The Eureka sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1902-current, 1902-04-05

The rush to the Thunder mountain
gold fields continues. says . Boise dis
patch. Rich finds on Monumental and
Mule creeks have been made. that are
assaying from 500 to t27, 600 . ton.
Joel Clinton, who was arrested at San
Jose for robbing the safe Of the Wolfe
Drug company. is q graduate of the
Whittier reform school. His home Is in
southern California. OF the 500 stolen
$97 has been recovered.
Governor Gage, says o Santa Rosa
dispatch, has pardoned Marian Miranda,
@ half breed, sentenced July 1, 1893, to
10 years in San Quentin for completely
in the murder of Ben Bernardo. a shep-
herd ON the Knapp ranch. On his DEATH
bed, a short time ago, Pete Bill, an In
dian, residing near the scene of the
murder, admitted that he was the guilty
man and that Miranda was innocent.
The crime was q revolving one, the
murdered mans body being badly mu-
tilated.
The strictness with which the federal
authorities at Los Angeles are enforcing
the terms of the exclusion act has caused
many coolies to leave the city, and to
take refuge on the ranches of their
countrymen within q radius of 30 miles
of Los Angeles. As o consequence
Chinese laundries are operating with
greatly reduced forces, while some have
been obliged to cease operations entirely.
Wages even as high as $40 a week were
offered, but there were few takers.
Laborers who possess registration certi.
fcates are enjoying a season of hitherto
unknown prosperity.
Impelled by a grudge of Is years.
standing, Thomas Devine shot and killed
his former friend, John ]. O'Connor, at
the Southern Pacific pumping plant at
Shell Mound, neal Oakland, CAL, where
O'Connor was employed. Devine. in
order that O'Connor might not recog-
nize him, had blackened his face with
burnt cork, and, walking up behind his
victim, shot him in the back, and then
sent another bullet into the head Of the
PROSTATE man. Devine glories in his
crime, and says that O'Connor had stolen
the affections of his wife 80 years ago,
but he did not learn of it till Is years
later, when his wife told of her relations
with O'Connor. Devine has been em-
ployed by the Southern Pacific company
for many years as a section foreman at
Edgewood, Siskiyou county. Devine is
HA unorS Of a~a and njCnnnnr Uhn
leaves a wife and IL children. was Sc.
Devine has four children.
sHardy Downing, the crack bicyclist,
successfully accomplished the feat at
San Jose, CAL, of looping the loop"
on a bicycle. In obtaining q loop with
inclines to produce the speed necessary
to hold the wheel to the top of the loop
by centrifugal force, several wheels
have been smashed to splinters. A
wheel properly weighted finally made
the loop, and Downing essayed to keep
his agreement. The excitement was
intense as the few spectators and men,
bers of the press watched the wheel
with it's human freight pass, for the
first time, to the top of the loop and
cling to the top like a fly to the ceiling.
While upside down in midair he con.
tinues to pedal the wheel. The incline
approaching the loop is 102, with a fall
of 48 feet. The loop is 80 feet in diame-
ter and has a l0O-foot runway.
The wild man of Monterey county,
GAL, who was caught recently near
Gorda, has been identified by John
Frnjak, a carriage maker of San Fran
cisco. as his brother Julius. He is a
native of Austrian Poland, and some
years ago came to California from Pa
terson, N. J. 1t is said that the insane
man was a member Of an anarchist
group in Paterson, his sudden disap-
pearance being coincident with the
murder of the Austrian Empress Eliza
beth. He has been committed to Ukiah
insane asylum.
Robert Murray, undergoing a term of
imprisonment in the San Francisco
county Jail for vagrancy, received word
a few days before his release that by
the death Of his mother in London he is
heir to $50, 900. Murray is an English
man of good family and a graduate of
st. Johns college, Cambridge. After
coming west he contracted the alcohol
habit. and has been frequently arrested
for vagrancy and drunkenness. Along
with the announcement Of his inheri.
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