Woodruff County news., 1907-11-21
NEWS OF THE WEEK
THE LATEST EVENTS OF THE
 WORLD BRIEFLY TOLD.
NORTH, EAST WEST, SOUTH
eoreion Lands, Throughout the Ma tion and Particularly From the
 Great Southwest.

The Farmers union warehouse in uouston. Tex, sold 1000 bales of cot ton at 10Rc. This is the third big sale made by the union in the past few weeks of the original 1oc cotton. The wireless station at Slasconsett has been destroyed by fire. News that +he station was out of commission was received at the Marconi othces in New York.
 President Roosevelt is concerning himself about the money question and rrohably will favor more elastic cur rency in his message to congress.
 Embargo on grain shipments in the East is raised and railroads are CO., operating in moving it for export.
 Close friends of Charles T. Barney, deposed president of the Knickerbock- or Trust Go. of New York, who killed himself, declared that worry over his marital relations had no doubt prompt ed his act as much as his breeding over the loss of financial prestige.
 William J. Bryan is willing to be nominated for President or to fight in the ranks, as the Democratic party may wish, according to an announce ment which appears in the COmmoner. In the editorial MT. Bryan says he be- lieves a party should thoroughly con sider everything before selecting man to head the national ticket.
 Charles T. Barney, late president Of the suspended Knickerbocker Trust Coof New York City, and prominently Identified with many industrial and financial institutions throughout the country, committed suicide Thursday afternoon at his residence in West Thirty-eighth street, shooting himself ln the head.
 Only physical collapse will prevent Mrs Annie M Bradley, charged with the murder of former Senator Arthur Brown of Utah from taking the wit ness stand in her own defense, accord Ing to the plans of her counsel.
 United States Attorney George R. Walker has received orders to nolle prosse the case against Gov Johnson of the Chickasaw Nation, charged with conspiracy to defraud the Chickasaws. Juliette Estelle Prescott Mathis, 6S years old, a writer of songs and verses, formerly a resident of Illinois, died at Los Angeles at the home of her son, Frank C. Prescott, registrar of the United States land office
 movement that is said to be far reaching among bankers and railway managers is on foot. It is petition to the interstate commerce commission, through the president, and the state railway boards and the governors of railroads.
 Rear Admiral Asa Walker of the navy retired on account of having reached the statutory age limit.
 The conviction and sentence of Charles M. Smith, Sr., and Charles M. smith, Jr, and five employees in the united States district court at Cape Girardcau, Mo-, for operating a negro peOnage system in southeastern Mis- sourl was affirmed by the United 9Oatcs court of appeals in simulta- neous opinions handed down in St. Louis and at St. Paul.
 President Roosevelt has made pub Ac letter in which he explains why eiie words Tn God We Trust" were !elt or the St Gaudens coin. The ie'ler was prepared for reply to scores ol persons throughout the country who nave forwarded protests because of tue motto's absence from the new gold Fieces and copies are being mailed. me biggest lottery in operation in 'ne United States, which has been 4unhlhg for more than twenty years, "i'h headquarters in Chicago, is U-@inee to have been exposed by ar teStS Tn Chicago and other cities of the country.
 'iA men were killed at South Mil "'akee' when fast Northwestern 'aih pioughed across a grade crossing e"r the station. All of the victims
 ie so mutilated that identification lar has been impossible.
 ne confession of Steve Adams ,h Hi the office of the warden of s- ,o luai'o state penitentiary February par.,, r0oO, in the presence of James Mo Man, Muand, Pinkerton detective of lU 'e McGuire fame, and w. B. Hop ,bo was Introduced in evidence at Fro. 'i1al or Adams for the murder of dav ' Tyler at Rathdvum, Idaho, Tues nosit,o uirectors of the Jamestown ex m,tt 4teioh unanimously accepted a com n1s,'a stee report favoring keeping the ex- Soo on oa open next year, provided $6OO.. tio, 0'" De raised by popular subscrlp sanna eonoltlon of Premier Campbell efinan continues satisfactory.