Gardnerville record. (Gardnerville, Nev.) 1898-1902, 1899-08-08
]. H. Smith was drowned In San
Francisco bay Sundy, while fishing.

There is general advance of 80 per
thousand feet on lumber.
A branch line of the Sierra railroad is
TO be built from Jamestown to Angels,
Cal.
Skagway, Alaska, and Dawson, N.
w. T., will be connected. by telegraph
October /, 1890
The Phoenix, Arizona, street railway
Is to be sold for failure to pay interest
on its bonds.
Government engineers have complet-
ed the survey for the new $40, 900 reser-
voir near Florence, A. I.
Moran Bros. are putting in a big lot
Of shipbuilding machinery in their Seat
tie, Wash, establishment.
War revenue stamps to the value of
S8l80 were affixed to deed in Oakland,
Cal, recently, transferring the prop
erty of the Oakland Water company to
the Contra Costa Water company.
Lloyd Tevis, the well-known business
man and capitalist of San Francisco,
died suddenly at his home few days
ago.
Brakeman J. A. Whyte, while max
ing a coupling at Dunsmuir was caught
between the platforms of two cars, ow-
ing to the couplings passing each other
He was taken to the Sacramento hospital.
1t is thought he has received serious in
ternal injury, several ribs being broken.
Serious forest fires are reported be-
/ (1a1Iop. aud Noah l.ax AAarh
For several days there has been no tele-
graphic communication between those
points.
Edward II. Bragg, Pacific coast
pioneer. well known in California and
Nevada died at Seattle Sunday of heart
failure.
There Is this year for the first time a
| disposition on the part of the almond
growers of the state to unite in market
ing their product. Local organizations
are being formed and there is talk of a
state organization, The main difficulty
seems TO be that the almond growing
districts are hundreds of miles apart
and it costs money to get together and
transact business. The districts i'll the
counties of San joaquin, Yolo and SUIT
ter are well situated to act.
The weather in the southern counties
has been ideal for fruit drying, and the
apricot crop is about of the trays
During June Humboldt county shipped
379, ,430 pounds of butter, the largest
amount ever shipped is one month from
that county.
A mutual insurance company has
been incorporated in San Bernadino
county, which makes the third county
insurance company in operation in Cali
/ fornia.
Reports indicate that the crops of east
ern Washington and Oregon will be
better than anticipated, but the fruit
crops are very poor.
The Anaheim apricot crop has turned
out better than was expected, and that
after supplying the Gamers there will
be good quantity dried. For Gamers
use prices have ranged from s22.50 to
$3.50.
Prices of fruit have been lately re-
ported in various places as follows;
Santa Clara county-Apricots s45 per
per ton, Salway and Crawford peaches
S2i per ton. canning peaches S22.50
Der ton; Solano county-Aprieots $50
per ton Sutter county-Cling peaches
$50.
The Needles schoolhouse, built in 1889
at cost OF S22 200, was struck by light
ming and totally destroyed by fire. The
insurance was $1,000 II was the finest
building on the desert.
Track laying has commenced ont Of
Stockton on the Point Richmond exten-
sion of the Valley road of the Santa
Fe system.
The grape crop in the Fresno district
is reported to be late and will not ripen
until about Sepemberl0; packing will
commence about the latter end of that
month.
Fresno blacksmiths have formed a
combination and raised the price of
horseshocing from S1.5o to $3.50.
Theodore Kritehmas, a Pasadena
rancher took hold of live wire in the
mountains and received 2200 volts of
electricity and was burned so badly that
both his arms had to be amputated.
An aged burglar of Los Angeles who
goes by the name of Henry Gardner and
who has for two months pretended to be
deaf and dumb was sentenced to three
wears in the Folsom penitentiary by
Judge Smith. Gardner wrote letter
to the Judge, in which he states that he
has passed 35 years in Jail and has been
horribly treated.
The body of Jesse X. Cowles of st.
Paul. Mimi, was found in the Grand
Army of the Republic cemetery at Seat
tle. He had committed suicide with
laudunum. Cowles was about 80 years
old and went to that city about two weeks
ago. His failure to secure employment
is assigned as the cause of his suicide.
A. II. Pepper, at one time engineer OF
the steamer T. Q. Walker, was run over
and killed while working on a ranch
near Stockton.
James McLachlan of Los Angeles has
been elected treasurer of the Whittier
reform school.
Mrs. Minnie Adams has been found
guilty of poisoning her 2-year-old boy
AT San Francisco, with punishment
fixed at life imprisonment.
John @. Owen, an old man living
alone at Three Rivers, few miles from
Visalia. shot himself several days ago
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