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The daily silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1903-1907, 1903-05-19
LEOPOLD'S AWFUL DOINGS
Cruelty to Natives of Congo
Free State Due to Him

NEW YORK, May 1S-The Rever-
end William M. Morrison of Lexing-
ton, Va. member of the American
Presbyterian Mission, who has been
in the Congo Free State for the last
six years. reached New York yesterday
on the Cunard steamship Etruria. He
is on his way to Washington, where
he will present to President Roose-
welt and the State department a care
fully prepared report which deals
with the system of forced labor. am
ounting to the worst kind of slavery
practiced by the Belgians upon the
native blacks. Mr.. Morrison says
the cruelties dealt out to the native
women and children are horrible.
Those who rebel against slavery are
manned. The fiendisn soldiers of
King Leopold often amputate their
hands. This favorlIe form of punish
ment has become so general that
handless men and women may be
seen in the villages at all times.
Whipping is resorted to upon the
slightest provocation. The victim is
subjected to fifty lashes in the morn
in and fifty at night. Next morning
his back, raw from the previous day.
whipping, is lashed another fifty
times. No medical attention is per-
mitted and the unfortunate is put back
to work and expected to do his full
share.
Slave raids are frequent. The SOL
diers pounce upon a village in the
dead of the night and drag the natives
from their homes. Families are sepa-
rated never to meet again. Fathers
are torn from their little children and
pressed into the slave service. Young
girls can be purchased for ten pieces
of white ducking, eight yeards each
in length, costing $40,
Mr.. Morrison holds King Leopold
personally responsible for this condi-
ton in the Congo Free State. He says
Leopold has become the largest in
dividual rubber merchant in the world
and has almost monopoly of the
rubber output.
The daily silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1903-1907, 1903-05-19
MINES IN
SEARCHLIGHT
Prominence Given to Various
Rich Properties in the Great
Basin Region
HAVE ATTRACTED ATTENTION
Interesting Wr te--up in the
Last Issue of the Minninq
and Scientific

One Of the mining districts of the
Great Basin region to attract atten-
ton the last few years is Searchlight.
in the southeast corner of the State of
Nevada The district is near the Colo
RADIO river and also near the California
State line. 1t is in the line of the
mineral belt extending northwesterly
through western Arizona from Stock
ton Hill, Mineral Park, Chloride and
Gold Roads. This mineral belt is wide
and comprises mines of gold, s.ver,
produced millions of dollars in prec-
icus metals and is destined to produce
many millions more. The Gold
Roads camp is near the Colorado river,
on the Arizona side.
The Gold Roads mines were dis
covered but few years ago and have
extent and value. This section of
Arizona, though in a desert, miles
from available running water, has
nevertheless produced ores of such
a grade that each of the several camps
has been enabled to establish itseI
without the aid of outside capital,
some of the ores being of shipping
grade The more extensive and deeper
development of the mines has resulted
in the building of concentrating and
other mills in these districts and the
placing of the industry on more sub
stantial basis. Most Of the mines in
depth have found water in their lower
| .evels. and this has simplified the eco
nomic problem somewhat. Although
scme of these districts in northwest
ern Arizona have been known and
worked for years, the frequent re-
port of new strikes show that the
| full extent and value of the mineral
belt has not been fully determined as
yet. The veins occur in old crystal
line rocks, some of them metamor-
phic, others igneous, and the variety
OF ore covers almost everything in
the way of sulphides, the principal
ores of Stockton Hill. Crebat and Min
eral Park. The ores at the surface at
chloride of silver, sulphides coming in
chliride of silver. sulphides coming in
in depth. At Gold Roads the veins
are assures filed with quartz and
spar, with gold values.
At Searchlight the Quartette, Good
Hope. Rambler and Searchlight are
among the important properties. The
formation in which the veins occur
is porphyry. The hills are low and
rolling. The local mineral belt is
about one-half mile wide. The QUAR-
tette Co. built it's first mill on the
Colorado river, Is miles distant, and
| then built a narrow guage railroad
| II miles in lenght, connecting mine
and mill. Since that date water mas
been developed at the mine and
second mill built at the mine.
The daily silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1903-1907, 1903-05-19
HORRORS OF
BARBARISM
Cruelty and Brutality of Rus
Toward Undrmed Jews
Past Belief

