The Eureka sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1902-current, 1902-03-22

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q visit recently, and Drs. Hunger, kest-
Ter and Taylor were plundered Of mate
rial of the value of more than 500.
Similar robberies have taken place
within the last few weeks in Bakers
field, Fresno and MERGED.
Frank Miller, q convict from Lassen
county, CAL, undergoing q seven years
sentence in San Quentin for man.
slaughter, attacked with q knife q fellow
convict named jeremiah Harris, who
died as the result of wounds received in
the chest and abdomen. Just prior to
his attack on Harris, Miller, with a bar
of iron, nearly killed another convict
named Ernest Thompson. The trouble
is said to have arisen from complaints
against Miller by the other convicts.
The charge of murder was placed against
Miller.
A fine large bay horse belonging to
John Lathrop of Redding, CAL, died
from fright during the recent storm.
| The shingles on the roof of Lathrop's
| barn are new, and the hail falling on
| them sounded like a heavy fall of stones.
| The horse tugged at his bride, throw
ing his head back during the sew
| eral hours that the storm lasted, and he
was literally scared to death. Fright
left the animal with what resembled
paralysis of the spine. Other horses in
the barn were badly frightened, but
only in the case of the bay was there
any fatal result.
Mrs. julius Kruttschnitt, wife Of the
highest western official of the Southern
Pacific company, wal robbed of nearly
81, 900 worth of jewels by some one who
entered her apartments in the Hotel
Richelieu, at Van Ness avenue, San
Francisco, while she was down stairs
at dinner. No clew has been found to
the robber. :
Edith r. Bursell, q school teacher, OF
Salem, Or, has brought an action for
SIS, 900 for breach Of promise against
August Lindholm, a farmer, living in
the same neighborhood. Miss BurseL
alleges that she and Lindholm became
engaged to be married last December,
and that she was ready at all times to
perform her part of the contract, but
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January.
Mattson Jarvi, aged 80, shot and
killed his father, Gabriel Jarvi, because
the latter had come home intoxicated,
says an Astoria (Or.) dispatch. Father
and son were fishermen, the elder Jarvi
being about so years of age. The patri-
eide went to police headquarters, where
he made a full confession to Chief Hal
leck. He was cool and collected, and
evidently believed he had lone what
was right. The mother also appeared to
be satisfied that her son had done his
duty. The elder Jarvi bore IN unsavory
reputation.
Eugene Mccarthy, a laborer, formerly
a member of engine 2 of the San Fran
cisco fire department., was instantly
killed by falling in front of and being
struck by a dummy of the Larkin and
Ninth streets car line, at the crossing
of Ninth and Folsom streets, San Fran
cisco. 1t is said that Mccarthy fell in
front of the dummy after receiving q
blow from a man who was pursuing
him. The affair was the outcome of a
drunken quarrel. McCarthy's brother,
Daniel, and John Cahill, were arrested
on the charge of being concerned in the
death of Eugene Mccarthy.
The recent severe storms are rapidly
changing the coast line along the north
ern part of the county, between Pat
rick's point and Big Lagoon, says a
Eureka (Cal.) dispatch. The big Sugar
Loaf hill, which fronts on the sea for
more than a mile and a quarter, is
gradually being undermined and is
sliding into the sea. The cliff is fully
800 feet high, and when a large area
gives way and tumbles INTO the water
it goes down with a roar that can be
heard several miles.
The state board of prison directors Of
California has issued orders to the off,
GERS at San Quentin and Folsom that
they shall in no case, and in no circum-
stances, infict punishment that shall
result in Gripping a prisoner, or in any
way have a permanent effect upon him.
These instructions are understood to re-
fer to the strait jacket, several cases Of
injury from hat instrument having
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board of directors.
The railroad survey being made along
the coast in western Jefferson and Clal-
lam counties and to the straits of Fuca
has caused a demand for timber land in
that portion of the Olympic reserve re-
Gently thrown open by the govern
ment, and as a result timber cruisers"
are conducting o bunko game. says a
Port Townsend dispatch. The cruiser
\ shows his intended victims a piece Of
land thickly timbered, but gives them a
description of vacant Land on which
there is no timber. After paying the
cruiser from $50 to 500 they proceed to
file on the land from the description
given them. Many persons have been
in this way defrauded.
The board of regents Of the university
of California made two impOrtant an