Gardnerville record. (Gardnerville, Nev.) 1898-1902, 1899-01-31
Pacific Coast News.
Items OF Interest Picked from
the Weeks Dispatches.

Items OF Interest Picked from
the Weeks Dispatches.
Transports leave San Francisco.
TheNapa Murder Case.-Monterey
County has Boom-Hls Breast Bone
Saved Him.
The annual session of the Santa
Clara Poultry and Kennel club was held
at San Jose last week.
William E. Sharon and F. G.. New
lands have been read out Of the Silver
party Of Nevada.
Rev. Albert r. White, q pioneer
Presbyterian minister of California,
died at Santa Rosa some days ago.
John Shaughaessy attempted to mur-
der William H. Hughes In the corridor
of the city hall 1t San Francisco. The
men were politician enemies. Hughes
held the pistol within six inches of
Shaughnsssy's breast and fired, but the
breastbons turned the bullet and only
caused slight wound.
Henry Ozark, young rancher Of
Campo San Diego county, WAS recently
blown TO death while blasting stumps.
An act to prohibit aliens from owning
placer mines in British Columbia finally
passed the provincial parliament and
received the formal assent Of the icuten-
snt-governor. The act goes into effect
ut once.
iy,~l IL ko, 1onv mis- -
for 800 years between the Wrangel and
Ohilcat Indians Of Alaska 10 to come TO
an end. The tribes have have agreed
to hold grand potlach and bury the
hatchet.
f. W. Taine Of Oregon will shortly be
appointed postal director Of the Philip
pines.
The transports ScanAia and Morgan
City are to carry large quantities of
frozen beef to Manila from San Fran
CISCO.
Washington state produced $40 ,000, 900
in 1898.
The receipts at the Manila custom
house average eaO, 600 day in gold.
-Four vessels recently brought e7oO, 900
worth of whale products to San Fran
cisco.
American authorities at Hawaii have
given permission to bring 5000 more
Japanese laborers into the islands.
The Hayward interest in the Coslinga
Co. Of Fresno, Cal. has been sold to
Rawlings g. Richardson, being q half
interest, for $1e1. 500.
Tulare lake, CAL, once the largest body
of fresh water wholly within the United
States, but which was dry last season,
was sown to wheat this winter.
The Santa Fe Railroad Co. has con-
tracted for 1o0, 600 tons Of new steel
rails at cost of nearly % ,000. 600, of the
72-pound GLASS. They viii be laid dur
ing 1899.
In San Francisco the committee to de-
wise methods of raising funds for the pro-
posed Pacific coast exposition to be held
in 1891 desires to raise fund of o1 ,000,-
400 and to invoke the state and national
aid.
The Pacific coast borax interests, the
English Borax company and the Sooiete
Lyonnaise of Franco have combined the
business Of producing borax and borax
scid The capital stock of the trust is
$1,000, 900.
The Great Northern railroad is credited
with intention to operate Its trains
through the Cascade, Wash, tunnel by
electricity, and also the entire distance,
sixty-flve miles, from Leavenworth to
5kykomish.
The Redwood & Railroad company
capitalized for q, SOC, 900 under the laws
of Oregon. has acquired 10000 acres of
redwood timber in Humboldt county,
CAL, with twenty five miles Of railroad
property, docks, mills, ETC., and proposes
to buy steamships, build additional mills,
etc., to combaas the annual manufacture
Of 80, 900 M feet Of redwood lumber and
$1,000 M shingles.
The United States postofiice depart
ment has contracted with the Pacific
Steam Whaling Co., with offices at San
Francisco, for mail service along the
southern Alaska coast from Sitka to
Unalaska, including all intermediate
points. The distance is 1900 miles;
every point IN that stretch will now have
monthly service during the entire year.
The southern part Of Monterey county,
or at least that portion Of it lying in the
immediate vicinity Of Inusdale and
Parkfield, is At present experiencing
quite land boom. Owing to the discov-
cry Of OIL mAltha and natural gas there
all Of the residents are taking up claims
and prospecting for the mineral, while
other people from the outside are flock
ing into the oil-bsasing country to try
their luck in the new oil fields.
Jesse Walters and George s. Mckenzie
were arranged before Justice Bradford
at Napa charged with the murder of
Alfred Cook on January g. Walters
preliminary trial was set for January 80
He was remandsd to jail without bail
McKenzic's preliminary trial will be on
January 97 Owing to the serious ILL
ness of his wife he was admitted to bail
in the sum Of e26, 900.
Miss Jennie Moore, % years old, was
burned to death at San Francisco Satur-
day evening. She tried to extinguish a
burning curtain and in 80 doing set are
to her clothes and received injuries that
caused her death.
On Thursday or Friday of this week
the four transports now in port, the
Morgan City, Scandia, Senator and Ohio,
will start out for another trip to Manila.
The Scandia will carry the Twentieth