The daily silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1903-1907, 1903-05-15
DOings of the Day Reflected
and Condensed for Busy
Readers
THE HISTORY OF THE WORLD
Told In Short Parasraphs--Th
Latest Intelligence from
All Sources.

Japan Is making preparations for
war. The feeling in that country
against Russia is intense
Rynere Van Sickle. said to be the
Oldest living railway engineer, is
dead in the Aims house of Winnie
bago, ILL.,. aged SO years.
Circuit Attorney Folk, of ST. Louis,
has received information to the effect
that Senator Frank Farris of Steele
vile, who is under indictment, has
gone to Mexico.
The hundred or more horses wi
were taken from Dawson to the Tan
ana diggings in the stampede this
winter may all perish before the
river opens as feed has given out.
BY ruling of the Commissioner
General of immigration, all aliens and
immigrants coming into the United
States must pay the 81 head tax, re-
gardless of the means of transporta-
! tion.
The Japanese government has in
structed its representatives at Hong
kong and Shanghai and in the Straits
Settlement to purchase quantities of
provisions and supplies for the Japan
ese troops.
Orders were issued at the Navy de-
partment Wednesday for the Nash
vile to proceed south to relieve the
Atlantic, which for some time has
been watching American interests in
San Domingo.
On the Spanish steamer Manuel
Calvo, which has arrived at New York
from Spanish ports. were number OF
priests expelled from France. They
are going to Mexico to act as instrue
tors in schools.
E. s. Gill, United States commits
sioner at Honolulu, has presented his
resignation to Judge Estee and it has
been accepted. A. Douthitt, formerly
of San Francisco. has been appointed
to succeed him.
The state department has informed
Governor Dockery, of Missouri, that
it cannot grant his request to secure
the extradition of Ellis Wainwright, a
millionaire brewer of St. Louis, who
is supposed to have fed to France.
The Great Northern railroad has es-
tablished an agency in Omaha to re-
cruit trainmen in anticipation of a
strike on that system. Applicants are
required to sign contracts to work
for the Great Northern in event OF
strike.
BY the direction of the President
Colonel Charles A. Woodruff, the SEN
ior colonel of the commissary depart
ment, is to be appointed a Brigadier-
General and retired in July. when va
cancies will occur as the result of The
retirement of Major-General DAVIS.
The result of the first days exam
ination by the Legislative Committee
OF affairs of the state insane asylum
at Ossawotomie, Kansas, show that
conditions are worse than at the To-
peka asylum. The committee has is
sued subpenas for a large number of
witnesses.
There was recently a serious dem
onstration in Croatia, especially in the
Kruse district. where the castles and
houses of Hungarian land owners
were attacked and pillaged. Martial
law was declared. Similar disorders
have occurred at Brod. Sussex and
other places.
Every one of the eleven cities of
New Hampshire yesterday voted to
grant licenses for the sale OF intox-
icating liquors for the coming year |
OF the 1876 towns so far heard from.
100 want no licenses and the remand
er are in favor. The sale of liquor
in the cities was the surprise OF the
day.
AS the result of a duel fought at /
Wharton, ~ j., over Rosa Latzsky. an /
lS-year-old Hungarian girl, who told
her suitors that they would have to
fight for her. Henry VALDEZ is in the
hospital in a badly damaged condition.
Rosa helped to arrange the duel,
which was to take place with clubs