Gardnerville record. (Gardnerville, Nev.) 1898-1902, 1899-04-04
Pacific Coast News.
Items OF Interest Picked from
the Weeks Dispatches.

Rates to Dawson city from Seattle
have been cut in two by new and pow
erful transportation company recently
organized.
A coffin consigned to Unga, Alaska.
was recently searched by custom officials
and found to be filled with bottled whis.
key. The coffin was for an undertaken
and supposed to have contained q corpse.
There is scarcity of seamen at Val
lejo and number of the governments
ships are unable to go into commission
for lack Of crews.
The last step toward the consolidation
VI the salmon canning industry on Pu
get sound has been taken and the con-
solidation Of the fish industry Is now u
fact.
George Q. Owens, who was convicted
ut Modesto of numbering his wife, Ruth
9. Owens, in December, 1897, and SEN
fenced to death, WAS resentenced last
week to execution at San Quinten on
April 81.
Last weeks storm caused serious dam
age to the electric light and gas works
at Santa Cruz and for a time the city
was in darkness.
As result of fight with bare
knuckles ut Sacramento George NJ
Francis is dead and John Sherburne il
in Jail. The dead man had been tor
menting Sherburne for months and fin
ally brought the matter to blows, and
he was struck on the forehead causing
death.
The heavy rainfall of last week caus-
ed the Sacramento and San Joaquin riv
ers to overflow their banks ut the lowe
parts and considerable farming land wa,
flooded.
Hundreds of eastern people are taking
advantage of the homeseekers' rates h.
the northwest; and are visiting various
parts of the coast with u view Of 10
eating
News has been received at Nanimo.
b. c., of the loss of the sloop Thistle OIL
the east coast Of Vancouver island. Tht
nine people who were on board are sup
posed to have perished.
Young Joseph Muller, while playing
with rifle at San Francisco accident
| ally shot and killed Kittie Wannen-
macher
The Farmers Institute will be organ
lied at Cloverdale shortly.
Spinal meningitis has appeared
amongst the children of Sacramento.
/ Numerous cases Of spinal meningitis
have occurred amongst the children of
Redding The fatalities Of the disease
are numerous.
A committee OF citizens at Washing
ton has asked the navy department to
secure if possible, the attendance of
Admiral Dewey ut the peace jubilee r.
be held in May.
The leaders Of the Radical party OF
San Juan de Porto Rico have decided
/ to form republican party.
The gunboat bennington has seized
two steamers and one brig at Sarsagon
ON suspicion of being filibusters.
Rural free delivery service be will es.
tablished at Santa Barbara, on April Sd.
The Cutting fruit company of San
fruit cannery at Santa Ana.
Charles Stnckey, farmer, was
drowned near Lathrop "Wednesday. He
leaves widow and five children.
NJ. O. Wilkinson, of Los Angeles has
been appointed second lieutenant in
the United States army.
The California Raisin Growers as
sociation will he reincorporated under
the act of March ~, 1895. The object
of this change is to obviate the objec.
tions in the present incorporation.
Congressional appropriations for Pa
cifc coast improvements at the last
session aggregate 81, 500, 963.
A telegraph line from Lake Bennett
to Dawson, N. W. T., is being built.
1t will extend to Skaguay, b. O.. by
cable.
The San Francisco Savings Union is
about to build reservoir and a canal
10 feet wide, feet deep, 81 miles long
at Elsinore, Cal.
A phenomenal oil flow of 1000 bar
rels per day is reported from Coalinga,
Cal, and considerable adjacent property
is being bought.
The Pacific and International expos
ition at San Francisco was given $780,
900 appropriation by the California legis-
lature before adjournment.
At Nanaimo, b. c., Dunsmuirs Alex
andria coal mines are again working
with limited number Of pushers, who
have resumed work ut the old wage Of
81 day.
A few days ago an officer at Living
ston arrested tramp and brought him
TO the county Jail at Merced. He had
twenty bogus nickels strapped to his
arm. He is detained pending a consul
tation with the secret service, and il
the evidence warrants he will be ar
rested for carrying bogus money on his
person.
Samuel Wilson, aged 10 years, com.
mitted suicide ut Portland. Or, by
shooting himself in the head. He was
despondent over certain charges brought
against him, but of which he asserted
his innocence.
Two highwaymen stopped the stage
plying between Valley Springs and An.
geles, Calaveras county, recently In.
tending to rob it, Express messengers
were inside and promptly shot one Of
the robbers, fatally wounding him. The
other escaped in the darkness, but Wal
caught later.