The Eureka sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1902-current, 1902-03-08

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A fire, presumably of incendiary ORR
gin, destroyed property on Chester ave-
nue., between Seventeenth and Eight
zenith streets, Bakersfield, GAL, valued
at from $40. 900 to $50. 900.
By the blowing mp Of the boiler of an
engine on the coast line Of the Southern
Pacific near Guadalupe, CAL, Richard
Duggan, engineer. and ]. 7. Hinshaw,
brakeman, were killed, and w. Postle-
wait, fireman, badly injured.
In Judge Kerrigan's court at San
Francisco Miss Alma de Bretteville, who
sued Charles Anderson, the wealthy
K~londiker. for $4,000 for breach Of
promise Of marriage, was awarded by
the jury 81, s
A storm prevailed in the Sacramento
valley region and probably with greater
severity in northern California. In the
Santa CLARA valley great damage was
done to orchards, fences and outbuild-
ings.
Edward L Colnon, one of the owners
and editors of the Stockton (Cal.) Mail,
committed suicide at the Pacific hos
pital in Los Angeles by shooting him
self through the head. He was suffering
from Bright's disease. He was born In
New York in 1916, and came to Califor-
mia in 1859.
The officers and crew of the French
bark Les Adelphes, which was towed
into Port Angeles, WASH, were in a
pitiable condition from the effects Of
scurvy. She was 1862 days out from
Madagascar and bound for Portland.
For go days officers and crew lived IN
salt pork and biscuit, and for the last "a
days they had nothing but biscuit and
water, the water being only what they
caught as it raj On top Of the house and
along the deck Of the ship. Cook Lef-
toch died Jan. 2, and Mate Abel when
brought into port vas at deaths door.
Captain Caffen has his nose almost
eaten away by scurvy, and the bodies
of most of the men were swollen and
black. The bark for days was at the
mercy Of wind and waves in o storm off
the mouth of the Columbia, the men
being too weak to man the sails.
8. D. Bowers, who came to Tacoma
from New York about a year ago to
study law, has disappeared, leaving be-
hind him numerous worthless checks
which he had passed during the few
days just previous to his departure from
Tacoma. His fondness for gambling
amounted almost to q mania. Bowers
is q graduate of Columbia college and
has wealthy relatives in New York.
H. J. Small, superintendent of motive
power and machinery of the Southern
Pacific company, has returned to Sacra-
mento from the east, and states that he
has placed an order for 70 locomotives,
and has also ordered /, 900 box cars, 1000
fiat cars, 500 oil cars and 300 construc-
ton cars.
James w. Brown was acquitted by a
jury at Alturas, Cal, Of the murder of
Martin Wilson, the ~13-year-old boy who,
with old Calvin Hall, Frank Hall and
Dan Yantis suffered death at the hands
of Iynchers on the morning of May 81
last, at Lookout. The trial has cost
Modoc county about $4,000. and has
nearly bankrupted the treasury.
Suits will be filed in the United States
circuit court at San Francisco against
several railroad corporations doing bust
ness in California for alleged violations
of the Sherman ANTITRUST law. The
Western Union Telegraph company will
also be included. Instructions to this
effect have come from Washington, and
the suits are understood to be in line
with the policy Of the national admins
tration to obtain from the United States
supreme court an opinion involving the
legality Of large aggregations of capital
to combine.
Harvey NJ. Gallagher, An oil-driller
by trade, shot and killed Mabel Houl-
han, and then committed suicide in a
room at the United States hotel, 1913
Eddy street, San Francisco. From all
appearances the double crime was the
result of q drunken quarrel, 10 both the
man and woman had been drinking for
several days. Mabel Houlihan was 20
years of age. and was married about six
years ago to v. B. Wilson, a railroad
man of Bakersfield, CAL, but the two
were divorced three years afterward.
Gallagher, who was about 40 years of
age, three years ago abandoned his
family, and his wife subsequently pro-
cured . divorce. His family now reside
in Hanford. Gallagher's mother and
four sisters reside in Los Angeles.
While the Long Beach (Oal.) band
was giving its usual Sunday afternoon
concert, o whale about 70 feet in length
swan leisurely in to about 200 feet Of
the pavilion, evidently attracted by the
music. After disporting itself for q
while, 1t slowly swan of to sea. It
was an unusual sight and was enjoyed
by several hundred people who were
attending the concert.
Captain James b. McClintock. Rough
.s.u1r anu newspaper 1..-,
whose name has just been sent to the
senate by the president for confirmation
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