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The silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1909-1925, 1917-12-22
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SYNOPSIS.


CHAPTER LIN wellston. Texas, II
night or run from Cal Balm. Duane kills
ms man and becomes an outlaw.
CHAPTER HE meets Luke Stew
ems. an outlaw.
CHAPTER HT-Stevens goes into the
town OF Mercer to buy supplies and is
shot by a rancher. Duane buries him.
CHAPTER IV-Duane goes to BANDS
outlaw stronghold in the Rim Rock and
after shooting Bosomer. who qusrrels
with him over Stevens death. decides
to stay there. Euchre takes Duane for
a partner and tells him about Bland.
the outlaw chief. and his band.
CHAPTER v-Duane practices gun
throwing n hears more about Bland
and his gang.
CHAPTER vI-Euchre and Duane
call on Kate, BANDS wife, and Jennie,
a girl whom Benson kidnapped and sold
to Bland.
CHAPTER vTI-Euchre and Duane
c%onspire to take Jennie away. Duane
prevents a wanton murder.
CHAPTER vIIT-Mrs. Bland makes
love TO Duane and he uses her to fur
Their his plans. Bland returns from .
trip. He asks Duane to join the band.
He is Jealous of Duane and abuses Kate
and Jennie.
CHAPTER Tx-Euchre kills Benson,
Is killed by Alloway, Duane kills Allo-
way and Bland and escapes, wounded,
with Jennie. In a deserted hut in the
mesquite Jennie nurses him.
CHAPTER x-when Duane is strong
enough they travel out of the Rim Rock
to a rancher's house. where Duane re-
covers On their wa to ~helbyv
Jennie is carried of by outlaws while
Duane is away looking for a strayed
horse.
CHAPTER xT-After vain search for
Jennie. Whose abductor he kills. Duane
leads the lone-wolf life for more than
three years, finally getting a message
from Captain McNelly OF the anger
asking him to come to the captains
camp after dark.
CHAPTER KIT-The message Is sew
eral times repeated. DUANE is chased py
a lynching party.
The silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1909-1925, 1917-12-22

The Oklahoma Gas & Electric Com
pany has declared a regular quarterly
dividend of ia per cent on its pre-
ferred stock.
The Sentinel=record., 1917-03-21
THE WAR IN BRIEF

Notwithstanding bad weather and almost insuperable conditions of ter rain and the obstacles placed by the Germans to protect their retreat, both the British and French armies in France have made further notable gains.
 Fourteen additional villages have been entered by British forces from .hrras southward to Ham and they have passed the general line of Can izy, Enetree-En-Ch -Chaussee, Nurlu, Velu and Saint Leger The forward march beyond Entree-En-Cha places the British troops within l. miles of St. Quentin.
 On their part of the line the French have thrown their cavalry to within four and half miles of St Quentin and also have reoccupied terrain along the Somme and Aisne. Paris reports that the losses of the French in their pursuit of the Germans have been in- significant
 Berlin officially says that Tn the re- dered the field selected for the com ing engagement with the entente forces useless from a military stand point having rendered everything un- servicea5le which could have been ot advantage for their operations. A high German military authority told the Associated Press that the man euver of the Germans had ended the plans of the entente for their spring offensive and that from strong new positions the Germans will give battle tO the British and French as tSev come across the devastated bat tie grounds,
 From none of the other fronts has there come a report of particularly sanguinary engagements. There has been an increase in the outpost skirm- ishes in Russia. In Macedonia and north of Monastir Paris reports the capture of Teutonic allied positions, nine machine guns and 1,200 prison ers. Berlin, however. says that all the French attacks hero have been without result.
 On the AustroItalian front the usual artillery duels and minor in- rantry operations are still in progress.
 Nothing new has come through con corning the operations against the Turks by the Russians in Asia Minor and Persia and by the British in Mesopotamia.
 Berlin reports the sinking in the Mediterranean Monday by a German submarine of a French battleship of the Danton class. This class of yes sels displaoes lS.QS2 tons and carries 6Sl officers and men.
The Sentinel=record., 1917-03-21
FLORIDA TOURIST IS
 MYsTERIoUSLY SHOT

