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Show AFTER LONG YEARS. Bill Passed For the Relief of David Tweed of Wyoming Washington. March 16. Senator Warren War-ren today secured the passage by the senate of the Mo'ndeir bill, which passed the house, to pay David Tweed of Miners' Mi-ners' Delight, Wyo., $3.."00 as compensation compen-sation for injuries received while guiding guid-ing a United States soldier, who was carrying important dispatches in Jnnu- I ary, I ST.". from Fort Brown-to Fort j Stambaugh. Wyo. The facts estah- i lished in the case are that Tweed, then a boy of fourteen, was induced by a soldier to show him the way over the mountains to Fort Stambaugh. The weather was bitter cold, with signs of an approaching blizzard, and Tweed ! wanted to turn back, but was pnrsund- j cd by the soldier to keep on as his dis- patches wtre of such importance that there could be no delay. Finally they became List in the mountains and Tweed's feet were frozen so, badly that amputation of both was nec.-ssary. The bill for his relief has been before con-congress con-congress for several terms, but until the present without success. |