The daily silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1903-1907, 1903-08-29
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Colorado Springs, Co'o.-The Te lu
ride nj at Colorado City, which was
forced to close dowl ye7terday by e
walking out CT the $50 union men en-
p,oyed there, is being guarded by dap
uty shcriffs as a precautionary me S
ure. The strikers, have pickets sta
toned at the approaches to the mill
to keep men from going to work.
Wash.ngton-An order from Public
Printer Palmer was issued to the
heads of departments in the govern
nent printing office, just before the
hour for closing today. to appear be-
fore notary public in the Office and
take the oath Of allegiance in the
United States as subscribed to by
clerks under the civil service laws.
But er, Pa.-Boydstown dam, seven
mi es north of here, burst today, let
ting out two million gallons of water
and inundating portions of Butler and
the low lying districts for miles.
Great damage was done to property,
but so far as known no lives were lost,
the residents of the flooded district
abandoning their homes and fleeing to
the hills.
Cripple Creek, Colo.-The officers Of
the local miners union have received
a check for $500 from a gentleman
giving his name as Henry NJ. Birge,
who says he is retired naval OFF,
GER He gave the check to be used in
relieving the necessities of strikers
families. Birge gives Otter Creek,
Me-, as his home and his New York
address 35 West Twenty-ninth street.
Butte, Mont.-Reports from various
parts of the state are to the effect
that the poisonous fungus recently
distributed among Montana ranchers
by the state agricultural college ex-
perts is Ling grasshoppers by the
millions In Sweet Grass county the
range is white with dead and shrivel-
ed insects 1t is believed that So
luton of the grasshopper pest has
been reached.
Helena, Mont-The grand lodge Of
for Montana today rejected the bene-
hciary rates adopted by the supreme
lodge at recent st. Paul meetings. but
ADOPTED the guaranty fund rate pro-
I~xv hA
supreme lodge provided no guarantee
fund rate to members of fifty-fve
years or more, but the Montana grand
lodge fixed the rate at so cents for
tacn $1,000 of insurance.
Chicago- the fee. al court today
a receiver was appointed for the I.
Nicholson & Sons company, one OF
the Ia. gest contracting firms Of Chica-
go. In his petition to the court coun-
sci for the company attributed the
insolvency of the firm largely to labor
troubles. Numerous strikes on sever
al large buildings upm which the
Nicholson concern is engaged have so
Sc. ious eInbaI assed the company
that. according to the attorney, it is
iIsolvent.
Mics City, Mont-The local land
Office is in receipt of telegraphic in
structions from the Interior depart
neat to withhold f4om disposal by en-
tly forty seven townships on the north
side of the Yellowstone river, from a
peint opposite Terry and northeast of
the Missouri river, distance of about
100 miles. The townships SO reserved
follow the course of the Yellowstone
river. This is undoubtedly in antic-
iration of the long-talked-of irrigating
project, the preliminary survey OF
which was made several years ago.
Seattle, Wash.-Frank Tanghen-
baugh, floor walker in the employ
of Frederick & Nelson, was shot and
fatally wounded in his own lodgings
after midnight Friday morning by
Mrs. II. e. Finley, a stenographer.
The shooting took place in the pres
eIce of Tanghenbaugh's wife and six
year-old child. who claimed to have
been menaced by revolver in the
hands of Mrs. Finley for fully twenty
minutes before her husband arrived
on the scene. Tanghenbaugh had
hardly entered the room before Mrs.
Finley leveled her revolver at him
and fired two shots 1t is not believed