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

Major G. A. Devol, who succeeds
General Long as chief of the transport
service between San Francisco and
Manila, has entered upon his new duties.
The letting of contracts has been au-
thorized for the construction Of . new
-four mill plant at Woodland, Cal II
is said also that q cannery viii be estab-
lished at Woodland in time to be oper-
ated the present season.
George Alpers and Fred Eggers. two
Republicans who were seated by the
official count in the San Francisco board
of supervisors, will, a. the result Of q
recount, have to surrender their places
in the board to Edward /. Walsh and
John Coghlan, Union Labor representa-
tives.
The Bay Counties Power company.
which has been buying up several power
plants in the northern part of Califor-
MIA, has, says q Redding dispatch, closed
a deal with the Butte Greek Power COM
pany, and will Immediately install q
plant on Butte creek above the head Of
the dam of the Butte Creek company's
ditch, which will develop 10000 horse
power.
The transport Fitzpatrick, which ar
rived at San Francisco from Manila.
brought the bodies of Colonel Benjamin
F. Pope, chief surgeon Of the depart
ment of the Philippines, and his wife.
Colonel Pope died in January, and the
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accompanying the body to this country,
when she died in mid. ocean. Colonel
Pope was born in New York in 1843.
Sue Ho Mon, a Chinese highlander.
who was confined in Branch County
Jail 1 at San Francisco under sentence
of nine years for m~anslaughter on
charge and awaiting trial on another
charge, committed suicide by taking an
overdose of opium. 1t is supposed that
some Chinese friend Of his struggled
into the Jail the opium with which he
took his life.
Two men named Joy and Jack Pesse-
gon were caught in a ave in the
Angels quartz mine at Angels Camp,
CAL, and ON top Of them fell many tons
of rock and dirt, killing Pessegon in
stantly. Pessegon, who was about 30
years of age, unmarried and a native OF
Italy, had worked at the Utica mine at
Angels Camp for about ten years, but Q
few nights previous to his death he
dreamed that he would be caught in q
cave, and in consequence went to work
at the Angels mine. Joy was not hurt.
Proceeding under authority Of an act
of the California legislature of 1897 about
25 farmers met at Sacramento and or
ganized the Sacramento County Fire
Insurance company. The company has
a membership of about 40. The follow
ing officers were elected: George Hack.
president; Joseph Holmes, vice. presi-
dent; Joseph Cornell, secretary, and
Charles Schreiner, treasurer. These
officers are also directors, the others
being N. Lauridson, w. E. Dixon and
David Reese. The organization is for
mutual protection for loss by fire, every
member standing his assessment pro
rata to meet the loss sustained by any
member. The company will confine its
operations to insuring farm buildings,
and no risk more than two-thirds of
the value of the building will be written.
Two deaths have occurred in the Van
Leuven family at Brookside, San Ber-
nardino county, CAL, supposed to be
due to the drinking of the milk from a
COW afflicted with tuberculosis. The
first victim was q little girl, and since
her death, the mother, Mrs. O. e. Van
Leuven, has died. The other members
of the family are in a critical condition.
The COW had been recently purchased,
and up to that time the family had good
health. Then every member Of the
family began to show signs of consump-
ton and were soon in the advanced
stages. The cow was examined by a
veterinary surgeon, who pronounced it
suffering from tuberculosis and ordered
the animal killed.
Two thieves, aided by o little soap,
succeeded in getting away with some
cash from the California candy factory
at 1888 Market street, San Francisco.
Shortly after 6 O'Clock in the evening,
while crowds were passing on the prin.
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the crooks smeared with soap the glass
in the large show window and then
called the attention Of the proprietor to
it. The proprietor ut nee got water
and . towel and stepped outside to clean
the glass. While thus occupied the
second man entered the store, opened
the till and cash register, and took all
the money contained in them, about $55.
Charles Francis Woodward, the con-
demned murderer Of Sheriff w. O.
Kicker of Casper county, Wyo., was
hanged in his night clothes at 1 o'clock
in the morning. at Casper, by "a masked
and armed men. on the scaff old erected
for his legal hanging. The men over
powered Sheriff Tubbs, secured the
keys and led the condemned man from
his cell. The supreme court had granted
q stay Of execution. which would have
given Woodward at least three months
more of life.