The Eureka sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1902-current, 1903-04-18
GENERAL NEWS

The food q the cotton lands along the
lower reaches OF the Mississippi have
caused q rise in the price OF that staple.
The general offices Of Wells, Fargo <
Co., which have been maintained in
San Francisco ever since the establish
ment OF the company, over half q century
ago, are to be removed to New York next
month.
Chief Engineer Hood Of the Southern
Pacific Company denies the sensational
stories concerning the Salt Lake cut of.
He says that no men we're killed, no en-
gines were lost and that the sink on the
fill has been slight.
A strike in the offices Of Wells, Fargo
& Co. in San Francisco has been sverted
by the company reinststing q discharged
employe who is Vice-PresideDt Of the
Express Auxiliary, Golden Gate Division.
No. 1, United Brotherhood of Railway
Employees.
The United States Circuit Court hand
ed down a decision enioining the North
ern Securities Company from voting the
stock Of the Northern Railway Company.
The decision practically declares that
the great HiL-Merger is invalid and a
violation of the antitrust law.
The Government Bureau OF Education
has issued a bulletin giving in detail the
b~enefactions Of Andrew Carnegie. These
b~enefactions have reached the enormous
sum Of s67, 212, 923, of which s52. 270,173
has been given in the United States. Mr..
Carneigie's gifts for 1901 are given at
$3o,24S,5 500.
The bank deposits of Kansas now
amount to s3,O0O,0 900 more than any
previous high water mark, according to
the quarterly statement just issued by
Bank Commissioner Albaugh. The de-
posts are now more than $50, 000, 900,
owe $50 for every man, woman and child
in the State.
VIM. Mcdaniel, a young rancher OF
Lookout. Modoc county, CAL, died q
few days ago from a kick in the stomach
delivered by one Of the men lynched,
and on his deathbed confessed that be
had taken part in the lynching which
occurred at that place two years ago. The
dying man did not name any of his &C
completes.
Colonel "Bill" Root, a noted frontiers
man, a companion through most of his
life of buffalo BILL a friend Of "Bill"
Nye during the latser's repertorial daysin
Laramie, Wyo., and an associate Of other
men of Wyoming in years gone by who
have since become famous, died suddenly
of heart failure In his apartments in
Salt Lake City late Saturday night. He
was about 60 years old.
On the return to Washington last Mon
day of Postmaster General Payne he said
the recent scandals in the Postoffice De-
partment would be thoroughly investi-
gated. He is quoted as saying: 'The
investigation will continue, and if any
wrong-doing is disclosed the parties
guilty of such wrong doing will be sum-
marily dealt with. If the system or
method OF doing business in the depart
ment is faulty. the proper remedies will
be applied without fear or favor. in
augurated the investigation with the
determination that it should be exhaus-
tive"
Securities vent crashing downward in
Wall street last Monday. The enormous
slump in shares in the stock market was
caused by the decision in favor of the
Government, handed down in the North
ern Securities case last week. The full
effect OF the the decision in the merger
| case was felt. Some idea of the tremend-
GUS decline in prices that has taken place
since the crest was reached in the bull
ish market stock wave OF September 9 of
last year may be cleaned when it is shown
that the difference in values between the
high prices touched on that day by
twenty prominent railroad stocks and
low prices Of Monday is more than $780,
000, 900.
Former President Grover Cleveland
Tuesday night settled all doubts as to
his third-term aspirations when, in a
speech In New York, at a meeting in the
interest of Booker Washington's Tuske-
gee Institute in Alabama he made a pal
pable bid for Southern support by de-
claring for white supremacy over the
negro. Mr.. Cleveland said that neither
the emancipation proclamation nor the
decree comforting citizenship upon the
colored man has removed his slavery
bred shortcomings. The Southern
whites, he added, in regarding their
peace and prosperity and even the safety
OF their civilization as interviewer with