Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1892-03-11
IN THE WEST.

NIIctIIL COURT AT san Francisco, mas
upheld the State Supreme Court, and
decided IN important Chinese case in
1nNor OF the celestial against the local
collector. The petitioner is Mock Chow,
IL lad of IL. who last year presented Il
certificate from the Chinese Consulate
at Iokohoma. and demanded admission
here as IL merchant. His papers gave
tile name of u San Francisco firm in
which he had invested s 5000. but the
collector refused to allow him to land
because he claimed the Chinese Consult
ate in Japan had no right te issue such
papers. The Judges decision is impol-
tant. as it establishes the fact thai Chi
lese ConSuls residing out of China may
issue certificates which must be rccog-
ni1cu here as evidence of the right of
holders to land. This means That Chi
ncsc Consuls at san Francisco. Victoria.
Honolulu. and other points can all issue
certificates.
Miss MER1IE NNUTsoN of Clear Lake.
Wis, Il girl of 10, died. or was supposed
To have died, after /; sickness OF but
one day. The funeral was set, accord
ing to custom. The lady was laid out
in her collin and placed in u cold room
until the day of the funeral. When
that day arrived Il p%erceptible change
i'm tie oountenancc of tine girl was no
ticed. The face was flushed. the hands
and body limp and still warm. The
funeral was postponed and W doctors
summoned. who applied Electric bait
%tcries, etc.. but without success. That
day the body became rigid and stiff, and
il is thought that the girl died on the
day set for her funeral.
SAN DIEGO. Call. special: j. Collins,
President of the California National
Bank. who has been under arrest for
the last ten days on IL charge of embcx-
cling 5000 600 Of the dcfunct banks
funds, committed suicide by shooting
himself. lie had been unable to fur
nish the required bail. and had been
confined in his room in the Brewster
Hotel i'm charge of Il deputy. Orders
came to District Attorney Jones to take
Collins to Los Angeles for trial. Upon
receipt of this news Collins excused
himself and went to the bath room,
whore he placed the muzzle of ~ re-
volver in his mouth and fired the fatal
shot.
CHARLES w. AYERS, Il prominent bus
mess man of Detroit, Mich, WAS fatally
shot by his wife. The couple had not
lived happily for q long time, and a
year or more ago Mrs. Ayers sued for IL
divorce. The case went to the Supreme
Court. which has just rendered a decis-
ion Diminishing Mrs. Ayers suit, anddis-
Solving the injunction restraining Ayers
from entering the family residence. In
consequence thereof, Ayers went to the
house TO pack up his personal effects.
lie met his wife and Il quarrel ensucd.
resulting in her getting a revolver and
shooting him.
A MAN supposed to be iicnry Avok
shot and killed Marina Leighton ut Los
Angeles, Cal, and thcn put Il bullet
through his own brain. She was heard
singing, when suddenly she shricked
for help. Three pistol shots were
heard and the crowd on the street saw
the woman with blood streaming from
her head. climb out of the window and
fall Il distance of twenty feet to the
street. 1t is supposed Avok was her
husband. He lett IL letter asking that
his parents, at Aghog Avokian, British
Turkey. Asia. be notified.
Tile State quarantine officer received
q dispatch from Attorney General Hart.
at Los Angeles. Cal. stating that the
court there had ordered 3a5.nOO orang
trees, imported from Tahiti last June,
which were infected with scale insects,
to be destroyed OH the ground that they
were Il ena to the orchards of the
State. The case attracted much atten-
ton among nursery men there and in
the East, it being the first case of the
kind ever brought before the courts.
SAN FRANcrsco special: Bernard
! Reiss, of the firm of Neuberger,, Reiss
Is Co., who cheated the government out
of 100000 by smuggling fine silks and
woolcns as cotton goods. was let off with
Il fine of 81, 900 and costs. in addition to
$4,000 paid to the government. Rciss
pleaded for mercy because he had
motherlesS children depending on him.
So. Judge Morrow spared him from Il
penal sentence which would have sent
him to San Quentin for two years.
LIP. l.. HUNrLEY, Il Chicago man. was
robbed in January of $4,000 worth OF
diamonds while en- route from Kootenai
to Corners Ferry. His valuables were
returned to him at Portland, Oregon. in
answer to an advertisement, he paying
$1,000 reward and no questions asked.
DENVER special: The Mollic Gibson
will distribute q dividend of S32s, OOu
among stockholders of record for March.
i ~ u CSuiiIuUCO tudU We IApllI QltlueiluS
will mount to 500, 900. This is the
greatest dividend ever paid in one month
by any silver mine in the world.
y rABuLoUsI.Y rich strike Of gold has
been made III the Humbug District, Ari.
IONA, and The miners are docking there
by the hundreds. Ihc ore is free mill.
ing. and runs from $500 Ia 500 ncr ton.
DI. ANDREW PALMER. u rrom.hen,
physician of Alvun. H.. was found
guilty and fined in .hc Circuit Conrt .oi
Illegal voting. He was u Canadian who
had only taken out his first papers.
IIFlEEN ,ramps who were begging ~,
Cairo. ILL.,. were logged by ship-yarl
y employees and turned lOose.