Woodruff County news., 1907-11-28


 The corporation commission at Guthrie, Ok, has issued an order on the Fort Smith & Western railroad to inaugurate the % fare immediately If the company refuses, immediate action, it is declared, will be taken
 Evidence tending to show that bonds of the Walsh railroads were sold to various purchasers at prac- tically the figures they were accepted by the Chicago National bank as col lateral for notes, was brought out in the cross-examination of National Bank Examiner Moxey in the Walsh trial at Chicago. Ten sales agregat- ing $522,000 were gone over and iden- tif1ed by date and amount.
 Orders that no hymn or carol con- taining mention of Christ or Christ mas shall henceforth be sung in the public schools of New York were giv- en by the board of education. Follow ng the announcement tremendous pro- tests were uttered in every section of the city.
 Missouri Board of Railroad Com missioners issues schedule of express rates, effective December 15, pursu- ant to it's order announced at St. Louis meeting.
 Chicago and Eastern Illinois will establish daily train service between Chicago, St. Louis and Florida as a factor in the development of trade with the Southeast.
 Pilot whose license was revoked says it was unsportsmanlike for Roosevelt to admire steamboat race and then punish him.
 Senate may bar Gore and Owen. Committee chairman says Governor Haskell cannot legally appoint Sen- ators
 Chancellor J. w. Stout at Gallatin, Tenn, rendered a decree of custer Tn the case of the State vs. the Standard Oil Co.,, revoking the license of said company to transact business in Ten nessee.
 Secretary Taft is shortening his trip and hurrying home in consequence of orders received from the president, WHO QeSlT0S lO ldhc dCGlOu upoh lAO third-term situation.
 Five children of Thomas Stuver, an oil well bumper living near Pleasant vile, Venango county, Penn., were burned to death in fire which de- stroyed their home. The victims ages were from 2 to F years.
 The new Cunard liner Mauretania broke her hister ship Lusitania's rec ord Thursday when at noon she com- pleted a days run of 624 knots. The Lusitania's best record for day was 61S knots The Mauretania's time for the passage, it is calculated, will be about five days and two hours, or about seven hours slower than the Lusitania's fastest westbound pas sage.
 The most dramatic incident con- nected with the trial of Steve Adams, on trial at Rathdrum, Idaho, for the murder of Fred Tyler, was the intro duction of two letters by James H. Hawley, counsel for the state, Thurs day afternoon. The defense objected to their being read to the jury, but Judge Wood declared them properly identified. They were written be- tween the time Adams confessed and signed his confessions.
 The story of former United States Senator Browns acknowledgment of the paternity of the two youngest of Mrs. Bradley's children was told Thursday in Judge Stafford's court at Washington by other lips than hers.
 Three thousand barrels of beer, val ued at $24,000, will be dumped into the sewer by a brewing company of Oklahoma City, unless a special dis pensation may be granted and the brewery allowed to ship 1t out of the state and sell 1t.
 Panama Canal can be finished in five years, says committee; sanita' tion is good.
 What will amount to nearly $3,3O0,- 900 a year was the additional tribute levied against the citizens of Chicago by the so-called milk trust. This Is represented by an advance of 1 cent per quart on milk and ? cents per half pint on cream. This makes milk cost cents a pint and cream 20 cents per pint.
 A suit for $500 filed against Mrs. Frank Gero, a widow. aged 51, by Fred L. Saunders, charges that Mrs. Gero enticed his son away from him. Saunders says the widow persuaded the 16-lear-old boy to elope with her last June and that they have been llv- ing together since.
 Secretary Ellison of the national rivers and harbors congress is in daily receipt of letters from members or the senate and house. from governors of states, and from representatives or commercial and industrial organiza' tions accepting invitations to attend the meeting of the congress to be held in Washington, December 4, 5, and 6. Governor Haskell made sharp at' tack on President Roosevelt in his