The daily silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1903-1907, 1903-08-21
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millers of North Dakota and North
west Minnesota. held here resolutions
were adopted favoring reciprocity
with countries importing American
-four
Hanna, Wyo.-Sixteen more bodies
of victims of the mine explosion have
been recovered and the work of the
rescuers is nearly completed All those
take out were in an advanced state of
decomposition.
Spokane, Wash-Private advices
from Vermillion, Mont, state that the
concentrator and nearly the entire
plant OF the Kentucky vermillion
Mining company have burned. The
loss is estimated at $125.0O0.
Butte, Mont.-A dispatch from Hell
ca says that the fence about the Fort
Belknap Indian reservation, which is
40 miles long and so miles wide, has
at last been finished. 1t is probably
the longest fence in the world and
has taken years in building. The plan
is to protect the flocks and herds of
Gros Ventres and Assinaboines from
intrusion.
Cripple Creek-Work on the drain
age tunnel, which was almost COM
pleted when the miners went on a
strike last week, has been resumed,
11G non-union men being employed.
OF this number twenty are armed
guards, who are stationed behind a
rope strung across the entrance. 1t
is said the miners will live in the
shaft house until the tunnel is CON-
pleted.
Seattle-The threat of the Seattle
street carmen to strike for higher
wages has wrested from the prest-
dent and general manager of that
corporation a compromise to arbitrate
the matter Mayor Humes will tell
the executive committee of the labor
unions that the Seattle Electric COM
pany has agreed to arbitrate all differ
ences between the company and its
employees in accordance with the terms
of its franchise.
Washington-The Secretary of the
Treasury has received a check for 500
from a firm of attorneys in Phila'
delphia, with the following explana.
ton: Enclosed please find 800, be-
ing the amount of money which was
paid on December 10th, 1886, by the
United States government as addi-
tional bounty to soldier. He consid-
ers that he was not entitled to this
money by reason of the act of July
2Sth, 1896. which debarred all men
from participating in this bounty who
had re-enlisted, which he had done.
He wishes to make restitution of this
amount"
San Jose--The body of a young
child was found concealed beneath
a culvert over a ditch at the corner
of Cish road and North First street
Tuesday afternoon. The circumstan-
ces attending the finding of the body
arc peculiar, but back of that is
mystery which is puzzling local Off
GERS and has thus far baffled all at
tempts at solution. There seems no
reason to doubt that the case is one
OF murder. The child was apparent
ly in a condition of perfect health.
The body is plump and well nourished,
and from outward appearances 1t is
believed that death was caused by
suffocation. Not a clew TO the iden-
tsty of the little one or the means of
its death has thus far been found.
ST. Paul-At the instance of the
combined colored organizations of ST.
Paul Frederick L. McGhee, well
known criminal lawyer and the first
colored man admitted to the Mime
sofa bar, is preparing a bill to be
presented in congress, which makes
the various states liable to the rela-
tiV es of the deceased for lynchings re-
sulting in their boundaries. The meas
ure is being put forward under the
guise of AN effort to reduce the num-
her of lynchings. Mr.. McGhee has Sc
cured the consent of member of the
Minnesota delegation to introduce the
bill, and believes that there is fair
prospect that it will be acted on. The
bill has the active support of the
Afro-American National council. OF
which he is a director.