"The Daily Humboldt Standard" Eureka, California
Monday, April 18, 1898

THE TALE OF A TOT

How George Sherwin Came From Eureka Nobody Knows

How did little George Sherwin, aged 7 years, get from Eureka to San Francisco does not appear. He got here, however, says the San Francisco Chronicle. Wednesday afternoon he showed up at the door of the Columbia building on Market street & looked wistfully at the elevator man. The latter thought the boy wanted to ride, so he carried him to the sixth floor, where the Children's Home-Finding Society has its office. None there knew him, but he was so pretty & so good that they gave him a picture book, & when the superintendent of the society came in the youngster was all smiles. Curiously enough the society had had correspondence about the boy some days before. His mother is dead & his father unable to provide even the slight portion for his support. The boy is now being temporarily cared for until a home can be found for him. The route from Eureka is all water or over a rough mountain road. Which way the infant came is a mystery, but he showed no signs of hard usage, & when asked how he traveled & with whom only said, "I just come."

The child refered to is Georgie Sherburne, the motherless grandchild of Mrs. Jacobs of Arcata, who through the local branch of the Home-Finding Society secured for him a home with a good family in San Francisco. He was sent down on the last trip of the steamer "Homer" in charge of Sheriff Brown who was to deliver him to a messenger who would be waiting at the wharf when the steamer arrived in San Francisco. Evidently the messenger met the child & took him to the building where the offices of the society are located but here he must have shirked his responsibility & left the little fellow in the corridor to find the rooms himself. However, "all's well that ends well" for the young traveler eventually reached his destination safely & as he was provided with a letter identifying him he is doubtless safe in his new home by this time.
 
 

"The Daily Humboldt Standard" Eureka, California
Saturday, January 8, 1898

AND THE CAT CAME BACK

R. F. Herrick witnessed a novel fight near Table Bluff the other day. While driving along the road between William Tierney's & the Table Bluff House a brindle cat came out of the brush about fifty feet ahead of his horse & was proceeding leisurely along the road close to the brush. The feline did not go very far, however, when a hawk that had been circling about overhead espied the cat & made a straight dive for him & then the fun commenced. The cat squealed & spit & the hawk screamed & fluttered & the two locked in deadly combat & seeming like a ball rolled out of sight into the brush. Upon his return over the same road a little while later Mr. Herrick's curiousity to learn the result of this strange duel prompted him to dismount & investigate, & as he entered the brush where he had seen the strange pair disappear the cat-ran out, looking suspiciously corpulent. Further investigation showed the feathers & other indigestible parts of the hawk's anatomy scattered about showing plainly that the bird had taken too large a contract & instead of filling it had filled the oat.
 
 

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"The Arcata Evening Telephone" (Daily)
July 25, 1882

"O, WHAT IS THAT" "IT'S A CAT I" A party of young men & women betook themselves to the Freshwater woods to pick blackberries last Sunday. One or two of the former, our informant says, carried destructive scatter guns with them, intending to slay all cotton-tails which might dispute the way with them. One of them--"Ed" is the name reported--finaly espied in the brush what he supposed to be a rabbit making ready to attack him. The contents of both barrels were poured into the carcass of the animal, carrying away everything but the head & legs. Our Nimrod advanced to bag his game, & was not a little surprised to find he had shot a cat all to pieces--Tom Cloney's pet Japanese cat. The worst of it is that Mr. Cloney is about to commence a suit for damages, placing the value of his riddled cat at $30.
 
 

"The Daily Humboldt Standard" Eureka, California
Monday, March 8, 1897

A CARD of THANKS

A woman living in the mountain districts has an eye to business. While expressing thanks for favors during the disturbance caused by her husband's death she puts into the card, which is published in the "E1 Dorado Times", a line of advertising. The grief stricken lady gives vent to her sorrows & desires in the following language'

"I desire to thank the friends & neighbors most heartily in this manner for their united aid & co-operation during the illness & death of my recent husband, who escaped from me by the hand of death on Friday last while eating breakfast. To the friends & all who contributed so willingly towards making the last moments & funeral of my husband a howling sucess, I desire to be remembered most kindly, hoping these few lines will find you enjoying the same blessing. I also have a good milch cow & a roan gelding which I will sell cheap--- God moves in a mysterious way. His wonders to perform. He plants His footsteps in the sea & rides upon the storm --- also a black & white shoat very low."

Now, if any young widow in these parts can put more business into a card of thanks & mingle it with sentiment befitting such a solemn occasion, the "Standard" will publish the card without pay.
 
