The Nevada County picayune. (Prescott, Ark.) 190?-current, 1909-05-06
NEWS OF THE WEEK
LATEST NEWS OF THE WORLD
TERSELY TOLD.
NORTH, EAST, SOUTH AND WEST
Notes From Foreign Lands, Through
out the Nation, and Particularly
The Great Southwest.

chancellor ana principal OF ApeI uE'H
(Scotland) university, died Sunday
He was born in 1884 and was noted
writer and lecturer.
Rear Admiral Hedworth Lambton
commander of the English squadron
anchored in Yokohama harbor was
granted an audience with the emperor
Monday
Promptly at midnight Friday night
the government of Saskatchewan
province took over the entire tele-
phone system in that province recent
ly purchased from the Bell Telephone
company, and now the Bells are cut
of the vast tract from the great lakes
to the Pacific. Manitoba and Alberta
already had taken over the systems
in their borders.
After DIR. F. w. Page of Waverly
Mass, an alienist, had declared that
Chester S. Jordan, on trial for the
murder of his wife, was incurably III
and could not survive three years
the defense attempted Friday to nave
a record breaking hypothetical ques-
ton of 81 900 words introduced. Inc
court decided that the question was
really a review of the evidence.
New York City finds itself facing
problem in carrying out its agreement
with Andrew Carnegie TO provide sites
for seventy-eight public libraries for
which the ironmaster appropriated
s5.00O,0O0. SO far the city has ac-
quired only fifty-ive sites and VIII
have to acquire twenty-three more.
Antonio Cipollo was hanged at Fol
som prison. California, Friday for the
murder on March of last year OF
Joseph Priano. Cipollo and com
panion enticed Priano up the Sacra-
mento river, stabbed him and threw
him into the water after robbing him.
Chas W. Fairbanks, former vice
president. concluded through agents
Thursday a deal for the purchase oil
$4,000 residence in one of the fash-
zfonable districts of Pasadena. II Is
said he will make this his future
home.
7, w Bingham, of Cleveland, prl-
vate detective. was shot and probably
fatally injured by his wife THURSDAY
afternoon. After telephoning the po-
lice to come, the woman ana AeF
daughter ate ice cream.
Contracts have been awarded os
the isthmian canal commission APP
proximating in value s1,00O,ooo LOT
supplies of various kinds to be DEW
cred during the fiscal year 1910.
The Wisconsin house "wednesday
killed the Stou woman suffrage DIN
nv a vote of SO to a. Since the DlIl
passed the senate four weeks ago ths
women of the organization ola every
thing within their power TO lhluehee
assemblymen in favor OF IT,
Eugene Pearson, chief clerk or the
Tinted States army transport service
in San Francisco was arrested
Wednesday on charge OF having EN-
bezzled s1.145. Pearson's BOOKS are
said to have shown several apparent
shortages. .s
The French government has award
ed a frst-class life savers medai 70
John r. Binns. for courage displaSea
whom the White Star steamer RepuO-
liz was run down by the steamship
EYorida off Nantucket last January
BInns was the Marconi operator Oh
board the Republic.
William Z. Johnson, OF SAT- Lake
Utah. special Indian agent VINO mas
been investigating the source OF sup
nly of what is known as the Peyo'e
bean. which has been sold TO the IN
dians. condemned the supply OF beans
and bought them for the governments,
paying $3.50 per thousand.
chester NJ. Hamsher, in the federal
court at Kansas City, pleaded guilty
10 a charge of signing his wife's name
IN love letters which he wrote to Nei!
Johnson. a wealthy man OF Atchison,
Kas and he was sentenced to a year
in jail.
chief Inspector Cochran or the Den
yer postoffice announced Wednesday
that a mail pouch containing - regis
tered packages had been lost from
Union Pacific train between Green
River and Bryan, Wyo., Sunday night,
Governor Shafroth OF Colorado
Tuesday signed the campaign ex-
penses bill passed by the recent legls-
lature. and the unique measure be
comes a law in ninety days. The bill
nroyides that the state shall contrib
nte for campaign expenses every two
wears. % cents for each vote cast al
the preceding general election
Frank Randall, former building
commissioner of st. Louis, charged
with Offering brides to members Of
the Oklahoma City school board was
arrested Monday night on his return
from Mexico.
mass meeting of 1000 cltlzeh'
decided that Goldheld should oifer $5o'
600 for a fight between Jack johnson
and James j. Jefferies, to take place