The Eureka sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1902-current, 1902-04-26
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,neen wilhelmina Of the Netherlands
Is suffering from typhoid fevx.
DIR. Barton has challenged M. oantos-
Dumont for the Pearson prize OF e2o, 900
for going from London to Birmingham.
A distance Of 100 miles, in an airship.
DIR. Barton has also challenged NJ. San
tos. Dumont to race from London to
Edinburgh for any sum up to $5o, 600.
Important news has reached WASH
ington to the effect that Russia has
agreed to surrender Manchuria and
turn the whole province back to China.
Within one year from the signing OF
the treaty Russia agrees to evacuate
Manchuria completely, so far as mill
tary or civil control is concerned.
A loaded freight car broke loose at
Eclipse, on the Florence and Cripple
Greek railroad, and started down a steep
grade toward Anaconda, says Victor
(Colo.) dispatch. Conductor Blondy,
on an engine directed by Engineer
Rush, undertook to capture the car to
prevent a collision with a suburban train
due to leave Anaconda about the same
time, but the operator at Eclipse sue
ceeded in holding the passenger train as
it was pulling out of Anaconda. The
car was overtaken four seconds from
that station. Conductor Blondy, from
the pilot, made a coupling. the air brake
was applied and the runaway was
brobght to a standstill.
In q suit for 81, 500, 900 brought by
Herbert w. Pearson against the Great
Northern Railway company. Judge
Kelly of st. Paul awarded Mr.. Pearson
$500 on account of unpaid salary and
Judgment for his costs and disburse.
ments. Pearson sued on an alleged
contract, claiming that he was employed
by the railroad company to operate coal
fields in Montana and Washington, and
held that he was entitled to percentage
of the value of the coal fields which he
said he had discovered. The railway
company declared that the coal fields
which Pearson said he had discovered
were well known long before he found
them, and objected to paying the roy.
atty demanded. The $500 allowed is for
salary for the time he was engaged by
the road In making the search.
Archdeacon Wilberforce of Westmin-
ster started smoking church services"
recently. He invited the men who
were fitting up Westminster abbey for
the coronation to spare part Of their
dinner hour to religion, gave each man
an ounce of tobacco, and told the men
to come and smoke and make them
selves at home during the service. The
men were delighted by the novel propo-
sition and have been assembling in the
cloisters daily to the number of upward
of 100. They join heartily in the
hymns and Lords prayer. occasionally
taking a drink from their beer-cans.
though they invariably remove their
caps and pipes during prayers. In the
meanwhile, the abbey is vigorously
closed to the public.
In the Altar district, northern Sonora,
Mexico. near Tabutama, = party OF
American miners headed by Charles
Con O'Keefe, an Arizona mineral ex-
pert, came upon a mine dump of enor-
nous proportions grown entirely over
with timber. Searching further, they
found sealed entrance to the work.
ings, and, breaking this down, they dis
covered what was once a mine of extra
ordinary size. says Phoenix "a. T.)
dispatch. Near the entrance was big
pile of silver ingots and tools. Further
in was a number of skeletons They
partially explored the workings and
found millions of tons of silver ore in
sight. The mine is believed to have
been worked by Toltecs or Aztecs aud
closed hundreds of years ago. when In
dams drove the race from the country.
Henry o. Frick, the steel magnate,
has deposited at the banking house of
]. P. Morgan & Co. of New York what
is said to be one of the most valuable
pieces of paper in existence. 1t is a cer-
tificate for 100000 shares of preferred
stock in the United States Steel corpor.
alton, yielding Frick dividends of $780,.
600 annually. 1t is stated that the de-
posit was made for the purpose of
exchanging two-ffths of the preferred
stock it represents into 81, 900. 900 worth
of bonds of the proposed new issue.
The balance in the deal, $6,0 900, will
be repaid to Mr.. Frick in the shape Of a
new preferred stock certificate.
j. T. Morgan, according to London
dispatches, has practically consummated
the plan to combine all the leading
transatlantic steamship lines. The
companies to be consolidated will, it is
understood. include the American. Red
Star, White Star, Dominion. Atlantic
Transport and Leyland lines. Other
lines may be absorbed, while it is un.
derstood that working agreement"
viii be reached with other transatlantic
companies, including the North German
Lloyd, Hamburg American. General
Transatlantic and Allan and Anchor
lines.