by M. P. Mcdaniel, while drill ing for oil. When down about 265 feet in a stone formation the drill and casing was blown out with a loud report, to a height of 200 feet. A rigging was devised to inclose the well. When tested it showed pres sure of 300 pounds.
 The most important feature of the annual report of Col. A. L. Mills, superintendent of West oPint militia " academy, relates to the measures taken for the suppression of hazing. Treating of discipline, he says: '"Throughout the past summers en- campment, which is the time when new cadets are being initiated into their new life, and when hazing is ordinarily practiced, it is fact that the great majority of cadets have obeyed the new order of affairs and the regulations Loyalty and will ingly."
 The monthly statement of the col lections of internal revenue issued by the commissioner of internal rev. enue shows that the total receipts for September, 1901, were $21,604,- ; 447, decrease as compared with September, 1900, of $1, 1,049,366. The receipts of the several sources of revenue are given as follows : Spirits, $9,402,002, an increase of $697,973; tobacco, $4,35O, O,097, a de- crease of $21S,13S; fermented liq- uors, $5,901 ,485, a decrease of $920,- 034; oleomargarine, $203,766, an increase of $15,9S4; special taxes not elsewhere enumerated, $97,423, an increase of $13,15S; miscella- neous, $1 ,649,673, a decrease of ST. 438,209. For the three months ending September 30, 1901, the to- tai receipts show falling off of $4,417,052 from the figures for the corresponding period last year.
 George G. Davis, judge advocate general of the army, has submitted to the secretary of war his annual report for the year ended June 30, 1901. It shows that during the year there were 6,065 trials by general courtmartial, being 600 less than during the preceding year. Of these, sixteen were trials of com missioned officers, of whom ten were convicted. Gen. Davis says the death sentences were imposed by