Gardnerville record. (Gardnerville, Nev.) 1898-1902, 1899-12-05

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An electric railway is projected from
Dyea, Alaska, to Lake Bennett.
Rossland, b. c., announces .'a pine
trust" in the Kootenays, with general
advance in the price of lumber.
The government vessel Nero is sur
veying a route for the Pacific cable from
San Francisco to the Philippines, via
Honolulu.
San Francisco will vote on the 27th
and Goth prox. ON proposition to bond
the city for $9,275,00 co extend the
park. build school houses and establish
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The reconstruction of the electric
plant of the Standard Electric company
OF California, which was recently
burned near Mokelumne Hill, has COM
menced at n point on the Mokolumne
river four miles above the former site
The Cascade, Wash, tunnel will be
about three miles in length; at the west
end drift has been made 3300 feet; at
the east end is a drift 5000 feet. Labor
ers are paid 50 a day; drillers b. 10. The
company has put i'll at the west mouth
OF the tunnel AN air compressor, electric
lighting plant, bunk-ho and hospital
1t will be fullya year and half before
the work is completed and the old
switchback done away wit }.
The receipts from the sales of public
lands i'll Oregon during the past fiscal
4 y 4.
sents the sale of $40, ,42s acres The
sale in Washington aggregated Sl30, ,423,
representing i9S, ,949 acres In Idaho
the sale of 1886 acres brought 81 49,
6g6. In Alaska the receipts We're $ll3S.
The jury in the case of ex-Tax Col
lector Samuel NJ. Findley of San Luis
Obispo for embezzlement was discharged
upon failure to agree. The jury stood
six for conviction and six for acquit-
tai. Findley will be tried again.
+. J. Cole who was convicted of check
forgery at his trial at Sacramento was
sentenced to serve eight years i'll the
state prison at Folsom
Patrick II. Harrington of Sacramento
was initiated into II lodge at Colfax re-
Gently and received such n fright that
it drove him insane
The decapitated body of Nels Ottoson
native of Denmark, aged 40 years,
was found ON the main track of the
Southern Pacific one mile south OF
Fresno.
The three-old child of Mr.. and Mrs
Campbell fell into the fireplace at the
Campbell home in Boulder Greek and
was burned TO death. The mother who
Is blind was powerless to save the child
DIR. J. II. Giles of Sutter Creek, was
placed under arrest recently for causing
the death of Mrs. Lizzie A. Darling by
performing a criminal operation.
The beet fields about Salinas are turn.
ing out record breaking crops. Yields
of from 20 to % tons per acre are re-
ported from the districts south of town
and bordering tho Pajaro river. Three
hundred and twenty-five cars OF apples
have been shipped TO eastern points this
season from Watsonville.
The gold output from the cariboo dis
trict, b. C., this year is estimated at
$1,000, 900 Extensive hydraulic plants
are operated by several companies and a
great deal of new mining machinery is
taken into the district. Some of the
nuggets found this season was worth
800.
Eastern capitalist have just purchased
large tract of timber land in San Ma.
~ county and are going into he lum-
- business ON an extensive scale.
Henry X. Hall died at Santa Barbara
few days ago. During the war he was
assistant United States treasurer under
Lincoln, and signed the first series of
greenbacks issued by the government.
Charles II. Cramblitt, n pioneer of
Stockton, was killed there II few days
ago while moving freight cars.
AS result of II quarrel over "a game Of
cards, Al Lossen, II colored bootblack,
shot and killed Hughes Younger, u
gambler, at Baker city, Or. Lossen
secured shotgun, and as Younger was
entering the st. Lawrence restaurant
the negro shot him through the heart.
loosen gave himself up. Threats of
lynching the negro We're freely made
and for safetys sake the prisoner was
taken to Union.
Sylvester Hull, pioneer and prom
inent Democratic politician of Shasta
county, died recently after IA linerinR
illness in his 8Sth year. Hull had filled
the position of sheriff of the county and
register of tho land office at Redding
Walter Howard, aged II years, was
run over and killed at Sellwood. Or,
by an electric car on the East Side rail
way. The boy was ON a bicycle and
rode across the track in front of the
car, which was backing up slowly.
Three steamships - the Abergeldo,
Arab and Manyo Maru-- have been en-
gaed for December loading at Portland.
These three steamers will carry to the
Orient nearly 10000 tons, principally
flour and wheat.
The transport Sherman arrived at San
Francisco few ,slys ago from Manila
bringing discharged and sick soldiers
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