Woodruff County news., 1903-01-15

Opaln IS Qead.
 All gambling joints have been closed at Joplin, Mo.
 The net earnings of the United States steel corporation for the year 1909 amounted to $132,602,000.
 Daniel J. Hill, assistant secre- tary of state, has been appointed minister to Switzerland.
 The city of Detroit, Mich, is go- ing into the coal business and will supply the people at cost prices.
 After a recess over the holidays, the anthracite coal strike commits sion resumed its task of taking tes- timony on the 9th.
 The Spanish minister of finance has prepared measure providing for the free coinage of gold and pro hibiting the coinage of silver.
 Near Joplin, Mo-, in the eastern part of Jasper county, an 11-foot body of coal was struck at depth of 40 feet, and the coal is of the finest quality.
 Four persons lost their lives in a fire at Chicago which destroyed the Somerset hotel on Wabash av- enue. The fire was caused from bed clothing igniting from cigar cite.
 As a result of collision between a passenger train and the rear end of freight train on the Pennsylva- mia railroad at Cochrane station, just above Dubuque, seven men are dead and seven others injured.
 The demand of railway men in the south and west for a 20 per cent increase in wages may result in trouble on some of the large sys- tems. A number of roads have flatly refused to accede to the de- mands.
 Cole Younger has applied to the Minnesota pardoning board for a complete pardon, in order that he might return to Missouri, his old home. The terms of his parole forbid him leaving the state of Min nesota.
 The European powers have de- clined to receive their second in- demnity installment from China on the silver basis. The question as to whether China may discharge these obligations on a gold or sil- yer basis may yet me taken to The Hague tribunal for arbitration.
 Here is a strong one from Jop- lin: For three weeks B. Knell, an undertaken at Carthage, was unable to unlock the door of large safe in his office, because he had forgot ten the combination. He had giv- en it up entirely, when luckily in a dream last night he saw the num- bers that worked the combination and, arising from his bed, jotted them down. The next day he un- locked the safe.
 The commissioner of navigation reports 627 sail and steam vessels, of I'll, ,599 gross ton, built in the United State and officially number ed during the six months ended De cember 31, 1909. During the cor responding six months ssended De- cember 31, 1901, 717 sail and steam vessels, of 154,O73 gross tons, were built Of the tonnage built in the latter half of 1902, 96,379 tons were built on the Atlantic and gulf, 2O,- 039 tons on the Pacific and 47,S74 on the great lakes.
 A decision of more than usual in terest was recently rendered in the United States district court for the southern district of Illinois. An express messenger was indicted fol the sale of liquor in prohibition ter ritory. It was sought to convict or the ground that he delivered pack ages of liquor ordered in licensed territory, or in other words, th' prosecution contended that tht place of delivery should be held tht place of sale. The court held that the express agent had no knowledge of the contents of the packages hence could net be held as guilt, of violating the federal liquor laws