 

"The Daily Humboldt Times" Eureka, California
Sunday, January 14, 1884

The recorder's office is ornamented with a handsome new clock & map. George is bound to have things look nice in his new quarters.
 
 

Friday, January 26, 1883

Our new recorder knows what comfort is. Step in & see what George has been doing in the way of improvements.
 
 

"The Daily Humboldt Times: Eureka, California

Two men of the numerous but unregistered family of John Doe's were arrested Saturday night by Officer Bulkeley for drunkeness & yesterday morning paid $6 apiece in Police Court.
 
 

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"The Ferndale Enterprise" Ferndale, California
Friday, May 13, 1892

John A. Carlson was married in Arcata on Thursday of last week to Antonie Trojacek, late of Bohemia, but not until Johnnie had given Antonie a deed to his property. The morning after the marriage, the wife skipped with her brother, however, but the duped husband has suceeded in recovering the deed, although short a wife.
 
 

"The Daily Humboldt Standard" Eureka, California
December 16, 1892

FEE DEMANDED FOR A HUSBAND

An Arcata Rumor In Which a Baker Figured as a Marriage Broker.

Last spring John A. Carlson, a native of Sweden, & a saloon keeper of Arcata, took unto himself a wife, a comely looking woman. The two led a happy life for aught that is known to the contrary, until the 14th day of November, when Carlson died. Then troubles seem to have come to the widow & not singly.

Carlson was possessed of some property. It was reported that he was quite wealthy. Rumor has it that previous to Carlson's marriage, one J. Nowak, the Arcata baker, with an eye to business, told the lady who is now Mrs. Carlson, that Carlson was possessed of much of this world's goods, & glowingly described his affluent circumstances. He urged her to marry Carlson, &, it is now said that he offered to arrange any little details, like convincing Carlson that she was the woman above all others in this world, the wedding, etc., provided she would pay him $1,000 when she got hold of Carlson's property.

An-agreement was entered into, a paper signed & in the course of events the wedding took place. Now Mr. Carlson is dead, the widow is about to come into the possession of the property, & Mr. Nowak wants his money. The widow disputes the claim. Nowak has offered to compromise on $500, but the woman refuses to give anything, claiming that she did not understand what she was signing.

Trouble again frowns on the unprotected widow. Just before Carlson's death he sold his saloon to his nephew, John A. Carlson, for $1; thus depriving the widow of that portion of the property. Creditors to the extent of a few hundred dollars are also interested in the last mentioned affair, & it is said that the general result will probably be several lawsuits.
 
 

"The Daily Humboldt Times" Eureka, California
Friday, May 30, 1890

The blanks for the census enumerators arrived on the steamer yesterday, A glance at them will convince anyone that the position of enumerator will not be a sinecure. We know of one of the appointees who imediately telegraphed his resignation after seeing the blanks. (Note' almost the entire 1890 census burned)
 
 

Wednesday, July 2, 1890

W. P. Huestis has finished his taking of the census in the Klamath District. He reports the families of that section as scattering, & that he rode one entire day & only secured one name.
 
 

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"The Arcata Union" Arcata, California
Saturday, January 30, 1897

ARCATA BOTTOM SENSATION

Mismated & Mismarried ----- Laws Delay & Bigamy

Mrs. Nellie Bartlett has recently made the startling discovery that Bickford Bartlett, a rancher of Arcata bottom, to whom she was married in this city August 31, 1894, & by whom she has a child two years old, is not now, nor never has been her husband in the eyes of the law. Instead of being a young grass widow at the time of her marriage to Bartlett, she was still the wife of Samuel de Rome Wood, & had in marrying Bartlett unconsciously committed bigamy.

On March 4, 1889 at Philadelphia, Nellie Houghton, then sixteen years of age, & Samuel de Rome Wood, who was many years her senior, were married. They lived together until 1893, when the wife brought suit for divorce & in July or August of that year, the testimony being all in, the case was given to the Master in Chancery. The grounds upon which she sued having been valid her attorneys assured her that the divorce would be granted & when afterwards they informed her that the case had been given to the Master of the Chancery she understood that to mean that she had obtained her divorce. In the meantime she had come to Humboldt, & having met Bickford Bartlett & believing herself a single woman, she gave him her hand in marriage. The ceremony was performed August 31, 1893, but it was not until recently that she learned that all that time there was a man in Pennsylvania who still had the legal right to claim her as wife, for the Master of Chancery did not hand down his report until November 4th of that year, or nealy three months later.

