Gardnerville record. (Gardnerville, Nev.) 1898-1902, 1899-02-21
Pacific Coast News.
Items OF Interest Picked from
the Weeks Dispa atches.

thrown from train at Los Banos ant
killed.
d. E. Lawton, a well known Fresh.
farmer, has mysteriously disappeared
from his home.
Frank L. Coombs Of Napa has beeI
appointed United States attorney fol
northern district of California.
The public school at jackson, Cal.
has been closed owing to the prevalence
Of diptheria among the children.
g. A. Fitzmier, a prominent and pio
neer merchant of Virginia. New, wa
found dead at his home there recently.
William r. O'Meara, former residen
Of San Francisco, was killed in cave il
the Great Northern tunnel near Seattle
Orchardists around Fresno are moi
this cold spell will protect fruit by keep
ing it back.
Frank Cleghorn, in the Clark mur
dor case, committed suicide at Los An
geles. Ii is believed that he was impli
Gated in the murder.
The Modoc county supervisors hav,
bnncoed out of $500 by detective who
claimed that he had located Madden
the defaulting treasurer.
Mrs. Martha Houton, while in al,
epileptic ut, near her home in Nendo-
cino county, fell forward into spring
and was drowned.
Herman Schmidt, San Francisco Ell
gineer. was crushed to death by an en-
gine in brewery. How the accident
occurred is not known.
At special election held in Salinae
recently on proposition of bonding tn
city for $50, 900 for school purposes, the
project was carried by one vote.
George X. Turner, civil engineer of
San Francisco, was recently run over by
pioneer, and at one time city and county
surveyor of San Francisco.
The body of William Gruthoff wa
found in the woods near Santa Rosa
A huge limb had fallen across his bach
and held him prisoner. causing hts death
probably of starvation.
Joe Choynski and Kid McKoy have
been matched for a prize fight to take
place after March 20 at San Francisco.
BY the bursting of reservoir Of the
Big Dipper Gravel mine near Iowa Hill,
Placer county, Joseph Berber and five
Chinese were swept away by the water
and drowned.
DR. @. f. Dickson Of Woodland has
been notified Of his appointment as ply
sician and surgeon in the revenue ser.
vice. He will be assigned to duty on
the Pacific c'ast by Captain Hooper.
Reports from orange and lemon grow
ers around San Diego are that no dam
age was done to citrus trees by the freeze,
although the thermometer was down TO
2S and 30 above zero.
The body of George w. Brown, the
negro who was missing from his home
at Mokelumne Hill some time ago, was
found last week ON pile of rocks by
some prospectors.
A raisin growers meeting was held in
.
and Alex Gordon being present to urge
the growers to sign the contract. The
Luoerne vineyard of 1900 acres has con-
tracted its crop to winery at a rate
considered more profitable than making
raisins in uncertain weather.
A fire ACQUIRED in the Washington
hotel at Vellejo recently and damaged
the property to the extent of 5000
Louis Holland of San Francisco. guest
at the hotel. was burned to death.
Joe Boyle, a section foreman, during
a fit of delirium tremens, dropped a
lighted lamp upon the floor of his little
cottage near Fort Bragg, and burned to
death his two grandsons. aged D and B
years, respectively, who, with their
mother resided with him.
San Jose prune growers have effected
their combination. Growers represent
ing 0,0O0 acres of prune-orchards have
joined the association. The state is to
be canvassed to secure control of the
crop.
Edward E. Thomas, for many years a
prominent orchardist of Santa CLARA
county. was found dead in San
Francisco hotel one morning recently.
The gas in the room was turned on and
be undoubtedly committed suicide. Fin.
ancial troubles are supposed to have
prompted his act. He was heavily in
debted to to the defunct Union Savings
bank of San Jose.
An attempt was made last week to
rob the stage running between Jackson
and lone, Amador county Two robbers
were implicated and one of them shot
at the stage, slightly wounding the
driver and messenger.
The damage suit Of N. H. Hanson
against the Southern Pacific Railroad
company is to be settled out Of court, q
compromise having been effected, it il
said, for $3.50 In June, 1897. a train
struck a buggy containing two daugh.
ters of Hanson, killing one girl, Stella,
and badly injuring the other, Lizzie
The father sued for $4,000.
The finance committe Of the Califor
MIA legislature has reported In favor oi
Valentines assembly bill providing fol
an appropriation and a commission fol
an exhibit at the Paris exposition.