The daily silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1903-1907, 1904-02-25
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Crested Butte, Colo.-Six miners
have been killed by snow slide near
the Augusta mine, nine miles north
east of Crested Butte.
Rochester, N. Y.-Fire at Brockport
destroyed the Phelps Piano company's
! dry kiln, loss 500, 900. and the Moore
Subscription Agency building, loss
$50. 0.000
Washington.-The supreme court of
the United States decided the case of
AL Adams, the so-called policy king
of New York. against Adams, the op-
inion being by Justice Day.
Terre Haute Ind-while insane
from a prolonged spree Jerome Du-
gan, a railway employee. this morning
murdered Mrs. Ben Ramsey, with
whom he boarded. and her two chill
dren. He cut their throats with a
razor.
st. Lou's-The trial Of Frederick
Seymour Darlington on the charge OF
numbering James j. McCann, thA
horseman, whose body was found in
an abandoned quarry in this city last
June. has begun In the circuit court
at Clayton.
Charlestown, S. C.--Admiral Dewey.
Rear Admiral TAYLOR, his staff of Of
ficers and Assistant Secretary of State
Loomis sailed on the dispatch boat
Mayfiower for West Indian water.
where they will witness the fleet
maneuvers.
Washington.-Justice Day handed
down the opinion of the supreme court
of the United States. affirming the
Judgment of the supreme court of Me-
braska in the case of Alvin p. Leigh
versus Henry S. Green, involving tax
sales of property
Washington.-The supreme court has
confirmed a decision of the court of
claims holding the Chickasaw Freed
men in Indian Territory had no right
to lands and a fund of 100000 which
the United States paid to the Choc-
taws and Chicasaw tribes.
Helena, Mont.--A convention OF resi-
dents of Milk river valley at Chinook
, has addressed a resolution to Presi-
dent Roosevelt and the secretary of
the fact that the Canadians ars build
ing a great canal with a view OF d.
verting the waters Of the Milk river
in northern Montana.
San Francisco-The river at Marys-
vile has reached nineteen feet. the
high water mark. The rain continues
in the central portion of the state and
further rise is looked for No re-
ports of serious damages have been
received but the lowlands are suf-
fering to some extent. There Is prac-.
tically no rainfall south of San Fran
cisco. The indications for the country
south of Tehachapi are for continued
fair weather.
Washington.-In an opinion by JUS
tice Holmes the supreme court of the
United States dismissed the appeal of
a number of Chinese laborers whose
deportation had been ordered under
the Chinese exclusion laws. The con-
tention was made that recent legisla-
ton had had the effect OF repeating
the law under which deportation was
ordered. There were seven cases be-
fore the court, but the decision COW
cred only four of them.
New Orleans.-In the case OF NJ. F.
Jumper versus the Sovereign Camp.
Woodmen of the World. the United
States court of appeals decided that
no relationship of principal ard agent
existed between the sovereign camp
and the individual camps of the order
and that Furthermore 1t was ire
sponsible in damages for acts COM
mitted by the defendant camps.
Jumper brought suit for damages for
injuries received while being initiated
into the society.
Washlngton.--In the supreme court
of the United States an opinion was
handed down by Justice Day in the
case of Jackson Giles VS.. the Board of
Registration of Montgomery county.
Alabama, dismissing the case for want
of jurisdiction, no federal question be-
ing involved. The case involved the
suffrage clause of the constitution OF
Alabama. This provision was attack
ed on discrimination against the coll
ored race of which Giles Is member.
The effect of the decision is against
Giles.