A dozen or more years ago Mr. & Mrs. Wood came to Humboldt, settling first on the peninsula. She was a handsome & facinating young woman, scarcely out of her teens. He a venerable, grey haired man, of genteel appearance & refined manners, old enough to be her father. Two little children accompanied the flood household. Finding unproductive sand dunes & the biting winds of the seashore uncongenial to the love of December & May, the mismated couple next took up their abode in a shake cottage near the Janes creek store, & strove to drive dull care away & keep the wolf from the door by engaging in raising flowers, garden stuff & chickens. Here things went well for a time. The aged benedict could bask in the sunshine of his young wife's charms & admire budding flowers, growing garden sass, cackling hens & the gleeful sports of the little children that so much resembled Mrs. Wood.

But it did not require Mr. Wood long to experience the truth of the old adage that the course of true love is occasionaly shaken up in life's rugged pathway. Mrs. Wood soon made the acquaintance of people in the neighborhood & whispers of amours with more than one farmer on the bottom became so notorious as to give the well regulated morals of Janes creek a severe shock.

Then an end to trouble came, temporarily, by the departure of the Woods to the Atlantic states, leaving nothing behind but a few damaged hearts among the male persuasion. After an absence of one or two years Mrs. Wood returned alone & was married upon her arrival to a young well-to-do farmer on Arcata bottom named Bartlett. Things went well with them for a while. A baby was born to them shortly after, which Mrs. Bartlett took a trip off somewhere & was absent for quite a while. Returning to her husband & child, she remained for a few months, but struck out again in the early part of last year, & did not show up again till about four weeks ago. Notwithstanding that it had dawned upon her that she was still Mrs. Wood, she resumed her place at the hearthstone of the Bartlett household & did not allow a trifling matter like not being the legal wife of the lord of the la case to interfere with her domestic felicity.

Just what Mrs. Wood-Bartlett expects to gain by the suit commenced is not clear to those who know her best, but it is more than probable that an undeveloped chapter is hidden in the background which will in due season explain the transaction.
 
 

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"The Arcata Union" Arcata, California
Saturday, January 25, 1890

In Marysville, on Saturday last, a farmer's wife, having learned that the proceeds of a mortgage on her husband's farm had gone to defray a whiskey bill at one of the numerous "Blind Pigs" as illicit drinking places, are termed, collected 7 more women, & sallied forth armed with pickaxes, hatchets & other weapons, & before noon they had broken up several "Blind Pigs" & utterly destroyed their fixtures & furnitures.
 
 

"The Humboldt Daily Times" Eureka, California
Tuesday, June 24, 1890

The Bank of Arcata is now in telephone communication with Eureka Number 6 Arcata switchboard.
 
 

"The Humboldt Daily Times" Eureka, California
Friday, May 23, 1890

--The retail tobacco dealers of this city having entered into an agreement by which they bind themselves to sell no cigarettes for a less price than 10¢ per bunch or 3 bunches for 25¢, for a period of 2 years, beginning May 15, 1890. This step was found necessesary owing to the small profit (50¢ on a box) realized on Duke's Cameo & other cheap brands of cigarettes. Besides being advantageous to the dealers, this move may be of great benefit to the rising generations. It will have a tendency to reduce the consumption by putting them out of the reach of the average "kid".
 
 

"The Humboldt Daily Times" Eureka, California
May 27, 1890

Myrtle Grove cemetery has sold all the available lots. There are no accomodations left for the public only for members.
 
 

"The Humboldt Daily Times" Eureka, California
Tuesday, June 17, 1890

Mary E. Jenkins, aged 70 years--sued Henry C. Morse for $20,000 damages for speaking of her in terms which reflected upon her chastity.
 
 

"The Humboldt Daily Times" Eureka, California
Friday, May 16, 1890

It is a condition we regret, & do not like to mention, but it is nevertheless a fact that Eureka is losing population at this very moment. The steamers are taking away more passengers than they bring here, & among these passengers it will be found that families are numbered. Not only this, but business firms are in some instances, seeking new locations. What is the cause? Simply because this community is struck with the blight of a studied & systematic repression. Men of enterprise are not content to stay here & waste the best years of their lives waiting for a prosperity that the people of this city make no effort to secure. There is but one way to counteract all this.---Help to build a railroad to this bay.
 
 

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"The Ferndale Enterprise" Ferndale, California
Friday, November 5, 1897

Judge De Haven, George Knight & Frank McCowan, all of San Francisco furnished the money to take Chief Jerry James, of the Humboldt Indians, to Washington, where he will make a plea for an Indian school, to be located on Humboldt bay. The gentlemen named looked out for Jerry's comfort while in the city recently, enroute to see the "Great Father" at Washington.
 
