The Eureka sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1902-current, 1902-04-26

ing the night with the steam schooner
Noyo in the open ocean, IS miles north
west Of Point Reyes. Both vessels were
seriously damaged. The Noyo brought
the San Pedro into San Francisco. Cap
tain Jahnsen of the San Pedro found 1t
.4ecessary to j~ettison 1.4O0, 900 shingles
In order to tighten his vesseL.-
Men prominent in the business and
political affairs of the state of Washing
tor have incorporated as the Central
Alaskan Railway company. 1t is pro-
posed to build the road from a point on
Resurrection bay by the most feasible
and shortest route possible to Rampant
City, ON the Yukon. The length Of the
proposed line is 574 miles.
The sealing schooner Kate and Ann,
which has been engaged in sealing on
the southern coast for many years, is a
total wreck on San Miguel island, says
q Santa Barbara dispatch. The captain
and crew were saved, and arrived at
Santa Barbara on the schooner Restless.
which picked them up at the island.
The employees of the Market-street
system of Car lines in San Francisco
came out on strike, which resulted In
the tie-up of street-car traffic on all but
two lines in the city. The men demand
the right to belong to a union, and also
that ten hours shall be a days work.
and that the pay shall be % cents an
hour. The tie-up caused great inconve-
nience to the people in the city, and
hacks and buses did a large business.
The expectation that Colonel Blanton
Duncan, who died recently at Los An
been realized. His daughter. Mrs. t.
A. Lewis, with whom Duncan was at
law just prior to his death, is dismissed
with a nominal bequest, the testator
alleging that he gave her $50, 900 during
his life, and that she is well provided
for. The estate of the eccentric Ken
tuckian, appraised at $50, 900, is divided
among So persons, scattered throughout
the United States from Massachusetts,
to California.
Ptomaine poisoning, caused by the
eating of canned salmon and shrimps,
resulted in the death of four children
belonging t o Alfred Baudreau, q rail-
rood laborer, who, with his family, ar
rived at Tacoma from Minneapolis.
Before leaving the train nearly every
member of the family of nine was sick,
and one of the men fell over on the floor
of the car in a faint. Health Officer
Schug madean examination, which con-
WINGED him that ptomaine poisoning had
caused the death of the four children
and the illness of the remainder Of the
family.
A company has been formed and has
recently purchased $4,000 acres Of
swamp and pasture lands in the Big
Meadows and Butte valley basins in
Plumas county, CAL, IN the north fork
of the Feather river. 1t is intended to
eonvert these basins into great storage
reservoirs, and by about ten miles of
canal aud tunnel to convey l20, 900
miners inches of water to the canyon of
Mosquito creek, where, with a vertical
fall Of 1000 feet, it will be dropped
again into the Feather river. Here will
be built the largest electrical transmits
sion plant in the United States, save
that of Niagara, and capable of general
ing 800, 600 horsepower. This power, in
addition to developing the industries in
that part Of the state, will be carried to
San Francisco. q distance Of $50 miles.
II. Harvey, while saving a log in the
woods about 20 miles from Tuolumne,
Cal, was struck by q splinter from a
steel wedge, which severed his jugular
vein. The injured man would have bled
to death in q few minutes, but his COM
panion seized one end of the divided
vein, and pressing the edges tightly be-
tween finger and thumb. prevented a
further escape Of blood. Harvey, c
companied by two men. started to walk
to Tuolumne to procure medical aid.
One man walked at Harvey's side hold
ing firmly the severed vein, while the
other supported the injured sawyer.
The men took turns in holding the vein,
as the fingers became numb. They
reached Tuolumne and an operation was
Immediately performed, but it was too
late. Harvey died soon after his arrival.
A miniature railroad, s. feet in
length. was discovered on the banks of
the Sacramento river, above the Reid
ferry, says q Redding (Cal.) dispatch.
The track is made of wood, six inches
between the rails, and ven to thu man.
mel of joining the rails is an exact imi-
tation of a standard track. Four wooden
cars, each a foot in length. and q loco
motive in proportion. were on the track.
It is supposed to be o scheme for the
purpose of fleeing unsuspecting east
ern people out Of money on a fake rail-
road proposition. The locomotive, the
four cars and q big section of the track
were taken to Redding.
The police of San Francisco gave out
for publication q statement that Charles
B. Hadley Is the man who killed Nora
Fuller. Hadley was subscription clerk
of The Examiner until Jan. 16. On that
day he disappeared, and has not been
seen In San Francisco since. There
were Irregularities in his accounts. which
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