The Eureka sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1902-current, 1902-05-17

Attempts suicide Win q Hatpth.
The steamers State of Washington
and Sehome have been sold by Dowdell
b 90. to the Pacific Coast Steamship
company, says a Tacoma dispatch.
These steamers, together with other
Puget sound steamers acquired by the
Pacific Coast company. will be operated
as feeders to the company's lines rum
ming to San Francisco and Alaska.
The Southern Pacific has decided to
lake under its own management all the
iati g-houses on its entire railway sys-
tenn of 1900 miles in California, Oregon,
Nevada, Utah, Arizona, New Mexico,
Texas and Louisiana, and to assume the
direct supervision of the restaurants on
the ferry steamers between San Fran
cisco and Oakland and Alameda.
James Wheelock was sentenced by
Judge Gray at Oroville, CAL. to suffer
the death penalty on June ID at San
Quentin prison. Wheelock had been
convicted of the brutal murder of Mrs.
Mary Martin, aged "a years, at Couto-
lene, Butte county, on May II. 1901.
A formal step in the apprehension of
O. B. Hadley, the man accused by the
police of the murder of Nora Fuller in
the house at 2211 Suffer street, San
Francisco, was taken by the dead girls
mother, Mrs. Alice Fuller, who swore
to q complaint charging Hadley with
the crime. Should Hadley be found all
the legal formalities possible at the pres
ent time will now have been performed,
and if found in a foreign country steps
for his extradition may be taken with
ont delay.
John Nicolai and Henry Clarke are
making q monetary success of b larg-
est farm in Alaska, says a Tacoma dis
patch. 1t consists of 40 acres-35 acres
at Dyea and five at Skagway. Their
crops include vegetables of all kinds
oats, berries, apples and crab apples.
The experiments show the yields from
the Alaskan soil to be very large and
the quality of the vegetables excellent.
The entire product is sold at White
Horse, Atlin and other interior towns,
bringing high prices. The farm is n
of the chief places in Alaska to be Wis.,
tied by Secretary of Agriculture Wilson
on his Alaska trip this summer.
Committees have been appointed by
the California State Dental association
and the San Francisco Dental associa-
ton to make systematic examinations of
the teeth of children in the public
schools, with the object of securing suf-
fcient data regarding the prevalence of
dental disease and deformity in school
children, to lea to a fuller knowledge
Of existing conditions and the evils
growing from them. The assistance
and cooperation of the board of educa-
ton is asked in the contemplated work.
AL expenses will be met by the societies
desiring to institute the examinations.
No little surprise was created when it
was discovered that two large mush-
rooms had grown through a concrete
floor in the Miller warehouse at Stock
ton, Cal. M. P. Stein, who own the
building, noticed the concrete and btu
men floor was being forced upward in
the shape of two hillocks. A few days
later the floor split open and two mush-
rooms forced their way upward into the
air. By actual measurement the mush-
rooms grew through four inches of solid
concrete and two inches of bitumen.
The pressure was simply too great and
the flooring gave way.
The sixth biennial convention of the
General Federation of Women's Clubs
was held at Los Angeles. The follow
ing officers were elected: President, Mrs.
Dimies T. S. Denison of New York;
first vice-president, Mrs. Robert Bur-
dette of California; second vice-presi-
dent, Mrs. Emma Fox of Michigan; re-
cording secretary, Mrs. William T. Ooad
of South DAKOTA; corresponding secre-
tary, Miss Louise Papenheim of South
Carolina; treasurer, Mrs. Emma Van
Vechten of Iowa; auditor, Mrs. George
Noyes of Wisconsin.
Miss Alice Robertson passed success
fully through the trying ordeal of her
public examination for the degree of
doctor of philosophy from the uni
vOIblby VI O01iAOAuAos IOK bWO AOuIS
the learned examiners questioned her
in regard to the conclusions she had
drawn from her study of "The Embry-
ology and Embryonic Fission in Cyclic
stomatous Bryozoa." Miss Robinson is
the third woman to receive from the
university of California it's highest AGA
demic distinction.
A peculiar case came up in Superior
Judge Dunne's court at San Francisco,
when Assistant District Attorney John
Creamy, the prosecutor, moved for a
dismissal as soon as the case was called
on the ground that the evidence was
insufficient to convict. The defendant
was a young man named w. H. Shook,
who was accused of an attempt to com
init robbery. His arrest was based on
the simple fact that he had entered a
Hayes street fish market and casually
asked the proprietor how business was,
and when told it was good. jocularly
asked how much money was in the cash
There was no other evidence