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The Nevada County picayune., 1907-11-28
PINEY GROVE

We did not have any Piney news last week. Health in this vicinity is very good at present except bad colds.
 School began November 11th with nine pupils.
 We have been having some cold rainy weather lately which damaged the cotton in the fields.
 Mir. and Mrs. F. P. Smith visited at Mir, Nortons Saturday night and Sunday.
 Mir. and Mrs. Jesse Calhoun visited MT. Calhoun Saturday night and Sunday
 Mir. Marvin Boyd and MT. Joe Youmans were pleasant visitors at Piney Grove Sunday. The singing at Mrs. Fannie Williams was we'll attended and they had good singing. 7
The Nevada County picayune., 1907-11-28
BARGAINS IN REAL ESTATE.
The Vaughan Realty Co. Has the Following
 BardainS to Close Out This Week.

A beautiful home with eastern exposure, concrete walks, six rooms. Lots 150x125. Title per- feet. Within four blocks of the depot. A bargain at $125O, S60O cash balance to suit purchaser.
 One pretty cottage home in south Prescott next to city limits , rooms. Lots 115Xl69, good water. very desirable and cheap.
 l6O acres hardwood timber land. 1 miles southwest of city, Hickory and oak. A bargain at 5000 per acre.
 One five acre track in east Prescott just outside city limits, house 1 rooms. brick chimney, and good well water S850. %. You'll want it when you see 1t.
 One nice 1 room cottage in West Prescott, good barn and garden. Lots 75X150, very de- sirable. Price $365, cash.
 One ' room splendid home on West Main street. Lot 13OX3OO, on corner, good water, barn, garden and bath, cheap at $l GOO
 240 acres creek bottom, 75 acres in cultivation, one flowing well, good farm house and barn, fine stock range and timber. Price 5000 per acre.
 l5O acres ' miles from city l-4 miles from Arcadia Junction. 75 acres in cultivation, well improved good dwelling; tenant house, ' acres in bermuda pasture, best of water, fine fruit, soil sandy loam. A splendid proposition, you can buy it this week at $7.OO per acre worth double.
 A splendid blackland farm of 60 acres 2 1-2 miles from city and IA mile from public school, all enclosed with good fence, 1-2 in cultivation, balance in pasture. Good we'll and plenty of water, Good new house, barn and gar den. Improvements worth S700. You can buy it all this week for $65O. 1-2 cash, balance to suit purchaser.
 S0 acres also 2 1-2 miles from city, well improved, good house, barn, well, and 60 acres in good state of cultivation, $650 cash. Also 80 acres timber red land adjoining, S400. Enough timber to pay for both tracts. Owner must close to meet pressing obli- gations.
 Long list of desirable property see me or write me at once. Never too busy to listen to a
 proposition,
 Never too busy to buy or sell. '
 ALEX. VAUGHAN,
 Office in Picayue Building.
The Nevada County picayune., 1907-11-28

Mir. and Mrs. H. D. Calhoun visited in Prescott Saturday and Sunday. Mir. Peachey and Hiram came home with them. The way some of the boys in this settlement behave is a shame on themselves as well as their parents. This ought to be stopped.
 Success to the Picayune.
 K. C. C.
The Nevada County picayune., 1907-11-28
LANESBURG-SUTTON

Cutting wood and building fires is all the go now.
 Cotton picking is almost thing of the past. Mir. and Mrs. D.A. Fore visited their son, G. W. Fore. near Bluff Springs Satur- day and Sunday.
 The death angle visited the home of Mr. and Mrs. Dock Hamilton the 17th and took from them their loved one. The little one had that dreadful disease, pneumonia. The bereaved ones have our deepest sympathy.
 Miss Florence Daniel visited at Prescott the past week.
 Miss Aline, our hello girl, spent last week with home folks.
 A. !. Pmtle and family visited Mr. Purtle's sister, Mrs. Also brooks. near Gale Saturday night and Sunday
 Quite a numberof the Holiness people attended the Grand Coun- c1 al Little Rock the past week.
 We are sorry to report Aunt Mary Ann Bright on the sick list this week.
 Our school at Harmony is pro- gressing nicely Prof. J. W. Franks is one of our best teach CTS. He knows just what to do when he gets in the school room.
 We learn that Carse Edwards, of Mt. Moriah, is very sick at this writing.
 W.R. Thornton and family are visiting at Hope this week.
 E. NJ. Woosley and family, of Foreman, are visiting friends and relatives in this vicinity.
 Clint Martin, who happened to very serious accident by getting his leg cut, is doing reasonably well at this writing. l J. R. Lambert has a sick child. Alvin Woosley, of Hope, visit ed his father, J. P. Woosley last week.
 J. w. Franks and family at ten1ed church at Laneburg Sun day.
 Milt Andrews, of Idabell. l. T. visited home folks last week.
 Miss Hattie Philips is very sick with pneumonia.
 Albert Garrett, of Hope, visited his uncle, T. A. Garrett, the past week.
The Nevada County picayune., 1907-11-28
VpstaI'S Reliable Bulbs.

