Gardnerville record. (Gardnerville, Nev.) 1898-1902, 1899-03-14
Pacific Coast News.
Items OF Interest Picked from
the Weeks Dispa atchcs.

Hticles Vi luCorpOTdtlou VI tuc
Spreckels Sugar company have been
filed with the county clerk at Salinas
The capital stock is stated to be $5, 600, :
600.
The Merchants Association of Stock
ton is using every influence at the COM
mand of the members to retain the re
tail trade and prevent it going to San
Francisco.
John Stephens of Randsburg, a miner
working in the YELLOW Aster mine, fell
from ladder, crushing his head and
breaking his arm. His injuries were
fatal
Alexander Campbell, well known
lawyer OF Los Angeles, was seriously
injured in attempting to alight from a
rapidly moving ear.
The Santa Cruz powder mill is run
ming night and day and has enough
orders ahead for two years The plant
is TO be enlarged.
Watson Chalmers, editor of the Daily
was pioneer newspaper man of the
coast
The Southern Pacific railroad company
il constructing steel bridge across the
San Joaquin river at Herndon.
The three ice companies doing bus
mess in Bakersfield have combined to
do away with competition.
William Coronado has been arrested
at Los Angeles for murder committed
in 1897.
Joseph W Herbet has brought suit III
the Superior court 10 foreclose an 5000
mortgage upon the buildings of the King
Conservatory of Music at San Jose.
Silas Brady. who lives on a farm near
Portland. lost an arm and saw his house
wrecked about him as the result OF IA
dynamite explosion He stands small
chance of recovering Brady has been
blasting out stumps with dynamite, and
had evidently been preparing cartridges
for Use when in some way they were
exploded His left ara was blown off,
and no part Of it could be found. His
face and breast We're filed with par
ticles of dynamite and both his eyes
were very badly injured. -Four holes
weI,a blown in the wall of the abdomen,
two of them clear through A hole was
blown through one foot. and fragments
of the stove were driven into various
parts Of his body.
The provincial government of British
Columbia has passed laws to prevent the
employment of Chinese and japanese ON
semi public works and in underground
coal mining
The custom receipts at the port OF San
Francisco for the month of February
were s526, ,026 So, the largest record for
any 2s days at that port.
A fire in the Florence hotel at Los
Angeles Sunday night. resulted in in
jury to four persons and several thous-
and dollars damage to property.
1t is proposed by the citizens of Biggs
to establish ferry across the Feather
river between that point and Palermo,
for the mutual benefit of the two settle
ments.
Southern Pacific Railroad engineers
have been recently running lines and
setting stakes along the proposed route
of a branch line from Surf station, ON
the coast road to Lompoc.
President McKinley has signed the
bill providing SSl $50 for Stockton and
$3.50, 900 for Los Angeles postoffice ex
tension.
X. J. Mooney is under arrest at
Merced, Cal. charged with setting fire
to his place of business. He had his
stock heavily insured.
The Indian named James Stevens,
who beat Little Pete" another Indian,
to death with picket near Sebastapool
last week was caught near Santa Rosa
by deputy sheiiffs hiding in a large hop
furnace at Peterson's S ranch. He will
be charged with murder
u. Zauolini OF Bloomingheld. Sonoma
county. while trying to remove wads
from y barrel of a gun, proceeded to
burn the wa1s ont, with the result that
n charge OF powder which was in the
barrel unknown TO Zanolini exploded
while he was looking down the barrel.
causing him to lose the sight of both
ayes.
Nellie Il. Palmtag has begun suit in
the Superior court at Santa Cruz against
Frederic A. Palmtag for $4,000 for
alternating the affections of her husband
and enticing him away from San Fran
cisco to Watsonville, thus depriving her
Of his support. The defendant is father
Of the plaintiffs husband.
Chinese inspectors think there is big
plot on hand to run a large number of
Chinese into the United States from
Mexico.
H. W. Crabb, one of the best known
viticulturists Of California, died
ut Oakland recently, aged II years.
William A. Wall, treasurer Of Har.
mony Lodge, Knights and Ladies' Of
Honor, has disappeared from Sacra-
mento He is said TO be 5000 short in
his accounts.
Eugene Ziegler, late of Chicago. has
been arrested AT Seattle for the alleged
embezzlement of $1,000 fr'Hl the Illinois
Trust and Savings bank.
The San Luis schoolhouse, Sonoms
county, was damaged by All incendary
fire Friday TO the extent of $4,000.
Suit-has been commenced at visalis
to dissolve the Tulare irrigation district