Here is the personal narrative of
woman who witnessed the atroc-
tiles by the Russians upon the resi-
dents of Kishinef. Mrs. Rebecca
Schwartz, who is now in the desolat-
ed district, has written the follow
in letter to her son Morris Schwartz,
a resident of San Francisco.
"On the 9th day of February there
was terrible insurrection against
the Jews. 1t was both the Russian
and the Jewish Easter Sunday. Be-
tween 6 and Z o'clock in the evening
of that day about two thousand peo-
pie ran riot, king the people and
destroying everything in sight. The
Russians claim as for the cause of
the riot that the Jews kill Christian
children and drink their blood ON
their Easter Sunday although you
know such is not the case, and for
that reason incensed the people into
the attack on the evening of Easter.
Houses were entered, the occu-
pants slain and then thrown into the
streets and the furniture broken and
sometimes used as weapons for the
brutal numbering. All things of value
were appropriated and the Jewish peo
pie were fleeing in all directions for
their lives. Little children were lit
orally torn to pieces by the barbarous
mob. Later in the evening the riot
ceased for a while, but at 5 o'clock
the next morning, Monday, the 7th of
February, two thousand people march
ed through the main streets and killed
and desolated and the police did not
say one word or try in any way to
quell the robbing and numbering,
and just let things take their course,
They were in sympathy with the Rus
slams, and though they did not par
ticipate in the trouble themselves that
| know of, they plainly showed that
they approved all that was done.
This scene lasted during the whole
day of Monday. F'ifty-four men and
seven women were killed, two chill
dren torn to pieces, two little girls
brutally murdered by a couple of
Russian brutes, and 500 people badly
wounded and taken away to hospitals
and some left to look out for their
own wants
The daily silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1903-1907, 1903-05-19
A BIG STRIKE.

Tube Conners, Max Arnhold. George
Hubbard and Cash House. have made
big strike of rich ore in their mine.
which is located at the south end of
the Ruby range. between the Train
OF place and the Overland road. They
have a four-foot ledge of high-grade
lead and galena ore and have about
two carloads now ready for shipment.
Teams will soon commence hauling
this to Elko. from which point 1t will
be sent to smelter.
The find is a most important one.
and the boys feel highly elated. The
property is being opened out in first
class shape and bids fair TO be ever
lasting producer.-Free Press.
The daily silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1903-1907, 1903-05-19
Chinese Battle Flag

Among the decorations Of the U. s
Mint, swung at the north corner OF
the square will be a Chinese battle
flag captured on the Tartar wall at
Pekin, China, on July 8. 1900, by Her.
bert Kehm. one Of the American Le-
alton defenders. a marine guard from
the Battleship Oregon, says the Car
son News.
The flag was purchased by l.. II.
Rogers, the present owner, a resident
of Carson. from Mr. Kehm as soon as
the Oregon reached San Francisco af-
ter her memorable voyage around the
world.
The characters in the center of the
flag spell ''Lu'-for General Lu, com
mander of the Northern forces of
China, from whom the flag was cap
tured in actual battle. Captain John
T. Myers, commanding the allied
forces on the wall at that time.
Five similar flags were captured in
this battle, all but two were destroy
ed; one OF these was secured by Sir
Claude Mcdonald. commander of the
allied forces at Pekin, and presented
b. him to the British Museum. while
the other was secured for Kehm by
Capt John T. Myers. and now owned
by Mr. Rogers.
This is the first time the flag has
ever been unfurled on American soil.
The daily silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1903-1907, 1903-05-19