Jacksonville. Fla March 20--,Dr. k. J. Murch, of Bangor, Maine, who, with his wife, was spending the winter in Jacksonville, was shot and killed here today. George Thompson, a negro, was being held by the police tonight pend ing an investigation. Thompson is said to have declared that he fired on the physician when found the latter in his home It is understood, how ever that the police are Investigating the theory that robbery might have been the motive for the crime.
 Murch was found mortally wounded in the hallway of boarding house where he and his wife were staying. How he got there has not been defin- itely established. Thompson is quot ed as saying that after he fired on Murch he fled in an automobile.
The Sentinel=record., 1917-03-21
TWO SUBMARINES
 CAPTURED IN NETS
U-6oATS WERE DETECTED LURk. ING BENEATH SURFACE BY
 AIRCRAFT PATROL.

Newport, R. l.. March 20-The trap ping ot two German submarines was reported tonight by Captain F. L. Smith of the American steamer Alas. kan, which arrived today from La Pallice, France, for New York. accord ing to tEe pilot, who brought the ship into d. harbor The U-boats Captain Srli'h said were detected lurking be- nea,h the surface of the sea by ob- servers of the aircraft patrol
 The airplane signalled for trawlers and c!rcled about directing the plac- ing Vf nets. In little while the nets "rere drawn completely about the un. snapocung submersibles which were hopelessly enmeshed and brought to the surface. They were lying side by side in the harbor of La Pallice when the Alaskan sailed
The Sentinel=record., 1917-03-21
Germans Systematically
 Spread De0dstatiOn
Only Villages Left Were Those Where Germans Were Taken
 By Surprise.

destroyed. Wherever bgilding was spared 1t was first rendered filthy. The orders directed the assembling of filth in the neighborhood of all wells for the purpose ct cCutaminat- ing the water.
 The destruction of fruit trees now apparently covers the entire belt of evacuated territory, even those cling ing to the walls having been stripped off. In one abandoned position q large black cat was found nailed to an upright board. A cap was on its head. cigar in it's mouth.
 The British observation party work ing forward today on horseback was attacked with machine gun fire by three German sirplanes which swoop- ed very low, but failed to hit any of the party.
 Prisoners recently taken appear en- tirely bewlldered when told ot the extent of German retirement They said they thought it great joke when they first heard of the German retirement; they supposed lt was sole ly for the purpose of getting the Brit ish deeper and deeper into the mud of the Somme. When it came to abandoning positions that had been fortified with months and years of labor there wfs much depression in the ranks. Most of the German guns that formerly boomed along the Somme seem to have been utterly swallowed up.
 There is no longer doubt that the main German forces had already in. stalled themselves on line before Cambrai and St. Quentin, but today fires could be seen beyond this line, as if the retrea, mad not yet been carried out to the full limit. Meantime the picture behind the British lines is one of greatest activ- ity Movement has given the army wonderful joy
The Sentinel=record., 1917-03-21

million pounds is the amount to be delivered
 This solyes one Of the important problems in ccnnd1tion with large orders for munitions soon to be placed and is the first big concession in re- sponse 10 appeals to the patriotism Of the countrys industries since the nayy's agreements with the ship builders and steel makers for profit cutting
 
 The action of the copper producers was announced tonight by the Coun- cil of National Defense, which made public letter from the producers to B. M. Baruch of New York, chairman of the councils metal supply commit. tee.
The Sentinel=record., 1917-03-21
TWO GERMAN SAILORS
 ESCAPE AT PHILADEL LPHlk
MEN ON lNTERNED SHIPS ARE TO BE TRANSF TO
 FORTS TODAY.

