The daily silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1903-1907, 1903-09-19
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/ Washington-The Colonial Secre-
tary of Jamaica lepcI is that the storm
which recently swept over the islands.
trough entailing great loss Of life.
'ras Tot so appalling as at first .e-
IroTted. About mir ETY. lives were IL st.
Pittsburg-The sentry who shot and
killed William H. Crowley will be
/ first tried by court-martial and then
turned over to whatever branch of
the civil authorities that may be de-
te mined upon later.
Leavenworth, Kan.-Lieut. Mitchell,
Second infantry, a student officer in
the general service and staff college,
committed suicide at Fort Leaven-
worth. The lieutenant's wife was in
Kansas City spending the day and did
not return home until o'clock Thurs
day evening, when she found him
dead.
st. Johnsburg, Va-An automobile
speeding at the rate of forty miles
an hour at the fair grounds dashed
over a fifteen-foot embankment, caus-
ing the death of Herbert Lampere.
John Mallen, who was operating the
machine, was severely injured, and
another man named Fred Garrick
was hurt.
st. Louis. Mo. Moses Hart. Louis
Brooks and Charles Ronk. employees
of the Swift Packing company, in East
St Louis, were fatally scalded by fall
ing into a vat of boiling water. They
were literally parboiled and when Ia
ken from the water pieces of flesh
came away with the clothing as it
was removed.
Baltimore, Md.-The Republican
state convention nominated the fol-
lowing ticket yesterday: Governor,
Stephen A. VIII Jams; Attorney Gen.
eral, George Whitelock; State Comp
troller, L. E. P. Dennis. The plat
form indorses the administration of
President Roosevelt and favors his
nomination in 1904.
New York-After being mourned as
dead by parents and friends for thir-
teen years, Walter Fraze, former
resident of Scotch Plains. N. j., has
returned to that village. His aged
mother was overcome with joy and
swoomed. When Fraze disappeared
the woods and ponds were secured
/ in vain and he was given up as dead.
He says he was inspired to run away
| by stories of adventure, and travelled
all over the globe.
! Chicago-"Pat" Grove, who is be-
lieved to have been the leader of the
car barn bandits. is one of the most
dangerous criminals known to the po-
lice of the country, and is now being
sought after by the Chicago police.
He first attracted the attention of the
Chicago police officials by shooting
two officers eleven years ago. Sew
eral daring train rObberies have been
planned and successfully executed by
him, and. though twice sentenced to
the penitentiary, he has eontrived to
escape by the help of or through the
influence of powerful friends. His
most startling crime was the kid
naping Of the young son OF Edward
Cudahy, the Omaha packer, and hold
ing him for a $4,000 ransom. He is
forty years old a trifie over the av-
erage height, weighs about 160 pounds
and is an expert with the revolver.
Wallace. Idaho-W. A. Richards.
the commissioner Of the general land
Office, has rendered an important de-
cision to the effect that an immense
area of alleged mineral land in Sho-
shone county is non-mineral. The
case is that of the Northern Pacific
railroad protesting against the class
ifieation of the mineral lands made
by the mineral land commission.
great part of the land has been con-
sidered mineral in character for the
past ten years and many mineral
claims of much value have been To-
Gated in the district. but this decision
OF the land Office unless reversed,
will invalidate all mining locations
that have been made on odd-numbered
sections The decision has caused
sensation here and indignation is rife.
The territory affected by the decision
embraces twenty-seven townships con-
tanning an area Of more than thirty
square miles, embracing 325.000 acres
lying south of Wallace in the Occur
ld'Alene mining region.