The Nevada County picayune., 1907-03-22
P. c. Kidwell of Pawnee, Okla,

] D. C.
 Acting Governor Moore, of Little Rock, Ark, has reappoI1ted W. L. Gomeyy member of the board of dl- reetors of the Red river district The Meek Lumber Co., of Leola, Ark, has been chartered. The cap itaI is 25,o00, of which $11 LOO Is i paid. J. F.. Hampton, Jr., presi- dent NJ. NJ. Wallace, vice president; J. II. Meek, secretary and treasurer.
 Fire of unknown origin destroyed one section of the Wetherill-White lead works, at Philadelphia, Pa, en- tailing loss estimated at $60,000.
 Sixty young women students of Simpson college, Indianoa, la. are quarantined as d result of an out break of scarlet fever. Thus far only one has been stricken.
 Gov. Folk has signed 8 house bills and I; senate bills, passed by the last legislature. Among them was the bill making 1t d felony to operate buckct>hop in this state, the penalty clause covering any tele- graph or telephone company which furnishes information to q bucket shop.
 The railway commission has or dercd the Canadian Pacific and the Grand Trunk line to reduce passen- ger rate to 3c a mile.
 I'heater ticket scalpers have be- come so numerous in Chicago that the city council, in response to a de- mand from the theater- going public, passed an ordinance making 1t un- lawful for tickets to such entertain ments 10 be sold any place but in the box office of the playhouse. The ordinance also prohibits the selling of tickets to any sort Cf entertain ment in the city for a sum in excess of the amount printed on the ticket. The ordinance goes into full force at once.
 Stuyvcsant Fish, former president of the Illinois Central road. recently elected a director of the Missouri Pacific. has been elected a member of the executive committee of that com pany at meeting of the board Of di- rectors in New York city. All the officers of the company were re-eleet- cd It the same meeting.
 Pursuant to orders from Union Pacific headquarters at Omaha, work on the construction of the Topeka X Northwestern railroad. from Onaga. kas. northwest, las been suspended and work all along tho road came to a standstill at 6 o'clock last night. Already the grading cut. fits from along the route are being sent to other parts of the country.
 The case of !. B. lIarrell against ] the Missouri. Kansas X Texas on tha unroasonablencss of coal rate from St. Louis to Oklahoma City, Okla. has been dismissed without prejudice To the right of the complainant L. 1 call in question the rcasonablcncss of the rate involved in case 1t sh51l hereafter become of actual eon,a- qaenee.
 The counting of the $G2 ,000.Go9 in fhe Chicago sub-treasur-. to d. terHHa if the shortage of &1,&.003 discovered Feb. 20 was due 10 ru.-- take in bookkeeping, was finished Nanday without thc discovery ar u1tAh2 to explain the shortage other lhan that the money had baea stolen.
 The hank of England has secured the whole of this weeks supply fl gold, about $2,oo0,ooo, paving 3-Sd advance, SO as to shut out possible American and other competition
 Three masked men entered tha Wabash passenger station at Macon. Mo, and, while one held up two coal miners who were in the waiting room, the other, dynamited the safc. taking about $20o in cash and | draft. They escaped
 The chief justice has announced that the supreme court of the United States will take d two weeks rcccs, from next Monday until April <.
 The trial of Harry K. Thaw for the murdcr of Stanford White is nearing the end. There are but four expert witnesses to be examined be-