The daily silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1903-1907, 1903-06-03
DOings of the Day Reflected
and Condensed for Busy
Readers
THE HISTORY OF THE WORLD
Told In Short Paragra phs--T
Latest Intelligence from
All Sources.

1t is probable that the United States
Government will recognize the legal
ity of President Castro's decree clos
ing a number of ports in Venezuela in
the possession of the insurgents.
Last week 5000 emigrants arrived
in tue port of hamburg to sail for tne
United ~,ates i foreign immigra-
tion alone the population Of the Unit
ed States this year will be increased
nearly a million.
The United States supreme court
has refused to grant writ of habeas
corpus in the case of Whitaker
Wright, the financial operator, who
| is in custody in New York awaiting
extradition ~ charges made in Eng
| land
The life membership card which the
Cheyenne aerie of Eagles presented to
President Roosevelt is a beautiful
/ specimen of the silversmith's art. The
card is OF solid silver with the in
! scription in raised letters of solid
gold 1t is enclosed in solid silver
carrying case appropriately engraved.
An auu4uonal strike of textile work
ers was begun in Philadelphia yester-
day, involving about 10000 operatives
OF the 600 firms engaged in the tex
tile industry here forty-seven have
granted the demands of the unions
and their plants, employing about
900 men, are in operation.
An associated press dispatch from
Boston says: Miss Mabel Stanaway OF
Reno, Nevada. has been selected for
part in a public performance of the
opera Der Prophet" to be gwen by
pupils of the New England Conserva-
tory Scnool of opera next week. one
will sing in the fifth act the great aria
made famous by Scnumann Heing
She will also sing in an act from
Faust"
The cause of the terrible train
wreck on the Coast line of the South
ern Pacific at Santa Barbara, Cal, on
Saturday night in which forty people
were injured, has been determined
with some degree of certainty. Ac-
cording to the opinion of expert en-
gineers who have ade a close ispec-
ton Of the road bed at that point the
weight of the locomotive caused the
rail to slide toward the precipice.
At a special election of the First
District of Oregon Monday Binger
Hermann was elected congressman to
fill the vacancy caused by the death
of Thomas H. Tongue, defeating A. K.
Reames, Democrat, by about 2O00 plur-
ality. Chairman harris of the Re
publican committee claims that Her
mann's plurality will reach 5000.
Young heames is a son-in-law OF the
late Congressman Tongue, and is
practicing law in Jacksonville. Ore
gon
For the first time in the history of
the Hawaiian Islands beer is selling
for five cents a glass. This is result
Of dull times and a war for trade
among the saloon keepers. Beer has
always retailed for 25 cents a glass
until the establishment of a local
brewery and the issuance of beer sa-
loon licenses. which did not include
the sale OF spiritous liquors. With
the beer license came beer at 10 cents
a glass and now the saloon-keepers
have cut to cents.
A private dispatch receive in Spo-
kane Monday announces that the body
OF Supt Benjamin F. Egan of the
Great Northern raLway has been
found. Mr.. Egan, who was superin-
tendent for the Kalispell division.
started into the mountains near lei
ton. Mont. for a deer hunt early last
November He was never seen again.
Searching parties spent weeks in look
ing for him. without result This
spring the sarch was resumed, and it
is stated that re body was found
near Lake Five, a short distance from
wnere he was last seen alive.
Under orders from the treasury de-
partment the immigration officers
stationed in the Northwest are max
ing a special effort TO stop the hun