The Eureka sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1902-current, 1903-12-26
GENERAL NEWS A

President Donoet OF fTa1c pA4unAA
to visit the Words Fair at st. Louis
next year.
The Senate has ratified the treaty for
the extension Of the commercial rela-
tons between the United States and
China
In q prize fight at Sacramento. Cali
fornia. on December IS, Tom Fender
CAST vas killed By blow delivered BY
Kid Williams.
Over one thousand competitors have
entered their names for she $1,000 prize
to be awarded the mosf beautiful and
perfectly formed woman ct the St
Louis lair.
President Ripley Of the Sonts Pc con-
templstes building a 25o-mile czt-off in
Arizona and Southern California, in ad-
dition 70 the one now in course OF con-
struction in New Mexico.
Six deaths from gas asphyxistion CO
CURED in San Francisco last Saturday
night. In the last two years more than
$50 men and women have gone TO 8
similar death IN that city.
John Hays Hammond, the celebrated
mining engineer, Is to make his western
headquarters in Sal: Lake. Nj. Ham
mond has selected Salt Lake as the
mining center Of the country.
W. A. AcKowen, secretary OF the
Board Of Regents Of the University OF
California, is defaulter for more than
$4,000. He says that all the money
was squandered at the ace track.
The Oregon Legislature convened In
special session last Monday tc remedy
defects in the assessment and taxation
law passed at the last session, which
made it impossible for . tax levy TO be
made for the current year.
The Southern Pacific Company viii
again curtail expenses, and all employees
Of the accounting and auditing depart
ments who are receiving more than
800 q month will suffer . reduction.
There are several hundred clerks affect
ed by this order.
Queen Alexandra hos started the
mode for a new head dresc for female
automobiles. 1t is the light and warm
Newtonwsrd scarf, a product Of the
Emerald Isle. King Edward is en-
couragins q rebellion against the
somberness Of mems evening dress.
Chicago's Christmas gift to Europe
this year in money alone amounts to
about 81. 800, 900. Great Britain, par
ticularly Ireland, gets more Of this than
any other country. Germany comes
next on the lists in the money order
division Of the Chicago postofice, then
Sweden and Italy.
The Ohio Grand Lodge of the Inde-
pendent Order Of Odd Fellows has is
sued a circular to the effect that on
January 10, 1904, all saloonkeepers,
b~artenders or professional gamblers
shall either quit the order or those oc-
equations. In the event Of a refusal tc
cease such callings they will be tried
and expelled.
The Secretary Of the Interior has
revoked the order under which final ac-
ton on the entries on the Stone and
Timber Act were suspended, and all
such entries, aggregating a large num-
Der, viii now be acted upon in the
regular order by the General Land Of
fee.
A war cloud overhangs the Far East,
and England views the situation as
serious. The belief is freely expressed
that Russia and Japan must soon clash.
Both countries hope that peace negotia-
tons may proceed, but all the time
they are preparing for hostilities.
Notices were posted at the Colorado
Fuel and Iron Company's works at
Pueblo, Colorado, on Dec. 81, that wher
the works resume, which probably will
be within a few days, there will be a re-
duction of 10 per cen in wages of the
main body of skilled workmen. This il
understood to be a result Of the similar
action taken by Eastern companies.
Colonel Joseph Tyson, a prominent
California mining man and well known
throughout the West, was found asphyx
lated at his home in San Francisco last
Sunday. A broken hose connecting
the gas jet with the gas stove in hil
room told the story. Tyson was born
over " years ago in Pennsylvania. He
located and developed the Vulture mine
in Arizona, which was the first mine