Woodruff County news., 1901-04-18
CONDENSED TELEGRAMS.

I OuldIO, Un0 UdDduCS0 minister, accompanied by Gen. Yama- | guchi, the Japanese commander, re- gently called upon Prince Ching and notified him that the return of Em- peror Kwang Su to Pekin was urgent ly desired No reply having been re- ccived to this communication, Iii Hung Chang was, on the 14th, notified | to the same effect and told that Elm peror Kwang Su must give an imme- diate answer.
 The farmers of Saline county, Kas- sas, have completed the preliminary organization of their association to fight the grain combine by building or leasing their own elevators, and a charter will be applied for at once. An effort to form similar organiza- lions throughout the wheat belt of Kansas and Oklahoma will be made with a view to having representatives at state meeting to be held at Salina on May 16.
 The Mexican government has grant ed a concession to Capt. Charles Sal laber, of Chicago, an engineer and capitalist, to open waterway be- tween the cities of Tampico and Tux pan, on the gulf coast, for distance of 125 miles and establish a line of fast modern steamboats between those cities.
 Influenced by the protests of the Evangelical church council and the Catholic bishops, Emperor William has withdrawn from the Great Hall of the blind asylum at Wursterhausen the mosaic paintings representing the empress as St. Elizabeth and himself as the saints husband.
 A party of four persons, while crossing the tracks of the Lehigh Val ley railroad, at South Wilkesbarre, Pa., at an early hour on the morning of the 14th, were run down by the Buffalo express, going north Three of the party were killed and one in- jured.
 It was reported at Bloemfontein, on the 14th, that the health of former President Stein has broken down. It was also said that he had advised all Boers on commando to surrender im- mediately.
 According to the St. Petersburg cor respondent of the London Daily Mail the Corean government has promul- gated law enforcing the penalty of death for opium smoking.
 Col. Daniel Butterfield, who is suf- fering from an attack of paralysis, in New York, was slightly better on the 14th.
 The usual scenes attending the re. opening of the IrvingTerry season in London, were witnessed around the doors of the Lyceum theater on the 18th. As early as seven o'clock in the morning men and women collected, armed with camp stools, novels, sand- wiches and flasks. The crowds rapid ly increased until a special police force was required to keep the first nighters in line.
 The president and members of the cabinet were photographed, on the 18th, in the cabinet room. It is the custom as soon as d change in the cabinet occurs, to have new set of photographs of the cabinet taken. The entry of Attorney-General Knox into the presidents official family was the occasion for the new cabinet pictures.
 Dr. Martin, editor of the London The Nation, while discussing the Wall street boom, on the 15th said he dis agreed with the pessimstic utter ances of the German press on the sub iect, declaring that he regarded the boom as the result of solid business achievements, like increased railroad earnings and railroad consolidation. l Advices from Sian Flu to the local mandarins assert that the court is preparing to go to Hsian Yang, in the Province of Hu Pei The permanent officials of the six boards are de- scribed as having quietly left Pekin for Sian Flu ill anticipation of the se- lection of new capital. 1 By a vote of 12 to I, the Arkansas senate, on the 18th, passed bill mak- ing it unlawful for any person to drink any intoxicating liquors as a beverage unless he shall have first ob- tain4d a license as a dram drinker. The license is fixed at five dollars per lannum. Frank A. Vanderlip, eX-assistant secretary of the United States treas ury, is in St. Petersburg, investigat- ing conditions with the hope of pro- noting business relations between the United States and Russia.
 Several suggestions have been made to the Chinese minister concerning the advisa bility of establishing perma- nent legation quarters in Washington, and he has given some consideration to the matter of late.
 Joseph Parish, for 15 years chief of the District of Columbia fire depart ment and for & years connected with that service, will be retired, on his own request, on May 1, with pension of $100 a month.