The silver state. [volume] (Unionville, Nev.) 1870-1903, 1880-09-10
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TELEGRAPHIC ITEMS.

Inc tinclnnaJr enquirer mas TINS
from Washington: One of the-expedie
ents hit upon by the Republican Com
gressienal Committee to influence senti-
ment is quite unique. A number of
Southern Republicans have been de-
tailed to go to Indiana, avoiding all
cities, but to give the agricultural
classes the impression that they desire
to buy farms. They are, directed to be
favorably impressed with the land, and
with a desire to locate in the State.
They are TO agree to buy farms contin-
gent upon Hancock's election, and the
payment they then expect to receive
for cotton and other war claims. The
end sought is to impress the farmers
with the belief that if the Democrats
elect their candidate the payment Of
war claims is to follow as a necessary
sequence.
Salt Lake was startled, On the Sth,
by the report of shooting affray at
the Utah Southern depot, between Capt
r. L. Smith and DIR. B. c. Snedaker,
the former prominent mining man and
the latter well-known physician.
Meeting in a car bound south, Snedaker
shot Smith, who fell in the aisle appa-
rently dead, the ball entering his side
and penetrating the. stomach. Officers
seized Snedaker and were taking him
away, when Smith got upon his knees
and fired twice into the back of the
doctor, killing him instantly, There
was a woman III the affair, and rumor is
rife. Smiths friends say the doctor
seduced his afflanced, and the former
threatened to kill him. ON sight unless
he left the city, and, to avoid trouble,
it. is' said, the doctor was leaving the
city on the Sth till the affair blew over,
when the two met with the above result.
A Chicago reporter interviewed
George c. Gorham at the Headquarters
Of the Western Division of the National
Republican Committee in this city.
He stated that he had just returned
from a stumping tour in, Maine, and
predicted good Republican majority
there at the next election, and gain of
one or two Congressman. He left to-
day for Indiana, to aid in the contest
there. He will start from Chicago for
California on October Sd.
The ChicagoaTimes says that promi-
nent Democrats of Chicago declared
that they have excellent reasons for be-
lieving that negroes are coming here
from the South in large numbers and
being distributed by the Republicans
to points in Indiana where they will do
the party most good. The Indiana
Democratic Committee has been notified
of the facts.
Some additional railroad traffic re-
turns are at hand, and, like those pre-
viously reported, show large gains over
last year. The Central Pacific gains
S32S, 600 for the month of August, and
Sl,279, 600 for tho first eight months of
the year. The Union Pacific ~ earnings
increased $525,OOO for August the
Michigan Central 1915, 00Oy and the
Texas Pacific Sal, 600
JimrRobinson, .City Marshal of Water
Valley, Miss, was shot and instantly
killed by John~Adams, conductor on
the Chicago, Sc: Louis and New Orleans
Railroad. The difficulty was about a
cow. 1t is stated that Robinson was
the aggressor, and endeavoreds to whip
Adams, who drew,apistol and used it
in self-defence.
The match between Ulysses. Grant,
Jr., and Miss Jennie Flood is said to- be
broken off,. One explanation is that the