Woodruff County news., 1902-10-16

making war on scalpers through in- junction suits to prevent them deal- ing in tickets.
 American troops under Captain John J. Pershing, engaged in bat tie with Moros on Mindano Island, killing and wounding one hundred of the insurgents and capturing and destroying forty forts. A vigorous is being waged against the Moros.
 Wm. H. Wright, treasurer of the Territory of Hawaii, is alleged to be an absconder and defaulter to the extent of $17,949. Secretary of the Territory Henry E. Cooper has been appointed treasurer temporar- fly by Gov. Dole. Under the terri torial act the treasurer is not re- quirerd to give bonds.
 In declining the proposition of President Roosevelt that the miners return to work, and that a commis- sion be appointed to investigate and report on settlement, Presi- dent Mitchell gave as his reason that no assurance had been given by the operators that they would abide the decision of the commission, and that there is no. law by which the finding could be enforced.
 For over week no street cars, ex- cept those carrying mail, were run at New Orleans, on account of a strike of conductors and motormen. The mayor was compelled to call on the governor for troops to preserve order, as all efforts to run cars were fruitless with what protection could be given by local officers. Several strike breakers from St. Louis and Chicago were beaten up by sympa- thizers of the strikers, and had to be taken in charge by the police for protection.
 Senators Burton of Kansas, Eos ter of Washington and Mitchell of Oregon, a subcommittee appointed to make a general investigation of conditions in Porto Rico and Ha- waii, have returned home. Refer ring to present conditions in Ha- waii, a member of the committee says: Contrary to the conditions of great commercial and business prosperity now prevailing on the mainland throughout the United States, we regret to be compelled to say that we found the islands in state of very great commercial and industrial depression, caused, it is generally claimed, by the low price of sugar and the scarcity and high prices of labor"
 The annual encampment, Grand Army of the Republic, was held in Washington last week. In his an- nual address Commander in Chief Torrance referred to the charges in regard to pensions, and said there were 100000 surviving veterans not on the pension roll, and urged leg islation in their behalf. The report of Adjt. Gen. Silas H. Fowler shows that on the 30th of June last the muster roll of the Grand Army con- tained 263,745 names of members in good standing, and there were 6,511 posts. Figures as to member ship show a net loss since the pre- ceding year of 5,8O4. There has been a gradual decline in member ship since 1890. Gen. T. J. Stewart of Pennsylvania, was elected Com luduQcI III OulcI.
 President Roosevelt proposes to appoint a committee to thoroughly investigate conditions in the an- thracite coal region, the commit tees findings to be embodied in a report to congress as to needed leg islation to prevent repetition of strikes, such as the one in the coal regions. The president informed officers of the miners union of his purpose with the request that they at once return to work, but this they declined to do. The governor of Pennsylvania has called out the entire state guard to preserve order, and protect those who desire to work under present conditions. The operators claim they can get men to mine coal if given proper protec-