The Nevada County picayune., 1906-11-16
THE LATEST EVENTS OF THE WORLD BRIEFLY AND TERSE-
 " NARRATED.
FROM EVERYWHERE
Foreign Lands, Throughout the Ma ton, and Particularly From the Great
 Southwest.

n correspondent dL l ITiIiIudu, Soi., went to Stonewall, N. M., to in- yestigate the report that Mount Culebra was in a state of eruption. He wires that the report is untrue :; that the smoke issuing apparently from the summit of the peak really comes from burning timber on the New Mexico side of the mountain.
 J. NJ. Bellamy, general attorney for the Lawton, Wichita Mountain & Northern Railway Co. was granted district court decision by Judge Gillette at Lawton, Okla, which gives the railroad company the authority to select and purchase a right way over the Big Pasture. } It provides also for condemnation proceedings in order to get possession of the right of way lands.
 In an explosion of a coal-oil can, Olive Smith, a negro domestic was fatally burned at Dallas, Tex. Percy | Townsend, in whose kitchen the fire occurred, and his brother-in-law T. P. Randall. of Galveston, were seriously burned in trying to extln- guish the flames.
 With a neck yoke, hurriedly dc tached from the pole of her wagon, as her only weapon, Mrs. Bert Lowe of Springfield, Neb., brained a big gray timber wolf, and is having its hide made into a mat.
 The grain elevator in Girard, Ka. owned by Morrow & Taffe of Cart haze, Mo-, was destroyed by fire.
 Ben Halkey, the Indian who murdered Dudley Rutherford al Broken Arrow two days ago, was arrested and brought to Muskogec and put in jail. A posse surrounded Haikey in the western part of the Creek Nation, and he sent word tC them that he would not be taken alive, but that if they would send to Muskogee for E. H. Hubbard, a de putty marshal, he would surrender tc him willingly Hubbard went out and the Indian kept his word.
 Elder and Miles Lockett, brothers shot and killed Ed Horace Price at Little Rock. Ark. The Lockett boys say they killed Price as he was at tempting to draw pistol on them The trouble, it is claimed, was caused by the mistreatment of Lock ett's sister by Price. The men were arrested and lodged in jail
 At Ottawa, Kas., fire that start ed from a gas explosion totally de- stroyed the John Nelson building the largest structure in the city, and spread to other buildings in the main business section. A high wind famed the flames and the water pressure was low. The loss on the Nelson building and contents alone will exceed $l00,000; partially in sured.
 At Hibbesboro, Tex, while at tention was directed to the outskirts of the city by two destructive fires the hardware store of Smith X Thomas, located in the center of the business district, was dynamited and partly wrecked by fire.
 A northbound Frisco passenger train collided with an pengine stand, ing on a curve at the edge of the city limits of Fort Worth, Tex. killing Fireman Joseph D. Wilkin, son and probably fatally injurine Engineer Robert Fowler. None of the passengers was hurt.
 Maude Ballington Booth, of the Salvation Army, addressed the prisoners at the United States civil penitentiary at Fort Leavenworth Kas., and at the invitation of W. H. Haskell, warden, she addressed the prisoners at the Kansas penitentiary at Lansing.
 The International fair at San Antonio, Tex, has closed. It was the most successful meeting in its eight years history. The attendance has averaged 50,o00 a day, and on special occasions the crowds reached T5,00.
 Railroads are expending $7,000,- 900 improving Ashtabula (O) har- Dor, the greatest iron ore receiving port in the world.
 The United States circuit court of appeals, at St. Paul, Minn., has handed down decision upholding the validity of contracts for. the purchase and sale of grain for future delivery, as it is practiced by the Chicago board of trade and the Mer- chants exchange of St. Louis.
 Mrs. Henry Williams, about 56 years old, was found murdered in