Woodruff County news. [volume] (McCrory, Ark.) 1901-1910, 1909-02-11

not ready to complete the cross-exam-
lnation of Robert S. Daddell, president
of the Buckeye Powder company of
Peoria, ILL.,
1t is learned that the protocol drawn
up by w. I. Buchanan, the United
States special commissioner sent to
settle outstanding disputes between
the United States and Venezuela, had
been found unsatisfactory to Venezue-
la and would not be signed in it's
present form. The hitch has occurred
over the case of the New York and
Bermudez Asphalt company, for the
arrangement reached with regard to
the arbitration of the other claims APP
parently is acceptable to Venezuela.
The navy department has decided
to build great 14-inch naval gun at
the Washington navy yard Unusual
attention is attracted to the great
weapon because of the fact that it will
be the largest gun ever built by any
nation to go on ship board. The mi
tlal cost of this gun will be S1O0, 900.
MIA assembly of the bill providing for
the segregation of Japanese school
children was received in official cir
cles in Washington with surprise and
CONSERVATION.
Vice-President Fairbanks is prepar-
ing to join the notables who annually
migrate to California to escape the
rigors of winter in the East. He has
just completed purchase of the in
terest of the H. L. Drew estate, in the
2O0-acre Drew Fairbanks ranch, near
Redlands. The purchase price was
between 10000 and $4,000.
The mysterious unknown who
been in Memphis for the past two
weeks, is a mystery no longer. FIis
name is Roy c. Porter, son of ]. w.
Porter of Ottawa, Kan. Sight of the
fathers face as he stepped into the
office of Chief of Police O'Haver
brought back to the clouded brain Of
the young man recollection of who
he was He recognized not only his
own identity, but remembered also all
facts connected with his former life.
Maj. Harvey w. Salmon, former
treasurer of Missouri who has also
been chairman of the Democratic
State committee, escapes the three
year term in the penitentiary, i'm
posed by the circuit court of Benton
country, through an opinion handed
down in the Missouri state supreme
court, which reversed and remained
the case, with instructions to the trial
court to quash the indictment.
Leaders of the house of represen-
tatives indicate that the resolution
providing for the observance of Lin
coins birthday February II as passed
by the senate will not receive the ap-
prevail of the house conferees in its
present form They seriously object
to the action of the senate in lacking
$4,000 appropriation onto the reso-
luton as it passed the house proVld-
ing for survey of Lincoln memor-
ial road from the White House to the
Gettysburg battle field.
More than 200 negroes were arrest
ed in Pittsburg in an effort by the
police to render the Heron Hill resi-
dence section of the city safe. In the
last few weeks negroes have made
numerous attacks upon young women.
The police force was increased, but
the attacks continued, and a raid was
made on the negro quarter, and every
negro man who could not show that
he was employed was arrested as
vagrant.
The officers of the United Hatters
of North America, 10000 of those
members on strike, and the members
of the National Felt Hat Manufactur-
ers' Association having failed to make
any overtures to each other for a re-
sumption of the trade, the governors
of New Jersey, New York and Con-
necticut will meet in conference,
probably in New York, in few days,
to discuss ways and means of set
Ting the strike.
During the circumnavigation cruise
of the battleship fleet $12,301 was re-
quired for entertainment purposes, OF
which $4,S01 was used during the
cruise to San Francisco. The re-
mainder was allotted for the return
cruise to the east cost of the United
States Other expenses which have
been met out of the naval contingent
fund include S1,666 for salaries mad
expenses of secret-service operatives"
Developments in the libel suit
brought by the government against
the publishers of the New York World
indicate that when the case goes to
trial it will reveal that some other Of
fetal, possibly Elihu Root, and not Mr..
Roosevelt or his brother-inlaw, is the
person alleged to have been libeled'
Announcement has been made thai
friends of Charles w. Morse, the con
victed banker, are preparing a petit
ton to the United States circuit court
of appeals, asking that Morse be adj
mitted to bail pending his appeal from