Gardnerville record. (Gardnerville, Nev.) 1898-1902, 1899-02-07
Pacific Coast News.
Items OF Interest Picked from
the Weeks Dispatches.

ltcm0 OF Interest Pickc0 IrOul
the Weeks Dispatches.
Marin county capitalists are to open Z
bank at San Rafael.
The Santa Clara county farmers olut
has 100 members.
This years celery crop Of Californis ID
estimated at TOO carloads.
A farmers institute was held ct &c.
bastapol early in the week.
Nevada miners have asked the lsgis
lature to pass an eight-hour law.
The Paso Robles bank end the Oiti
sens bank Of Salinas, will consolidate
on February list.
On March l,720 stamps win be IN
operation at the Alaslra- Treadweu mine
OH Douglass island.
Ten thousand carloads Is the --latest
estimate Of the present orange crop oi
the southern counties.
Machinery Is to be put in the new sug
ar factory at Oxnard 20 as to raise 1t tc
Its maximum capacity.
The graduating class of the state nor
mai school st Chico. 20 In number. Ne
ceived their diplomas Friday.
A man recently from New Mexico is
In the county hospital at Sacramento
suffering from smallpox.
A severe wind storm prevailed in the
mountains back Of San Diego, and
several houses were blown down.
A party Of eight eastern prospectors
was caught in an Arctic blizzard ON the
Valdez glacier. Alaska. and five frozen
to death.
The holdover stock Of beans in Ven-
tura and Santa Barbara counties has
been exhausted. There will be large
acreage Of beans planted tho coming
season.
The Union Sugar company Of Santa
Barbara will plant 1000 acres of sugar
beets In the Santa Maria valley and 5000
acres have been contracted Tor with
farmers.
Mrs. Thomas Kell and her 6-months-
old child were thrown from buggy
near San Jose. The mother sustained a
broken arm and the child was Instantly
killed.
A. O.. Bradley. the old soldier who
shot Governor Smith Of the Soldiers
home at Santa Monica, has been found
guilty Of assault with deadly weapon.
The Jury recommended him to the
mercy Of the court.
The plant Of the Tehama Electric
Light and Power company. recently
com pleted at Red Bluff. was destroyed
by fire last week. The loss Is about ei2,-
600. II is pr 1bable that the plant will
be rebuilt at once.
The San Bruno hotel. In the outskirts
Of San Francisco was destroyed by fire
Sunday. Matthias Eioeorn, an aged
boarder, was burned to death. and Ave
fremen were injured.
r. 8. Markarian, and his brother
Charles are in Jail at Fresno, charged
with arson. One Of the brothers con.
fessed that they constructed machine
which set fire to their furniture store.
They had tho place heavily insured.
William Pinkney Toler. who as a
midshipman on the staff of Commodore
Jones In 1912. raised the first American
Gag on California soil, died at his home
in Oakland, after a prolonged illness.
Owing to i'll health for many years he
had been compelled to lead retired
life. The Immediate cause of his death
was dropsy.
Nellie, the year old daughter Of W.
G. Hind, Of Salinas, poured some coal oil
ON fire in the sitting-room Of their
home. The can exploded, setting her
clothes ON fire. Her faher smothered
the flames, but not until the child's
hair was burned of close to the scalp,
and she was severely injured about the
body. Her fathers hands were burned
In shocking manner.
The citizens Of Vancouver, B. O., art
becoming alarmed at the large influx OF
Japanese. They have been informed
from Ottawa that the Federal authori
ties cannot help them, and commun.
ication has been forwarded from Joseph
Chamberlain, imperial secretary of state
for vhe colonies, saying in effect that hs
hoped nothing would be done In the
way Of legislation to displsass tbs
nations Interested.
Preparations are said to be afoot fol
the transfer 10 q big transcontansnta.
railway company Of the San Francisco
and North radfc railroad, whioh run,
from Ukiah southward to Point Tburor
and thence has ferry connections across
the bay 70 San Francisco. The prospec
tive purchasers are believed to be eithe,
the Vanderbilts, that they may secur,
advantageous terminal facilities 70,
their contemplated extension to thii
coast, or the the Southern Pacific, tha
il may shut Off the prospective riva
from one Of the best remaining bay ter
minal points for great railroad.
A shocking affair occurred Sunday a
the home Of John Garter in Yolo coun
~, near Clarksburg. His youngest son
aged 10 years, and the boys older bro
ther, aged 10 years, were doing shot
gun trick, which resulted in the former
death. They had for some time pas
put unloaded cartridge shells in the gun
dropped q marble In the muzzle Of tn
gun, and the older boy would explod
the primer. This had Just enougl
strength to send the marble few fee
and the younger boy would catch II il
its fight. They were to perform th
trick Sunday, but the cartridge in tn
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