Gardnerville record. (Gardnerville, Nev.) 1898-1902, 1899-11-21
Pacific Coast News.
Items OF Interest Picked from
the Weeks Dispa hes.
The Vintage of California 4 Father
Arrested for kidnapping His Chill
dren-Gbinese Driven From Lindsay
Killed by His SON.

killed by His Son.
On the Pacific coast there is tele-
fhone to every % inhabitants.
Dumont, Colo, is to have an electric
liant to furnish power to mines and
mills.
The Canadian Pacific railroad will
double track its line from Vancouver to
Montreal.
Nothing but the reversal of the order
closing the Philippine ports will pre-
vent n famine in hemp
At Berkeley (Cal.) the Sunset Tele-
graph e Telephone company are put.
ting their wires underground.
Spokane men will put 500, 900 into
the building of an electric railway be-
tween Seattle and Tacoma, and expect
an additiinal SSO0,0oO from eastern in.
sestors.
George Balch, young farmer of
Nevada county, was drowned recently
while trying to ford swollen stream.
A transcontinenta rate war is being
waged by the northern railroads.
Nicholas Ames, pioneer merchant of
san Francisco, died at San Jose few
days ago.
The convention for considering means
of impounding flood waters is in session
Mt San Francisco this week.
Sixty men of Company X, Forty.
second regiment, in camp at the Preside,
were Frustrated by ptomaine poison
saturday. All recovered. Canned meats
served for breakfast caused the trouble.
Bert Ross, sentenced to ten years in
che penitentiary for burglary, attacked
Deputy Sheriff W. J. Ward, who was
taking him to san Quentin in state
room ON the steamer santa Rosa. Ward
was struck oyer the head with heavy
bottle and may die from the wound.
Ross jumped overheard after the attacl,
bnt was captured.
Thomas Wilkinson, former commits
sary Of san Quentin prison, has been ap-
pointed warden of Folsom prison, To
take the place of the late Charles Aull
Charles Cockrill, wealthy rapcher
Of Kings county. drove over precipice
on q recent night AMI was killed
James d. Phelan, Democrat. has again
been elected mayor of San Francisco.
The Sacramento river at kesWick sta
yion is to he spanned by bridge. The
board Of Supervisors of Shasta county
accepted plans and specifications Tor Il
Howe truss wooden bridge TO be built
there, and directed the clerk 10 adyer-
tise for bids. The board also purchased
81 acres of land for county hospital
site and poor farm.
A crowd of 100 men gathered to-
gather 10 recent arrived Chinese ~
Lindsay, Cal. bundled them into
wagons and drove the crowd To Nisalia,
telling them not 10 return again. The
Chinese had been engaged to work in a
fruit packing house
Samuel W. Ritchie, at one time Il
prominent business man of Minneapo-
lis. committed suicide at Seattle Il few
daNs ago, while sick, peycfiY-strichen
aud respondent.
While trying to enter the harbor nj
Fort Bragg the schooner Norma Went
ON the rocks. aud will probably be Il
total loss.
Four cylinders containing 1000
pounds of powder in the glazing house
of the powder works nj Santa Cruz We're
exploded Sunday morning. Patrick
Hughes is supposed 10 have been killed
IN the wreck.
inere is IA strong probability that the
athletic team of the University of Cali.
folnia will go east this season To com.
pete with the eastern university teams.
The California vintage is finished,
Estimates of the dry wine crop are lo,-
OOo, 900 gallons divided as follows. so
mona county, l,00O.0 .000; Santa Clara,
8, ,Oo0, 900, being "A gain of ,01D,opo over
the year before; Alameda, 900, 900;
Napa. l,00o,oo0, and Contra Costa
county 100000 gallons. The yield of
sweet wines is placed at between 5,u00.-
900 and 5000, 900 gallons, rs against, ~
900. 900 gallons i'll 1898. The falling OIL
is attributed to the fact that some OF the
vineyards were badly frost-bitten early
IN the spring and To the high price paid
for raisins, which reduced the amount
available for wine-niaking III the CEN
tral and southern districts of the state,
The transport bearing the Tennessee
volunteers reached San Francisco from
Manila Saturday Sunday the regiment
went into camp at the Preside whore it
will remain until The 23d inst, when il
will be mustered out. This is the last
volunteer regiment called ont III the
original call of the Spanish. American
war.
Masked men entered the saloon of
John Thomas at Oakland Tor The pnt-
nose of robbing it. When hey entered
the saloon they shot at Thomas. intiict'
iup wounds from which he viii die.
Both men escaped
The annual convention of the FARM
ers' clubs of southern California. will
meet in Pasadena January To 81
There are between 10 and 80 OF thes,
clubs, and there annual conventions IN,
very enjoyable occasions. They hay'
! however, no permanent general organ
ization and no money, in consequence
of which the value of the annual con
yentions consists only III the pleasure o
] attending them.