The Nevada County picayune., 1907-01-18
The New Mexico constitutional

submit to congress, with a plea for immediate admission to statehood. Ex-Gov. Bradford Prince, who was member of the New York constitu- tional convention, was elected pres ident, and David NJ. White, of Santa Fe, secretary.
 A colossal statue of Pope Leo XIII. weighing 12 tons, and des- tined for his tomb in the Church 0f St. John Lateran, has been trans ported to that church, where it will be raised.
 The constitutional convention of Oklahoma has authorized the ap- pointment of a segregated coal and asphalt commission, whose duty 1t shall be to investigate the value and extent of the segregated coal and asphalt land Tn the Choetaw and Chiekashaw nations, and make nego- tiations for the purchase by the state of all these lands The commission is permanent one, appointed by 1 the president of the convention, and its members are to report to the tu- ture governor of the state. It is be- lieved that the state will make an attempt to own and operate all of the segregated coal lands in the present Indian territory. Commissioner Clark denies that he has been requested by President Roosevelt to use his influence in set ting the Southern Pacific fremen's strike.
 Samuel A. Grof, GO years of age, who was released from the Mounds vile (W. Va.) penitentiary last September, after serving three years for complicity in the postal frauds, died of melancholia at his home in Washington.
 Fifteen unidentified bodies of Mexican laborers, taken from the smoker of train No. 29, in the Rock Island wreck at Volland, Kas., were buried in a single trench in the Alma (Kas.) cemetery.
 John S. Simmons, of Dighton, was selected on the first ballot as the party nominee for speaNer of the house of representatives of the Kan sas legislature by the republican caucus. The legislature will elect a United States senator.
 Railroad, insurance, liquor, pure feod and county accounting bills will be presented to Texas legisla- ture.
 Engineer Hildebrand, of the "dead" train in the Terra Gotta wreck, near Washington, D. C., ad- mitted, when recalled before the grand jury, that he failed to ob- serve any signal at TakOma Park on the night of the wreck, as he thought that station was dead" l" and consequently did not look for tfe signal.
 The first speech in defense of Senator Shoot in the senate was de- livered by Senator Hopkins, of H. linois. The senator argued that United States senators are not off cers of the United States, and there fore cannot be impeached. He cited the case of Senator Blount, of Ten nessee, many years ago, who was charged with reasonable corre- spondence with a foreign nation. The senate of that day so held, and refused to impeach him. That con clusion, said Mr. Hopkins has never been reversed.
 Announcement is made of the failure of the Vermont and the Southern cotton mills, two large mills located at Bessemer City, \. C.
 E. H. Hartman has given per- sonal assurance that he was not seri- ously ill.
 The pope has issued an cncyclical addressed to "our venerable broth CTS, the cardinals, bishops and clergy of the French people," In this doe unent the pontiff said his chief ob- iect in addressing the faithful in France was to comfort them in their sufferings, which he felt deeply.
 George s. Work, who was sent to prison for wrecking the Bank of America and the American Life In surance Co.,, l6 years ago. died in Philadelphia, aged e years.
 With a sigh, John W. Spargo. a well known educator of St. Louis fell from his chair at the breakfast table dead.