The Eureka sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1902-current, 1902-02-08

that Normile was assaulting the woman
when Allsted shot him.
After being confined in the county
Jail for four years and seven months,
more than three years of which he was
under sentence of death, Joseph Shafer,
the mulatto who killed colored man
named John Hawkins in Butte, Mont,
in 1897 is once more free man. Judge
McClernand dismissed the case against
Shafer, as all the witnesses are dead or
left that part Of the country. Shafer
was twice sentenced to be hanged, and
once he was within one day of the date
set for his hanging.
DR.. NoKenzie of Kern City, Cal,
who was said by his wife to be in Los
Angeles, was discovered crouching in a
closet of his home by Health Officer
Williams and DIR. Booth. When he
was assisted to his feet and taken into
the light it was seen that he was suffer-
ing from varioloid. The neighbors are
much incensed at his conduct, and fear
that visitors to his house who were ig-
norant that the physician was at home
may spread the disease. The Mckenzie
house is now quarantined.
Miss Florence Smith of San Francisco,
possessing 1000 in her own right, and
daughter of Ferdinand Smith, the Mont
gomery.street broker, has been sued for
$50, 900. Mrs. Anna NJ. Smith, residing
at Avery street, an aggrieved and de-
ferted wife, is the plaintiG and Charles
A. Smith, of the firm Of McNab 81
Smith, who, it is charged, has fallen
willing victim to the charms of the
heiress, is the cause of the suit.
Mrs Lowell White of San Francisco
followed up her withdrawal as nominee
for the presidency of the State Fedora
tion of Women's Clubs-which, how
ever, she later withdrew-by resigning
the presidency of the California club.
She said she could serve no longer be-
cause a majority of the clab voted for
the admission of colored delegates to
the National Federation, and spoke Of
those who opposed her views as dream.
ers, theorists and fanatics.
The grand jury at San Francisco filed
indictments in Superior Judge Carroll
Cooks court against Frank Morrissey
and Martin Flynn, the two men whom
Mrs. Rosa Kilbourn of Santa Rosa
accused of having robbed and assaulted
her ON the night of Dec. 10 last in the
Mission district. The men had previ-
ously been summarily discharged by
Judge Morgan after what is said to
have been farcical hearing.
Robbers entered the butcher shop of
Quasi & Co., at Rocklin, Cal, by a rear
window and removed a 700-pound safe
through the opening into the street.
| One man was left to guard it, while
others it is supposed went for convey
ance to haul it away. William Ertle,
formerly town marshal, happened along
during their absence and the robber on
guard took a shot at him. Ertle pulled
his gun and returned the fire, and
| lively fusillade followed. The bullets
flew wide of their mark, and the robber
turned and ran, escaping in the dark
ness. The safe contained large sum
of money.
Thomas Atwood, an orange grower
of Cotton. was horribly burned by the
explosion of can of oil while engaged
in firing a smudge to protect his orchard
from the frost. He was pouring some
| oil from can on a pot that had failed
TO burn well, when suddenly a sheet of
flame shot from the pot and ignited the
oil in the can, which exploded. saturat-
ing him with the burning fluid. His
body from the waist down was literally
cooked. Physician say that his recovery
| is doubtful.
At meeting of the Farmers Club at
San Jose it was reported by L. +. Gra-
ham and others that, after experiments
with thousands of trees, they were
satisfied that carbon bisulphide was
positive remedy for the peach root
borer. A trench is dug about the tree
and from one to two ounces of carbon
bisulphide placed around the trunk of
the tree and covered with dirt. the
fumes penetrating the boring in the
tree and killing the insects.
Superior Judge Griffin, at Seattle,
decided the recently passed ten-hour
law, calculated to limit the hours of
employment in stores and factories. to
be unconstitutional. The defendant, a
local dry-goods store, demurred to the
complaint on the ground that the statute
was class legislation, and that it de-
prived a person of his property without
due process of law, it being contended
that the right to enter into contract
was itself property. The State gave
notice of immediate appeal to the su-
preme court.
| Jack Wade and B. II. Dalton were
hanged at Portland for the murder OF
James Morrow, on the morning of Nov.
21 last, while on his way home from q
visit to the girl he was soon to marry,
Miss Lilah Illidge. Wade and Dalton
said good-by and dropped through the
traps Before the hanging Dalton made
long religious address. while Wade
made only few remarks. Both were
| game to the end.