Philadelphia. March 20.--NotWith- standing the navy departments an nounc.ment that all the sailors on German auxiliary cruisers interned at the Philadelphia navy yard who last night made a dash for liberty had been accounted for, the local police were tonight working on the theory that St least two of the Germans es- capped
 Search of the waters around the yard for the bodies of Lieutenant Chorth and Hermann Schroder ma chinists mate. reported 10 have been drowned in the attempt to swim to the mainland, was discontinued late today Captain Tate of the detective burequ detailed a large squad of men to watch railroad terminals and all other exits from the city and "fliers' containing descriptions of Chorth and Schroder were sent broadcast. Elt ctricians today strung wires over he meadows in the vicinity of the navy yard and erected many high powered arc lights. Tonight the meadows were bright as day.
 Mayor Smith announced that the interned crews. numbering about 750 men. will be transferred to Forts Ogle thorpe and McPherson early tomor' TOW
The Sentinel=record., 1917-03-21

were in hiding back of Owenton Col. lege. This college is within loo yards of the home of Solicitor Joseph R. Tate who last fall represented the state in the prosecution of Oyerton.
 Fif,y shots were fired in the bat. tle. The fighting occurred in wooded field back of the college in the semi. dusk. Ten deputies. under Sheriff Batson of Birmingham, guided by their negro informer, surrounded the escaped men, and soon were joined by students from Owenton College These youths led in a chase after OyertCu's four companions when the firing began. Oyerton, armed with a rifle, met the fire of the officers alone at first, firing the first shot, it gas said. He was joined by Malino and Lathem and the trio apparently fought to finish. The slayer of Judge Law Ter died with a rifle in his hand and must have died instantly Malino and Lathem both were armed with postols
 AS bthNA AOui Altll W ub tNOd DCu ta.s morning are Sam Messina, under a death sentence and J. Anderson, Frank Smith and F. C. Winters. the latter three charged with forgery.
 AIalino is believed to have been the leader in the plan to escape About s o'clock, while eating breakfast in his cell with a warden and a turn key, he suddenly leaped to his feet and dashed out of the cell locking the two officers in He then liberat- cd Overton and the other prisoners and, after oyerpowering a guard in the corridor, escaped to the jail yard where they confronted Warden Lem Lavender. Oyerton, armed with a re. volver and Malino, fortified with razor, forced Lavender into the jail kitchen and took his keys, The fugl- tives then proceeded to the street and several blocks away got in a small automobile which drove rapidly away.
 David D. Overton was arrested Sep tember 25, last at Smithyille, Tenn charged with the killing of Judge w. T, Lawler in Huntsville, June r, 1916, after Q search had been made for him in every state in the South and parts of Canada. He was convicted last November and sentenced to death An appeal was made to the supreme court and this appeal was pending when he made his escape The finding of the body of Lawler in the Tennessee river near Whtesburg Ferry, on the morning of June IT. 1916, was fol lowed by the suicide in the next week of Shelby Pleasants, Huntsville at torney, and Robert Phillips, sheriff of Madison county, who, it is alleged killed themselves because they be- lieved they were suspected in connec- tion with the Lawler killing. Because of threats of lynching, two companies of the state militia were sent to Huntsville at the time of the killing and remained on duty there for a week.
The Sentinel=record., 1917-03-21
WAS WARNED OF TEE
 GATHERING REVOLUTION
Refused to Take Any Action or Listen to His Advisers and Appeared to Ee- lieve That All Was Going We'll In His Country, Which Resulted in His Downfall
Downfall.

