The Eureka sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1902-current, 1902-05-24
J. p. FAY returned to San Bernardino,

Cal, from q trip across the Colorado
desert with news of the death of ]. A.
Adams, deputy county surveyor Of San
Bernardino county, and Q grandson Of
John Brown, the famous abolitionist.
Adams met with q terrible death, wan
dering away from the surveying camp
while temporarily deranged and perish
ing from starvation.
II. Z. Huntington said recently that
Long Beach was going to be one Of the
greatest seaside resorts on the southern
California coast, and many improve
ments now in progress testify to this
assertion. The latest is a bathhouse
which is to cost $500, 900. The Long
Beach Bathhouse company, with that
amount of capital, was Incorporated at
Los Angeles recently.
Charles II. Baker, proprietor OF the
Pacific photographic company. at 5S7
Washington street, San Francisco, who
was arrested recently for aiding and
abetting a lottery in the printing of lot
terry tickets therefor, pleaded guilty to
the charge in Judge Cabaniss's court
and was fined 800. His two assistants,
Charles Holbrook and B. B. Omega.
proved that they were merely en-
ployees, and the charges against them
were dismissed.
G. r. Brookman, a printer, who dis
appeared recently from Los Angeles.
was found dead neal Santa Monica.
Brookman had been riding o bicycle be-
tween Santa Monica and the canyon,
when, by some means he was thrown,
with his wheel, over the bluff, falling
more than 100 feet on the rocks below,
and was instantly killed.
]. S. Doble, son Of a minister, en-
ployee Of a tract society and a member
in good standing in q church, was ar
rested at an early hour while making
his third burglarious trip to the Office Of
the California Tract society, in the Re.
lance club building, on San Pablo
avenue, Oakland, Cal. Doble walked
into the arms of a policeman, who had
been stationed there by Chief Of Police
Hodgkins to capture the burglar, who
had visited the tract society twice, and
was expected to do so q third time.
The prisoner made a complete con-
| fession.
Judge Mortimer Smith Of the Oak.
land (Cal.) police court declared invalid
the city sign-lioense ordinance, on the
ground that it imposed . tax for rev.
enue, not for the regulation Of . bust
ness, and III that particular being I'M
constitutional. F. G. Lea, q merchant,
declined to pay the tax, and this was
made a test case. Since the ordinance
went into effect in Jnly of last year the
sum of S.. 800 has been collected in
licenses. Many paid under protest, but
Judge Smith is of the opinion that these
cannot W
George Reeves, an orchardist, resid-
ing in the mountains near Los Gatos,
CAL, was terribly injured by q charge
of dynamite while engaged in blasting
out stumps on the farm of Martin Joost.
A blast failing to go off as quickly as he
thought it should, he returned to in
vestigate, when the explosion occurred.
Both legs, his left arm and two fingers
of his right hand were amputated in the
county hospital.
A dispatch from Skagway says that
Joseph Mcdonald, superintendent of the
Treadwell mines on Douglas island, shot
and killed Nicholas Jones, a religious
fanatic, who intended to kill Mcdonald
because he would not close the mines
on Sunday. Jones lay in wait for Nc
Donald at the mine. and on the approach
of the superintendent Jones said, "Your
| ately sent four bullets into Jones's body.
Mcdonald was exonerated by the jury.
Agnes Adams, 90 years Of age, daugh-
ter of the Rev. Charles G. Adams, who
shot and killed DIR. John G. Jessup at
Berkeley, CAL, June Is, 1901, was locked
up in the city prison at San Francisco,
charged with grand larceny. She stole
from the apartments of Mrs. ellison, at
the Gladstone, On the corner Of Polk
and Eddy streets, a diamond ring and a
brooch valued at 500. Miss Adams
sobbingly admitted the crime as she sat
in the prison matron's room, and said
that she did not know what caused her
to do it. Miss Adams roomed at the
Gladstone, and had access to Mrs. Gill
sons apartments. Mrs. ellison declined
to prosecute. and Judge Fritz, with an
admonition, discharged the prisoner.
Her father is now confined in the Napa
insane asylum.
Lawson Giddings and Richard Shoe
maker, students at the Throop Polytech-
mic Institute, have invented q wireless
system of telegraphy Of their own, and
a wireless message vas flashed from
Avalon, Catalina island. to Pasadena,
says a Los Angeles dispatch. The dis
lance is so miles. Giddings went to
Avalon, while Shoemaker remained at
the Pasadena station and caught the
message sent through the atmosphere.
Leslie NJ. Shaw, the newly appointed
secretary of the treasury, has issued in
structions from Washington that when
| the contents Of trunks and bags are
"man handled" on the docks by his Gus
toms inspectors, these searchers after