Plant now for Spring blooming Do not overlook getting a supply of bulbs in good season, so they can be planted before the ground is closed by frost.
 Our Gall Bulb Catalog is now ready and will be mailed on ap- plication. It is beautifully illus trated and contains most com plete list of all the standard and best sorts.
 Hyacinths. Tulips. Dafodils. Lilies. Crocus, FrCesias. Nareis- us. etc. also Reaoa. Shrubs and plants for Fal nlmting, Palms, and Winter blooming plants for the house.
 We are the largest bulp inn porters and rose growers m the South.
 JOS. w. VESTAL & SON
 Little Rock. Ark.
The Nevada County picayune., 1907-11-28
LETTERS FROM
 RURAL DISTRICTS Items of Interest Gathered By The piCdyune'S Special
 Correspondents.
MORRIS

Old Mother lobe is quite sick.
 Farmers are very busy finish ing up gathering and ginning their cotton crops these pretty days.
 Riley Whitten is preparing to get off to Pilot Point, Texas, where he expects to attend the Bible School for some months.
 Arther Fletcher moved into our town Monday. MT. Fletcher is a partner with w. C. Wicker in the sawmill business at this place
 Lando Whitten catches the fish overflow or no overflow. He caught ' pound Monday morning.
 Mrs. Matte Steed is visiting relatives near Gale this week.
 Grand Mother Daniel is visiting her daughter, Mrs. Rhodes of this community.
 Uncle Willburn Honea filled his appointment at this place Sunday,
 Rev. J. R. Lambert will preach at this place the first Sunday in December at II a. m. and Satur- day night before.
 Prayer meeting at this place every Sunday night.
 Roy lobe and Binum Mum filled their appointments near Sutton Sunday. Johnie.
The Nevada County picayune., 1907-11-28
JC. Young, Pres o. B. Gordon. Cash.
 W. B. Walters, Vice-Pres.
 NEVADA COUNTY B A M K O c NH Q
$25,ooo Capital
 Paid Up

n One of the ol d e S t Fl Banks in South Ark
 anSaS.
 H Solicits the accounts II of merchants, farm.
 CTS, manufactors and everybody else. We of fer our customers the facilities and experience gained in over 20 years of continued service, to- gether with every ac- commodation consistent with sound banking prin- ciples.
The morning journal-courier., 1907-12-26
PLOT TO KILL PERFORMERS.
Five Prohibitionists Marked for Death
 In Ohio.

East Liverpool, O., Dec. 25.--A des- perate plot to rid Hancock county, West Va, of the prohibition element was revealed here yesterday when John Johnston of Pittsburg, under arrest for assault, made confession to ex-Chief of Police Bonjour of Chester, just across from this city and in Hancock county. The latter is a part of the 'dry zone" of Ohio and West Virginia
 In his confession Johnston alleges that he and several others, including James Jones, a negro now in jail, were employed to kill Sheriff A. F. Wilkins of New Cumberland; Wasson Bailey, 2 prominent prohibitionist; ex-sheriff Allison, ex-Chief Bonjour and the Rev. J. W. Dunbar, well known minister. Tine man who employed them to do the work, he declares, was ]. A Hostetter an attorney of Chester, now in jail.
 Hostetter and Jcnes made an attack on the residence of Sheriff Wilkins who, with his son, resisted, and both the attorney and the negro were wounded and afterward arrested Johnston declares that he and Jones and another man were to be paid S100 each for the killing of each man.
 When Hancock county went "dry," {" Hostetter is alleged to have opened a chain of "speak-easies, where liquor was sold. The activity of the five men who were marked for death drove the "speak-easles' out of existence.
The morning journal-courier., 1907-12-26
RETURN OF HAYES
Talk Continues That Former Sergeant Seeks Reinstate-
 ment on Force.
REPORTED AS IN TOWN
Patrolmcn Said to Have Seen Him, But inc Ex-onicer Could not be
 Found Yesterday.

