Woodruff County news., 1902-06-26
The Choctaw has completed its extension to Amarillo, Tex.

extension to Amarillo, Tex. A vote on the Philippine reel procity bill will be taken June 26. A monument to the memory of Hon. Richard P. Bland was unveil- ed at Lebanon, Mo, on the 17th.
 The government will assist New Mexico ranchmen in stamping out the disease among sheep known as 'scab."
 A monument to the Confederate dead buried at Camp Chase, Colum- bus, O., was unveiled on the 14th, both Union and Confederate veter- ans joining in the ceremonies. Pedro Feleize, the leader of the ladrones who captured and subse- quently cut to pieces a sergeant, two corporals and four privates of the Fifth cavalry in the Philippines May 30 has been captured.
 Mary Custis Lee, daughter of Gen. Robert E. Lee, was arrested at Alexandria, Va, for violating the separate street car act for white and colored and was fined $5. Miss Da- wis got on the car for colored people, the other being crowded, and the le- gality of the law will be tested, as this is the first case of the kind on record.
 A serious riot occurred at Patter- son, N. J., between striking mill workers and the police. Several mill plants were wrecked and several of the strikers were wounded by the police, who were compelled to use their rcvolvers. There is a num- Der of anarchists among the strik- CTS and the police being unable to preserve order, the militia was call cd on.
 A rather alarming situation with regard to the epidemic of cholera in the Philippines is sent out in a report received by Surgeon General Forward from Lieut.. Col. Heize- man, at present in charge of the medical department of the army in the islands. In Manila alone to- tai of 217 cases, with 215 deaths, had occurred up to the date of the report, with 453 cases and sos deaths outside the city. In the prov inces the disease attacked twenty two different places. In the Cama- rines, at Nuena Cacares, the disease appeared, and this has been the only point where the army has suffered, two cavalrymen and an infantryman having the disease.
 Special Commissioner Taft has submitted to the pope the following | propositions to settle differences be- tween the friars in the Philippines and the United States: CD Pur- chase of the lands of the friars, the price to be fixed by arbitration; (2) the arbiters to decide the indemnity which the Americans will pay for occupation of ecclesiastical build ings; (3) the above propositions ab- solutely condition on the withdrawal of the friarS (4) if the other prop ositions arc accepted the Americans propose to give deed or by law to grant a patent to ecclesiastical buildings on public land; (5) to set tie by compromise or arbitration the several trusts for schools, hospitals, etc, claimed on the one hand by the civil, on the other by the church au- thorities.
 The construction of an inter oceanic canal, question that has been the subject of political agita- tion and discussion in congress for half century, is, in all probabil- ity, about to be settled. The sen- ate last week, by vote of 42 to 34, adopted the Spooner amendment, in lieu of the Hepburn bill, which passed the house some weeks ago. The house bill provided for the construction of the canal on the Nicaragua route. The Spooner proposition is an alternative one. It authorizes and directs the president to negotiate for the purchase of the stock of the new Panama company of France, and to secure perpetual right of way for the canal from the