The Eureka sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1902-current, 1902-04-26

pany q Milwaukee las acquires &z.0Vo
acres Of land at the head OF American
river at a cost Of $3.50. geo. saysa Nevada
City dispatch. A big sawnin viii bs
built on the divide between the two
branches of the American river, and .
railroad will connect the mills with the
Southern Pacific near Soda Springs sta
ton. The railroad and the mill win
cost 81 1000, 600.
incorporation papers of the Blast Fur
mace Smelling company, with the CAPT.
tai stock of $1,000. 900. fully paid up,
were fled in the county clerks Office ut
Los Angeles. The object of the COM
pany is to establish a smelter in the
vicinity of Los Angeles and to engage
in the business Of treating ores, build
ing telephone and telegraph lines, rail.
roads. etc.
Mrs. Robert Mills of 21t0 Hearst ave-
nue., Berkeley, Cal, was robbed by o
burglar of her purse, containing $27,
which was taken from her hand while
she lay asleep in bed. Other articles
were also taken from the room. About
z o'clock in the morning Mrs Mills had
given q servant some money to go down
town and make q purchase. She had
afterward fallen asleep with the purse
in her hand, when the burglar sue
ceeded in making the transfer.
Judge ]. 5. Noyes at Riverside, GAL,
has handed down a decision in the case
of Humphreys Va. Moulton g. Praed.
Judgment being for the plaintiff for
$1,000 damages, with q perpetual in
junction against defendants from the
use of three overflow canals. The de-
cision is of particular interest to irri-
gators and fruit-growers. The defend
ants, in order to improve their land, by
a series of small canals, turned the
usual flow of storm water in q con.
densed stream on to the plaintiffs prop
erty; doing damage that would not
have occurred had the storm water run
upon the land in its natural channels.
DR.. Westlake of Los Angeles has 40
acres of three-year-old Corsica citron
trees in the foothills near Monrovia,
from which he has obtained %. 600
pounds of cured citron. He has refused
Is cents a pound for the entire crop,
and expects TO realize much more than
that price. This is the largest grove of
the Corsica citron in the United States.
DR.. Westlake has discovered q method
of curing the product equal to that en-
ployed in Europe, and purposes estab-
fishing a factory to conduct the business
on a large scale.
". N. Crenshaw, organizer for the
| Fraternal Brotherhood, was recently
ridden out of Nashton, near Tuolumne,
CAL, for rashly saying that all Native
Daughters were of questionable charac-
ter. He swore to complaints against
several of those who took a hand in the
affair, and at the trial the courtroom
was crowded with men and women.
| Crenshaw denied the statements attrib-
uted to him, but the evidence wa
against him, and the men whom he had
caused to be arrested were acquitted by
the jury. Crenshaw, in fear of a mol
| that awaited him outside the courtroom,
| slipped out by a rear door and over the
hills before the crowd was aware Of his
departure.
The steamer Camano, owned by Cap
tain Griggs of the Columbia and Okan.
| ogan steamer line, achieved the feat Of
ascending the Columbia river through
| He'll Gate, and navigating the river foi
80 miles above the mouth Of the Spo-
kane. The run was made in a spirit Of
rivalry to forestall Captain J. d. Miller,
who is now building q 125-foot steamer
to ply the river from Wenatchee to
Hickey rapids, near Kettle Falls. As a
result of an examination of the river
made in 1898, Captain Miller became
convinced that the river was navigable
| over this reach. The Camano covered
102 miles Of virgin water.
For some unknown reason many i'm.
migrants who have arrived in Washing.
ton have e~ndeavored to make a living
by their wits. instead of spending the
money they brought with them, says a
Tacoma dispatch. At North Yakima
| three men were arrested who had almost
| 50. 900 among them. One Of them was
| picked up while intoxicated, and when
searched So, 200 was taken from his
| DOCk6GS. Au OlQ mdu q 4ohAA4o Wbs
arrested for begging. and when searched
in Jail was found to have 1 400. Still
another man arrested for vagrancy pos
sessed a. 300 in cash and drafts. Sew
| eral arrested at E~llensburg and Tacoma
were found to have sums ranging from
$400 to $500 each.
NJ. Masumoto, q Japanese Of Homo
lulu, has written . letter to Collector of
| Customs Stratton at San Francisco, ask
ing that official to capture his runaway
| wife and return her to Honolulu as
freight. The letter is as follows: 'Col.
lector Stratton, Hon. Apr. 10, a U. s.
A. Custom; Dear Sir I beg TO you tell
my wife sho she went with a man who's
name Y. Kimura, they went on . ship.
sail ON 9th of April. please watch the
ships arrival and if you find her please
send her back. any trip when you have
or write . letter to me and how much
you want I will send the money or You
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