Woodruff County news., 1909-03-04


 sible for him to accept the post should it be rendered.
 The bill which provides for the re- instatement of negro officers and sol, diers who were discharge as a result of the shooting affray at Brownsville. Tex, on the night of August 13. 1906, will be favorably reported by the house committee on military affairs by vote of 10 to 5.
 No opposition has so far developed to the provision of the sundry civil bill permitting the use of the govern ment's share in whatever surplus may be left of the Louisiana Purchase eX- position funds toward the erection of monument to Jefferson at Forest park, St Louis.
 Aroused by newspaper editorials which they claim advocate race sui eide both Cardinal Gibbons and Bish- op Owen B. Couigan came out in in terviews denouncing arbitrary Enita- tion of offspring.
 Senator Albert J. Beveridge was ac- claimed the leader of the Republican party in Indiana at banquet given by the Republican State Editorial as sociation.
 It is announced that soon after his inauguration President Taft will visit the ranch of Charles P. Taft near San Antonio, Tex A residence is being built on the ranch and golf links laid out
 The Russian government has for warded a request to the United States for the eXtradition of a Finn named Mustonon. Mustonon recently pub lished a pamphlet in New York in which he accused the Finnish social ists of complicity in numerous rob- beries He is now sought as wit ness against those men.
 Resolutions calling for the organi- Zation of junior brotherhood were presented and met with favor Wednes- day at the national convention of the Presbyterian Brotherhood of America.
 The fourteenth anniversary of the uprising at Baire, marking the begin ming of the Cuban war for independ- ence was observed throughout the island Wednesday as a national holi- day. President Gomez and Vice-Pres- ident Zayas. accompanied by the members of the cabinet went to Ma tanzas and unveiled statue of lib erty.
 The dates for the national meeting of Nrot al Ordnr nf EN1o 1o1aS be held in Omaha have been fixed for September 16 to 20 inclusive.
 Mrs. James Brown Potter, accord | ing to story published in New York Tuesday, has definitely given up the stage and is now living with her daughter. Mrs James Stillman, Jr. By decision of the supreme court of the United States express compa- nies cannot hereafter issue franks for transportation of packages. E. J. Oucky) Baldwin, who has been seriously i'll for several weeks. suffered a relapse Tuesday. His con- | dition is said to be very low. Indictments were returned ar We woka, Okla, Tuesday against Judge | T. s. Cobb, of Seminole county and his brother, Joseph s. Cobb, charging | them with felony and misdemeanor. It is alleged the indicted men defraud- ed Seminole Indian children in land transfers.
 In an opinion by Justice White, the supreme court of the United States | Tuesday upheld the validity of the | Arkansas antitrust law of 1905, which provides a penalty of from S200 to | s500 for each offense and the forfeit ure of the right to do business in the state
 Purchase by the Texas company ot | land in New Jersey on which Co build oil storage tanks, extension of office facilities in New York city and gen eral expansion in the East by that company have attracted attention to the fact that the Standard OH com pany is to have a more vigorous rival than it has had to contend with pre- viously.
 President Roosevelt has slapped Senator James Alexander Hemenway into the Ananias club. He did it in letter containing 5000 or more words addressed to Senator Hale, acting chairman of the committee on appro- priations In the course of the letter he challenged a statement made by the Indiana senator as inaccurate and misleading
 With an ear-splitting warwhoop, an unidentified Wyoming Indian war chiei ran amuck in the Cincinnati Union station. and before he could be over powered had dangerous stabbed and cut Mrs. Anna Doverd of Huntington, w. Va, and Max Meyers of Chem natl. and seriously wounded Joseph w, Gordon, Cambridge, H., in an effort tc scalpt them.
 Unexpected and unexplained order from Washington, the extensive imml grant station newly erected by the ooverpmant m Angel island and the