Ex-Police Sergeant Michael Hayes wants his job back He resigned from the police department October 10 aft CT serving twelve years, much of that time being at police headquarters.
 There is a movement among some of the police commissioners looking to his reinstatement as sergeant, but this cannot legally take place since ac- cording to decision of Corporation Counsel Leonard M Daggett, filed some time ago, resignation of a pub lie officer, once accepted by the prop CT authorities, must stand.
 In order for an ex-police officer to attain the position he was in when he resigned he must work his way up again from the ranks, according to the law governing such cases, providing his age does not initiate against him.
 Ex-Sergeant Hayes left New Haven early in July upon 8 western trip He was on his vacation, This vacation being prolonged more than two weeks allotted to him by the department, at first caused some comment in the de- partment. Later when a month or two passed without notification to his superiors that he desired to remain away, or excusing his absence from duty longer than the two weeks per- od, there was a big sensation in police circles. Word then came from Seat tie, Wash, that Hayes had thrown up his job, and would try life on ranch on the Pacific slope
 The resignation of Hayes came Oc- tober 10. The board of police com missioners went through the formality of accepting.
 For several days there have been stories in police circles that Hayes had already returned to New Haven. However, a reporter was unable to find him yesterday His wife lives at 162 Mill River street He is said to have been seen by several patrolmen on the streets of New Haven during the week
 He has, it is also stated, interested one of the police commissioners in his behalf, but the matter has never been brought up before the commission as a body. Strong influence is being brought to bear in certain quarter to secure his reinstatement, so 1t is said.
 When Chief CowIes was asked as to a reinstatement of Hayes he said he had heard some talk of that kind, but that he knew nothing of the matter further than this,
 The only way the ex-sergeant could come back to the force" said an officer yesterday, would perhaps be reinstatement, for now he is too old to become patrolman, and to work his way up, and as the law does not provide for a reinstatement in case of this nature, I do not see how Hayes is going to get there"
The morning journal-courier., 1907-12-26
MANY FACE JUDGE
City Court Session on Christ mas Day Has Twenty
 Seven to Act Upon.
MANY WERE THERE BEFORE
Boys Who Stole Harmonicas from Woolworth's Get Continuance
 to Saturday.

Judge A. McC. Mathewson was called to pass upon 27 cases in the city court yesterday forenoon. Most of these cases were of individuals who had ac- eumulated Christmas sprees the night before, and every one of them was penitent, and willing to swear that he would not repeat the indiscretion. One of the most aggravating of these cases was that of Katherine McCabe. She had no fixed place of abode She has promised the court frequently that she would mend her ways, but the court said it had almost lost faith in her. She pleaded with tears in her eyes for mercy. The sight of a big, strong woman weeping, in the court room of. fected some of the other defendants, and they cried, too.
 Judge Mathewson sentenced her tc serve 1SO days in jail, but suspended execution of sentence until next Tues day In the interim Katherine said that she would find fixed place of abode and will begin the New Year by forswearing the cup that flows.
 MT. and Mrs. Thomas F. Murley, who are no strangers at the county jail, and who live when not there in Liberty street, were up for breach of the peace and drunkenness. They had a fight in their home Christmas eve that attract ed the attention of the neighborhood. Murley was given 30 days and his wife 50. Murley has passed nearly the en- tire year in jail
 Antonio Galluccio and Luigi Nuzzio, the former of East street and the lat ter of Haven street, were convicted of carrying concealed weapons, and were given sentences of 50 days each in the county jail, from which conviction, through their counsel, Attorney Philip Pond, they appealed Judge Mathew- son in passing sentence said he thought that justiee would be well conserved in these cases if light sentences were inflicted, inasmuch as the culprits are young men. They had entered the sa- loon of Crisbio Cinicolla, 5S5 Grand avenue, Monday night, and in a spirit of braggadocio produced revolvers.
 William Johnson and Frank McCar- thy of Hallock street, aged 9 and II years respectively, who were arrested Christmas eve for stealing harmonicas and perfumery from the store of F.. W. Woolworth in Chapel street, had their cases continued. The boys were remanded into the custody of the Or ganized Charities, where they passed a rather doleful day. Their cases will come up again Saturday
 Benjamin A. Stono of Brewery street got into a fight with James Brown Christmas eve and was given SO days. in jail. Brown was fined
The morning journal-courier., 1907-12-26
LONG CRUISE ENDS
Voyage Made Tragic by Col lision, Mutiny and
 Death.
DROWNING OFF CAPE HORN
American Craft Out Nine Months on Trip from Baltimore to San
 Francisco.

