Woodruff County news., 1902-05-01


 ported by the house committed carries an appropriation of $76,0O0,- poo for new warships.
 The senatorial race in Illinois be- tween Mason, Hopkins and Dawes is becoming very much complicated, and it is possible dark horse may | capture the honor.
 The bill increasing the number of ! supreme court judges of Oklahoma from five to seven, and increasing their salaries from $3,000 to $4,000 has passed both houses of congress.
 England is approaching another crisis in Ireland. In recent speech MT. Redmond advocated civ il war as a means of forcing con- sessions from landlords and relief from the crimes act, whereby magis- trates are said to be virtually die tors, from whose rulings there is no appeal.
 A. E. Batson, the young man charged with the murder of seven members of the Earl family near Lake Charles, La, several weeks ago, has been convicted and sen- fenced to be hanged. Batson was employed by the elder Earl and the night before the crime was commit ted he was discharged.
 In fight between cattIemen west of Collinsville, in the Cherokee Ma tion, William Phillips was killed in- stantly, and William Mayfeld, Jess Skidmore and Lige Johnson were mortally wounded The fight was the result of an old feud between Skidmore and Mayfeld, which had its origin in court contest over some grazing land
 Violent winds and hail storms that ruined growing corn, badly damaged oats and wheat and rid dled foliage and blooms from fruit trees are reported to have covered d wide path from Granite, Okla, to Woodville and Sterrett, I. T., dis tance of 100 miles. Hail in several places is reported to have drifted to a depth of 3 feet. A windstorm at Lawton did much damage and in- jured number of persons seriously.
 After Investigating the beef trust, Attorney General Knox says: q am satisfied that sufficient evidence Is in hand upon which bills in equity for an injunction can be framed to restrain the combination mentioned from further proceeding under their agreements, which clearly appear to be in restraint of interstate trade. 1 have, therefore, in compliance with the law, which provides: Tt shall be the duty of the several district attorneys of the United States in their respective districts under the direction of the attorney general to institute proceedings in equity to prevent and restrain violations of this act, directed the district attor- ney at Chicago to prepare a bill for an injunction against the corpora tions and persons who are parties to the combination mentioned, to De filed in the United States circuit court for the northern district of H. hnois"
 President Ingalls,, of the Big Four, says concerning the Louisville < Nashville deal: ''To keep rail- road safe nowadays, it must be lock- ed up over night. This is demon- strated by the recent purchase of the Louisville and Nashville. Who would have thought any one would have gone out of his way to grab that piece of property? We have al- ways looked upon it as being sort of sacred, but nothing is sacred today to the railroad manipulator. The 'communityofinterest' scheme has reached its highest point for good. It may go still higher or stop where it is; it all depends, as the Romans used to say, on the limit of Caesars ambition. Railroad groupings ats necessary" he continued, ''if the evils of rate cutting are to be miti- gated. But they must stop where they are. If mergers continue to grow in size the logical end must be a OOaman onntrol uhiob u,;l1 roc,,lk