Gardnerville record. (Gardnerville, Nev.) 1898-1902, 1899-11-14

Cape Nome.
DIR. i. e. Lily of Merced, died few
! says ago of blood poisoning. He was
i public administrator and coroner.
Family troubles caused Thomas Cox
II commit suicide last week at Kes-
wick
The trial of George Suesser. for the
murder of Sheriff Farley, is being held
at Salinas this week.
samuel.R .Rolla Walker. one of Mon.
terey's oldest citizens. is dead at Pacific
Grove.
Samuel Winter, a resident of Fresno,
committed suicide by taking strychnine.
He was drummer and in poor health.
Mrs Ruth e. Goetz, who is being
sued for divorce at San Jose attempted
to commit suicide in the court room last
week while the ease was being re-
viewed
+ There are To be four mails Il day be-
tween Vallejo and San Francisco in the
future.
Hereafter Los angeles is to tax vehicles
Of all sorts. IL is expected that $4,000
per year will he raised in this way. The
money will be used for street repair
7 purposes.
p. l.. Shuman of San Andreas pro
/ poses to build canal nine miles TO bring
water from the Mol1elumne river tc
MolSelumne Hill, Cal. with fall suifi
eient to drive AN electric plant. The
+ power is 90 be used on the Boston and
other Mol1elumne Hill mines
The Blue Lakes Water company
power plant at Blue Lakes Cal, was
! destroyed by fire ON the ist inst, in
yolying loss Of $50, 900 and cessation
I Of operations in mines. factories, etc
supplied thereby. \ new and enlarged
plant will b. slstalled at an improved
adjacent site.
Scarcity OF iron causes singular trade
conditions in san Francisco. Old min
/ ing camps have been secured for old
iron: machinery, once costing large
sums OF money, dismantled and snip
+ ped to the bay; Cuban cannon balls
have been imported; iron is on the way
from Scotland; and pig iron. once sold
and shipped to Japan, is now being re-
turned to California, costing, laid down,
F sl7 per ton.
Thomas Kane a resident Of Napa, was
run over and killed by the north bound
freight train at Castroyille. Kane at
tempted TO board the train while in mo.
ton and missed his footing. The right
leg and arm were severed. Kane died
shortly after. He was of good family
in Napa and leaves relatives III San
Francisco.
William Berry, a paralytie, was barn
ed to death in his home at Oakland last
week Mrs Catherine White, his sister
was badly burned while trying to rescue
him.
\ lone highwayman held up four men
and two women in a street of Pendleton,
Or, one dark night last week and re
lieved them of their money and valu-
ables.
Charles Hall, cook of the steamer
Hancock, was shot and killed in a saloon
row at San Francisco recently by q. r..
Dodge Dodge shot in self defense.
While riding ON freight ears near Red
Bluff, Charles Staples and an unknown
man were knocked Off aud both killed.
Another man, whose name is not known,
was probably fatally injured.
Brigadier- General Joseph G. Brcckn.
ridge, inspector general Of the United
States army and major-general of vol.
unteers, arrived in San Francisco last
week from Washington on an official
visit
"A warrant was issued last week for
the arrest of n. e. Twining, a teacher
at the Ivenhoe school. Les Angeles. II
is alleged that he cruelty whipped Vida
Belcher. the l5.year-old daughter OF
School Trustee Belcher, who is politi-
eally opposed to Twining. The excuse
for the whipping was that the girl bad
torn a book. The girl is IA sufferer from
heart disease and is said to be in pre-
carious condition.
The Alaska steamship Portland, ar
rived at San Francisco from Cape Mono
| last week bringing IA great many gold
| seekers. who had over Sl,0oa,O10 among
them rs the result of work IN the new
district.
Jack Brooks, who was found guilty
of murder in the second degree in hav-
| ing killed Dan Donnelly, was sentenced
to life Imprisonment by Judge Risley Of
Fresno. His co-defendant, Policeman
Rice, was acquitted last week The
homicide was committed while Don
nelly was escaping pursuit after having
been robbed in II saloon.
Because she would not give him the
money she had earned by lifs Of shame
Eugene Lane shot and tyerely wounded
Josephine Biancheau at Butte, Mont.
and then fred two bullets into his own
breast, dying instantly. Lane recently
returned from the K,ondil5n Eir Is
said to leave wife aud family IN
Victoria, Il. G.
George H. Hubhard OF Cotton sho
Edna Howard. n sporting woman of l-o
Angeles. seriously Woandipg her, ans
then sent bullet through the right sid
of his heal. killing himself instantly
He was infatuated with the woman an'
4. 70. / tf.. fH4R ~ IL