The daily silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1903-1907, 1903-05-21
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Mrs. Sim WHITAKER. who resides
in Grayson county, Kentucky, has
given birth to bankruptcies.
DR.. A. d. McCabe, prominent
physician of Carizzo Texas, was shot
at his doorway by an unknown as
sassin
The thirteenth annual reunion of
the UnI.ed Confederate Veterans open
ed Tuesday at New Orleans, under the
most favorable auspices. General J.
B. Levert, commanding the Louisiana
division, called the convention to Or
der.
Justice of the Peace H. S. Biggs
and Ed. Bell of Sanderson, Texas,
were killed Tuesday mig in a shoot
ing affray in front of the postoffice.
Deputy Sheriff Mcmahon was shot in
the arm and severely wounded. Much
excitement prevails, but no one knows
the exact cause of the trouble.
Nine miles south of Browning, in
Montana, the government is construct
ing an irrigation canal, which, when
completed, will water 144,000 acres Of
bench lands on the Blackfeet reserva-
ton. The ditch will be thirteen miles
long. three feet deep and sixteen feet
wide att he bottom. The water sup
ply Will be taken from Cut Bank river,
which will furnish an abundant sup
ply the year round.
Pope Leo is preparing a bull for
the consistory to be held in June pro-
testing openly but in measured tones
against Premier Combes' anti-Vatican
policy. This public hostile attitude
on the part of the papacy against
France. now for the first time as
sumed is the more Impressive be-
cause it is attributed not only to
sense of duty but also to the convert
support which such a policy is receiv-
ing from various quarters.
David F. Day, editor of the Demo-
crat and Frank Hartman, newspa-
per writer, exchanged thirteen shots
az each other on the main street OF
Durango, Colorado, without serious
result. Hartman received slight
flesh wound in the leg. The snoot-
ing was the outcome of fight Day
had been making against union print
ars The latter started an opposition
naner ON which Hartman was the
principal writer.
That the women Baptists OF the
country are opposed to permitting
Reed Smoot to occupy a seat in the
limited States senate was MADE EVIL
dent at the session of the twenty
sixth annual meeting of the Women
Baptist Home Mission society, ma
tional organization now in session at
Buffalo. A resolution was adopted
by a unanimous vote, urging the SEN
ate of the United States to exclude
APOSTLE Smoot from its councils.
Union Pacific officials in Cheyenne
positively deny the report from New
York that the machinists, boilermaK-
ers and blacksmiths' strike has been
settled. An official announcement 10
that effect has been made. Tuesday
was Union Pacific payday and there
was great activity among the strikers
and employees who came up town 10
spend their money. A scab was on
Monday evening chased down the
main street of the business section,
but escaped with slight injuries
| After fasting forty-eight days, MRS
Elizabeth McGregor died at Aberdeen
Wash. aged S5 years. Her feat Is
considered remarkable because OF
her great age. Seven weeks ago she
suffered a stroke of paralysis. which
rendered her absolutely helpless, al
though she was able to talk and make
he. wants known. Since that time
no food passed her lips. The only
thing she was able to swallow was
a very little water or wine. She was
conscious to within a few hours Of
her death.
| With the recent death at Tuscon
Ariz., of "Old Caribou Brown" there
passed away one of the most picture
sQue characters in all the frontier
i. history of the great southwest H