the news in fair. impartial manner.
II surely gives value received.
j. o. Westrope has Just returned
from an extended visit to Oroyille
Cal, and reports having had an ex-
cellent time.
DIR. Samuels is enjoying a visit from
his old preceptor and friend, DR.. o.
P. Graham, of Jeffersonville. Ind,
who stopped off last night on his way
west.
The river fell Just an inch between
3 p. m. yesterday and the same hour
today, but for the reasons given in
yesterdays Silver State, it is expected
to raise shortly.
Mr.. and Mrs. John Blattner and
child, from Weiser, Idaho, are stay
ing at the Winnemucca. They for
merly resided in Paradise Valley, and
Mr.. Blattner is here on business.
A. Spangenberg, who owned a ranch
in the vicinity of STEMS mountain,
has sold all his property to Miller &
Lux, and left on No. this after
noon for his old home in Pennsyl-
vania.
Mrs. Jos. Pedro of San Francisco
came in last night and was met here
by her husband, the well known sheep
man of Denio. They will leave for
DEMO by private conveyance tomor-
row morning. Mr.. Pedro purchased
a big bill of goods while here, which
will also go out tomorrow.
j. p. Harvey of Paradise, accom-
panied by his sister, Mrs. Hamm,
came in this afternoon. Mrs. Hamm
who lives in Spokane, has been visit
ing in Paradise for the past three
months, and came in to take the train
this evening to return to Spokane.
Mr.. Harvey will accompany her as
far as Reno. where he will be engag-
ed with business matters for a day
or two.
ID. NJ. Tomblin, of San Francisco,
secretary of the Kiora Mining COM
pany, operating two of Humboldt
county's mines, one at Kennedy and
the other at Alpine, came in last
night and left on this morning
stage for Kennedy. He is accom-
panied on the trip of inspection by
NJ. j. Smith, an expert assayer, who
is equipped with complete portable
assay outfit. and will make tests OF
the ore from both mines. They will
spend ten days at the Kennedy prop
erty, and then go to Alpine for about
the same length of time.
The daily silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1903-1907, 1903-05-19
JUDGE BonnifieId improving

The Silver State records with great
pleasure the steady improvement in
the condition of Judge. S. j. Bonni-
field. who was injured recently. He
is still quite sore and finds 1t diffi-
cult to get into comfortable posi-
ton, but nevertheless announces that
he intends to be up and around at
home within the next week.
The judges has long been famil-
lar figure about the town, and his
appearance again will be noted with
delight by his many friends. Com
plete recovery and the eradication OF
the effects of the accident will not be
attained for some little time. but ne
will be able to be down town. IT ls
hoped. within a few days.
The daily silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1903-1907, 1903-05-19
An HOnOred Relic

The Carson News says that on be-
half of the few remaining members OF
the Society of Pacific Coast Pioneers,
President Alf. Doten this day present
ed to the State of Nevada through
Governor Sparks, at his office in the
Capitol building. the old flag of the
society. This flag will adorn the broad
table or desk of the President at his
speaking tomorrow, with the inscrip-
lion Flag of the Pacific Coast Pion-
GERS" lettered across it. Among the
many pioneer relics of the Pacific
Coast shown to our President this
comes very appropriate in Nevada.
In it's most fiourishing times the So
ciety registered a membership of 5oo
including the names of U. S. Grant,
Col. Fremont Sharon, Stewart, Jones,
and many other prominent pioneers,
but death and time have scattered
the roll till there is no quorum pres
ent. They presented their great cab
met, worth $4,000, to the state niteeh
years ago, subsequently giving away
their hall, cemetery and other prop
erty, and now the Old Boys last OF
all surrender their flag. 1t is OF the
true blue American style, twelve by
eighteen feet in size, and was pre-
sented to the Society by Hon. Thos. b.
Hickey many years ago. 1t is yet in
A good state of preservation, and proud
10 do honor to the State.
The daily silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1903-1907, 1903-05-19

FRED Pearce. the well known and
popular stage driver on the Kennedy
line. who has been laid up in Winnie
mucca for week with a severe at
tack of tonsilitis. has about fully re-
covered and was able to leave ON
This mornings stage for Kennedy. He
will spend a week or ten days on
his brothers ranch before trying to
handle the ribbons again however.
The daily silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1903-1907, 1903-05-19
Late News Notes Gathered
From Many Places in
Nevada
ABOUT WELL KNOWN PEOPLE
Accidents and Incidents Told In
Our Exchanses--Notes on
the States Growth.