San Francisco, Dec. 25,-rThe Amer lean ship Atlas dropped anchor here last night, 275 days out from Balti- more. It ended voyage made tragic by a collision off Cape Horn, attended by the sinking of another vessel, the drowning of the fated crafts captain and the captains wife, mutiny on It's decks ande death among it's crew.
 On June s at 6 p. m the Atlas struck the Norwegian bark Viking, Captain Peterson, bound from Ham burg to Callao. Both were badly damaged by the contact but the bark fared worse. In the terror of the night thirteen of the crew of the Norwegian bark boarded the American ship, crawling over tangled shrouds and dangling booms, but Captain Peterson and his wife were not among those who made the dangerous transit, but it was too dark to render aid, thought the Atlas stood by during. the night and next morning, the Viking had disappeared.
 The Atlas put into Rio de Janeiro M 4CPollS 4SdhlllB pdSliSt Oll lflG way to this port a mutiny took place among the crew over some trouble with the mate, but 1t was easily quelled
 Before the collision off Cape Horn, three of the ships company met death. On May 2S J. Schumacher and Charles Nolan seamen fell from the jibboom' and were drowned. On June 15 John Hook. sailmaker, died and was buried at sea When the ship arrived yester- day the captains son and the third of- ficer were i'll and the vessel was or dered into quarantine.
 The Atlas had cargo of coal for the United States government. The vessel had been 120 days from Rio de Janeiro and was overdue. Reinsur- ance had been ordered at 10 per cent.
 The Viking was new bark of 2,541 tons. Nothing has been heard of it after it began it's laat voyage until the Atlas brought in the tidings last night.
The morning journal-courier., 1907-12-26
BURNED AFTER MASS
Young New York Woman May Die
 from Accident.


 New York, Dec. 25.--Mrs. Margaret Higgins was probably fatally burned by flames from an oil stove heater in her apartments, at No. 499 Greene ave- nue, Brooklyn, to-day.
 Miss Higgins and her daughter. Miss Rita, had been to an early Christmas mass in St Ambrosia's church, and af- ter returning to their home the young woman retired to her bedroom to rest pelore dressing for the day. Mrs. Hig- glns lighted an oil stove and placed it m the bedroom occupied by her hus- oand, who is employed at night and whom she soon expected home from work. The stove was to heat his room As she placed it on the floor the top Tell off and the flames leaped up and set fire to her skirts.
 Mrs. Higgins ran through the other rooms screaming and aroused her daughter. Two young men came down stairs from another apartment, and, With Mss Higgins, they wrapped blan- kets about her mother and smothered the flames,
 The ambulance which responded with the fire department to the alarm which was sent in took Mrs. Higgins to the hospital. The fire in the room caught the lace curtains and spread to a wall It caused about $2O0 damage.
The morning journal-courier., 1907-12-26
SEATS FOR TRIAL New Britain Attorneys Asked by Clients to Get Them
 for Walker Case.
SOME REGRET HIS CAPTURE
Under Current of Opinion in Favor of Prisoner-sIinister Condemns
 Caricatures of Man.

Reserved seats for the preliminary trial of William F Walker the ab- sconder, when it comes up in the New Britain police court, are now in de- n1and, says a New Britain dispatch. Attorneys of the city have been so- licited by clients to obtain room for them in the court room on the morn Ing when the great embezzler comes Into court for a hearing. The court and police officials have not got so far as to make any arrangements for the occasion The space in the court room is very limited and only about 100, including the court officials and all, can be accommodated.
 After the hearing of the court in this city, in the event of probable cause being found, Walker will be bound over to the Hartford county superior court No doubt large bond will be fixed, if it is decided to admit him to bail. Whether Walker can get anyone to go his surety is question. lfpSC NllO ill+SllL SO OI HIS DOIlQ DG- lieved that he was dead and had hoped it was so,
 Judge Gager will sit at the next ses- sion of the superior court in March and before him Walker will be tried
 Strong opinions of satisfaction over the capture of Walker have been heard and strong expressions to the contrary have also dropped out Those who have savings in the bank are gratifed to think that the man is like ly to get his just deserts. There is an- other class that regrets the capture of Walker.
 Rev, H. I Bodley spoke in criticism of Walker caricatures at the services Sunday morning According to one of <Se auditors, if the artists heard the sermon, they would feel like going out and committing suicide.
 The Rev. MT. Bodley rebuked the press not only of New Britain but of nearby cities for it's method of handling views of the Walker affair. In substance the press seemed to take an unsympathetic attitude of the case It seemed to find humor in the situa- tion and gloated over the capture and seemingly had no regard for Walkers family or friends.
The morning journal-courier., 1907-12-26
FATAL QUARREL OVER DOGS.
Man Killed Animals and When Owner
 demonstrated Killed Her.

