Gardnerville record. (Gardnerville, Nev.) 1898-1902, 1900-10-04
NEWS Of THE WORLD NEWS OF THE COAST
ITEMS OF INTEREST PICKED FROM
THE WEEKS DISPATCHES.
Big Fires at San Pedro and Albion
Terrible Result of IA Practical joke
The big Tunnel Through tho Cas-
cade Mountains Completed.

III. 0eorRe NJ. DiXOn, one OF tht
foremost physicians of the state, com.
mitted suicide last week at Sacramento
where he had resided for % years.
Louis Mundy, well known man
throughout the San joaquin valley.
committed suicide with carbolic acid at
Stockton recently.
Two prominent young men of At.
lanta, Ga. fought duel with pistols u
few days ago and both were wounded
and will probably die. a woman wa
the cause of the trouble.
Mrs. Mary E. DAM, wife of Albert
Dani,a prominent rancher in Monterey
cou ity, committed suicide by taking
poison. She had been extremely des
pondent because of i'll health, She
leaves husband and two children.
While Treasurer ID. q. Bambauer OF
Merced county was going home late one
night last week, two men stopped him
and at pistols point compelled him
to march to the courthouse and open
his office. They then opened the vault,
took $500 and locked Bambauer i'll.
There is no clew to the robbers.
There was fatal accident on the
Southern Pacific's new line through
Goleta. Dan Callahan, carpenter.
was knocked from construction train
in passing one of the chutes built for
loading dirt on cars. He fell under the
wheels and had both legs crushed.
Edward II. Hicks, an old resident of
Pajaro, was found in his buggy shed
with the top of his head blown oil,
Whether it was suicide or accidental
is not known,
While two robbers were trying to
escape from officers at Addy, Wash,
one was shot to death and the other
wounded and captured,
During last week the east and west
crews i'll the immense bore under the
Cascade mountains met. The two
forces, working from opposite ends in
the big tunnel, brought the two ends
together without variation of an inch.
Now that the tremendous task of bor-
ing out over two miles of granite has
been accomplished, the work of laying
the tracks is comparatively insigniii.
cant. The tunnel will be rushed to
speedy completion. 1t is estimated that
the tunnel when completed will have
cost S5,000,00o. One thousand men
have been engaged nearly three years
III its construction, and all records of
tunneling have been broken. The
average progress was Is to 20 feet
per day.
Myron L, Brown, Il young teamster
shot by an Alameda policeman one day
last week. died from his wounds.
Mrs. Mecca Albany, the Oldest white
settler of her sex i'll Marin county, died
a few days ago. She was 95 years old
and settled at San Rafael in 1910.
Mr.. and Mrs. Henry Thompson cele-
brated their 50th wedding anniversary
at Pasadena last week. Mrs. Thomp-
son is a daughter of John Brown of
Harper ferry fame.
The steamer Tacoma, Captain Dixon,
arrived from Nome, which port she left
on September II. She had 525 passen.
gers and about 100000 in gold dust,
most of it from the Pioneer Mining
company, operating Anvil Creek mines.
j. +. Gleason of Seattle returned ON the
Tacoma. Speaking of the recent storm
at Nome, he said: The storm continued
for two days. There were l6 vessels
under the lee of Sledge island on the
10th for shelter, but the wind abated
that evening, aud they all returned 10
Nome harbor. The property loss caused
by the storm will be over II million dol.
lars. Only three persons We're drowned
off the Nome beach but the loss of life
up and down the coast must have been
heavy, according to reports reaching
Nome
The immense plant Of the Albion
Lumber company, situated at Albion.
Mendocino county, was totally de.
troyed by fire. The dry kiln, store,
hotel, livery barn and several dwellings,
all the property of the company, ioD,-
600 feet of lumber III the yard and 1000
cords of tan bark We're also consumed
The fire caught in the dry kiln, and,
although the crew and everybody from
the surrounding neighborhood fought
the flames. it was without avail. The
loss will reach sl25, 600 or Sl5o,ooo in-
surance unknown. The Albion mill
was one of the largest redwood mills Oh
The coast.
California is the largest producer OF
seeds of amy section in the world. The
seed crops i'll Europe and the east are
extremely short this year, and seedmen
here will be particularly prosperous.
A fire which started in Koll's planning
mill on Second street, San Pedro, com.
pletely destroyed the mill; also the Adj
derson lodging house and the Los An
geles Corniee works. The origin of the
fire is unknown. The loss is about Sl5,-
900 with no insurance so far as known.
Captain w. Schneider of the Thirty
fifth United States volunteers, who be-
longs in Los Angeles, was wounded
while fighting i'll the Philippines few
days ago.
A 50-year franchise to establish an
electrical power plant and to furnish
power and light 10 mines and To all the
unincorpurated towns i'll Shasta county
has been sold by the supervisors Tor
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