Gardnerville record. (Gardnerville, Nev.) 1898-1902, 1899-10-31
The assessed valuation of the state Of
Montana, exclusive of railroads, is $780,.
000,000.


covered Copper mountain mine, in King
river canyon. Fresno county. are jubi-
liant over the receipt of an assayer's re-
port from San Francisco on samples
showing 6s per cent of copper, repre-
senting a value of 500 per ton. The
assayer wrote that they contained much
native copper, and the samples bear a
perior copper ore.
An effort is being made by Carmel
ranchnen to get the supervisors of
Monterey county to build wagon road
from Monterey into Carmel valley by
way of the Canada Sigunda, to take the
place of the present road along the coast
line aud then up the Carmel river.
Majorie Vinton, singing teacher,
was arrested at San Francisco last Sat-
urtlay on the arrival OF Hong Kong
steamer. She eloped from Jamestown,
n. Y, with Alba NJ Kent. Jr, all EN-.
i,eazler of Sl7 900 and married man.
They went TO Japan where they sepa-
rated She was arrested for receiving
5000 OF the stolen money.
The damage caused by the fire at the
Los Angeles theater recently, was much
greater than was estimated. Instead
of being only 5000, an examination of
the building shows that the loss will
amount TO fully $4,000. The theory
that the origin of the fire was incendi.
ary is now considered improbable, and
- ~
ed from imperfect electric wiring.
a tunnel $500 feet is being cut
through Palmer mountain, OkanagaE
county, Wash, in search of minerals
Twelve mineral veins have been struck,
varying from two to i5 feet. Some of the
mineral carries 500 in gold one other
vein 30 feet wide carries an average OF
s2s in gold. The tunnel has been driven
but 2300 feet.
a quarrel about II cup of coffee re-
suited in IA murder on the ferry boat
Sausalito, plying on San Francisco bay.
Vincent Burch waiter ended heated
argument by plunging "a knife into
Manuel Mcbride, cook, killing him
almost instantly. Bnrch tried to escape
by jumping in the bay but was rescued
when almost drowned.
While loading lumber ut dock at
Tacoma the bark wilma took fire in u
mysterious manner She was towed
into the bay and burned to the waters
edge. Three hundred thousand feet of
lumber was also destroyed
Stockraisers who pasture cattle and
sheep in the mountains during the sum
mer and fall months are hustling these
days to get their animals out of the
deep snow that fell so suddenly last
week Men who pasture stock in the
mountains say that all owners are taken
by surprise and that none of the big
bands of cattle have yet been driven to
the lower hills, though many herders
and scores of assistants have been work.
ing night and day TO work the stock
down the mountain streams to places OF
safety. Most of the sheep men got
their focks well down the hills, but
several large fiocks Of sh aep that were
being driven west over the Sierra from
Mono county We're caught near Baker $
station, 30 miles above Sonora, where
the snow is eight feet deep, but the
herders hope TO save the stock il another
big storm does not come very soon to
pile snow on top of the first fall.
Attorneys of creditors have asked for
the appointment of receiver for the
Fairhayen Land Company Wash.
claims of 100000 are represented
Some years ago the company WAS worth
millions of dollars. J. j. Hill of the
Great Northern railroad is a heavy stock
holder.
B. Loew, the waiter captured in Sa.
linas few weeks ago and taken to San
Luis Obispo To answer charge of hav-
ing stolen buggy and team from livery
there, committed suicide in the county
Jail by hanging himself TO the cell door
with rope ieow left letters addressed
TO Coroner Nichols and his attorney,
stating that he was inn )cent of the
charge against him but could not
stand the humiliation of being arrested.
A large boarding house on the Rancho
Chico, near Chico, was totally destroyed
by fire, the occupants barely escaping
with their lives in their night clothes.
Mrs. Hattie Wcdekind, who conducted
the boarding house, believes the firt
was of incendiary origin. The house
was the property of General Bidwel
and its destruction removes one of the
oldest landmarks in Butte county. II
was built in 1859 and for several years
was occupied by the parents of Mrs. f.
b. Pond of San Francisco. 1t was here
that Mr.. and Mrs Pond We're married
1t was announced recently that the
bridge combine under the name of the
American Bridge company has beer
completed and would be in operation by
the first of next month The combin,
includes 35 of the 3, plants in the coun
try and is capitalized ut $61, 800, 900. L
will control about 9S per cent of the out
put of the country. The headquarters
will be in New York city.
There can be no longer any doubt re
garding the fate of the British steamer
Pelican. which foundered near the Al
eution islands, off the coast of Alaska
and her crew, all of whom perished il
the disaster. The Alaska Commercial
company of San Francisco received Z
letter n few days ago from N. Gray, the
company's agent ut Unalaska, datet
October 6, inclosing the last message
from the unfortunate men, just few
minutes before they perished, confirm
inc their sad fate.