Little Rock, Ark, Dec 25.-A spe- cial from Conway, Ark, says: Mrs. Emma Hearness, a widow, was shot and killed last evening by James Hall, after a quarrel over two dogs which Hall had killed Mrs. Hearness' son was wounded by two shots from Halls revolver. Hall had killed two dogs belonging to Mrs. Hearness and had refused to pay for them. She accom- panied her son to Halls home, and he met her at the door with a revolver in his hand. He cursed her, it is al legged, and as she started to run he shot and killed her, and wounded her son, and it Is thought that he will not recover, Sheriff William Brady and a posse is securing the country for Hall, who has escaped. Hall is armed and a desperate fight is expected be- fore he is captured
The morning journal-courier., 1907-12-26
PATCHED SOLE THE CHEW.
Leads to Arrest of Greenwich Farmer
 for Stealing $50 Hens.

Greenwich, Dec. 25.-When John Vol gase a farmer, living near Greenwich, was arraigped in the local police court before a justice of the peace, charged with chicken stealing, all of the town was present and listened with wonder at tale of deduction told by Sheriff William E. Ritch which had resulted in the prisoners capture.
 The chickens stolen were not of the common variety, but members of a royal lineaged, multi-pedigreed tribe of fowl, and had been purchased at the poultry show in Madison Square Gar den last week by Charles A. Moore and cost $5 each, making $50 for a half dozen. MT. Moore took them home to show with pride to the other fanciers in the locality
 Realizing that the hens were not used to an ordinary chicken house a hygienic and up to date poultry house was built for them, but the chickens remained only two days, when MT. Moore went to show them to a friend the aristocratic fowl were gone.
 ShellH Rlt6h was notified, and half an hour after ha had arrived at Vol gases farm house told him that he must go with him.
 Tt is not hard for a real born de- tective to find such as you," said the sheriff, for the moment saw your footprints I saw a large patch on the sole put on by some amateur. and knowing only one man in Fairfield county who was so stingy that he was likely to patch his own shoes I felt certain the trail led in your direction. The patch was easy to follow anyway. and it leads to your very gate and to this block where you beheaded six chickens, for there is the spot where you stood when you swung the hatchet. After killing them you removed the feathers back of the woodpile and took the dry picked bodies to the cellar
The morning journal-courier., 1907-12-26
HIS LIPS SEALED
Canadian Minister Silent on Immigration Negotiations
 With Japan.
IGNORED U. S, AMBASSADOR
Evidently Preferred Not to Discuss Details of His Mission With
 Mir. O'Brien.

Tokio, Dec. 25,-Rodolphe Lemieux, Canadian minister of labor who con cluded his negotiations with the Japan ese government regarding the regula- tion of immigration to Canada, said to the Associated Press:
 My lips are sealed on the subject. Any statement I have to make belongs first to the Dominion government. My mission will be completed only after my return to Ottawa My colleagues there will be in position to fully dis cuss and consider the whole question in its various phases. I have every reason to believe that solution of the difficulty will soon be reached and am pleased to say that my negotia- tions with the Japanese foreign office were conducted in the friendliest spirit.
 T return with nothing but the most pleasant recollections.
 The Associated Press is in a, position to state that the situation is identical with its previous forecast. MT. Le- mieux and Sir Claude M. Macdonald, the British ambassador, fully agreed with the terms of the memorandum whe~aunder the Japanese government outlines it's plans for the future con- trol of immigration, the announcement of which will probably be made when a similar arrangement Is outlined t3 Mr. Thomas J. O'Brien, the American ambassador, with whom it is und r. stood has submitted a number of sug- gestions from the American govern ment for the consideration of the for eign office. The suggestions, it is be- lieved, largely served to guide the ar rangement submitted to Canada through MT. Lemieux, and there is req son to believe that the Japanese gov ernment will soon submit to Ambassa- dor O'Brien the details of the plans to control immigration to America, which practically amounts to the pre- vention of all labor immigration,
 The attitude of MT, Lemieux toward the ambassador has caused much com ment in diplomatic circles Lemieux entirely ignored the American embassy ard evidently preferred not to discuss the matter with Ambassador O'Brien. It is understood that the foreign min- ister, Viscount Hayashi, throughout the conferences with Lemieux, copss- tently declined to sacrifice any treaty rights or to set any limit on the num- Der of Japanese which will be permit ted to land in Canaad monthly.
 Minister Lemineux and party will said for home on the Empress of China tomorrow, December 2S, the Canfdian government having instructed him to report at the earliest possible moment,