The Eureka sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1902-current, 1902-06-14

day Of formal opening of wireless teleg-
rzphy between Santa Catalina island
and Los Angeles
Harold Psrrott and Willie Morrow.
both about Q years Of age. were drowned
while bathing in q ditch near the A
7. CoveIl ranch at Woodbridge, says q
Stockton CCaL) dispatch The bodies
were recovered.
Louas Sloss. the pioneer capitalist and
one Of the best known and most highly
respected men in California. died re-
Gently Of heart failure at his summer
residence in San Rafael It was he who
formed the Alaska Commercial com
pany. of which he was president for
many years, and one Of the principal
shareholders up to the time Of his death
Louis Sloss was born in Bavaria July
-. 1923, and came TO the United States
when a boy.
William White, who for the past five
months has been in charge Of the liquor
department Of Olson & Co.. SIS Market
street. San Francisco, was arrested for
taking wine belonging to his employers
and booked at the city prison on two
charges Of grand larceny. Detectives
found in Whites room costly wines Of
the value of $500. White, when con-
fronted with this evidence, revealed the
whereabouts of other quantities Of
liquors, showing that the value Of his
populations was in the neighborhood Of
8 1000. He confessed to having accom-
plices, whom the detectives are now
searching for.
The transporting Of a steamer over a
mountain divide from the Kootenay to
the Columbia was an undertaking sue
cessfully performed recently in British
Columbia, a a Vancouver dispatch
The two rivers at n point, at a con
siderable altitude, come close together.
Some years ago the government under
took to build a canal. but it wa not q
success, and the unused locks have fallen
into a state Of disrepair. 1t was by this
| course that the boat was taken by means
of massive derricks. The short distance
was successfully travelled, and now the
steamer is making a profit trading on
the Columbia.
A proclamation, bearing the signature
and official seal of Consul General Ho
Vow, was posted throughout Chinatown
in San Francisco, declaring that the
American government has called the at
tention of the Chinese government to
the prevalence Of crime in Chinatown,
and that the Chinese government is de-
termined that it shall be brought to a
stop. The consul-general declares that
if the reign of crime continues the Chi
nese government will take steps to put
q stop to it by furnishing the families or
relatives of the offenders who may be
found within the jurisdiction Of the
Chinese government.
Contracts, aggregating 81, 200, 900,
were signed and delivered at Los An.
| geles, by the terms of which the Kern
River Power company will at once con-
| struct a canal, IL miles in length, with
a capacity of 10000 miners inches Of
water. The line will begin at Kernville,
Kern county. and will follow the Kern
| river south for a distance of IL miles,
where a station of $1,000 horsepower
will be erected. From that point will
be built to Los Angeles two lines cap
able of delivering in that city 10, 00C
horsepower. The length of each line
will be 10 miles. The company will
| construct at once light and power plants
for supplying Bakersfield and Rands-
burg and the territory tributary to both
places.
The country about Warmers Hct
Springs is infested by grasshoppers,
says a San Diego dispatch. For the
last two weeks they have been Matching
| very fast, and the superintendent of the
big Warmers ranch has an army of
squaws fighting the as yet wingless
pests. With sacks or bush the squaws
drive them into bitches already pre-.
pared, where they sack them and carry
| them to another ditch filed with burn.
ing straw, into which they are dumped.
Urgent appeals have come to the uni
versity of California agricultural de-
partment. asking for aid against the
grasshopper plague that is reported to
be devastating the San joaquin valley.
The pests have invaded the foothil dis
tricts from Placer county to Fresno.
Two experts will be sent to the scene Of
the trouble. Meanwhile, to allay the
danger for the present, the university
authorities have shipped a large guam
tity of arsenic to the perplexed vine
growers.
Charles Hill, rs or 80 years of age, who
| applied to the Good Samaritan hospital
at Los Angeles a few weeks since to be
taken care of, has just died of old age.
The public administrator was notified,
and in a safe-deposit box in the Union
Bank of Savings was found a bundle of
old paper containing $40, 900 in cur
rency. When he entered the hospital
he was asked if he had any relatives.
"Not a soul in the world" he said. A
roll Of 5000 in greenbacks was found on
him, and later one of the nurses found
on him a chamois skin bag containing
$500. A dispatch from Milwaukee
says that Miss Mary Hill believes that