A Degree of Honor lodge is to be
organized at Bodie this week.
The grand lodge of Nevada, A. o.
l. W., is in session in Carson.
Balloting for the queen of the car
nival has begun in Virginia City.
Two Gardneryille saloons were rob-
| bed of some coin and whisky last
week
A gale wrought havoc with deco
rations in Carson for the Presidents
visit.
Richard P. Quinn, a Comstock rails
ed boy was elected Mayor of Watson
vile, Calf, last Monday.
The cold weather of the past week
has killed a good deal of the fruit in
this section.-Elko Independent.
Charles Robinson. a coIored man
who stole meat in Reno. has been SEN
fenced to ten years Imprisonment in
the state prison
The Chinaman who attacked Sheriff
Newlan in the Jail at Ely, White Pine
county, last week. died from injuries
received in the mixup.
A. w. Van Wagner, injured by an
electric shock at Reno, had his right
arm amputated above the elbow and
eft hand little finger cut off in San
Francisco last week.
Leo. Beckert of this city, who re-
Gently enlisted in the navy, has been
assigned to duty on the Marblehead
and will sail for South America this
week for years cruise-Virginia
Chronicle.
At Carson tomorrow, President
Roosevelt will be conveyed from the
depot to the capitol in the old Tuffly
barouche, one of the finest and most
costly carriages ever brought to Ne
vada. President Grant rode in the
same carriage when he made his trip
around the world.
The Austin Reveille is blowing
about an orange tree in that town
which produced three oranges this
year. Pshaw! Recorder Atchison has
ar orange tree which has been a
steady producer for four years, and at
present it is loaded with luscious fruit.
Hawthorne Bulletin.
The relay race between Gardner
vile and Carson City Tuesday after
noon will be the first event of the
kind this season. The boys nave
trained faithfully and will put up a
strong race. The course is fifty miles,
ten men on each side, and twenty-five
cents admission.-News.
handsome lot of gold was brought
in from Smith Valley today and for
time was displayed in the Golden
Jewel.y Store. Ii was of about the
shape and size of a common saucer
and weighed justly thirty ounces, and
therefore is worth between $500 and
5000 1t represented the result of
working five tons of ore from the
Yankee Girl mine in Smith Valley.
The mine is the property of a well
known prospector named Grey. who
has been in this section a half CEN
tury No. particulars are known about
the discovery, but it certainly looks
good, and 800 ore is good enough for
Tonopah even.-Carson News.
The daily silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1903-1907, 1903-05-19
PACIFIC COAST LEAGUE.

The attempt made by the officials
of the Connecticut railway at Bridge
port to run their cars with non-union
men resulted in a riot, in which thir-
ty-two men were injured. The sheriff
says that another such outbreak as
occurred yesterday will make the call
ing out of the state troops inevitable.
The daily silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1903-1907, 1903-05-19

of affairs. Macrum's assassins are
known to many persons, but no one
dares tell the names of those concern
ed in killing the man.
The daily silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1903-1907, 1903-05-19

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All grades of linoleum. including the
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IF you NEED JOB UORE

Don't forget that the SILVER STATE Office
Is Thoroughly Equipped for all kinds of work
In this line; New Material. Best Stock. Com
petent, Up-to-Date Workmen.
Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1903-10-17
A troublesome Ant.

In the state Of Colombia there Is o
large ant (Atta cephaloteO which
causes a great deal Of injury to plan
tations. 1t attacks and carries on In
discriminatory all kinds Of foliage, and
no sort Of vegetation seems to come
amiss to It, The quantity Of foliage
carried off by these ants Is immense.
A naturalist recently investigated the
uses to which the ants put this mass
OF vegetable matter, and he ascertain
ed that they employ 1t to make hot
beds, upon which their eggs are depos-
tied to be hatched by the heat produced
blythe fermentation Of the leaves. The
ants do not eat these portions for food,
and the larvae are fed upon carefully
selected diet. Once the brood Is hatch
ed. the ants clear away the hotbed, car
rying out of their nest all the decom-
posed vegetable matter. This Is thrown
out in heaps apart, and in the large ant
hills these heaps will contain bushels
and upward.
Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1903-10-17
Hard to Find.

The bishop of-never mind where
being a newcomer and being somewhat
troubled with a neglected diocese,
thought to inspire his clergy to take
occasional services during the week by
periodically visiting and taking one
himself. On one Of these occasions,
having found quite good congrega-
ton and having been moved to much
eloquence In his sermon, be felt a not
unnatural desire to know II he had
made any impression on the usually
unimpressionable yokels. SO he put
some leading questions to an old clerk
who was helping him to unrobe in the
vestry.
."Well, l hope they've been pleased
with yer" said the old man patronix-
ingly, "and am sure we takes 1t very
kind O. yer worship to come down and
preach to US; but. yer know. a worsser
one would have done for the likes OF
us, II 80 be-" he added. with becoming
humility. "one could be found."-Lon-
don Tit-Bits.
Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1903-10-17

where the HourRIass Ii Used.

