Woodruff County news., 1902-02-27
A force of mounted British infan-

 try, while paroling the Kip river, south of Johannesburg, pursued a single Boer for several miles, and upon reaching an exposed view were fired upon by the enemy. They had been led into trap, and were un- able to escape, ten men and two officers being killed, and forty men and four officers wounded.
 A band of heavily armed Creek Indians were captured by Deputy United States Marshal Grant John son on Wolf creek, Indian Territory, There has been some restlessness among small bands of these Indians and threats have been made of an outbreak but they are being well rounded up by the marshals. War rants are out for about 200 who, when caught, will be severely pun ished.
 Everything now presages a late spring in the south. Nothing as yet has been done on the farm toward preparing for planting, owing to the cold, wet weather, and the time is at hand for planting corn with not an acre ploWed to receive it. Ordinari- ly 1t is the case that many of the most progressive farmers have their corn planted and their cotton land cleaned off by the middle of Febru- ary, but not so this time, and the prospect is not brighter than the weather. The corn crop last year was distressingly short; in fact, very few farmers made a sufficient quan- tity to run their places until the first of the present year, and these had prepared to put in oats to help out in the early spring, but now comes the report that all the fall planted oat crop has been killed by the repeated freezes, and it will be necessary to replant.
 R. c. Dun X Go. report on the state of trade in this country that there Is such a thing as too much prosperity. During the last few years there has been such a marvel ous expansion in domestic business that the capacity of furnaces and mills, as well as transporting facili- ties, have failed to keep pace The result is a gradual falling behind with deliveries and a tendency of buyers to send orders abroad when ever needs are urgent. One case is now in evidence of steel rails to be delivered at a Florida port, which after paying the duty, will cost about $5 ton more than the regu- lar domestic price. Yet home pro- ducers are fully sold up to about September l. According to the Iron Age, pig iron production during January was at the cord-brealling  rate of 1,450,000 tons, and the re- duction in furnace stocks indicated that consumption was still greater.
 There is a great contention be- tween Colorado and Kansas in re- gard to the waters of the Arkansas river which flow through both states, Kansas claims that Colorado is dis posed to get more than its share of the water for irrigation purposes. Attorneys for Kansas allege that the state of Kansas Is the riparian owner of the lands within its boun- daries, and that the state of Cobra do is a very great offender against the rights of Kansas. The waters of the Arkansas, 1t is asserted, should serve two states and not one Im- partial justice demands that the state of Colorado should be restrain ed from taking it all, and the state of Kansas should not ask it all. Kansas does not ask that single irrigation ditch be closed in Cobra do in order that one may be opened in Kansas, but only that sufficient water be allowed to flow into Kansas to fertilize her fields in the natural way. In brief, the five causes of wrongs against the state of Colorado are as follows: In case it is decided that Colorado cannot get the lions share of this water,