 

"The Ferndale Enterprise" Ferndale, California
Friday, November 19, 1897

Chief Jerry James, of the Humboldt bay Indians, is back from Washington. He was taken ill while at the nation's capital, & as President McKinley was also ill, he did not get to see the "Great Father.", but the Secretary of the Interior promised him that he would investigate the matter of establishing an Indian school on Humboldt bay. Jerry will make another trip to Washington in the spring.
 
 

"The Ferndale Enterprise" Ferndale, California
Tuesday, November 23, 1897

Chief Jerry James, of Humboldt bay said that the authorities at Washington told him if he wanted an Indian school on Humboldt bay he must build it himself or have it built by subscription, but that the Government would supply the pupils with the necessary books & stationery. The matter of aid for the aged & infirm of Jerry's people was taken under advisement by the Washington authorities, & he was requested to return to Washington in the spring. It was suggested to Jerry, however, that he & his tribe go back to the reservation.
 
 

"The Ferndale Enterprise" Ferndale, California
Tuesday, October 26, 1897

Chief Jerry James, the newly selected chief of the Indian tribe that resides on Humboldt bay, is circulating a paper in the form of a certificate of good character, etc, which he desires to take to Washington Annexed to the certificate is a list of the names of the Indians residing at Indianola & Mad River, & also a list of names of their children. The number of Indians in the tribe, according to the list is 211, & the list of children foots up to 36. The object of Jerry's trip to Washington is to endeavor to have the government establish a school on Humboldt bay for the children of his remaining tribe. Jerry estimates that the trip will cost him somewhere in the neighborhood of $200, & is going to devote his time & money for the benefit of the children of the tribe. He thinks that in view of the fact that the Indians of Humboldt bay have never been a burden on the government, but have always supported themselves, that they should receive the assistance asked for. Jerry is a bright specimen of his race, honest in his convictions' & will undoubtly make a creditable statement of his case.
 
 

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"The Daily Humboldt Times" Eureka, California
Thursday, July 29, 1897

THE DRINKING FOUNTAIN ARRIVES

The drinking fountain which was ordered from J. N. Fish, of New York, by the retiring council on the night of its last meeting, has been landed safely in this city. It stands 5 feet 4 inches & measures 22 inches in diameter at its base. It weighs 800 pounds & is well adapted for city use, having been made extra strong to resist the knocks & jars of heavy trucks. The fountain possess an ornamental top piece. It is furnished with three basins at which man, horse & dog may drink. The basin which will be used by pedestrians & the trough for horses are on opposite sides & about midway up the fountain. The vessel provided for dogs is near the base & it catches what water escapes from the other two bowls. A self closing faucet regulates the flow of water by means of an automatic ball-valve.

The cost of the fountain in New York was $93, to which sum must be added $21.40 freight charges, making the total cost $114.40.

The sum of $25 will be donated by the W C T U (Women's Christian Temperance Union) towards the expense of the fountain, & the Ricks Water Company will furnish the water used free of charge to the city. The fountain will probably be set up on the curbstone on the F street pavement where it will be convenient for the greatest number of pedestrians & people driving horses. The need of such a drinking structure is strongly felt in this city, where nothing of the kind is provided for the general public.
 
 

"The Daily Humboldt Standard" Eureka, California
Saturday, June 19, 1897

FIVE MONTHS IN THE WATER

The Letter Mail That Went Over Shively Bluff Received.

A mail pouch filled with letter mail that was lost last February in Eel river was received in San Francisco Wednesday by the Railway Mail Service Department. It had originally contained about 1800 letters, & though they were throughly water soaked, all but about 60 of them still bore legible addresses & were sent on to their destination.

The pouch left San Francisco over the San Francisco & North Pacific Railroad, January 31st & Ukiah by stage the same day to be delivered to the railroad at Scotia for the region tributary to this city. At Harris it was transferred to a pack horse, & at 11 o'clock at night, February 2nd, horse & pouch both fell into the river at Shiveley's Bluff, ten miles south of Scotia. The river was high at the time & the pouch could not be recovered. It was not found until June 10th last, at a point about five miles east of Ferndale, having drifted a distance of ten or fifteen miles. The pouch, though thoroughly water soaked, was intact. The lock was so rusted that it could not be opened, & it was necessary to cut the strap to get at the contents. On some of the letters every mark, both inside & out, had been obliterated except the postmark & the cancelling mark, showing the persistent quality of the ink used by the department.
 
