Gardnerville record. (Gardnerville, Nev.) 1898-1902, 1899-06-13
Pacific Coast News.
Items OF Interest Picked from
the Weeks Dispatches.
Fruit Growers in Big Luck A Sapa
Wowsn Trios to Kiii Her Husband
Fatal street Car Accident at Seattle.
sntter eounty's Auditor Dead.

Orders have been issued to rebuild
Fort Whipple, Ariz.
Orchardists in Suisun yallay feel en-
couraged over the prospects of good
prices. Forty-five dollars per ton are
being offered for apricots.
The saving of lumber commenced at
The Kern County Lumber Co.. mills on
Mount Breckenridge last week The
seasons cut promises 20 be a large one.
Articles of incorporation have been
filed by the Visalia Oil Co, which has
been organized with $4,000 capital tc
develop oil in Fresno, Kern and King
counties.
The Southern California shipments OF
oranges and lemons for the season to
late are 1865 cars. a. against 1926 last
,oason to the same date.
Contractor Ramish is here 10 prepare
for work on the coast line road He will
establise camp between Hollister aud
the Dreyfus properties. The order has
been given to rush the work
Some unknown person climbed to the
top Of the Presbyterian church steeple
in Orange one night recently and nailed
there United States flag. This was
intended as reproach TO the Rev. Par
ker, who had refused to permit the use
Of the stars and stripes as decoration
OF his church for Memorial Day services
The Colorado river at the Needles is
full TO the banks. a raging, roaring tor
rent, sweeping southwark toward the
gulf. Fed by the melted snow Of Colo
rano and its great extent of drainage
area, the muddy waters Of the Colorado
are rushing southward, overfiowing the
lowlands along the valley and irrigating
IN natural manner the productive
fields Of the Indians.
Austin s. McPhertridge. auditor and
recorder of Sntter county, died at
Yuba city, recently He was native of
Missouri, aged 90 years. and leaves
widow two daughters and a son He
came TO California in early days He
had been auditor for the past seven
years. His health was poor for num-
Der of years
A Japanese woman katsu was found
in her room at Seattle in AN unconscious
condition. She had been garroted and
robbed of all her money and two gold
rings Though still alive her death was
momentarily expected A Japanese
who lived with her as her husband is
under arrest The police incline TO the
theory that the deed was done by either
II white man or negro.
Sigmnnd Morris of Los Angeles died
at the Nendome hotel. New York. He
was a we'll known newspaper man. and
a son Of Morris Morris, once secretary OF
the vigilance committee of San Fran
cisco.
The Thompson Bridge company of
San Francisco is preparing for the work
of building a new government light
house at Espint Bonita, between Santa
Barbara and Point Conception.
Mrs. Nellies Quiros shot aud narrowly
missed killing her husband l. Quiros at
Nnpa The husband was too attentive
to other women.
Bridgadier. General Chas King reach
ed san Francisco from the Philippines
last week.
Statistics on the production of coal in
1898 In California and Alaska show that
1860. 2sg short tons, valued ut s405, ,9l5,
we're takes out. This is an increase
Of 56.3iG tons valued at sli0,61g over
1897.
Supervisor s. f. Aver of Santa Clara
county, died of heart failure Sunday.
The efforts of promoters to organize a
cracker trust ON the Pacific coast have
failed.
The Jury in the case of Sam j. Black.
ON trial at San Diego for the murder of
John Patterson. returned verdict Of
involuntary manslaughter. Patterson,
who was IA watchnan at the Land and
Town company's orchard al National
city, was shot and killed by Black in
December 1896.
Bert Wise, engineer of the pleasure
yacht Morning Star, fell from the fioat
at the end of the pier at Long Beach
and was drowned He was 20 years of
age and unmarried.
Mrs. Jane Lathrop Stanford has
decided TO Stanford University personal
property in stocks and bonds to the
market value of 100000 aud real es-
cate in different parts of California to
the additional value of S317 900. The
leeds were handed over to the trustees
If the university, who were in session at
the Stanford mansion Oh Mob Hill, San
Francisco During the meeting Mrs.
Stanford made an address in which she
advised as to the future management OF
the university. She announced that at
no time should the number of women
attending the university ever be per
mitted to exceed 800.
The steamship Alameda which arrived
at San Francisco from Australia last
week was the scene of q most sensational
robbery, committed by master hands
nobody but tho thieves know when oi
how. The treasure vault of the steam
ship, which contained S750,0o0 in Eng
ligh gold when the vessel left Sydney
was the place of the robbery, and the
loot consisted Of a box weighing "
pounds and containing $4,000 worth o.
sovereigns, consigned to the London
roria and American Bank.