The Nevada County picayune., 1906-11-30
THE LATEST EVENTS OF THE WORLD BRIEFLY AND TERSE-
 " NARRATED.
FROM EVERYWHERE
Foreign Lands, Throughout the Ma ton, and Particularly From the Great
 Southwest.

liO S'"t anu HI1tp idhNiiCio S' the Sacramento mountains, in New Mexico, lost from 60 10 80 per cent of their herds during the recent blizzard, which IS said to have been the heaviest loss ever experienced by the industry in the west.
 Kansas wheat never entered the winter in better condition. Experts say that the present condition war rants crop next year of 100,O00,- 900 bushels.
 Frank w. Hunt, who was gover- nor of Idaho from 1898 to 1900, died at Goldield, New, after a brief illness from grippe, brought or by exposure. Gov. Hunt was in the Philippines as lieutenant in the First Idaho volunteers and was dec- orated for bravery during the cam paign. He leaves a widow and one daughter
 Miss Helen Gould has been ap- pealed to by a local faction which has been fighting gamblers to do- nate to fund for the purpose of buying out the handsomely fitted up gambling houses in Hot Springs, Ark.
 Charles II. Hoyt, whose brother, William Hoyt, was married to Miss Cleveland, died at New Orleans, aged 73.
 Going, Going, Gone", With upraised mallet the sheriff of Har- din county, Kentucky, will auction off Dock Auberry, q shiftless white man, who refuses to work. Au berry's services will go to his pur- chaser for the period of nine months. He was tried and convict ed, being found by the verdict, "Strong, able-bodied, with no yis- ible means oi support, and too lazy to work.
 The present outlook is that the new state of Oklahoma will have within its borders 90 counties. The present territory of Oklahoma has 20 counties Indian Territory has 20 recording districts, which, in many respects, are similar to coun- ties, and the constitution adopted by the Sequoyah convention at Musko- gee gave 10 Indian Territory a total of is counties. With Indian Terri tory divided into IS counties, as will probably be the program, the territory of Oklahoma must, there fore, be divided into 42 counties to fill out the total of 90.
 Rev. Dr. Charles A. Ashel, of Liverpool, England, who recently received call to the Fifth Avenue Baptist church, New York, said, in addressing the New York congrega- ton: When you invite me 10 be- come one of you, to take up the great work of this great church, you give me the opportunity to ac- complish the desire of my life-to become an American citizen, to be an American. I have always been an American, born on the wrong side"
 The French torpedo school ship Algcsiras, stationed in the harbor at Toulon, France, was totally de- stroyed by fire at late hour at night, recently. There were 800 men on board when the fire broke out, and all were saved, with the exception of three who could not swim.
 Mayor Vallillee, of Buckingham, Quebec Las been arrested, charged with failure to read the riot act at the recent riots at a sawmill strike there.
 Chief engineer of river improve ment reports that over $1S,0oo,000 is necessary to deepen channel of Mississippi from mouth of the Mis- souri to the mouth of the Ohio. 
 It is reported in St. Louis that Andrew Carnegie has set aside a fund of $l,000,000, the income of which is to be used to further the propaganda for international peace, and that Congressman Richard Bartholdt is to have charge of it.
 Without one moments cessation, the rain came down at Helena, Ark,