The Eureka sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1902-current, 1903-06-13
TERMS FOR WEEKLY SENTINEL.
GENERAL NEWS SUMMARY.

1910 0,OOO,OOU anu Ills euuCation @%fV,oVV,-
600.
Male teachers in the pdblic schools
have decreased from Al per cent in 1870
to 29 per cent in 1900.
Under great irrigation system 10000
acres OF Idaho land are to be opened
July under the Carey Act.
Postmaster General Payne has issued
an order cutting the pay OF fourteen as
sistant postmasters down one-half.
Notwithstanding the unprecedented
amount OF water that has fallen during
the Spring the salt sea OF Utah is still
falling.
The deepest hole drilled in the United
States is the oil well OF the Forest Oil
Company, West Elizabeth, Pa, which is
5,575 feet.
A. E. Ames & Co., bankers and brokers
OF Toronto, Canada, have closed their
doors. The liabilities. it is expected, will
reach ten millions.
An expedition equipped by Miss Helen
Gould has sailed for Europe to spend
four months studying the poor in the big
cities OF the Old World.
The Secretary OF the Interior has is-
sued seventy -one permits for grazing l24,
$50. sheep in the Uintah forest reserve,
Utah, from July to September 20.
The people OF Stockton, CAL. on May
90 voted $3.50, 900 for municipal electric
lighting plant. There were 1897 votes
in favor against 662 cast by the opposi-
tion.
A combination OF the eighteen wooden
mills OF the Pacific Coast is likely to be
effected soon. California has seven mills
Oregon nine, Washington one and Mon
tana one.
Minister Conger reports to the State
Department at Washington from Pekin
that the Chinese Government is about to
establish mint at Pekin and mint its
own silver coins.
Miss Marshall Kiser Is sugar inspector
for the Spreckels Company OF Hawaii. Miss
Kser is Kentucky woman and began
the study Of chemistry at the State Col
lege at Lexington.
The Salt Lake health authorities are
taking no chances in coping with the
smallpox situation and are on the alert TO
check the contagion in that city, by
strict quarantine.
Information from Tahiti confirms the
rumor that three small islands near Pit
cairn were seized by England recently
Looking toward the completion OF the
Panama canal, they are considered valua-
BILE.
A public meeting is to be held in Lon
don on June 20 to determine what plan
will be adopted to memorialze Sir Henry
Bessemer, who reduced the cost OF steel
from $3.50 to 500 ton in less than half a
century.
The Federal Salt Company paid into
the United States District Court $1,000,
the amount OF the fine imposed by Judge
De Haven of San Francisco for violating
the Sherman Antitrust Act by restrain
ing commerce between the States.
The United States Circuit Court OF Ap.
peals has denied the petition for re-
hearing in the case of Walter N. Dimick,
now serving a sentence in San Quentin
penitentiary for appropriating money
from the United States mint In San Fran
cisco.
Former United States Senator McLau-
rim Of South Carolina faces financial ruin
through the Endorsement OF notes that
will amount to 100000. He sprang into
particular prominence about year ago
in brawl on the floor OF the Senate
with Senator Ben Tillman.
Work is to be resumed on the old Gold
Bank Tunnel, started several years ago,
to drain the Grass Valley and Nevada
City mines, and which was to have been
seven miles in length. Owing to lack Of
capital the proposition was abandoned.
II will take five years to complete the
work.
On May 20 the King OF Saxony opened
the German Municipal Exhibition, the
first OF it's kind ever held. Exhibits OF
12S cities were on view. Among the
noteworthy exhibits were plans of city
halls, street-car tracks and elevated rail-
way systems, public parks, sewage and
drainage systems, municipal slaughter
houses and garbage crematories.