The Eureka sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1902-current, 1902-02-15

The farmers Of eastern Washington
ind Oregon are gradually building CO
operative telephone lines through h
anger part of the wheat-growing area.
H. Z. Huntington has decided that he
will equip the new shops at Los Angeles
10 build electric cars from the rail up.
He finds that he can save 800 on each
motor by builSing them at Los Angeles.
The steamship Knight Companion.
me of the regular line of steamers OF
the Portland and Asiatic Steamship
company, went ashore in the China sea,
near Idzumi, Japan. All the crew and
passengers were saved. The vessel is q
total loss.
Aggie Kelly, convicted Of enticing
Sophia Fnegold, a ~15-year-old girl,
from her home in San Francisco and
placing her in a d~isreputable house in
Eureka, was sentenced by Judge Lawlor
1t San Francisco to three years in San
Quentin. :.
Attorney w. A. Lewis Of Spokane,
WASH, convicted of stealing more than
b 1000 from Mrs. Nettie Brauer Platt.
one of his clients, was sentenced by
Judge Rudkin to eve years in the
penitentiary at Walla Walla. The sem
tence was accompanied by a scathing
comment by the judge.
Norman Lambert, the man-of-wars-
man who confessed desertion to avoid
conviction of murder, and who made a
daring escape from the receiving ship
independence at Vallejo, CAL, recently.
is still alive. 1t was thought he had
persisted in his attempt to swim the
river, but q postal card from him to a
friend aboard the Independence says,
II am now 100 miles away and still
agoing."
Judges Oster and Bledsoe, sitting in
bank in the superior court at San Ber-
nardino, CAL, in the case of the People
vs.. Jim Goddard, decided that subdivi-
sion 3 of section CAT of the Penal Code
is unconstitutional and discharged the
prisoner, who had been convicted Of
vagrancy under that subdivision. The
court holds that if roaming about from
place to place without any lawful bust
ness is a crime, then any man, no mat
ter how wealthy, travelling about the
country seeking health or pleasure,
without any lawful business, is guilty
of committing a crime.
Bernhard Stucky, aged 20, while at
tempting to thaw out 16 pounds of dyna-
mite by placing it in a stove in his cabin
about 10 miles from Portland, raj ter
ribly injured, and died at st. Vincent's
hospital after suffering great agony.
The cabin was blown to atoms and
STICKY was found insensible several
Yards from where he had been sitting.
P. B. Cornwall and the other San
Francisco owners of the Bellingham
Bay and British Columbia railroad have
decided to spend several million dollars
in carrying out two big enterprises.
One will be the development of the
water power of Nooksack falls, in What
com county, and the conversion of the
same into electric power. The other
project is the extension Of the Belling.
ham Bay and British Columbia railroad
from Maple Falls, in Whatcom county.
across the Cascade mountains to Win
throp, in Okanagon county.
The nude body Of 16-year-old Nora
Fuller, missing since Jan. II, was found
on q bed i'll a vacant house at 2211
Suffer street, San Francisco. The house
had been rented on Jan. s to a man
giving the name of O. B. Hawkins, and
he said he would 10Y into the house
next day. 1t has been ascertained that
Nora Fuller answered an advertisement
for o position as a domestic, and she
received a reply from a man signing
himself John Bennett, requesting her
to meet him at the Popular restaurant,
55 Geary street. The police are endea-
yoring to find Hawkins, who they have
no doubt is identical with Bennett.
Autopsy Surgeon Bacigalupi says death
was caused by strangulation.
Suit was begun in Oakland, CAL, by
Mrs. Margaret H. Mansfield for the
annulment of her marriage to William
f. Mansfield. The couple were married
in 1887, Mansfield believing that his
first wife, whom he married in the east
in 1861, was dead. Mansfield applied
recently to the government for a pension
for his four years services during the
civil war;, and received q reply from the
pension department to the effect that
his first wife had applied for a pension
and that she believed him dead. The
second Mrs. Mansfield now asks that
she be allowed to resume her maiden
name, Margaret Harriet Mcmillan. The
couple have lived happily together since
their marriage.
John Murphy. commonly known as
'.Brick" Murphy, was sentenced by SUI
perior Judge Carroll Cook at San Fran
cisco to life imprisonment in San Quen-
tin for the crime of robbery. In 1891
he was convicted Of petty larceny, and,
according to the law Of California, a
mar with a prior conviction for q petty
crime against him must receive a life
sentence when convicted on a charge Of
felony.