The daily silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1903-1907, 1903-05-14
DOings of the Day Reflected
and Condensed for Busy
Readers
THE HISTORY OF THE WORLD
Told In Short Parasraphs--The
Latest Intelligence from
All Sources.
May Both is Memorial Day.

way OUlH ID Meu1OT1dl lay.
j. b. Wright recently died al Sac
remento. He was for years superin-
tendent of the Southern Pacific.
The o. R. C. has had the wages
of its men readjusted In the past year
on all roads except the Great North
ern and the Mobile & Ohio.
The eleventh biennial session of the
sovereign camp, Woodmen of the
World, convened in Milwaukee Tues
day, with about seventy-fve delegates
In attendance.
The largest reservoir in the world
is to be built in Arizona. The federal
government will construct a dam of
solid masonary in the Tonic Basin
site. 1t Is said that this will create
in the valleys of the upper Salt river
and Tonic creek the largest artificial
lake in the world.
l. o. Negus shot and probably ia
tally wounded Edward Kebabian at
Latona, Wash, as the result of a
quarrel over an insult alleged to have
been offered by Negus to Ida Coates,
Kebabian's foster sister. Though the
wounded man is still alive it is given
out that there is no hope for his re-
covery.
DR.. Robert Kemp of New York
claims to have found a method of
restoring life after death. He re-
vived dogs that had been dead over
twenty minutes and they lived a whole
day. He cuts open the chest and by
means of massage OF the heart and
saline injection renews the vital for
ces. He believes it will work with
human beings.
Clerks from the Treasury depart
ment in Washington have completed
the counting of many tons of money
in the vaults of the United States
s~ub-treasury in Wall street. The cash
was found to be correct. The amount
for which Hamilton Fish, the. new as
sistant treasurer, becomes response
BILE is $2S6,4ll,2 56, of which $780,
TIA, 0O7, is in gold.
Perhaps the most remarkable pen
sion application ever presented In
congress is hat by Pearre of Mary
land. 1t recites with great gravity
and a wealth of circumstantial detail
that the applicant, when a child in
arms, in 1861, was so frightened by
Yankee invaders in Maryland that he
became paralyZed and has since never
been able to do n work. :
Governor Pennypacker of Pennsyl-
vania has signed the Child Labor
bill, and vetoed the other three min
ers' bills. The Child Labor bill makes
il unlawful to employ children under
sixteen years of g in and about the
mines. The three miners bills vetoed
were the eight-hour bill, the bill pro-
viding for the payment for coal mined
by the ton of 224O pounds. and the
mine inspection bill.
A conference has been arranged be-
tween E.. II. Hartman and represen-
tatives of the striking boiler-mak-
ers of the Union and Southern Pacific
at Chicago for next Friday. With Mr.
Hartman will meet Edward Z. Ken
nedy. of Omaha, president of district
No. 4. Union Pacific; Secretary NC
Cracker of district No. 6, Oakland,
Cal, and First Vice President Kane,
of the International Brotherhood.
President Mcneil of the Boilermakers
also be present.
According to mail advices received
South China. hundreds are dying
in Kwangsi province as a result OF
the famine there. Correspondents
writing from several sections say the
destitution suffering and death is APP
Mailing. Whole families are subsist-
ing on a few ounces of rice a day or
on roots and leaves. Missionaries are
feeding thousands daily. fhe famine
is causing the rebellion in that prov
ince to grow as the poor are being
driven to violence to obtain food.
Women and children are being sold
by the famine-stricken people.
Former State Senator Henry s. Ter
Of New Jersey Is the defendant