Woodruff County news., 1908-10-15
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Eoreion Lands, Throughout the Ma ton. and Particularly from the
 Great Southwest.

When Mrs. Sarah c. Byrne, boarding bopse keeper, feet tall and muscular, was granted a divorce and S50O all nonv in the superior court at Indian nolis she proposed to Judge Harvey that she would waive all claim to the alimony if she could be locked up ill room for five minutes with her form or husband, William H. Byrne.
 With stinging arraignment of com missions which attempt to regulate the railroad business, Theodore P. Shonts of the Chicago & Alton railroad ad- dressed the members of the Lakes to- tbe.Gulf Deep Waterway association, and gave them their first real 'sit-up- and-take-notice" speech of the session.
 The British cruiser In1eXible at her official trials attained speed ot 2IA knots breaking all records. It was stated after the trial that her speed would have been greater had not the fog hindered.
 With every aeroplane record to his credit and all requirements fulfilled for winning the French syndicate prize of S1OO,000 Wilbur Wright is be- ing urged to make a flight across the English Channel.
 A shakeup in the official family of the United Mine Workers of Amerlca, whereby Vice-President J. P. White of Iowa and w. D. Ryan, secretary-treas- urer, will retire, was announced at ln- ternational headquarters.
 A club of F Bucyrus (Ohio) young women has been formed with the eX- press purpose of adopting the new sheath gown. The gowns are not the modified pattern, but the more in teresting original pattern.
 The London cabman who drove King Alfonso during his recent London visit, and had the temerity to ask his majesty for his autograph, which he received without a murmur, may con. sder himelf a specially favored mor- tai. for the king of Spain usually makes it a rule never to give his auto graph to anyone except his own lnti- mate friends.
 W. L. Woolley, banker, capitalist and large landholder, was arrested at Stuart Oklahoma, and taken to Stigler to answer an indictment for murder. It is alleged the crime was committed 27 years ago.
 The battleship fleet will end it's trip around the world at Hampton Roads, Virginia President Roosevelt will view the ships at New York, the yes sels going there after arriving at the Virginia port At New York, the sail DTS will be given shore leave. The fact that the fleet will complete the trip at Hampton Roads has just been made public.
 The action of the United States Gov ernment and the Provincial Govern ment of Canada in setting aside a tract of land GO feet wide to mark the International boundary between the two countries involves no legal features to which Uncle Sam is unac- customed. Such a strip has existed TOT quite a number of years. It eX- tends along the southern boundaries Of Arizona and New Mexico and is Known to the American residents there as the neutral" strip. The one decid- ed upon by Uncle Sam and John Bull Is to be called the buffer" strip.
 Congratulatory telegrams have been received by officers of the lnterna- uonai Congress on Tuberculosis from Nathan Straus, the New York philan- thropist, who for sixteen years has been fighting the white plague" by distributing pasteurized milk in his clty and presenting pasteurizing pants to other municipalities.
 The Prohibition National party is to receive S50,000 to carry on its work asalEst the liquor traffic, according to an announcement from the Chicago neadquarters. The fund probably will pe available for this campaign.
 Frof. Eric Doolittle assistant pro ieSsor of astronomy at the University VI fennsylvania. said at t.e university observatory that the spots on the sun could not be held accountable for the recent drought.
 friends of Dr. Frederick F. Cook, "eh-known Brooklyn explorer, are 9eeklAg his financial packer, John R. nraG y to urge him to fit out an ex- peel'lon to search for the explorer, be- ''eNed to be lost in the Arctic.
 bishop Tierney of the diocese of connecticut died as the result of an apopletic stroke.
 President William K. Kavanaugh of
 LOUIS called the convention of the i-'hes-to-the-Gulf Deep Waterways as so'iatlon to order in Chicago. A en'usand delegates, including 250 gov - nots and congressman and other n neh n public life, were present at the opehing session