The Eureka sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1902-current, 1902-05-10

cealed weapon during the recent street.
car strike in San Francisco, was sem
fenced by Police Judge Mogan to q fine
Of 500. or 100 days in the county Jail,
as a punishment for the offense.
Skagway passengers arriving at VAN
couver, B. c., state that the latest adj
vices from Dawson are to the effect
that the Klondike diggings are drenched
with a heavy, continuous rain, and
water is available in abundance. Sluic-
ing has begun in earnest ON all the
creeks, and the value Of the winter
dumps is placed ct SIS. 0oo, zoo.
Peter de Salvo. a 7-year-old boy whose
a visit to @. Pallezzeri at San Jose, was
dragged to death by a COW belonging to
Pelezzeri. The boy was found dying in
the COW yard. About his neck was the
end of the cows rope and on his head
was a deep cut. 1t is supposed that the
child, in playing with the cow. tied the
rope about his neck and in trying to
drive her was dragged to death.
DIR. E. @. Aldrich, formerly of Chi
cago, but who for several months has
been practicing his profession in Los
Angeles, shot aud killed himself, after
shooting Detective Hawley through the
back and seriously wounding him, and
firing a number of shots at others Of
the detectives party. Aldrich was
wanted in Chicago on charges of per-
jury and bigamy, and the shooting took
place in the Hallett & Pirtle block
when the officers went to arrest Aldrich.
The fruit shippers of California have
perfected the organization of their new
association, articles Of incorporation Of
the California Distributors having been
filed with the county clerk of San Fran
cisco. The capital stock has been fixed
at $4,000. Frank H. Buck of Vaca-
vile was elected president, and Alden
Anderson of Suisun secretary and man
ager.
The secretary Of war has authorized
the California debris commission to take
up the deeds to lands for restraining
barriers on the Yuba river. This is an
other step toward the construction of a
big debris restraining system on the
Yuba river under the joint expense Of
the state and federal governments. The
river and harbor bill contains IN appro-
priation of $3.50, 900 for this work.
Mrs. G. j. Browne Of Sacramento,
aged about %, a patient at the st.
Helena sanitarium, committed suicide
by drowning herself in q we'll. While
in a state of melancholia, and when her
nurse had left her for a minute, the
woman escaped from the building and
ran about two miles up the road, where
there is an old we'll. Throwing off the
boards from the top, she jumped in.
S. A. Knapp, who arrived at Carson,
New, from Hawthorne, brought word
that one of the richest strikes recorded
in the history of the state was made re-
Gently in the Silver Peak mines. Knapp
says that nuggets of pure gold the size
of a hens egg were taken out, and that
there are many of these pieces of gold of
various sizes. The whole face of the
drift. apart from the nugaets-the ore
| itself-was estimated to go $400 or $500
a ton. The Silver Peak mine is in Es-
meralda county, and is SO miles from
the railroad and 40 miles from Tonopah.
The crew of the sealing schooner
Ocean Bell had a narrow escape from
| destruction through a desire for revenge
on the part of her Chinese cook, says a
| Vancouver (B. O. dispatch. Captain
McPhee had had several rows with the
| tho Chinoca aud haH Northumberland nNr-
poral punishment, which filed the Chi
nese with a desire for revenge. When
| off the California coast the cook, armed
with a big knife, drove the captain into
his cabin, aud, getting a keg of gun
| powder, knocked the head in, poured
kerosene about the floor and laid a train
| of powder to the deck. Striking q
match, he lit the train, but at this mo-
ment McPhee rushed at him in despera-
ton. The Chinese did not wait the on.
slaught, but with a cry of mingled rage
and despair ran to the side and jumped
overheard. Members of the crew, at.
tracted by the yells of the captain and
cook, came on the scene and put out the
fire. The Chinese sank in the sea an d
was seen no more.
During the last year Thomas Jeffer-
son Chambers has buried $15, 900 in
gold coin and ~greenbacks at Yakima
City, WASH, and then forgot where he
put the money. Chambers is 70 years
old and has peer gradually losing his
memory. A year ago he buried $500,
and six months elapsed before he could
recall where he had placed it. He has
always been afraid of banks. At an.
other time he hid away Sc, 900 in cash,
which was subsequently, found by men
digging postholes. They knew Of his
failing and promptly returned him the
money. Lately about IS, o of Cham
bers's money was missing. He wanted
to use it and could not remember where
he had hidden it. He lives with his
nephew, Samuel Taylor, whose family
made an energetic search to recover the
money, and found the cash beneath
some jars of preserved fruit.
Bogus drafts, drawn on either the
Ra,H ~ Con Toao or tha Amoricau PonG