The silver state. [volume] (Unionville, Nev.) 1870-1903, 1903-04-20
THE NEWS IN
A NUTSHELL
DOings of the Day Reflected
and Condensed for Busy
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THE HISTORY OF THE WORLD
Told in Short Paragraphs--The
Latest Intelligence from
All Sources.

Former Senator John P. Jones of
Nevada is said to be seriously i'll at
Santa Monica.
At Great Falls, Montana, the police
| believe that they have unearthed a
plot to blow up the Stockholm brew
/ cry and concert hall and Cuban sa-
| loon.
Salt Lake City is to have new
hotel costing s250,000. The owner is
A. F. Wey, who made his money in
the April Fool mine at DeLamar, Lin
coin county, New
John Wanamaker, who began busi-
ness with handful of goods, a wheel
| barrow and unbounded confidence, is
to erect a twelve-story building in
Philadelphia to cost $4,000 900. Mr..
Wanamaker attributes his success to
advertising.
| The Grand Army of the Republic,
department of Montana, elected James
S Wisner commander; Henry n.
Blake, senior vice commander; Will
/ lam H. Black, junior vice commander;
and G. Stucke, delegate to the national
encampment
San Francisco secret service officers
have captured two Greeks, Rose and
| Pantazy, and a complete counterfeit
ing plant for making dollars and five
dollars. The third conspirator escap-
ed, but is being hunted. The author
tiles are elated over the capture.
A voluntary petition in bankruptcy
was filed Saturday in San Francisco
by John B. Sweetzer of the firm of
Sweetzer & Pierce, big stock raisers
Of Idaho. The liabilities are a quarter
of million and the assets $500, 900
They are the biggest stockraisers in
northwest.
r. e. Finney, a we'll known business
man of Everett, Wash, visited Seattle.
ran from his friend down the street,
and at every jump divested himself
OF his clothing. He was finally cap
tured and will be confined in a pri-
vate asylum for awhile.
Miss Mary McNeill a year ago sued
Senator Clark of Montana for $3.50, 1000
on the charge of breach OF promise
The trial was kept secret until now.
when the woman who lost the case
demanded a public trial. She tells of
| promises, flowers, attentions and other
things. She is SO years old. Clark
denies the charge absolutely.
Emperor William has ordered that a
/ thorough investigation be made into
| the case of Naval Ensign Hussner,
who killed an artilleryman named
4 Hartman with his sword at Essen for
not saluting him properly, according
to Hussner's version of the affair. The
matter continues to attract much at
tention throughout the country.
The Alaska Steamship company S
Dolphin" arrived from Skagway Sat
urday with 27 passengers from Daw-
son. Dawson Charley" who is prob
ably the wealthiest Indian in America,
with a fortune estimated at more than
S100, 900, came from Caribou. He was
the discoverer of rich mines at Atlin
and owns many valuable claims there.
Cherokee Bill Smith, awaiting trial
in the Federal Court on the charge
of having robbed the Carleton, Colo,
postoffce Novembed 9th last, escaped
from the county hospital at Denver
Saturday, while his guard was sleep
ing. Smith was captured January q,
after a long chase and desperate bat
tie, in which one of the deputy sheriffs
was wounded.
The remains of the seventeen brave
men who lost their lives in the battle
with the Bear Paws at Snake creek
in the fall of 1877 in the Nez Perce's
campaign will be exhumed within
the next six weeks and buried in the
post cemetery at Fort Assiniboine. An
order to this effect was issued by chief
/ Quartermaster Pond, who is now at
Assiniboine General Miles led the
famous march across the State after
Chief Joseph and the Nez Perce In
dams more than twenty-five years ago.
Elliott Lyons, who on February 9th
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