Gardnerville record. (Gardnerville, Nev.) 1898-1902, 1899-03-28
Pacific Coast News.
Items OF Interest Picked from


west trying to organize the prune-grow.
ors of Oregon and Washington.
Washington officials have issued strict
orders to prohibit sheep owners from
driving their herds across government
reserves.
Fred II. Lehn, man SO years of age,
committed suicide in the cemetery at
Oroyille, recently, over the grave of his
wife. He was respondent.
Mrs. Minnie Adams is in Jail at San
Francisco charged with numbering her
two-year-old boy She is said to have
given him carbolic acid to drink.
The two cracker factories at Los An.
geles are to sell out to the big eastern
,raeker trust
The board of city trustees of Vallejo
has passed an ordinance to close and pre-.
vent all gambling
Water companies along the Tule river
are trying to form combine for the
better distribution of water.
A new drydock is to be built at Mare
island, Cal, large enough to accom-.
odate the largest vessels.
Santa Fe trains will be running across
the Tehaehapi and into Stockton, Cal. /,
by July LIST, 1899, by traekage arrange
ment with Southern Pacific company.
McMutrie & Stone of San Francisco
have contract to complete the Cali
fornia coast railroad to Santa Barbara
by May |, 1900. The northern terminal
on the gap is Hondo. About 30 miles
will close the gap thence to Elwood.
On April Sd rural free delivery ser
vice will be established at Petaluma
Cal, Willet Hopkins, carrier, and al
Napa, Cal, George w. Gilbersleeve car
rier.
Joseph Medill editor-in-chief of thi
Chicago Tribune, died suddenly at Sal
Antonio, Tex The immediate cause OF
his death was heart disease, although fol
two years past the ailments of old ag,
had caused him great suffering and sap
ped his strength. He was almost Il
years of age.
Elmer Bartlett, n miner, aged q
years, was fatally injured on the 90o-fooi
level of the R,twhide mine, Touloumne
by the slide of "A quantity of gouge from
the hanging wall, which buried him
Life was extinct when rescuers removed
the debris from the body.
A young woman had her entire scalp
torn from her head recently by her hair
catching in n revolving shaft in Chi
eago laundry A doctor has just en-.
grated / 800 bits of skin upon her head,
giving har an entirely new and healthy
scalp.
Such demand for California sweet
vines has sprung up of late that the
capacity of the state under the present
acreage of vineyards and the number
of wineries is going to be taxed To meet
it. Last seasons yield of 1850, 900 gal
Ions has been virtually already exhast-
ed, and 10 provide for this year IS antici-
uated orders three additional wineries
of large capacity are TO be at once built
in the sweet grape district. Two of
these viii be in the vicinity of Fresno.
and the third near Hanford. Connected
with each will be distilleries for the
manufacture of brandy on an extensive
scale The plants will be provided with
duplicate machinery so that in case of
accident there may be no delay in turn
ing out the spirits.
The electric power plant of the Cali
fornia Standard Electric company is re-
ported ready for business between Moke-
lumne and Stockton, Cal, 43s4 miles.
This line, as in the case of the Snoqu-
almie Power company of Washington,
uses aluminium wire.
Two government parties arrived at
/ Vancouver, Saturday on their way &c
/ Alaska, where they will define the
/ boundary lines between British Colum-
bia and the northwest territory. They
will also initiate the construction of a
I telegraph line from Lake Bennett to
/ Dawson. The line will probably be ex-
/ tended 10 Vancouver from Skagway 10y
cable
pledged itself to give 5000 II month Il
the First California volunteers at Ma
Mia, TO be used in caring for the sick.
First Lieutenant John M. Neal, Iroo[
4 b, Fourth United States cavalry, has
returned to his home and family at the
Preside, san Francisco, and is confined
60 his quarters under military arrest foi
being absent without leave from noon OF
February 10th until the morning OF
March 18th. He is awaiting trial by
comt-martial upon one or all of three
charges applicable TO his case, absence
without leave, conduct umbecoming al
officer and gentleman and conduct tt
the prejudice of good order and military
discipline. Every dollar for which h,
was responsible to the canteen fund ant
to the Officers club has been restored
Ii will be remembered that Neall disap
peared mysteriously last February sew
eral thousand dollars short in his ac
counts with the Officers club, of whicl
he had charge,
Deputy Sheriff Fred Desirello is il
Jail at Redwood City rs II result of shoot
ing and killing James Johnson, a
Colma. The boy was riding with som'
other in wagon and the deputy callet
upon him to stop. They did not heet
has command and he drew his revolve
and fred three shots at them, one strik
ms johnson in the neck, killing him al
most instantly.
A. j. jackson, a rancher of Cotton
wood island, was shot and killed Mon
; day by Joseph Henry, postmaster a
Urban, Skagit county. Bad blood ha.