Gardnerville record. (Gardnerville, Nev.) 1898-1902, 1899-11-21
The city trustees of Petaluma have
elected DIR, Thomas Macay city treas

Two Mexican section hands fought at
railroad station near San Bernardind
a few days ago. One was stabbed to
death and the others head was cut open
and he may die.
Austin G. Tubbs, president of the
Tubbs Cordage company, died suddenly
Il few days ago at San Mateo of heart
failure.
Brakeman Burt Smith was killed
and Fireman John B. Connell fatally
injured in wreck on the Spokane Falls
and Northern road, near Springdale,
Wash, A freight train ran into COW
and the engine and two cars left the
track
The trial of Thomas Hayden at Weav-
eryille, arrested on suspicion of being
accessory to the murder of Jack Little
field at Red Mountain on September n,
1898, which has occupied the attention
OF the superior court for the past three
weeks, has resulted in the disagreement
of the jury. After deliberating 30
hours tho jury was unable to reach a
verdict. The last ballot stood six to six.
After long deliberation the jury found
George Suesser, on trial at Salinas
guilty of murder in the first degree for
the killing of Sheriff Henry Il. Farley
on September Is last The verdict of
the jury was rna 1imous, although one
member recommended that mercy be
shown.
A corHier's jury at Suisun, charged
Laura GlIlian with the murder of John
Flood, a hostler, whom she stabbed III
the leg receStly, with the result that
Flood bled to death.
II. II. Bingham, deputy sheriff of San
Bernardino county, was arrested upon
"a charge of forgery. A few days age
he was arrested upon complaint charg
ing him with einbezzlement of funds
coming into his hands i'll his official
capacity. His friends have made the
shortage good, III part at least, and IL
was thought the grand jury might fail
10 find indictments, but they brought
an indictment for forgery.
p. p. Davis. "a pioneer, died at Porter.
vile. few days ago.
Henry ID. Knight and Jack Knight OF
Elk Creek, Glen county, have beeE
fined $50 each for illegally trappins
quail.
Particulars of the robbery of saloon
AT usal, Mendocino county, by two
masked men last Tuesday night is shown
To have been one Of the most successful
and daring robberies ever committed in
the county. Proprietor Freitag tried t.
satisfy the leader with $500 from the
drawer, but the robbers ordered him to
bring forth trunk. from which $s50o
was taken. Five minutes after the de
parture OF the robbers. the express
company delivered to Freitag a sack con.
tanning s6D0.
The truce between the opposing fac.
tions of Chinese has ended and hostili.
ties again opened. A laundryfnan was
recently attacked with hatchet and
nearly killed. One Of the tongs has just
made IA large purchase Of firearms and
the police look for lively times in the
near future at san Francisco.
Near Bakersfield, Cal, the Power
Development company will spend $780,
0ooreplacing their present wooden fiume
with tunnel through solid granite.
The tunnel is 100 feet long. IL will be
1xg feet and coated with concrete. The
grade will be such that water may BE-
carried to develop 10000 horse power.
The Oregon Midland company has
been organized at Ashland, Or, for the
purpose Of building IA railroad from
klamath Falls, klamath county. Or.
down the Klamath river 80 miles To D
junction with the Southern Pacific neai
Klamath, just south of the Oregon and
California boundary line. The capital
is 81 900, 900. The promoters announc,
that ample capital for construction pur
Doses Is back of the enterprise and thai
a force of engineers will be put in tn,
field at once. The proposed railroad
gould tap large bodies of timber and
give an outlet to the Klamath basin.
The Aleatraz Mining aud Petroleum
company, which has been operating tive
large asphaltum mines on either side OF
Santa Barbara, has closed down and
over 100 men have been thrown out OF
work. The company will concentrate
its forces at the Sisquoc mine, in the
northern end of the county.
A. NJ. Pitts died at Biggs, rs the re
sult of fall last week at his residence.
He was native of Georgia, u years OF
ago Mr. Pitts and the late Lewis
posey owned the land and laid out the
town of Biggs at the completion of the
California and Oregon railroad in 1870,
\ convention of the residents of the
San joaquin valley was recently held
at Visalia for the purpose Of promoting
the welfare of the district A plan of
permanent organization as follows was
adopted: The contemplated organiza-
tion to be known as the San joaquin
Valley Commercial association, its oh
ieet to BE- the furtherance of the agri
cultural, mineral, industrial and com
mercial interests of the San joaquin
valley, its composition to be the COM
mercial organizations of the several
counties, and the representation of each
county to be six delegates chosen by the
chamber of commerce Of the various
counties; the counties represented to be
San Joaquin, Stanislaus, Merced, Fres-
no. Kings, Tulare, Kern Calaveras,
Tuolumne, Amador and Mariposai the
meetings to be quarterly, each time IN II
different county. p. 4. Buell. of Stock
tom and Ben NJ. Maddox of Visalia, Were
chosen president and secretary, respec
lively.
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