 

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"The Daily Humboldt Times" Eureka, California
Wednesday, January 6, 1897

FEMlNlNE OFFENDERS

Yesterday was ladle's day in the Police Court, the only offenders coming before His Honor being of the gentler sex, these were Sarah Flynn, charged with assaulting her sister, Kate Flynn. The sisters Flynn reside together near the south end of C street, & have been having trouble over the residence property which is owned by the complaintant Kate. Monday the disagreement culminated in an open rupture in which Sarah seized a billet of burning wood from the stove & attacked Kate. Judge Holmes tried his best to have the sisters, who are elderly women, settle their dificulty amicably, before the arrest was made, but all to no avail & yesterday after listening to the testimony he was forced to sentence Sarah to pay a fine of $15 with the alternative of 15 days in jail. She took the alternative.
 
 

Friday, January 15, 1897

Sarah Flynn, an aged woman, who was recently sentenced to 15 days imprisonment for assaulting her sister, Kate Flynn, was examined as to her sanity before Judge Wilson yesterday morning & discharged. Miss Flynn after serving part of her sentence paid the remainder of the fine due & was released Monday, but was immediately rearrested on a complaint sworn to by her sister Kate, charging her with insanity.
 
 

"The Ferndale Enterprise" Ferndale, California
Friday, May 11, 1894

Cannibal island from all accounts, has a live frog eater. George Collins brought the news to town Wednesday & subsequent reports prove that his story was straight gospel. It seems that one day last week a Swiss residing on the Davidson place offered to wager with two friends in the presence of a crowd that he would put a live bull frog in his mouth, bite it in two & swallow it. His offer, of course, was laughed at, but he insisted upon the wager with all sincerity. Finally the dollar was put up, when, true to his word & to the surprise of all present, he cooly placed the frog in his mouth, bit it but once, & with a smack of satisfaction, gulped it down. Next
 
 

"The Arcata Union" Arcata, California
Saturday, May 4, 1895

In the case of Mrs. Amelia Fulmore, who was taken to Eureka a few days ago to be examined on a charge of insanity is a particularly hard one, & we are glad to know that the poor woman was sent to the county hospital for treatment. She lived, or rather existed, with her five helpless children, the youngest babe four months old, not far from the Hannah crossing of Mad river, in a tumble down shanty, not fit for a digger to live in, her husband being away somewheres in the mines. Her condition was enough to wreck the mind of any good woman.
 
 

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"The Daily Humboldt Times" Eureka, California
Wednesday, April 2, 1890

"THAT PITABLE CASE"

Letter to the Editor:

In answer to a "Pitable Case" published in last week's 'Western Watchman" stating that my husband, S. A. McDonald, manages to come home every few days rolling drunk, & is abusive to his family, & that his wife & children are half-starved, puny, sickly little things, I wish to state that this account is a misrepresentation of facts. If the citizens of Eureka will call on me I will prove to them that the "Watchman's" statement is without truth. Neither is it true that the parties coming into our home have been insulted by my husband. I am sorry that any newspaper would attempt to malign my husband or misrepresent our condition, but I can only set the matter right before the public by denying the substance of all the "Watchman" published.

Signed: Mrs. S. A. McDonald
 
 

"The Daily Humboldt Times"
Wednesday, May 14, 1890

Thomas Mallory, a "cullud pusson" was arrested yesterday for smashing windows in a house known as the "Cottage" on E street between First & Second streets, upon complaint of Maggie Cox, likewise "culled." He plead guilty & demanded a jury trial.
 
 

"The Daily Humboldt Times"
Tuesday, April 1, 1890

The dull monotony of a Eureka Sunday was relieved by a couple of fights. The first occured in the afternoon on Front street between two sailors. The spectators made a ring & several lively rounds were fought, lasting ten or fifteen minutes. Cause --- Bad whiskey. Effect --- Two badly damaged figureheads. No arrests. The second took place on the lower levels of Third street, about 10 o'clock in the evening, between Forest Hadkins & a man named Dillon. He was hit on the head with a brick & arrested. The other man being pretty drunk, was picked up, stood up against a wall & told to stay there until the officer could return for him. He failed to stay.
 
 

"The Daily Humboldt Times"
Saturday, April 12, 1890

The funeral of little George Hallet Baldwin took place from the Christian church at 10:30 o'clock yesterday morning. He had been a pupil in Miss Murray's school & his classmates having asked & obtained a half holiday from the trustees, attended the funeral in a body. He was a bright little fellow & a general favorite, & his classmates have draped his vacant desk in the schoolroom to show their love for their lost companion.

