Woodruff County news., 1901-09-05

candidate tor United States senator to succeed Senator Vest.
 At Sparta, Tenn, Judge Smith refused to release six men charged with taking part in a lynching.
 Two men lost their lives at Beaumont, Tex, in an attempt to shut off the flow of new oil guher.
 At the end of six weeks the strike of steel workers is as far from settle ment as on the day the strike order was issued.
 The government has decided to abandon pneumatic guns, better known as dynamite guns, both on ship and in Notifications.
 In a riot at a park in Indianapo- lis, Ind, between negroes and whites four of the former were badly injur- ed and others compelled to leave the grounds.
 The annual conclave of grand en- campment of Knights Templars met at Louisville, Ky, August 27. There were 10000 Knights in line of the grand march on the 18th.
 A mob, enraged by an attempt of a negro to stab white man, drove all the blacks from the town of Stroud, Okla. The houses of two negroes were torn down and the con- tents burned.
 MT. B. H. Oliphant, of the United States geological survey, has com pleted the preparation of paper on natural gas production in 1900. The total number of wells producing at the close of 1900 was 1O,506, as com pared with 9,738 producing wells at the close of 1899, a gain of 76S wells There were 991 wells abandoned and 359 dry holes or non-producing wells drilled in 1900. The value of nat ural gas produced in the states of the middle west and southwest in 1900 was as follows: Colorado, $1,800; Illinois, $1,7O0; Kansas, $356,9OO; Missouri, $547; Texas, $20,0O0.
 In fight at party near Nacodo- chess, Texas, Sam Scott was shot and instantly killed and Hammond Scott, his brother, will die as result of knife wounds. B. W. Beard was shot in the stomach and can hardly recover. His brother was wounded in the leg and foot, and Jasper Me Daniel was hot in the hip and may lose his leg. The three last named were attendants on the party which was given at Boards home and had nothing to do with the fight. The Scotts and neighbor, Osceol Bar ker, were the principals, there being an old grudge between them.
 William M. Hove, collector of GUS toms at Nogales, Ariz. B. F. Jossey, immigrant inspector there; Frank Howe, a Chinaman, and another Chinaman, living across the border at Clifton, Mex, have been arrested by the federal secret service officers on the charge of smuggling Chinese immigrants into the United States. The arrest of these men brings to light one of the most extensive and most successfully worked frauds in the history of the immigration ser vice of the United States. The se- cret service officers have been at work on the case for a month past and the information which has come to the treasury department indicates that nearly every member of the GUS toms and immigration force at Nogales is implicated. Hoey makes a complete denial of any wrong doing on his part or any of his deputies.
 Bradstreet's report of trade condi- tions for the week ended August 23, says: Evidences multiply that the tide of trade has turned, and that it is now setting strongly in the direc- ton of an enlarged business, at steady or higher prices. Crop inn provement, particularly in the cen