The daily silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1903-1907, 1903-10-05
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New York-An attempt made by DR..
Frederick A. Cook of Brooklyn, the
well known explorer to scale Mount
Mckinley in Alaska has failed.
st. Paula tornado struck st.
Charles, Mimi. and ruined the town.
Seven persons were killed and twenty
eight injured, many seriously
alonica-At the village ofKobschar-
ina inhabited by Turks, 400 houses
are reported to have been burned, most
of the inhabitants being killed. 1t is
reported that a Turkish convoy was
recently attacked in the Florina region
and that eighty of the soldiers were
killed.
New York-Mrs. John Beam of Nit
lchellville, N. Y, sixty-five years old,
has given birth to twins. Her daugh-
ter, who lives in the neighboring town
ship, presented her husband with twins
about the same hour. Before congrat-
ulations were finished Mrs. Beams
granddaughter sent word that she had
just become the mother of two healthy
children.
San Francisco-Richard Savage.
one of the discoverers of the Comstock
lode, one of the founders of the re-
publican party in California and the
father of Colonel Richard Henry Saw
age, the novelist. died at st. Helens,
at the age of S6. AS one of the dis
covers of the Comstock lode, he orig
inally located the Savage. Justice and
Woodville mines. b.
Kansas City,. H. Crosby, alias A.
E. Bell. under arrest in Denver. was
sent to the Missouri state prison four
years ago and served three-year term
for stealing mail pouch from the
union station here. He gained ac-
cess to the mail room by wearing the
uniform of a postal clerk. Mrs. Cros-
by is from Winchester, Kans.. where
hel parents and a daughter live.
Pueblo-H E. Williams a young man
on the way from Denver to Kansas
City, was fatally stabbed on the Santa
Fe train before its arrival here by a
stranger who jumped off when the
train was two miles from this city.
The man had swindled Williams out
of some money and when the latter
tried to compel him to give it up the
man stabbed him in the abdomen with
a knife. Williams is in a hospital in
a dying condition.
Cripple Creek, Colo.-Gov. James H.
Peabody was made defendant in two
damage suits for 100000 each filed by
Patrick H. Mullaney and Thomas Fos-
ter union miners who were arrested
by military officers ON duty in this
camp and confined in the guard house
TO-, Is days and were set at liberty last
Wednesday after habeas corpus pro-
ceedings were instituted in their be-
half Adjutant General John Case
Major Thomas E, McClelland were also
made defendants to the suits.
Chicago-Chicago's citY couI eli is
preparing to attack the validity of the
act creating Chicago's $40,000,000
drainage canal. The finance commit
tee of the council has formally ad-
vised corporation counsel Tolmn 60
bring an action in the supreme court
of the state next week. A threatened
depletion of the city's water fund, with
Ia possible deficit. is the moving force
behind the aid srmen and the act of the
last legislature by which the suburb
of Cicero was added to the sanitary
6istIic has eaus ID the trouble.
Denver-The Globe Express COM
pany with general headquarters in this
city and with capital stock of $5.-
000, 900 commenced active operations
yesterday. succeeding to the business
of the Denver and Rio Grande ex-
press company and Western express
company, and taking over all their
contracts. stock and operating equip
ment. The new company is backed by
the Goulds ani IL is understood thai
| its field of operations will be extend
/ ed as rapidly as possible throughout
the entire Pacific coast territory.