Petrograd, March 20, Via London.-- lt would be unproftable to go fully into all the court scandals or the con- stantly accommodating evidence by which it seems to be clearly estah- lished the weak character and incred- ible lack of foresight of Nicholas II and his apparent ignorance of condi- tions that spelled his inevitable down fall. Most surprising of all was the emperors stubborn refusal to be guided by the counsel of members of his own family and his quiet aesump- ton that all was we'll with the couH- try al time when the whole nation was on the brink of active revolution.
 Grand Duke Nicholas Michaeloyitch made most persistent efftrts to ap- prise Emperor Nicholas that the coun- try was in danger and the throne tot tering but the emperor showed no more signs of being stirred by this warning than by that of the dowager empress and a multitude of other per sonages who approached him.
 Late in November Grand Duke Nich- olas Michaelovitch took to the palace letter that he had written and read it aloud to the emperor and empress. It expressed in most blunt fashion the danger tne country was in and showed only by the promptest action the em- peror could save the empire from com. plete collapse, The grand duke took no pains to conceal the Rasputin scan dal. but when the name of the em- press was mentioned the latter snatched the letter and tore 1t up.
 When the emperor received in si- lence the statement that Protopopoff (minister of the interior), had been foisted upon him by Rasputin and list
The Sentinel=record., 1917-03-21
WAS CONVICTED OF
 KILLING POLITICAL RIVAL
oVerton and Six Companions Were At. tempting to Escape From the Jeffer. son County Jail-Another Of the FugitiVes Was Also Killed and One Fatally Wounded

Birmingham, Ala, March 2O-The anal chapter in what is believed to have been Ala bama' most sensational murder case was written carly tonight when David D. Oyerton, former Of fieial of Huntsville, under sentence of death for the killing or Judge W. T. LaVltr. his political rival. last sum mer, was shot and killed by a sher- ifs posse near here in a fight in which OvCrton and six companions en- gagged after they had escaped from the Jefferson county jail here early today. Tony Malino, another fugitive, also met death. and ]. l.. Latham. also a member of the escaped band, was mortally wounded Four of Overton' 5 companions fled when the fight with the deputies began, and are being pur- sued by the posse None of the depu. ties were wounded
 Malipo was under a death sentence for the murder of peddler here sey- eral months ago, and Lathem had been indicted on charge of forgery.
 The seven prisoners fled from Birm- ingham about o'clock this morning after overpowering two wardens and a turnkey. They were heavily armed. Thoroughfares in every direction out of BIrmingham were searched, and late this evening the police were in. formed by a negro that the prisoners
The Sentinel=record., 1917-03-21
SUSPICIOUS GERMANS
 PLACED UNDER ARREST

Staunton. Va, March 20.--Three men, said to be Germans, were arrest ed early today in the plant of the Cri- mora manganese mines near here from which the government is said to purchase the entire output for ar nor plate work. They refused to give their names.
 The three men were arrested in side the plant, although they were not employed by the mining company having applied for work Monday and having been promised employment as sa0n as possible.
 Mine Superintendent II. w, Hogg aud county officials left today for Washington to confer with govern
The Sentinel=record., 1917-03-21

zen Some of the crew drowned were Amer.tan citizens
 Grew adrift in lifeboats from Fri day morning, 10 o'clock. until Sunday afternoon. 1 o'clock Submarine of unknown nationality followed life boats at distance of fifty yards from 10 Friday night to [ Saturday moru ing. Submarine and lifeboats did not speah
 Survivors landed St. Mary's in wu boats after suffering greatly from cold. wet and fatigue One seaman, 9 Spaniard, paraIyzed from exposure.
 This information obtained by tsle- graph from Penzance. Crew coming to Plymouth today"
 Consul Frost, at Queenstown, an nounced the arrival of the missing men from the American steamer City Of Memphis at Glasgow in the follow ing brief dispatch
 Captain Borum of City of Memphis and the eight boats crew lands safely Glasgow care Consul McCunn."
The Sentinel=record., 1917-03-21

tFrom q Staff Cores spondeut Of tue
 Associated Press)
 British Headquarters in France, March 20, via London. The pursuit of the Germans by the British troops continues and al places sharp fight ing ensued today. This was partic- nlarly true of the neighborhood of Croisilles (northeast of Saint Leger) which is still strongly held by ma chine gun companies. The armies have been in such close touch at other places that field fighting tactics have been employed, the men firing from skirmish lines.
 Wherever the British penetrate ter. Iitory formerly held by the Germans they encounter the same conditions of destruction and devastation as in Bapaume and Peronne. Only " villages have escaped, the Germans in these instances having been con- Pelled to leave before their plans to lay waste could be carried out.
 The use of cavalry by the British and French seems to have taken the Germans by surprise, upsetting some of their calculations. In one village, supper which had been laid out, was abandoned together with much am munition, and in other places newly opened boxes of high explosives were found, with which the Germans had planned to destroy the villages be- tore leaving.
 That the wholesale devastation was bystenatized in manner character istic of German thoroughness was shown by captured orders on the sub jCct. These directed the blowing up Of all houses, wells and cellars eX- cept those occupied by rear guard outposts. the rear guard being held responsible for making their shelters uninhabitable before falling back. All farming implements were burhed or
The Sentinel=record., 1917-03-21
NO INSURANCE FOR
 ARMS AND AMMUNITION
Action Is Taken to More Thoroughly Facilitate the Commerce of the United States With European Coun. tries--Rates Charged Are Lower Than Private Companies,

