The Eureka sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1902-current, 1902-02-01


T. ID. Bannister, Alfred b. lies and t.
l.. Parker.
Frank Furtado, IS years old, q keeper
at Piedmont Springs park, Oakland,
Cal, went among the elk for the pur-
pose Of feeding them, when he was sud.
denly attacked by a maddened bull,
which impaled the boy on its horns,
and after carrying him in this way
around the paddock, pitched him over q
ten-foot fence. In a few minutes he
died in the arms Of his brother, Joseph
Furtado, who had gone to rescue the
boy from the maddened brute. 1t is
thought that the elk was suffering from
fever, as about this season of the year
the antlers drop.
Along the northern part Of San
Joaquin county and Sacramento county,
Cal, there will be numerous vineyards
planted this season. It is intended to
plant only resistant vines, which will
not be affected by pests.
Mountain lions, says q San Jose dis
dispatch, during the cold weather have
been committing many depredations
among domestic stock, especially on
the sheep ranges around Mount Hamil-
ton. A large number Of the hungry
beasts have been slain, but many still
remain. Andrew Kettman of Ever
green, whose father owns a sheep ranch
near Mount Hamilton, killed one that
measured s feet from tip to tip and
weighed 100 pounds. The beast was
on the trail of a colt and about to
spring on his prey when shot
In an encounter with three highway
men who were endeavoring to rob
citizen at Eighteenth and Valencia
streets, San Francisco, Police Officer
| +. @. Robinson was shot in the abdo-
men. and he died from the wound next
day. One of the robbers, William A.
Henderson, was wounded and taken to
the City and County hospital. The
other two. known as "Kid" Goucher
and Brownie, escaped. Goucher is
said to be a son of ex-senator Goucher
of Fresno.
The young son and daughter Of Cleve
Smith-Richard, aged IL, and Georgi-
ana, aged 14-with Joseph Calvin, a
hired man, were drowned while skating
near Alhi, says a Sprague (Wash.) dis
patch. The three not returning home
In the evening, Mr.. Smith made a
search next morning and found their
caps frozen to the ice. The bodies were
afterward recovered.
Edward Fall and Jack Smith, old resi-
| Hal an.
gagged in a fight with deadly weapons,
Smith using revolver and Hall a
pump-gun, with the result that both
men are dangerously wounded and may
die. The shooting occurred at Fort Jim,
one of the old mining districts in the
county, partly over a mining quarrel Of
long standing and partly because Smith
accused Fall of having stolen hog.
The recent storm did damage on the
water front at Seattle amounting to
about $40, 900. Accidents were numer-
GUS, including the loss of large steam
er, the Z. ID. Smith. A section of wharf
in old Tacoma was washed from its
piling and fioated out to sea. On the
wharf stands small grocery store
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proprietor and two customers were in
the store at the time the dock fioated
away, taking the building with it. For
several hours the groceryman and his
customers were at the mercy of the
waves, but the dock did not overturn
and finally was picked up by tug and
safely moored.
Oliver Lippincott Of Los Angeles in
his automobile, Toledo, climbed knob
Hill," 16 per cent grade, between Flag
staff "a. IT, and the Grand Canyon in
six inches of snow. The test was made
before a committee of the new Automo.
bile Transportation company, and the
feat is considered one of the most diff.
cult ever attempted. The new COM
pany expects to have Is passenger auto
mobiles running to the Grand Canyon
by May /.
w. A. Lewis. a pioneer attorney OF
Spokane, was convicted in the superior
court in that city of embezzling $1,000
of his client. Lewis and his family are
prominent in society. When the dis
coyery of his embezzlement was made
he fed to Seattle and remained there IN
hiding for several months. He was
discovered, however, and taken back tc
Spokane, and on being released on
bond fed to Denver. He was caught
there and returned to Spokane for trial
John H. Wood, "a years of age, wal
sentenced by Judge Carroll Cook at Sar
Francisco to imprisonment at Folsom
for the remainder of his life for the
crime of highway robbery. The con
yicted man served in the Philippine
campaign, but was convicted of mill
tary offense and dishonorably dis
charged from the service. Frank Mel
son pleaded guilty before Judge dunno
to the charge of highway robbery anC
was sentenced to 81 years in San Quen
tin. Edward Davis, Nelson's accom-
plice, pleaded not guilty, and was sen
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