The Nevada County picayune. (Prescott, Ark.) 190?-current, 1909-04-01
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.


night announced that reward OF s100
would be paid for the apprehension
and conviction of each person guilty
of sowing tobacco plant beds with
bluegrass or weed seed. He calls par
ticuiar attention to this having been
done In Caldwell and Christian coun-
ties.
After having been kidnapped from
Montreal twenty-five years ago, Mrs
Jason Warner was found by the South
Chicago police Thursday. She SAID
she had ben stolen when she was five
years old. and was taken to a farm.
Recently Mrs. Warner appealed to the
Canadian police, who found her family
in Montreal.
Health conditions on the Panama
canal zone in 1908 were more favor
able than at any time since the Amer
lean occupation. according to report
made by Chief Sanitary Officer Gorgas
OF the isthmian canal commission.
With 1880 employees, there were but
ST. deaths, or 1901 per thousand the
black death rate was less than the
white death rate.
Owing to a desire to obtain larger
dirigtbIe balloon than was at first pro-
posed the Aerial Navigation CO. Will
not put a dirigible in service between
Boston and New York next summer
II has been decided to construct
large ariship, but it will be Impossible
to have 1t ready for service before
1910.
The dispute over the remains OF
two men who died in tie powder mill
explosion at Waiiace, Idaho. last week,
has been settled by placing portions
of the rep.ains in two caskets. Each
widow takes one. Mrs. Pineo sends
her casket to Seattle for burial and
Mrs. Skalberg sends one to Los An
geles.
Just as Theodore Roosevelt sailed
from New York for Africa Tuesday,
one of his comrades at San Juan Hill
Major b. H. Brown, died of apoplexy
at the dinner table at Fort Thomas,
Ky.
Hetty Green's future home will be
in Bellows Falls, VT. Hoboken is too
slow for her, she said, and announced
that after a visit to Washington she
would go to her new home.
President Johnson of the Ameri-
can league announced that he has
taken steps to prevent the Detroit
and Washington teams from playing
preseason games in Texas, as 1t is
contrary to the constitution OF the
league. Detroit and Washington
have played two games at San An
tonic.
It is reported that the Mexican
gunboat Gurrero which has just ar
rived at the port of Salina Cruz. after
successfully completing the long
journey from England. win proceed
shortly to Central American waters.
Samuel r. Schultz, broker, for
mer director of the open Board of
Trade at Chicago. attempted to com
nit suicide Monday night. Recent
losses in wheat is given as the cause
of his dependency.
Arguments on demurers We're heard
in the United States court at Mus
kogee. Okla, in the government land
suits brought to clear the titles TO
Indian lands Thirty thousand peo-.
pie in eastern Oklahoma have been
made defendants. Attorney General
Russell appeared for the government
and committee of lawyers represent
ed the defendants.
1t is reported that twelve hundred
arrests have been made at Jellalabad,
Afghanistan, in connection with the
plot recently discovered 10 murder
the ameer, the heir-apparent and the
other members of the roya! family.
According to adyiees, patches of
prisoners are being blown from guns
daily.
Count de Lambert and NJ. Tissan-
diere, who were pupils of Wilbur
Wright, won their spurs Wednesday
by gaining the Aero clubs prize,
awarded to every aviator making a
fight Of more than $50 metres, AT
Pau. France.
In view of the assertions made in
the British house of commons that
Germany in the spring of 1912 would
have IL warships, all of them OF the
big-gun type, the German navy de-
partment authorizes the statement
that in the autumn OF 1872 Germany
will have thirteen such vessels.
After two weeks Of hard fighting
with snow and mud and storms an
automobile party from Denver reached
Chicago Wednesday. In the party
were G.. w. Smithson and o. S. An
derson OF South Bend, Ind, and II. b..
Eubaaks of Denver.
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