The daily silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1903-1907, 1904-05-04
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thor, died at LONDON early Moiudy
morning. aged 81.
Santa ANA Mexican sheepherder
was dubbed to death here last night
by a companion in a dispute over
game OF cards.
Stockton.-Stockton democrats In
mass meeting nominated nine delegates
to the state convention. who are IN
stIucted against w. r. Hearst for
ps esident.
Bakersfield.-seven machinists en-
ployed by the Santa Fe here walked
out this morning in obedience to gen.
eral st Ike order from union head
quarters.
Grover Cleveland, in a lecture deliv-
cred at Princeton yesterday congratu-
lated himself on his course in sending
the riots of 1894.
Oakland.-The University of Cali
fornia crew won the boat race on the
Oakland estuary this afternoon from
the Washington State university crew.
SaHnas.--The democratic county COM
iiiattEC tit&tNd h1i dNiN- 11tS w thtN
state convention uninstructed.
Fort Madison, Iowa.--A lockout of
Santa Fe machinists at Fort Madison
has occurred. involving boilermakers,
blacksmiths and roundhouse men, in
all about 200 men. The company fore
stalled the strike which had been or
dered. The company officers say nom
union men will be ?ut on tomorrow to
take the places of the strikers.
An accident to the gear prevented
DIR. August Greth. the inventor of an
air ship from making good his prom
ise to sail from San Francisco to San
Jose. He did. however. after leaving
terra frma, make tn ee complete cir
cles and proved that the time is not
far distant when steamboats, will have
a formidable opponent in the air ship.
Screen door springs.
New Yo k - Ar angements have
been completed for the second Franco
American revolver and rifle match, to
be reported by cable. between team
OF fifteen ma ksmen OF the Cercle des
Carabiniers de Paris and a team of fif-
teen of the Manhattan Rifle and Re-
Oliver club of this city. The French
men will shoot at Paris on May s, u
and Is: the Americans at Greenville
n. j.. on May Z. IL and IA. Every man
will shoot forty consecutive shots with
each weapon I'm series of ten shots az
target. The position for both weap-
rest
Recding. Sam Houston, a cattle
raiser of the Bella Vista region, had
to crawl three-cuarters of a mile with
broken le- while after medical aid.
Houston was riding on his range. his
9-year-old son being behind him. when
the animal stumbled and threw the
riders to the ground. The boy was un-
| injured, but Houston had both bones
OF his right leg broken three inches
above the ankle. The horse ran off.
leaving father and son in a sorry
plight. They were three quarters of
mile from the road. The father feared
the boy might get lost in going alone
so he crawlad to the road on his hands
and the knee of his uninjured leg. The
boy walked by his side. willing but
powerless to help the suffering man.
Three hours were occupied in going the
| TIL ee-quarters of a mile. When the
road was reached the father felt that
| the boy could find the way to Bella
Vista. a distance of three miles. The
boy did so, aid was obtained and the
| father was soon conveyed to his home.
| Greensburg ind.-Mrs. Kate Hyland.
the wife of a locomotive engineer,
saved Big Four freight train and its
crew from crashing tn. ough burn
ing trestle to certain destruction at
the trestle She was awakened at
about 4 O'Clock by her baby crying.
she lighted a lantern and started for
a well In the yard. AS she turned a
corner of the house she saw that the
tiestle had been burned almost to the
ground. AT the same instant she
heard the whistle of locomotive The
woman rushed toward the track clad
only in her night clothing. The train
was coming at a high speed, but she
stood in the middle of the track swing
ing her lantern until the englneer saw
her signal when he was not fifty yards
away. He reversed his engine. applied
the brakes. ard jumped with the crew.
The engine came to a stop within q
few feet OF the spot where the height
of the trestle was nearly forty feet
and for a distance of fifty feet the
track had been destroyed ANA the tim
beIs burned nearly to the ground. Mrs
Hyland was piostrated by the ex-
posuTe and excitement and was as
sisted to her house by the men whose
lives she had saved.