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

81.
Eastern capitalists on December 5 paid
$4,000 for 10000 acres of land on the
shores Of Great Salt Lake and will bore
for oil there.
The President of the Board of Eiuca-
ton of London, England, favors the
sending of a special committee to New
York to study the American modern
public school.
President Roosevelt is to receive $780,
600 and his children, Kermit and Ethel,
5000 each from the estate of the late
james King Oracle. an uncle by mar
riage of the President.
A cattle-feeding experiment recently
made in California with a carload of
steers fed with barley and cut alfalfa
hay resulted in an average gain Of 100
pounds in weight for $50 pounds of
crushed barley.
The President has pardoned William
j. Wright He was convicted in Ari-
IONA of criminal assault and sentenced
in 1898 to Imprisonment for life in the
Territorial prison.
Timothy Mccarthy, the walking dele
gate of the Housesmiths and Bridge
mems Union. who was convicted of ex-
t~ortion. has been sentenced to serve one
year on Blackwell's island.
The farmers of Texas are being union
lied at a rapid rate. There are to-day
5000 unions in Texas, with a total men,
bership of 1000 or more, and the
organization is spreading like wildfre.
Diphtheria has broken out among the
students at Stanford University in Cali
fornia, and is epidemic. Prompt meas
ures have been taken by the authorities
to prevent the spread of the dread dis
ease.
William III. Springer of Illinois, a
Democratic leader in the House during
the Forty-fourth and Fifty third Con-
crosses, died at Washington, ID. c., of
pneumonia on December A, aged "a
years.
Hartman has ordered the substitu-
ton of white for negro porters on the
sleeping and parlor cars of the Union
Pacific. The insolence of negroes and
their excessive greed for tips is said to
be the cause for the action.
Physicians have told Associate Justice
Brown of the United States Supreme
Court that he will be totally blind in a
week. He suffered a p~aralytic stroke
two years ago. He took the news
calmly and says he will not retire.
The French press is making use of
the disclosures brought out in New
York regarding the ENHANCEMENT of the
Steel Trust and the Ship Building Com
pany to warn its readers against invest
ing in American securities of any kind.
The privy council of England decided
that placer miners in renewing leases
to their claims must submit to any
fresh charges the Canadian Government
may choose to enforce. The council
dismissed the appeals of the Klondike
miners.
Twenty-ninth Triennial Conclave of
Knights Templar to be held in San
Francisco next September are actively
preparing for the event. The sum of
SIS, $50 has been voted for the COMPETE
tive drills.
The Ottawa University. one of the
largest educational institutions in
Canada, wa destroyed by fire on Dec.
2. The loss is estimated at $500, 900.
All of the 45o students escaped. Three
priests were forced to jump from upper
windows and were badly hurt.
Mrs. Mary Baker G.. Eddy has de-
clined as a gift the new building, erect
ed at a cost of 81, 1876. 0c0 by the First
Church of Christ, Scientist. in New
York City. The tender was made by
members of the church as a ''tribute of
loving loyalty and gratitude"
Miss Helen M. Gould, who has offer
ed cash prizes for the best essays on the
Roman Catholic and Protestant YER
sions of the English Bibles, has extend
ed the time for preparing the essays
until June 1. 1904. and has increased
the amounts of the prizes to $1,000.
The longest voyage ever attempted
by a steamer using oil as fuel is to be
made by the American Hawaiian
freighter Nebraskan from San Fran
cisco to New York. The vessel will
carry 10. 500 barrels of oil. and will not
stop on the voyage to replenish the fuel
supply.
The Brooklyn Grand Jury, which in
vestigated the charge that the Ameri-
can Sugar Refining Company has been