The White Pine news. [volume] (Ely, Nev.) 1906-1910, 1908-01-22
Greeks As Result of.
Davis Shooting
at McGiII.
Wounded Officer Has Lii.
tie Chance to Recover
---Three Are In Jail.

Loaded into two box cars, herled
together by armed guards nearly
Hundred Greeks passed last night in
Ely waiting to be transported to
some other point, most probably to
Cobre. This will be done, II is stated.
this morning All of the men were
found to be unemployed, and as re-
suit of the high feeling caused by
the shooting of Deputy Constable
Sam Davis, were rounded mp. About
so employed Greeks were left unmc.
Tested, although they were disarmed
Beside these tnree Greeks are In Jail,
one of them Tony yassa. aged %. be-
ing identified by Davis as. the man
who shot him. and Peter Kogas. aged
27, with J. sperimas. aged 10. are
held as witnesses, Davis saying that
they were present when the shooting
took place. Damon Kolas, aged "a.
lies dead at Nevin & Browns under
taking establishment as the result
of being shot While Offering resist
ance to arrest Monday night.
Events were crowded into yester-
day which might we'll occupy week
in transpiring. All through Monday
night the posse sent out after the
would-be murderer and his support
ers searched for them mi without
success: The lines cioSea AZ day-
lieat results began 10 come {f.ick and
fast. Kogas and Sperimas vere first
brought in and lodged In mil and
about 8 o'clock Frank Watts. Of EIy.
and Ed Smith, while searchinx the
country about Steptoe station, ran
across Vassa. When ordered to throw
up his hands the man complied IN
stantly and advancing was found to
be unarmed- 1t Is thought that he
was warned by the fate which had
been met by Kolas when Offering re-
sistance. He was also brought in and
l9dged in jail.
The men are held strictly, and no
one aside from the officers are al
lowed to see them. This is in ac-
cordance with the state law which
provides that none can see a man
accused of felony without written
PERMISSION from the district attorney,
the jailer, warden or constable in
sharge of the prison in which they
are confined Vassa is kept strictly
separated from the others and is not
allowed to hold conversation with
them.
Feeling ut McGill has begun to die
down somewhat and the loading OF
the men in the box cars was accom-
plished without any great friction.
No man who was employed was plac-
I'd under arrest. the officers combining
operations, 1t is stated. to the men
who were evidently loafing and With
,ut employment of any kind.
Davis, the wounded officer. will not
nng survive the effects of his hurt,
t is thought. The ball in entering
ais abdomen pierced his entrails
aight times. The very nature of the
injury practically preclldes recov-
sry. He has been conscious every
since the shooting except
when under eject of anaesthetics ad-
ninistered before he was operated
lpon by attending physicians as a
asst hope for saving his life.
His side of the story. beyond the
lrst brief statement he made. has
,ever been obtained Excitement
night bring on the fatal end OF hts
and questions have there
'ore not been put to him. as other-
wise they would have been.
Damon Kolas died shortly after
$50 d. m. yesterday 1t was at first
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