The Eureka sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1902-current, 1902-06-14

An amendment TO the constitution OF
Oregon, providing for the adoption Of
the initiative and referendum, was
passed az the general state election, and
is now a law of Oregon
The win Of the late Ex-Governor Syl-
vester Pennoyer was fled for probate at
Portland. The bulk of the estate. val
ned at $3.50. 900. was left to the widow
and q daughter, Mrs W. IL Russell
For Is minutes after the drop was
made Louis Peauquette. murderer OF
Francis Legere, gurgled and gasped. as
the rope strangled him. says a Van
cover (B. CO. dispatch. He vas con-
demned to death, and the hanging took
place at Kamloops. The official execu-
toner bungled the job. a. he has done
in hanging other criminals, but Peau-
Quotes strangling was Of the longest
duration.
Chief Justice Kent, sitting as a trial
judge in the third judicial district,
handed down a decision in the suits of
Thomas Wilson against Governor Muir
ply and the former auditor, says q
Phoenix "a IT, dispatch. Every terri
torial warrant hat wa complained of
was declared by the court to have been
properly issued. This ends a matter
hat has attracted much attention.
Governor E. P. Savage Of Nebraska,
with his full military staff and their
families, will leave Lincoln the latter
part Of this month, going direct to
Seattle, where it will be entertained
July 3D., 4th and 9TH. On the Fourth
the keel Of the battleship Nebraska will
be laid in Moran's shipyards- After
the visit to Seattle the party will leave
for an extended trip. which will take in
Portland, San Francisco and various
parts of California.
A swarm of bees took possession Of
the excavation work being done for the
Keith building at 236 Main street South,
Salt Lake City, and totally routed about
80 workmen. One or two horses were
stung by the bees, and ~retaliated by
kicking holes in a wagon and nearly
killed their driver. Finally, after the
idDcG IL du AOuIt ~ DCCD WClt AuAuCtu,
by the soothing music of tin pans, COW
bells and other instruments, to enter a
basket filed with grape leaves. They
were promptly covered and carefully
taken far away. Many persons were
stung by the insects.
Charles r. Mains, who was convicted
a few weeks ago on the charge Of using
the mails to further a scheme to defraud,
was sentenced at San Francisco by
United States District Judge De Haven
to be imprisoned for six months in the
Alameda county Jail. Mains about five
years ago first came before the public in
Battle Greek. Mich, as defendant in
sensational litigation. He afterward
transferred his base Of operations to San
Francisco and posed as the representa-
tive Of syndicates prepared to buy up
every good thing on the Pacific coast by
means of an alleged capitalization of
billions.
The Diamond Match company of Chi
cage has bought upward Of 80, 900 acres
Of timber lands in Butte and adjoining
counties, California. The company will
have q practical forester in charge of
the tract, and modern methods will be
adopted in the care of the property.
When the time comes for e~ncroaching
upon the virgin forest only those trees
over a certain age and size will be cut
down, and, as is practiced in Germany
and Japan under the forestry laws, for
every tree u down another will be
planted.
The California Historic Landmarks
League, at q recent meeting in San
Francisco, decided to incorporate, and a
constitution and bylaws were adopted.
Dues are placed at the nominal sum of
81 annually, as the league desires to en-
list the support of the entire state in its
work of protecting the ancient missions
and other historic landmarks from de-
cay. and restoring them, so far as can
be done consistently, without destroying
their identity or confounding tradition.
j. r. Knowland is temporary president.
The organization will be perfected at
the leagues next meeting. on June IA.
Blanche Warren, an actress, also
known a Blanche Brown and in pri-
vate life Mrs. Will Chapman, and her
mother, Mrs. g. M. Brown, were found
dead in the formers at 425 Golden
Gate avenue, San Francisco, death un-
douhtedly being due to accidental as
phyxiation. The two women had retired
the evening before in the best of spirits,
and had made arrangements for meet
ing friends the next noon. From the
condition of the room there was nothing
to indicate that a suicide had been
planned. The police and coroner are of
the opinion that death was accidental.
Expensive rings, a necklace and locket
and gold watch were found ON Miss
Warren's body, and pinned in her un-
lerclothing was a bag containing $442
In greenbacks. in 1893, when Blanche
Brown was IL years old. she eloped to
Victoria with Will M. Chapman, son of
the Rev. E. s. Chapman, formerly of
Oakland, Cal, and now of Los Angeles.