The Nevada County picayune., 1906-12-07

hfpo1tS COlnlUS III tO tHc NV" Mexico cattle sanitary board in Las Vegas from the various inspectors show that the recent snowstorms and cold weather have done great deal more damage to live stock in New Mexico than was first estimated. Heavy losses were suffered in almost every portion.
 After a desperate fight with of- fcers, during which he was shot sev- eral times and wounded several of his pursuers, A. R. Shibley, a sheep buyer, who is alleged to have mur- dered and robbed B. NJ. Cawthorn and J. W. Ealston and another rancher on three successive days in Valverde county, Tex, has been cap tured in the mountains near Sander son, and is now in jail. He Is be- lieved to be mortally wounded.
 The short session of the Fifty ninth congress will be devoted, it is predicted, to the passage of appro- priation bills appropriating one bill lion dollars, and as little other gen. eral legislation as possible, although the ship subsidy bill may be brought out of the house committee and passed. It has passed the senate.
 It is estimated that one-third of the vast wealth of the United States was represented at the funeral of the late Samuel Spencer, president of the Southern railway. Such men as J. P. Morgan and E. H. Hartman were among the mourners.
 George Hoffman, of Ashley, Pa, had to be locked up when twins ar rived at his home. Already the fa- ther of ten children, he declared that it was impossible to support a family of twelve on two dollars a day.
 George Ye, a wealthy chinaman, is to wed, 1t Is said, a Detroit girl of excellent family.
 The queen of England celebrated her sixty-second birthday anniver- sary. Greetings from all parts of the world were received.
 Deputy County Clerk Edward Gritten of Hudson county, New York, has received from Acting Commissioner General F. H. Larned of the bureau of immigration, a re- ply upholding Gritten's refusal to naturalize a Japanese. The natural ization of any other than free white persons and aliens of African natiy- ity and persons of African descent, Is forbidden.
 It Is understood that the federal grand jury hearing testimony at Salt Lake City, Utah, concerning the alleged land, coal and timber frauds in the west, has voted to re- turn indictments against two rail roads, a fuel company and some in dividuals.
 The fashionable boarding house of Mrs. Frank Emmett, in New Or leans, was entered by thieves and a small iron safe, containing dia- monds and jewelry valued at $5,000 10 $6,O00. was stolen from the bed room of Dr. and Mrs. o. Joachim. The robbery is one of the biggest that the fashionable section of the city has experienced in many years. The thieves entered Dr. Joachim $ bedroom while the doctor and his wife were at one of the theaters.
 The bunkhouse, blacksmith, board ing house, boiler, engine and com press houses, together with all the machinery of the Mountain Green mine, located four miles from Ami mas Forks, near Telluride, Col, were destroyed by snowslide, caus- ing damage estimated at $50,O00
 W. D. Boyce, of Chicago, repre- scnting syndicate of capitalists, proposed to the postal commission to take over the entire postal sys- tenn of the United States and op- crate it for the government as a private enterprise, guaranteeing, through a sufficient bond, to give improved service and remove the ex- isting deficit.
 Mrs. Annie J. Goodman Palmer, wife of Dev. Dr. S. c. Palmer, pas tor of the Lafayette Park Presby- terian church, St. Louis, died in Il