The Eureka sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1902-current, 1904-04-09
GENERAL NEWS

Mrs. Emma L. Watson of Portland,
Ore, has been arrested on a charge of
being implicated in land swindles in
Oregon.
Mrs. Chauuoy Moreland, known as
the latest woman in the world, died
last week in New York of diabetes.
She weighed 4sO pounds.
James Wilson, a business man Of
Hancock, Michigan. recently a sufferer
from diphtheria, was given the antitoxin
treatment by his physicians, and upon
recovery found the diphtheria specific
had also cured him of the alcohol and
tobacco habits.
DIR. William A. Harroun of Denver,
Colorado, who was given two millions
by an uncle whodied in Ireland. refused
the bequest. giring all to his sister, Mrs.
James NJ. Lewis Of Portland, Maine.
He said he did not need and did not
van the money.
Superior Judge Cook in San Francisco
Monday awarded the law firms of Lloyd
& Wood aud Knight & Heggerty $4,000
each in fees from the estate of the late
Charles L. Fair for their services as at
torneys for the estate. The firms named
had put in claims for 500, 900 each.
In the United States Court at st. Louis
Wednesday. United States Senator J.
R. Burton of Kansas was sentenced to
six months imprisonment and fined
$500 for receiving fees illegally from
the Rialto Grain and Securities Com.
pany. The Ease will be appealed.
John A.Benson of San Francisco, one
of the defendants in the United States
land cases, has offered the Govern
ment to turn States evidence, but
the authorities have rejected his propo-
sition, believing enough evidence has
been accumulated to convict all of the
land grabbers.
At Woodbridge. near Stockton, Cali.
fornia, on April 2 Mrs. A. Chapdelain
gave birth to three boys. Two of them
weighed 4 pounds each, the third 81.
The mother is 81 years old and has five
other children. Two of the triplets died
Saturday night. but the surviving boy
gives promise of living.
At the city election in Santa Clara,
California. on April 4 the Rochester vot.
;uo -aoh;oa x-a mead for tha Arst TINA
in the West. There were seven candi.
dates for the nine offices, and over 700
| votes were cast. The result was known,
including the detailed vote Of each can
didate, just fifteen minutes after the
polls closed.
A fire alarm at the Poodle Dog restau-
rant in San Francisco on last Saturday
evening at 6 o'clock revealed an alarm
ing number Of men and women who go
to bed early, judging from the shocking
deshabille in (which they poured from
the upper rooms. 1t is said a number
| of divorce cases in high social circles
are contemplated as a result of the i'm.
promptu evidence.
The United States Supreme Court on
Monday last handed down a decision
in the Anthracite Coal Trust case
brought by William R. Hearst. During
the hearing some Of the witnesses re-
fused to produce certain contracts bear
ing upon the business of the railroad com
panies and the coal mines, which action
was upheld by the Circuit Court of New
York. The Supreme Court holds that
the contracts should have been supplied.
Three masked men on April 2 held up
the Oregon express at Copley, a water
station in Shasta County. California.
After killing the Wells Fargo messenger,
w. J. O'Neil, they blew up the two safes
in the car with six sticks of dynamite.
When they returned to the car to get
their plumber, the robbers found that
! only the floor and trucks of the car
were left and tiny pieces of greenbacks
| with broken and twisted coins covered
the floor. 1t is certain that the unskilled
robbers did not get a great amount of
plumber. They escaped in the darkness.