Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1878-08-29

PA GOA ST.
CALIFORNIA.
SEVERAL INTERESTING ITEMS FROM SAN
FRANCISCO.
DEATH OF BOB APPLE.
RumOred Capture of E.awson.
DEATH OF BOB APPLE.
sumored Capture of E.awson.

SAN Francisco, August 28.
In the United States Circuit Court this
morning suit was commenced against
Oliver Chapman, late Indian Agent Of the
Camp Verde reservation, Arizona, and his
s~uretics, W. b. Hooker and Charles Barney,
to recover the amount of his bond, $40, 600.
Chapman had charge Of the reservation
from October, 1874, to June, 1875, and on
his retirement his accounts showed q de-
ficiency of So, 600, besides which he failed
to account for property, to the amount Of
SCI 600, turned over to him by his prede-
cessor. Altogether his defalcation amounts
to about S31 ,000.
Captain Burns. Secretary Of the Society
for the Prevention Of Cruelty to Animals,
reports CHAMBERS spreading among the
horses in this city to a n extent much
| greater than is generally understood. The
dissemination of the disease is greatly
facilitated by the pains taken by owners
of stock to conceal facts and smuggle away
the bodies of dead animals.
Adispatch from Salinas, Monterey county,
says: To-day a farmer named Lemuel Il.
Shepherd murdered his daughter, aged %
years, by cutting her throat. He then took
a dose o. s~trychnine, and afterwards blew
| his brains out with a musket. Cause, des-
pondency about muiey matters.
Colonel Weller, President Of the Crown
Point, received a letter this morning from
the Consul General at Vienna announcing
the death Of Robert Apple at Naples. Mr..
Apple was an old Superintendent Of the
Comstock, formerly Of Sierra Nevada.
Joseph Brusher, a native of New York,
40 years Of age, a stevedore, committed
suicide last night by hanging himself to
the iron grating of the window Of his room
in the Home Of the Inebriates.i
To-day Chief Kirkpatrick received the
following dispatch:
ARcATA, CAL, August 28.
John Kirkpatrick, Chief of Police: !
think we have Lawton in Crescent City.
He answers the description given. He has
travelled under different names, and will
not talk on the subject of murder. Is
anything known Of him at your Office? An
swer.
(Signed), AUSTIN Wiley.
Chief Kirkpatrick at once telegraphed
what he had received to Sacramento, stat
ing that Mr.. Wiley was a reliable man, and
requesting the authorities to answer him
direct.
The body Of an unknown man was res
cued off Black Point this afternoon. The
pockets Of the clothing had been cut out.
All the flesh was zone from the head and
portions Of the body, and the only means
Of identifying the remains exist in the
clothing.
TIT Board Of Health held an important
meeting to-day, and after a long discussion
determined to proceed vigorously to the
work Of cleaning ont the nuisances Of
Chinatown. Under the law, the Board de-
clared a number Of tenements in streets
and alleys unfit for human habitation, and
have ordered the police authorities to force
the occupants to leave. Rev. Otis Gibson's
place in the Chinese quarter was also de-
clared uninhabitahle, according to the pro-
visions of the law passed by the last Legis-
lature. The authorities will compel the
people occupying the building to leave it.
Many other buildings in the Chinese quar-
ter were also declared unfit for habitation.
Mr.. Gibson appeared before the Board, and
made an argument, but it did not change
the convictions Of the members of the
Board.
sacramento News.
SACRAMENTO, Aug. 90.
Sheriff Drew returned from Gait this
morning. The rumor as TO the capture OF
Lawton at that place is incorrect, no one
having been arrested, though a man was
seen in the vicinity who resembled the
murderer.
Last February q boy IS years of are.
named Peter Light, was drowned while
swimming some horses across Alder creek.
in this county. Yesterday o man was
cleaning out an old well near the spot,