Woodruff County news., 1902-01-30
s. E. Adams, cashier of the Com

a receiver.
 President Roosevelt has conferred the rank of rear admiral upon pr. P. M. Rixey, chief medical inspector of the navy.
 Two distinct earthkuake shocks were felt at St. Louis and surround ing towns on the 24th inst. No damage done.
 As a result of terrible explosion in coal mine near Oskaloosa, Iowa, twenty-one men were killed and eight wounded.
 A. D. Cooper, a St. Louis million aire, was murdered by colored at tendant while in bath house, the object being robbery.
 Smallpox is raging in the Creek Nation, and at Muskogee all the schools have been closed to prevent spread of the disease.
 A butter trust is to be organized with capital of $18,000,000. The new corporation will be incorporated under the laws of New Jersey.
 Employes of the window-glass manufactories controlled by the trust have been granted an increase of wages averaging 12 per cent. Street car traffic at Terre Haute, Ind, was completely stopped for sev- eral days last week, on account of a strike of motormen and conductors. A lumber camp near Hambleton, w. Va, caught fire and burned so rapidly seven men failed to get out of the building and were burned to death.
 Banker Morgan, of New York, after reading reports of Schwab's s heavy betting at Monte Carlo, wired the president of the steel corporation to stop gambling at once.
 Otto Bola, elevator boy, saved the lives of sixty women and children by making several trips with his efe- vator from the seventh floor of Chi cago hotel Fire broke out on the second floor and the building was consumed, but the boy remained at his post until all were safe A. T. Patrick, the New York law yer, is now undergoing trial for the murder of Millionaire Rice. The dead mans valet, Jones, confessed that Patrick and himself entered into a plot to murder him and secure the bulk of his estate by means of a forged will. The trial will last over a month.
 MT. Hitchcock, secretary of the in terior, and MT. Jones, commissioner of Indian affairs, have decided upon another step toward the civilization of the Indian. This Is in the form of decree that Indians of both sexes shall hereafter be prohibited from painting their faces and that the men must begin patronizing barber shops. Dances are also prohibited in connection with funerals and other ceremonies.
 The census report on cotton seed manufacture in 1900 shows that there were 357 establishments for the extraction of cotton seed oil in the United States, using 2,497, 1886 tons of cotton seed, costing $ss,- 632, 2,616, an average cost of $11.55 per ton. The total value of the products was $42,411,835 The out put of Arkansas was 190,105 tons, valued at $3,1SS,812.
 One of the most disastrous min- ing accidents of the Joplin district occurred near Gainesville, Mo-, on the 18th by cave-in. The Aida mine No. ?, was the scene of the catras- trophe, and as result four men are now dead. The dead are: Arthur Roberts, aged 30, Webb City, Mo-; John Simons, age 32, Carteryille, Mo-: Bruce Westfall, age 29, Webb City, Mo; Dan Onstott, age 20, Webb City, Mo.
 A naval battle took place in the harbor of Panama between insur- gent and Colombian vessels. Gen. Carlos Albon, military commander and governor of Panama, was among the killed. One of the government ships took fire and went to the bot tom. and one insllroent vessel was