(George died of brain fever.)
 
 

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"The Daily Humboldt Times" Eureka, California
Tuesday, July 30, 1895

BICYCLE BATTERY

Like the policeman's the bicycle man's life" is not a happy one." During his short experience in the business L. L. Ayers, proprietor of the Fashion Cyclery, has found this out. When he is not engaged in keeping track of rented wheels & tracing missing wheels which take unannounced journeys to Scotia & elsewhere, he puts in his time repairing wheels which have fallen victims to novice's attempts to ride them.

Last evening he had a somewhat different experience & instead of repairing a broken wheel he had to damage a whole rider. A stranger rented a wheel & lent it to another man to try his skill with the result that the other man tried to climb an electric light pole with it & came down with a broken front fork. Back came the wheel, & with it the renter & the other man. The latter who had no business with the wheel assumed to do all the talking, claiming that the wheel was broken when it left the cyclery & refused to pay for the damage. One word brought on another & in the midst of the argument the other man who weighs about 180 pounds, & prides himself on being a "hard man," struck at the cyclery man.

Lafe isn't very big in inches, but what little there is of him is strictly business, &- if the "other man" man thought he had an easy game he was quickly undeceived. Just as the cyclery man was getting warmed up to his work, the "other man" remembered he had urgent business elsewhere & started on a run to attend it, leaving his hat for his friend, the renter of the wheel, to bring after him.

Lafe didn't get paid for the wheel, but the onlookers are of the opinion that the damaged wheel & countenance make a "standoff," especially as Lafe did not receive a scratch.
 
 

"The Daily Humboldt Standard" Eureka, California
Saturday, September 21, 1895

Mayor Safford is the latest devotee to the popular pastime of pedaling, & last evening he ventured out & had the misfortune to get on a prohibited sidewalk. He was arrested for violating an ordinance that his honor had made legal by his signature. Police Judge Holmes imposed the usual $10 fine & allowed the mayor to go on his recognizance.
 
 

"The Daily Humboldt Standard" Eureka, California
Friday, November 15, 1895

The parrot advertised last evening has been found & Polly's little flight was a short one. The bird flew into a deserted chicken house, & when her captors closed the door Polly gave way to her emotions in a burst of profanity that made the shingles rattle.
 
 

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"The Daily Humboldt Times" Eureka, California
Thursday, January 10, 1895

Some of the young men of the city are developing a habit of congregating in the eveing in front of the show windows of the stores along F street, thus not only making themselves obnoxious to the store keepers whose displays they obscure, but also to ladies & others who are compelled to run the gauntlet of their stares as they pass along the street.
 
 

"The Daily Humboldt Standard" Eureka, California
December 1895

The Japanese who went up to Gold Bluffs last Friday were only allowed to stop overnight at that place. It seems that someone in Trinidad had sent the news in advance, & when the Japs arrived they were met by the miners & settlers of the neighborhood, & informed that they would be allowed to stop that night, but unless they took the track back in the morning, something would happen. They were escorted on Saturday as far as Orick & warned not to return. As a consequence it is stated that the Bluff Company has discharged all white men heretofore employed by them which, while it may be bad for the men, is just as bad for the owners.
 
 

"The Daily Humboldt Standard"
June 18, 1895

An amusing story is told of Ben Elsemore, who went north with his phonographic outfit some time ago. Ben was up in the Klamath country & was doing a good business among the Indians. The simple natives regarded the machine as a sort of music box, which ground out tunes, songs, etc., but at an unlucky hour Ben induced an old chief to sing one of his best war songs onto it, & then turned it loose on the old chap. His surprise can be better imagined than described, & he immediately spread the report that the machine contained an "Indian" devil. This about runined the phonograph business, as no Indian within twenty miles could be induced to come near the machine.
 
 

"The Daily Humboldt Standard"
Saturday, September 7, 1895

A young man fairly well dressed & apparently well fed has been striking Eureka citizens for money to buy food with today. He was hungry & had walked into town, so he said. An order for a meal was offered him, which he evidently did not want. He should be shown the road leading down the coast.
 
 

"The Ferndale Enterprise" Ferndale, California
Tuesday, August 22, 1899

Archie Canepa & John Revoy, of Eureka, spent last week on Upper Bear river fishing, returning home Saturday last. In less than six hours one day they caught 456 trout.