Gardnerville record. (Gardnerville, Nev.) 1898-1902, 1899-09-19
The Press Association Meeting.

ilc dleJD 1urOniCie, ITcdbuItT, Vt. M
Francis of the Napa Register; execu-
tive committee, S. NJ. Haskell of the
Pomona Progress. e. B. Willis of the
Sacramento Record Union, A. b. Lem
Oh of the Santa Rosa Republican,
Raleigh Barcar of the Vacaville Repor-
ter, L. G.. Daniels of the Alameda Argus,
i. II. Owen of the Winters Express aud
i. III. Swasey of the Redding Free
Press.
The following We're elected delegates
to the National Editorial Association,
nfter which the convention adjoured sine
die; +. b. Maclkinner, st. Helena Star;
Z. w. Moore, Redlands Facts; G.. A.
Cakes, Haywards Journal; 4. w. Rich
ardson, San Bernardino Times Ind ex;
ID. w. Rayenscroft, Petaluna Courier
Alternates: J. Il. Barnes, lone Echo;
Ducan Mcpherson, Santa Cruz Sentinel;
Wallace Brown, Monterey Cypress;
G. Ii. Smith. Los Angeles Hotel Gazette;
Mrs. S. A. Huston, Woodland Alliance.
Up to September the shipments of
fresh deciduous fruits from California
were 42ol cars.
Potatoes are now moving freely from
Stockton to the middle states
The wiekson plum seems to be fairly
established as one of the best of the
japanese varieties.
\ firm in Santa Rosa has engaged in
making brandy from the parings of
fruit obtained from the canneries at that
place.
The picking of raisin and wine grapes
has begus in several Of the earlier local
tiles in California. Hop picking is near.
ly completed.
James Mendenhall of Pleasanton has
perfected d hop-picking machine which
will do the work of ten men.
The supervisors of San Bernardino
county have appointed Scipio Craig a
delegate to the irrigation congress at
Missoula and allowed him 500 for his
expenses.
When dried .igs are shipped in bulk
they are sorted, and the larger ones pre-
pared for eating direct, while the
smaller sizes are steamed and made into
- fig paste . for use III cracker factories
aud elsewhere.
During the past year Colusa county
has paid Si2sS for squirrel tails and coy
ote scalps. and during the past two years
fulare county has paid nearly Sil 900
for squirrel tails. The bounty usually
is 2ls cents for squirrels and $3.50 for
coyotes.
1t is stated that there has been a great
reduction III the acreage devoted to
beans in Santa Barbara and Ventura
counties, and those who have beans are
holding for very high prices. In the
san joaquin district the harvest will be
late and the crop poor.
Some of the Sutter county farmers
are utilizing the mustard which is such
nuisance in the grai;l fields. It is separ-
afed from the grain in threshing. and is
cleaned and marked as 4" rape seed. at
from Sl.50 to - per Genital.
Teamsters hauling over mountain
grades in Hapa county object to fitting
their wagons to comply with the wide
tire law, on the ground that many of the
mountain grades are very siding,
aud that wagons with wide tires could
not be prevented from going over the
grades.
Samuel b. Bishop and Henry Hank,
miners, were blown to atoms by the ac-
cidental discharge of 100 pounds of
giant powder iu the Mayfiower mine
near Nevada city.
The reception committee of the Cali
fornia State Miners association has
planned big reception for the Ameri-
can Institute of Mining Engineers,
which holds its annual meeting in san
Francisco, September %
Estimates place the Puget sound sal
mon pack at 700. 600 cases, and the Al
aslAa pack at 1000, 600. Both districts
show large increases over last year
ID. NJ Woodbury.. prominent attor-
new of Anaeortes Wash, was shot and
killed by Al Hamilton, a hard character.
Hamilton killed the attorney because he
would not throw up his hands when or
dered to do so.
The customs receipts at San Francisco
for August were sos, 60l .63, the largest
amount ever received.
The bodies of Captain Reinhold Rich
ter and Sergeant Marcuse Jasth, mem
bers of the California regiment who
were killed at the battle of Manila, We're
buried in the National cemetery at the
Preside, San Francisco, Monday, with
military honors.
A consignment of 81, 900, 900 worth of
Klondilse gold for the United States as
say Office at Seattle, arrived Sunday on
the steamer Cleveland from St Michael.
The consignment comes from the Cana
dian Bank of Commerce, 100000, and
the Bank of British North America,
100000.
Admission day was celebrated by the
Native Sons and Daughters OF Golden
West at Santa Cruz. Thosands of Wis.,
itors were present and participated in
the celebration
A discovery of much scientific and
considerable popular interest has just
been made by Professor Campbell with
the great telescope of the Lick Observ-
atory. II is that Polaris, or the North
Star, doubtless the best known star in
the whole armament, is really triple
system. Two of tho bodies i'll this sys-
stem revolye around each other in n
period of -four days, and the same time
move in Il much wider sweep around n
lli..l hod1 in mnnh tho same MaN rs