Gardnerville record. (Gardnerville, Nev.) 1898-1902, 1899-08-29

Odd Fellows Of Birds landing, Solano
county. ere erecting large hall there.
Montana woodchoppers are paid d. 10
per cord.
An elsotr1c railway 10 projected by
John Gross In Grass Valley. Cal.
At Fledston, GAL, 100 men are en-
ploysd on tho site for the new paper
mill.
Returning soldiers from the Philip
pines say that the country is nst .
good place for white people.
A railroad from ostookton to Saora-
mento, CAL, 10 locally stated TO be =
present project Of the Santa Fe 90.
The Illinois Steel company announces
its intention 70 give preference to En-
glish speaking applicants for work.
! A big log raft. containing nearly g.
O00, 900 feet Of timber, IL being towed
from the Columbia river 800 miles by
ocean to San Francisco.
The Oregon Short Line railway CON-
pany has eight new chair cars costing
$500 each, three new buffet cars cost
ing $1,000 each. three new dining cars
costing eio,7oo each. and 81 new loco
motives.
The Southern Pacific railroad will
make half rate for al exhibits Of goods
sent TO the: National Export exposition.
which opens in Philadelphia. Septem.
ber Il. Goods will be transported at
the ordinary rates and returned free.
The tunnel bang bored through the
Cascade mountains, Wash, BY the Great
Northern railway, is being worked from
both Sides and will be completed in 1901.
It will be nearly IA, 900 feet long, through
solid granite, and needs no timbering.
Truckee. Boca and Overton school dis
tricts voted ON the proposition of estab-
fishing . union high school. In each
district it carried BY practically unani-
nous vote. This IL the first high school
established In Nevada county under the
present law.
The opening Of the San Jose schools
has been delayed . week In order to al
low the school children to help the fruit
oanneriss put up the immense crop Of
fruit.
John Lawrence shot himself in the
breast at the Lane mine, In Calaveras
county, and will die. He is only %
years years old and NO reason for his
suicide is known.
A hshing-boat containing two men
was run into Thursday night by the
steamer North Paclfio. near the mouth
Of the Fraser river. One the occupants,
David Gorden was drowned. He Is said
to have formely lived in Shasta county,
Gal. His companion, Louis Smart, was
packed up by the North Pacific.
West Martin. ex-regsnt of the state
university, capitalist and banker, died
Friday at his home. after long illness
In Oakland.
While trying to arrest Charles Haw-
ley for selling liquor contary to the law
at Redlands watchman Walker shot him
him in the head. inflicting q severe
wound.
Pardons were announced by President
Mckinley a. follows: Charles Anderson,
convicted in the State Of Washington
of selling whiskey to Indians. sentenced
to two years In prison; pardon granted
because the prisoner is dying Of con.
sumption. Joshua Audeete, convicted
in San Francisco Of mailing an obscene
letter and sentenced TO one years i'm.
prisonment. Il was shown that there
were mitigating circumstances which
justified the pardon.
W. H. Taft, one Of Salinas's earliest
settlers. Is dead.
Surveying has commenced for an In.
dependent railroad between Stockton
and Sacramento.
Two large packing houses recently
completed on tho Valley road reservation
at Fresno. were entirely destroyed by
fire few days ago. The loss will reach
Si40, 1000.
In Dawson, ON August 4, Edward
Henderson and two Indiana. Jim and
Dawson Nantuck. paid the death pen.
atty for murders committed last year.
The Indians killed Charles Meahan and
wounded his partner. Fox, as they were
proceeding down the river in their boat
Henderson was executed for numbering
his partner on the trail. Captain Har-
per. sheriff Of the Yukon territory,
superintendsd the hanging. All walked
up the steps to the scaffold unsupported,
but onos ON the top Dawson Nantuck
broke down, and for ten minutes, up to
the time the drop fell. he kept an inces.
SAINT swaying of bis body and low moan.
ing, having finally to be braced mp with
glass Of liquor. He was held up pend.
ing the spring Of the trap
Miss Evelyn Noble of Grass Valley
recently committed suicide because her
parents refused to allow her to 60 on a
vacation to visit friends.
Round Valley. Mendocino county,
was visited by . water spout during
the early part Of the week. Stacked
grain was greatly damaged. Greeks
overflowed their banks and damaged
roads 90 ~ to make them impossible at
points. Thousands Of hsh in the creeks
were killed.
The gas company Of San Francisco
has threatened 10 shut Of the city lights
Of that city owing to the nonpayment
Of gas bills.
News has been received Of the finding
by Indians Of the remains Of four pros
pectors ut the head Of Porcupine river,
Alaska. The remains have been identi-
fled ~ those Of Holmes, from Fresno,
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