The Eureka sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1902-current, 1902-02-15

Father A. Jacquet. who has been en-
gagged in missionary work in Alaska and
on the Pacific coast for 98 years. has,
says the Nome Nugget, been. committed
to the Oregon insane asylum.
Work has been begun on the con-
struction of a wireless telegraph system
between Tatoosh island and the en-
trance to the straits Of Fuca and Port
Crescent, a distance Of 80 miles. The
government will establish the system
for the benefit of commerce.
William Buckley, who shot and killed
George w. Rice, q non-union machinist,
ON the evening Of Oct. II last, at San
Francisco, was found guilty of murder
in the first degree by q jury in Superior
Judge Lawlor's court.
Charles Myrtle and Frank Case, two
Of the highwaymen who pleaded guilty
TO robbing Major e. f. Klocke and At
torney E. f. Powers at Los Angeles on
the night of Jan. Is, were sentenced
by Judge Smith to life imprisonment.
Judge T. w. Healey, a prominent resi-
dent of Nevada for the last 40 years,
committed suicide at Carson by shoot
ing himself in the temple. He was "a
years of age and q native of Ireland.
Roy Sutton Garlick, son of d. s. Gar
lick, cashier of the Puget Sound Saw
ings bank of Tacoma, is under arrest
at San Francisco for forgery, and is
also wanted in Portland on o similar
charge. He victimized several business
houses by means of forged checks.
The boys father says he can attribute
his sons downfall to nothing but his
passion for fine clothes.
Deeds, covering approximately $4,000
acres of land, and securing all Of the
land bordering the headwaters Of the
Coyote creek, and controlling its water
rights, were recorded in the recorders
office at San Jose, Cal. The transfers
were all made to Alexander +. Morrison
of San Francisco. who is understood to
be only an agent of the corporation that
has succeeded in securing probably the
most valuable water right in the state Of
California. Who the real purchasers
are is not at present known.
A desperate stage robber named II. O.
Hill, with several aliases, who was
wanted for holding up the stage run.
ming from Colfax to Forest Hill, Cal,
on August 3, 1901, was arrested near
Williams and taken to Auburn. Hill
fired unsuccessfully four times at the
officers who arrested him, and in return
.rya xy%anI1I -, zavaro1 r1anno
The first biennial convention of the
California Federation Of Women's Clubs
was held at San Francisco, and much
important business was transacted and
many interesting papers were read.
Mrs. Kate A. Bulkeley Of Oakland was
elected state president, to succeed Mrs.
Burdette.
Police Judge Cabaniss at San Fran
cisco dismissed the charge of obtaining
money by false ~pretenses against Charles
B. Brockway, a medium, the charge
having been brought by Harry Emery,
who paid Brockway $53 to learn the
way to invoke spirits from the unseen
world. Emery wanted to communicate
with his dead wife, but when he would
part with no more money Brockway told
him that the whole medium business
was afake. AS Emery had no witnesses
to prove that Brockway had declared
himself a fraud the case was dismissed.
Jacob Spenc of San Leandro road,
Oakland, CAL, refused to kiss an affec-
tionate wife because she had been eat
ing onions, and for this churlish beha-
vior she left her home, taking her
breath and her husbands watch with
her. He applied to the district attorney
to suggest some legal means of appre-
hending his wife-not for the purpose
of prosecuting her, but merely to give
him an opportunity Of telling her that
he is sorry, and that if she will only
return all will be forgiven. Mrs. Spenc
has a passion for onions, while Mr..
Spenc detests them. Although she
promised her husband in the morning
not to offend again in that way, when
he returned in the evening she admitted
that she had devoured four large onions
during his absence.
An engine and five cars on the Seattle
division of the Northern Pacific ran
into a heavy landslide at the north end
Of Lake Washington and plunged into
the waters of the lake. Charles Feitz,
the fireman, went down with the en-.
CINE and was killed, after undergoing
terrible suffering. He was caught be-
tween the locomotive boiler and an
upset box.car, and slowly burned to
death within sight of a rescue party,
which was making every possible effort
to ave him.
The liquor which formed part of the
cargo of the French bark Ernest Reyer,
which was wrecked at Quinalt, Wash,
in December, was sold to parties in
Aberdeen, and Indians were hired to
assist in getting the goods out of the ves-
sells hold. The Indians opened cask
after cask and drank the the liquor.
DIR. Horace w. Cox, Indian agent at
Quinalt reservation, upon learning the
state of affairs, went aboard the vessel