Washington, March 20.-The gov ernment war risk insurance bureau, which heretofore. has insured only nonrcontraband, announced today 1t would "broaden the scope of it's oper- ations' and hereafter insure practic. ally all forms of contraband for Eu- ropean countries except arms and am. muntion.
 The decision to insure contraband was reached al q meeting between Secretary McAdoo and the advisory board of the bureau and was an- nounoed in the following statement: Secretary McAdoo following d meeting with the advisory board of ;he war risk insurance and the direc. tor oi that bureau, announced that owing to present conditions and with view to more thoroughly facilitat. ing the commerce of the United States, the bureau of war risk insur- ance would broaden the scope of its operations and insure more general ly cargoes and vessels bound to Eu-
 ropean ports. Future policies will cover practically everything except guns, arms and ammunition"
 Under the law no insurance can be issued on vessels or cargoes of vessels other than American. Heretofore the bureau has declined to issue policies on articles declared contraband by the belligerents, including almost all American products. with the result that only a small percentage of the American transatlantic merchant fleet was insured by the government. Even with this restriction tue bureau has issued approximately $200,000, GOO in insurance since it's inauguration in September 1914, Total losses have been small, the amount of the origi- nal appropriation of $5,000000 by con gress for the payment of losses hay ing been reduced about $600,000. Premiums for policies are not avail able for the payment of losses, but have to be turned into the treasury.
 Congress recently appropriated $l5,.  100000 additional for the payment of losses, bringing the total up to ap- proMmately $20000.000, and indica. tions are that at the forthcoming ex- ira session request will be made for 8 still further appropriation
 Shortly after the break with Ger many rates were advanced from 100 10 900 per cent by the bureau, or up to per cent of the value of the yes sel or cargo to certain ports In the war zone Although these rates are appreciably lower than those charged by private insurance companies, there is little indication that they will be advanced.
 The arming of American ships is only a part of the program deemed es. sential for the protection and promo ton of American commerce on the The insurance of all cargoes except actual implements of battle is regard ed as another step in the policy of safeguarding American shippers against losses due to unrestricted sub marine warfare
The Sentinel=record., 1917-03-21
Consul Makes Report> or Torpedoeing of Vigi1ancid
Vessel Was Sunk Without Warning With q Loss of Fifteen
 LiDeS.

Washington, March 20 - Consul General Skinner at London forwarded to the state department today a dis patch from the consul at Plymouth giving the most complete official re. port yet received on the unVarned torpedoing of the American steamer Vigilancia, with a loss of 15 lives, in- cluding several native American citi. zens.
 The report follows
 "Vigilancia, of Wilmington. Del, from New York for Havre, with gen. eral cargo of shelter structural iron, asbestos. dried fruit and straw. sunk without warning on March l6, about lt5 miles from nearest land by tor pedo from submarine of unknown .- tionality.
 Two torpedocs fired at ship, first missed, second struck ship on star board side by third hatch. Ship sunk in ten minutes Weather at time clear with moderate sea swell No other vessel in sight Crew of i3 men at tempted to abandon ship in two life boats Ocean swell, 2 men were washed off boat. of these. ten were saved and IS drowned
 Among the drowned are Third En- gineer Carl Adeholde. native Amer fen citizen. anG Third Officer Niels North. a naturalized American citi