Gardnerville record. (Gardnerville, Nev.) 1898-1902, 1899-11-07

ficers for the ensuing year: Professor
+. s. Reager of Orland, president; r. A.
Dunn of Oroyille. first president;
Miss Grace Henley of Red Bluff. second
vice-president; Miss Margaret Poor,
superintendent of Shasta county, secre-
tary; G. H. Stokes of Marysville, cor
responding secretary; Miss Lena Mangle
OF Red Bluff, treasurer. Marysville was
chosen for next years meeting place.
In the afternoon President Jordan of
Stanford university addressed the
teachers, and in the evening President
Wheeler of California delivered the
closing address
A plant to can clans is to be erect ted
on Pismo beach near San Luis Obispo.
Benjamin Ide Wheeler was inaugur-
ated president of the University of Cali
fornia last week.
Rose Baago, the 9-year-old daughter
of Peter and Anna Baago, was found
with her head cut from her body in her
mothers home ON desolate island in
San Francisco bay. The mother is miss
ing and Is supposed to have committed
suicide after having killed the girl. The
woman and her husband had separated.
The heavy rains during the past
month have brought out wonderful
growth of grass on the stock ranges in
Monterey county and have thus assured
an abundance of winter feed for stock.
Vegetables have also been greatly bene-
fitted by the early rains, and ranchers
and stockmen there are anticipating a
very prosperous year for the county
The United States transports Pennsyl-
yania and Olympia arrived at Portland
Saturday to take on board the Thirty
ninth infantry and battalion of the
Forty-fifth for the Philippines.
Since January the Seattle assay Of
flee has received for treatment $1l,6ll,-
204 and since the Office began business,
July A. 1898, $l7, ,2S0,36l During the
week the Office made three shipment
of assayed gold to the United States
mint of total value of 81, 100000.
The first carload of this season
oranges We're shipped from Visalia Sun.
day.
The cruiser Marblehead has sailed
from San Diego for Panama.
A. B. Richardson, bookkeeper of
Stockton, while riding bicycle, col
lided with another wheelman and re-
ceived injuries that caused his death.
DIR. J. Ellis Rodly, a John M. Garner
and Mrs. Minnie Houseworth are under
arrest at Chico, charged with forging
the supposed will of Alfred Fuller,
miser who died two years ago and left
$50, 900 estate.
William G. Ralston of Calayeras coun-
ty was elected president of the Califor-
MIA Miners association at the session
held in San Francisco last week.
Go See, a Chinese murderer of vi
salia, has been sentenced to be hanged
at San Quentin January 5, 1900.
The board of supervisors of Santa
Clara granted the Standard Electric
company of San Francisco the right to
string its wires across that county aud
also to sell power. This Is the Blue
Lakes Power company.
Coyotes are causing havoc among
sheep near Petaluma On the ranch of
II. Meacham fully 100 sheep have been
killed or bitten by the animals since
Saturday 1t is proposed to have big
coyote hunt i'll the near future.
The eannery recently started near
Vallejo is to be enlarged and improved
during the winter When il opens
again between 100 and 200 people will
he employed.
A long distance telephone is to be put
in from Dawson to points down TIE
Yukon river. Ultimately Circle City
will be reached, but for the present the
lines will not 80 below Fort Egbert.
The Pacific Coast company announced
a rise in wages of from l2 per cent to 10
per cent of ali the men employed in the
coal mines at Newcastle. Coal Creek,
Lawson and Franklin, Wash, in all
about 1900 people.
The new mills of the Bellingham
Bay (Wash.) improvement company
are to have the largest steam whistle in
the world 1t will be five feet long,
10 inches inside diameter, will weigh
1900 pounds of cast aluminium bronze.
The metal must have tensil strength
of 10000 pounds per square inch to
meet the stipulations. II will take
considerable of boiler to furnish
steam of commensurate requirements.
A sample taken carefully across the
full face Of the drift on the new level of
the Republican mine. at Republic,
Wash, assayed more than $500 per
ton This is at depth of 600 feet, and
is the richest average sample taken in
the mine. The ledge at this point is
nearly 80 feet wide, but the drift is be-
ing run through the richest ore. The
camp is intensely excited over these
bonanza values at such depth
The government transport City OF
Sidney reached San Francisco from Ma
nila last week. She brought from the
Orient the crews of three wrecked ves-
sels-the transport Morgan City, cable
shin Hooker and merchandising George
b. Stetson.
Admiral Dewey has engaged rooms at
n Santa Barbara hotel and will spend
mort of the winter there in hopes of bet
tering his health.
The sheep pens at the stockyards III
Kansas city covering an entire BLOCK
were destroyed and 600 head of sheer