Among things not generally known
is the fact that the hourglass is uni
yersally used on board ships in the
English navy when the log is heaved
at night
Every hour the boatswain or one OF
the boatswain's mates blows on his
whistle peculiar shrill note called the
reel. The person In the watch to whom
this duty is assigned then heaves the
log, a small piece Of wood with a sink
er fitted in it, and at that moment the
glass is turned. Though termed an
hourglass generally, 1t is only four
teen second glass really.
AS the last grain runs out the log
line Is stopped with jerk, which also
loosens the lead sinker. The log floats
up to the surface Of the sea, the line Is
hauled In and an entry made In the
book, which, fpom its containing this
among other items Of the daily and
nightly events OF the voyage. Is called
the log book.-London Country Life.
Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1903-10-17

II people talked only when they had
something to say the silence would be
too dense to stir with Q sttcx~
Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1903-10-17
The Value OF Cypress.
/ is the Most Durable Wood Which Can be Used.

nderuibe wood
such to protect other durable woods Pecg ae Sun
Maryland being far North as seems to grow and TINS S more sam
Peninsula growing size and often thousand
growth practically worked up
and supplies have been from the swamP
depleted Florida
principal supply growth Cypress younger growth fully
with the old yellow
greatest perfection
durability timber corresponds to it's
growth
durable than and with
building experienced reliable
inferior shingles make mistake
The covering of building the important the materials used in
The
determines the last of the roof And to
trfing of Act
Wisel and BEST FLORIDA HEART SHINGLES
saeb bydea
Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1903-10-17
OZONE FOR SKYSCRAPERS.
How Fresh Air IL Supplied In tho
Modern Tall BsiidfnEs.


Modern Tall BsildinEs.
Hundreds Of men and women are
boxed up all day long In little cagec
on every floor Of the modern office
building. Yet this mass Of huddled
humanity never suffers from any lack
OF fresh air. The ventilation Is per-
feet, a fact which often surprises for
eign architects.
The delivery Of fresh air into sky
scraper is as big a busiess as the de-
livery Of water or electricity. 1t Is not
left to chance. Cold, fresh air Is forced
into the building by blowing engine
and passes through large ducts and
controlling registers to the different
rooms. In winter this air Is heated
by passing through coils Of steam
pipes.
Often the blower Is arranged to de-
liver both hot and cold air, and the
ducts are provided with mixing valves
which can be set to combine the two
blasts In any required proportion.
Thus one can have fresh air Of exact
ly the temperature called for By the
weather.
Bad air is got rid OF by wall regis
ters near the floor through which the
vitiated air escapes into ducts which
lead to q large common outlet above
the roof. These ducts may be Of sheet
iron or they may be Of tile built In
the wall like chimney fues. Some
times they are large spaces inciosed In
the upper parts Of the corridors by
false ceilings.
In other cases the bad air Is taken
to the basement and discharged By an
exhaust fan into q tall outside shaft
used for that purpose only.-New York
Press,
Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1903-10-17
THE CUSTOMS OF NORWAY.
Sunday Begins Saturday Night and
Is n Time For Pleasure.

Ia n Time For PlehBures
One marked characteristic Of the peo-
pie Of Norway Is their intense ana
artistic love of flowers. They never
heap them in indiscriminate masses,
but the poorest peasant woman viii
gather a few Of the wild blossoms
which grow at her door and arrange
them In a glass at her window with
an exquisite taste and feeling which
are good to see. The custom obtains
with high and low, and flowers are
as necessary to a Norwegian dinner Ia
BILE as the food.
The religion Of the country Is Luther
an, but Sunday is not observed with
Puritan strictness, for the settlements
are small and far apart, 50 that the
hard worked pastor must travel miles
from one to another, and even In sum-
mer service is only held once In three
weeks.
Sunday begins on Saturday night, 30
that Sunday evening is a time for
pleasure, and wherever squeaky mu-
steal instrument can be found the peas
ants will dance together In the street
The men dance together as well 40
with the women, grasping each 9TH
er's shoulders and whirling round and
round like dizzy human tops.
A wedding is a festivity for the peo-
pie for miles around. 1t Is celebrated
at the nearest village church, and the
guests row In enormously long boats
across the ford. wearing gay colored
dresses. The bride and bridegroom
bring to the ceremony the silver spoons
which were presented to them when
they were christened. These are then
linked together by a silver chain and
are hung up In the new home, to be an
heirloom for coming generations.