Gardnerville record. (Gardnerville, Nev.) 1898-1902, 1899-10-31

Major Il. X. Upham of the soldiers
home at Santa Monica, was accidentally
shot and killed while handling revol-
yer few days ago.
While tunneling a mountain for a
supply of water near Santa Barbara a
stream OF 26 miners inches was struck.
The contest over the estate of Robert
Mills ended at Redwood City last week.
The point involved was whether or not
Mills was the father of Mrs. Chatham s
children. The jury deided in her favor.
The big Zerxa grocery house at Los
Angeles has closed, intending 10 go out
of business and to voluntarily liquidate.
The thousand patients of the Agnews
insane asylum are being vaccinated.
Considerable difficulty is being encoun-
tered among the unruly spirits
The state horticultural society will
hold this years convention at San Jose
beginning December IL and ending on
the 18TH
| Alexander Reid Long, pioneer of
Nacaville, committed suicide IL few
DAYS ago by shooting. IL was despon.
dent owing to illness.
The late state fair at Sacramento was
great financial success according To II
statement just issued by the directors.
A number of Modesto merchants were
recently defraudcd by clever forger.
who passed several worthless checks on
them.
Patrick Rogers has been found guilty
At San Francisco of embezzling $500
from the Pacific Coast Marine F.remen :
union. There are other charges of EN-
bezzlement against him. The union is
ar nan shout in it's accounts
Nathan Weld Tallant of San Fran
cisco, died suddenly at Astoria, Or.
Saturday from paralytic stroke.
Al San + fS1eisco Harry Sniffer, u sea-
man. is sum- Captain II. H. Bodfish OF
the steam whaler Beluga. and the Pa
/ eiiic Steam Whaling company for slO.-
| 90, for the severe treatment he received
| oy the former on vessel of the com
pany while ON IA whaling cruise in the
| Arctic ocean.
General Funston. formerly colonel Of
the Kansas regiment now mt San Fran.
cisco, has been offered brigade to CON-
mand II he will return to the Philip
pines He has accepted the offer and
will return as soon as he visits Kansas
with his old regiment
Silliman & Hnshbeck Of Watsonville
recently purchased eO00 acres of land 10
miles northeast of Nisalia for stock
ranch. The price was 100000.
Ferwood, /" the handsome home of
w. j. Dingee in the Piedmont hills,
near Oakland, was totally destroyed by
fire one day last week. The loss will
reach $500, 900.
Isaac Bird. survivor of the famous
Jack Hayes party, who came to Cali
fornia before pioneer days, died near
Watsonville recently, aged SO.
Halleck V. DemiDg, director and ore
II the principal stockholders of the
Deming- Palmer Milling company. San
Francisco. was found dead in his bed at
his residence, ia Ellis street He had
been ailing for some time, and his death
is supposed to have been due to heart
disease.
Ninety-two ranchers whose lands are
embraced in the San Ysdro grant near
Gilroy, against whom suit has been
brought by the Ortega heirs in the supe-
rior court of San Francisco, held n
meeting recently and named n committee
TO secure legal counsel TO defend the
action. There are 30 co-defendants, but
only eight of the smaller owners have
been served with complaints. The prop
srty affected comprizes three square
Leagues, and its value now is nearly
81 900 900. The plaintiffs claim that
one-half the grant was held in trust for
them by judicial decree in 1882, at IA
time when they We're minors, but that
adult heirs, acting as trustees, disposed of
the entire property and appropriated the
proceeds for their own benefit.
The rainfall for this season of the
year has been unusually heavy, and has
extended generally over the state north
from the Tehachapi. 1t was probably
heaviest in the Sacramento valley, from
which section two inches of rain We're
reported Saturday afternoon for the
present storm. San Francisco has had
100 inches, which brings the season S
fall up to 3.49 inches. The seasons
rainfall up to the corresponding date
last year was LIS inches. The Yuba,
Feather and other rivers are reported a.
rising. Damage has been reported tc
the bean crop and quantity of hay in
the Sacramento valley. In San Luis
Obispo county 10000 sacks of un
threshed grain is ruined, The second
crop of grapes is mostly under cover
as all vineyardists had ample warning
Of the approaching storm. Only thost
that did not heed the warning have sui
fered damage. The great quantity o.
water and snow in the mountains viii
be Of immense benefit to mining an,
agricultural interests in the state. Min
ing operations, which had to be sus
pended Oh account of scarcity of water
will be at once resumed.
) Santa Barbara county, Cal, is ship
ping large quantities of beans for coffe
manufacture In San Francisco.
Another railroad is to be built between