The Eureka sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1902-current, 1902-05-31


an all-night street-ear service ON its
electric lines in San Francisco.
The sum of $50, 900 was taken in at
the Irish fair held at San Francisco
during its 90 days of successful sales.
Many packages of soil from the various
counties in Ireland were sold at 81 a
package.
The California Eastern railway, for
merly known as the Nevada Southern,
which runs from Blake to the MARVEL
and Vanderbilt mining camps on the
desert, in San Bernardino county, has
been sold to the Santa Fe.
Under the decree of distribution,
which was signed recently by Judge
Trout at San Francisco, the children of
the late James G. Fair, after much liti-
cation, are at last in possession of his
estate.
The Hammond Lumber company and
the Merrill Lumber company have pur-
chased jointly from the American Lum-
Der company the magnificent timber
forest along Prairie and Redwood creeks,
about 70 miles northward of Eureka,
Cal. The forest consists of 81 1000 acres,
and the price paid is said to be $1,000, 900.
Perry Queenan, in a prize fight at
Seattle, knocked Dial Hawkins COM
pletely out in the ninth round. The
fight was to have been 30 rounds for q
purse Of 81, 900. Mrs. Hawkins saw the
fight from a box, and when her hus-
band was knocked put she became hys-
terical and had to be restrained from
jumping into the ring.
Charles w. Pugh, editor of The Stock
man and q high official in the Arizona
Press association, was found guilty in
the federal court at Florence, A. T., of
defrauding the government. Pugh's
offense is that he filed out false vouch-
ers while officiating as census en- umera-
tor of stock in California, Arizona and
Utah. There are other indictments
against Pugh which, it is said, will all
be pressed by the government.
Superior Judge Seawell of San Fran.
cisco has decided that there is no law
to compel artisans to work with men
whom they consider in any way objec-
tionable. The cas- lose out Of the
building trades councils excluding from
its membership any labor union con
trolled by a central organization which
is not engaged in building work exclu-
sively. The council issues cards to the
artisans connected with it, and its mem.
bers refused to work with members Of
local union 483 Of the United Brother
hood of Carpenters and Joiners of Amer
lea. The latter organization sued out
an injunction against the building trades
council, restraining its members from
refusing to work with members of the
plaintiff organization, but this was re-
fused by the court.
The Deltite Powder works, situated
near Delta, a town on the Southern Pa
ciic railroad, 20 miles north of Red
ding, CAL, were completely destroyed
by an explosion. Among the buildings
destroyed was the house of George Mil
Ter, and Mrs. Miller and her babe, 6
months old, were instantly killed. Two
other children of the Millers. a boy 6
years old and a girl A years old, were so
badly injured that they will die. George
Barber and James Goodyear, employees,
were dangerously injured. The explo-
sion was caused by George Miller, an
employee, entering the basement while
smoking a cigarette. He was under
meath the powder and escaped without
injury. Miller is nearly crazed at the
loss of his wife and children. The loss
on the plant is $50, 900, not insured.
Mrs. E. Montgomery, charged with
coloring green olives with copperas to
initiate ripe fruit, pleaded guilty before
Justice Austin at Los Angeles, and was
fined $25 with $50 costs. In mitigation
of her offense Mrs. Montgomery pro-
duced a letter from Professor Hilgard Of
the university of California in answer
to a query from her asking him if he
could recommend q harmless recipe for
coloring olives black. The professor.
without recommending the use of cop
peras, told how copperas would do the
work. Mr.. Hilgard, when told at Ber-
kelley Of Mrs. Montgomery having been
fined, said that ne has been and now is
unalterably opposed to the practice of
coloring olives for the market, and said
that in answering the inquiries of olive
growers on the subject he recommended
the addition of a piece of copperas about
the size of a pea to q gallon of water.
Lizzie Dutch, alias Lizzie Kilgore,
made an application at Los Angeles
praying for the annulment of her mar
rage with James Dutch, on the ground
that it was entered into before she had
been divorced from Walter Kilgore a
year. as required by the statute. Judge
York denied the application for a separ-
alton on the ground that after Aug. "a.
1899. that being the anniversary OF the
divorce from Kilgore. the marriage be-
tween the parties to the suit became
legal. If they wanted it declared null
and void because of its contraction be-
fore the time limit had expired the
action should have been begun before
Aug. "a, 1893.
For several years a large brown bear
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