Gardnerville record. (Gardnerville, Nev.) 1898-1902, 1899-07-18
Pacific Coast News.
Items OF Interest Picked from
the Weeks Dispatches.
CouitsrviIle swept OF the Earth by Fire.
-Msndooino Deer Hunters Arrested
and Tinsd.-LOs Angeles Chief OF Po-
lice to he Publicly Reprimanded.

merchants of San Francisco are organlz-
Ing society to induce buyers to go to
Ban Francisco twice a year and do their
purchasing. Rebates on railroad fares
will be one inducement offered.
John Lord Love, who was once attor-
hey. general of the state, died at his
home in San Francisco last week OF
heart failure.
The assessed valuation of Tulare
oounty's property is 81, ,20o,6l3.
David Quinn, convicted of man.
slaughter for the killing of Pierce Sur
geson in saloon row several weeks ago
at Sacramento was sentenced to five
years imprisonment at the Folsom
penitentiary.
The Los Angeles police commission
ers have ordered Mayor Eaton to public
ly reprimand Chief of Police Glass. for
insulting one of the commissioners.
The mining town of Coulterville. in
Mariposa county, place OF 800 inhabi-
tants, was swept from the face OF the
earth by fire one day last week. Three
small houses are all that remain of the
business portion of the city and, while
there are a few residences scattered
about in the small valley, the site of the
town presents most desolatc appear
ance. Altogether about 70 large bust
ness houses and most of their contents
were reduced to ashes. The flames
broke out in the residence of Mrs Bogo-
lios, and so rapidly did they lick up the
wooden building that in little over an
hour nothing but smoldering embers
told where the mountain town had once
been located. The facilities for extin-
gushing the fire were limited, and it
was seen few minutes at<er it secured
beadway that it was out of the ques-
tion TO attempt to check it.
State Controller Colgan has fled
cl,iim with Auditor Wright of Sonoma
county for 56035 for the care of children
sent to the Glen Ellen home for the
Care of Feeble Minded Children during
the past % months. The supervisors
discussed the claim and informally de-
cided not TO pay it, unless it be shown
10 be legal.
The Los Angeles city council recently
decided that owing to probable defects
the ordinance calling for special bond
election TO vote on the proposition of re-
issuing 1920, 900 Of the school improve
ment bonds should be repassed in amen
ied form. This will delay the election
about two weeks.
William I. Parks. Henry A. Mefford
and j. o. Ball have filed with the county
recorder their claim to a new mine To-
Gated in Capay valley. 1t is reported
that lode has been discovered bearing
quicksilver, gold and other valuable
mineral deposits.
Game Warden Ornbaun of Ukiah ar
rested John Harms of Laytonville and
Henry Mohlenbrock of San Francisco
for killing deer out of season. They
were brought before Justice Critch
field and fined $50 each. They paid
their fines. Mohlenbrrock had in his
trunk 80 deer hides.
William L. Dudley, a prominent Stock
ton attorney. died few days ago while
visiting at Lake Tahoe.
The Pennsylvania volunteers now sn-
route from Manila will not be mustered
out in San Francisco as intended. But
will be taken to Pittsburg in body and
mustered out while travelling, Pennsyl-
vania paying the entire expense of this
arrangement in order to receive the reg
iment intact, and welcome 1t home.
Ernest Gentry was arrested at Kes-
wick last week OH charge of grand
larceny Gentry is wanted at Socorro,
N. NJ, to answer to charge of stealing
5000 in government script and some
coin.
The total assessed valuation of the
city of Los Angeles, as reported by City
Assessor Ward, shows on increase of
81 ,02S, 335 over last year. In 1893 the
total was $6l ,099, ,307, and for 1899 the
figure reaches 500, l27, 662.
Ate. j. Balwin's Santa Anita ranch
last week Eduardo Lopez was shot
through the heart by Frank Dnarte as
the result of quarrel over women.
Ex.Superior Judge V. A. Gregg has
been elected president of the County
bank Of San Luis Obispo, vice w. l..
Bebee, deceased. The bank is announced
TO reopen for business on August /, aft
sr having been closed since the bank
failures last March.
The Franklin tunnel on the Valley
road, between Stockton and Point Rich
mond, was completed last week after
several months work. The tunnel Is
300 feet long and the second in size in
the state.
John Soares was arrested for killing
ducks on Point Reyes bay and fined $50.
The Marin County Game Protective as
sociation has patrolmen i'll that part of
the county, who are keeping vigilant
watch for violaters of the new game
ordinance.
Judge Wallace of Visalia, recently
rendered decision in the suits COM
menoed against County Auditor +. M.
JefYerds for the recovery of the salary
of various county officials and their
deputies. The suits involved about $780,
600. Wallace holds that the county
government act of 1897 did not affect
the salaries of men then in office and
that the law OF 1898 governs in the mat.