The Eureka sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1902-current, 1902-03-29

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years has been terrorizing the people
from Carmel to Gorda, on the coast line
of Monterey county, was captured, after
a struggle, by several men who went
in pursuit Of him, and was taken to the
county Jail at Salinas. In a pocket Of
his ragged overalls was q passbook Of
the German Savings and Loan society
OF San Francisco in the name of julius
Fuyal. with balance due Aug. 5. 1896,
the date of the last deposit, Of S483.S S8.
The man eats ravenously, tearing his
food like O wild beast. He says he
worked for Louis Frank of Redwood
City. He is about 81 years of age, and
is of Swiss or Slavonian descent.
The Central Irrigation district, organ
lied under the Wright law in Colusa
and Glenn counties, Cal, in 1887, has
been declared illegal, and all its bonds,
amounting to &750,0OO. of which s574,-
600 have been sold, are declared void.
This means that the construction of 81
miles Of canal which was built immedi.
ately after the formation of the district
in 1887, aud was about two-thirds of the
entire proposed main canal, was in vain.
Frank johnson, desert prospector,
was brought to San Bernardino in irons
q raying maniac, as the result of find.
ing the corpse Of a man who had per-
ished from thirst. johnson left Palm
Springs for the purpose of prospecting
He found a mans clothes scattered
about and from numerous holes dug in
the sand realized that some miner had
gone delirious. He set out to look for
the unfortunate, and few hours later
found him dead, his mouth filled with
sand, which he had attempted to drink.
The sight unbalanced his mind. He
imagines that the spirit of the corpse is
seeking to throttle him.
Mrs. M. e. King of San Bernardino
was attacked by an enormous Shanghai
rooster and SO badly injured that her
life is in danger. She attempted to
drive the fowl from rosebush, when it
turned upon her and with the force of
its wings threw her to the ground. 1t
then made frantic effort to thrust its
beak into her eyes. A neighbor came
to her aid, but the ferocious fowl routed
both women, not, however, until it had
dug its talons and beak into Mrs. Kings
hands and face. The wounds have
proved to be more than superficial
injuries, for her arms began to swell
and are now double their usual size.
The swelling has extended to her face
and affects her entire left side, and
blood. poisoning is feared.
The supreme court of California de-
cided an interesting point of law in
connection with the administration of
the estate of one of the victims of the
wreck of the Rio de Janeiro, whose
mother also met her death in the same
marine disaster. The question at issue
was whether the public administrator
was entitled to letters of administration
on the estate of Naomi Wakefield, or
whether Ruth Miller, a nominee of the
brothers of the deceased, was entitled
to the letters. The court found as facts
that Naomi Wakefield died first and so
her mother, Sarah w. Wakefield,
though she perished in the same disas-
ter, was her daughters sole heir -at-law,
as the daughter died intestate. Both
mother and daughter left estates in the
county of Alameda, Cal. The order Of
the lower court granting letters to the
public administrator Is affirmed.