Show IN PACIFIC NOBTHWEST At Victoria B C today the War sprite is to weigh hoc anchor and commence com-mence her homeward voyage to England Eng-land She will take part In the firing ot the royal salute In honor of thc Queens birthday which has been set for this morning The new garrison for Work Point arrived ar-rived at Victoria B C last night from Bermuda where the troops have been guarding Beer prisoners and marched over to the barracks where they relieved re-lieved the 120 officers noncommissioned oniccrs and men now making the final arrangements for their departure for Hongkong ON THE PACIFIC SLOPE Alexander P Christie a pioneer buildIng build-Ing contractor of Alameda CaL passed away ut a sanitarium where he had been under treatment for Brights disease dis-ease He was 51 years old Clyde Worloy a student from Blackburn Black-burn university at Carllnvllle Iii is lying at a Rodlands hotel in a critical condition from the effects ot poison which he drank by mistake Neil C Ncllson aged about 23 ypars shot and killed himself In his room at a lodginghouse In Los Angeles tho body being foundin the morning It Is believed be-lieved that hunger drove him to suicide Frank Soto who held up twenty men in a saloon In Sacramento last Wednesday Wednes-day was arrested and arraigned Friday Fri-day and Saturday was on his way to Folsom prison to serve a life sentence Thc A and C Ham company of San Jose Cal has purchased of the California Cali-fornia Cured Fruit aesociation a large part of Its carryover slock from last year amounting to between 20000000 and 30000000 pounds George Townsend committed suicide at the home of his fatherlnlawGeorge Moulton near Grass Valley He procured pro-cured a bottle of carbolic acid and drank a large portion of Its before the bottle wits knocked fiom his hand During an Insane lit Mrs Emma Em-ma Relchart residing at Ilaywardn fal grabbed a carvingknife and drove her son a youth of 10 years out of thc house She was rcatraincd before any harm va don aud sent tb the hospital hos-pital Throe hundred pounds of giant powder pow-der and n large quantity of giant caps blew un at the Lc Suerte mine three miles from Nevada City Cal completely complete-ly Ar cklMr the modern hoisting plant Supt Klrkha had a miraculous escape es-cape from terrible death nnd the night Bhlft crew narrowly escapedbuing entombed en-tombed Raving for her freedom and tearing I her unkempt hair and clothlnjr Mrs Mary Clarke paces the insane cell of the county Jail at Redding Cal apparently ap-parently a hopeless maniac Her mind became deranged from brooding over a charge of robbery against her and the possibility of being sent to the penitentiary peni-tentiary |