The Nevada County picayune. (Prescott, Ark.) 190?-current, 1908-05-14
NEWS BREVITIES

CONSERVATION reigns among more
than a score of women we'll known in
society circles of Clinton and De-
catur. H. as the result of rumor
that attorneys for Richard Smell,
disinherited son of the aged million
aire. Col. Thomas Smell, who is fight
ing his fathers will for share of
the 100000 estate, have unearthed
a host of letters written by women to
the old man, through which they
preyed upon his senile love mania to
wheedle him out of large sums of
money.
A ban has been placed against rats
and mice on the Panama canal zone
in efforts to prevent bubonic plague
from gaining a foothold there.
Armed with an ak, murderers slew
Juan Valdez, ranchman living at
Cabezen, \. NJ, in fiendish manner.
the victims head being severed
from his body as he lay asleep in
bed with his two children.
sas university are stealing all the
cats they can find loose in the town
for dissection in the zoology classes,
residents of Lawrence have applied to
the statae authorities at Topeka for
assistance. They demand that the
state furnish the cats to the univer-
sity, and that cats be sent to the
school that are not family pets and
are not valuable.
On charges that he kidnapped five
Kickapoo Indians from an Arizona
reservation, in order to keep them
away from a tribal conference, called
for deciding how to divide $215,000 ap-
propriated to the Indians by congress,
Mark Goode agent of the department
Of the interior, has been suspended
from the government service, pending
an investigation.
Unostentatiously and without I'M
usual ceremony Rear Admiral Robley
d. Evans relinquished command of
the Atlantic feet to Rear Admiral
Charles M. Thomas. His flag at the
mast head of the Connecticut was
hauled down with a salute of 10 guns.
Announcement was made by the
COMO, that Auxiliary Bishop Muldoon
of Chicago has been recommended
for appointment as bishop of the Rock
ford Qll) diocese. Bishop Muldoon's
name has been sent to Rome, but
the pope has not yet made the APP
pointment.
The reforestation of Ireland on
vast scale is the latest official prof.
ect A commission was recently APP.
pointed which has recommended that
the area of Ireland under forest
should be raised from 100000 acres,
the present figures to 100000 acres,
In doing an act of human kindness,
Wilmer Sandt violated the state game
laws unconsciously and was arrested
by Deputy Game Warden Acker of AL
lentown. Sandt was picking stones
from a field at Freemansburg, when
he uncovered a nest of three rabbits
Fearing that they might be harmed
he took them home. The arrest fol-
lowed, and Sandt was fined $3S.25.
Prince Philip Zu Gutenberg, former
favorite of Kaiser William and an
alleged member of the notorious
knights of the Round Table" was
arrested on the perjury charge against
him growing out of his testimony at
the trial of Editor Harden.
War has been declared against east
ern railroads by commercial and man
ufacturing interests of cities extend
ing from the Mississippi river to
Maine, and preliminary steps toward
a gigantic fight against the proposed
freight rate advance have been taken.
An advance in freight in freight
rates on the leading railway systems
east of the Mississippi river was rec
commended by the presidents of all the
big eastern railroads at conference
in the offices of the Trunk Line asso-
citation.
Twenty members of the council of
diocese of Texas We're poisoned by
the luncheon served by the women
of Christ church at the parish house
in Houston, and for time several
were in a dangerous condition.
One man was killed and four in
jured in an explosion which wrecked
the 100000 plant of the Western
Glucose Co. at Hammond, Ind II is
feared other victims are in the ruins
of the plant.
Babe" Farris lying at the point of
death from gunshot wounds, and Ed
Carr in Jail charged with the shoot
ing is the result of fight over a d
vidng fence near Lake Prairie, Mo.