Gardnerville record. (Gardnerville, Nev.) 1898-1902, 1900-03-06

For three months the men wandered
about aimlessly without rations Other
than the country provided. Finally IN
Indian found them and guided them tc
civilization.
Health officers of Tacoma attempted
to establish % pesthouse for smallpox
patients in an abandoned engine house
of that city, but citizens Of the neigh
borhood threatened to burn the building
and lynch the officers if they did. After
rough handling the officers escaped with
nothing worse than a wrecked buggy
There are eight cases of smallpox In
Tacoma
The Yakima Indians have just closed
seven days medicine dance 81 neal
Toppensh. A peculiar feature Of this
dance is the self-inhicted torture Of the
participants i'll the dances. This rite
has IA deep religious significance fol
them. Not all of the Yakima Indians
take part in these barbarous practices
Many of them are well-educated men
and women and live very much as theiI
white neighbors. The Indians who tor
tured themselves this week included
several young bucks who have been
away to school and educated. Return.
ing home, they relapsed into the ways
of savagery and discarded the white
mans dress for blankets and feathers
All of the dancers inflicted numerous
wounds upon themselves with knives,
stones and sharpened sticks. They in.
serted thongs of leather through their
flesh and pulled at these thongs until
the flesh gave way. Some of them
danced y continuously for seven days,
stopping only when physically ex.
hausted A buck about 30 years old
held out the longest and was declared
the tribes head medicine man for the
next three years.
Thomas G.. Reames, an Oregon pio-
neer and one of the best known men in
that state, died at his home in Jackson
vile recently. Together with his father
he was one of the employees of the Hud-
son Bay company in Oregon territory,
but moved TO southern Oregon upon the
discovery of gold there. He became
associated with G. 9. Beekman in the
banking house of Beekman & Reames,
the pioneer bank in the southern halt
of Oregon. He was at one time promi-
nent iii Oregon politics and was widely
known in Masonic circles, of which
order he was past grand master of the
state.
Il. II. Woodward. q carpenter. was
killed while at work at the Mcdonald
Grain and Milling company's establish.
ment at Los Angeles. A heavy derrick
fell ON him, crushing his breast in such
a manner that he died in an hour.
Crnse Rnfnueriz. nped eight wears. Of
ras Auoeles died from the effects al
bnrns rc.i lived "A few days ago The
child was irving to cook dinner for the
family the mother being i'll She start
ed the tige in the cookstoye. which was
blazing IN ouite freely, and. getting
TOO close. her clothing caught fire. She
became panic stricken, and, there being
no one assist her, she was frightfully
burned before the flames could be ex.
tinguished.
The biz irrigation suit which had
been on trial before Judge Lucian Shaw
of Los Angeles, sitting for Judge Webb
in the superior court of Fresno county,
for % DAYS. closed with a victory for
the plaintiff. the Fresno Canal and Irri-
CATION company. which sought TO re-
strain the Alta Irrigation and district
and the ) sventy-six Land and Water
company from placing dams in the
Kings river or interfering with the flow
of the water in the main channel of the
river. There was "A nominal claim of
$l00,0 900 damages involved. Two years
ago, when the defendant companies be-
gan to construct dams in the river, the
dams were forcibly removed and an
armed conflict seemed likely. but tenn.
no,nry iniupctions were granted. and
finally the matter came up for legal do.
termination by the court.
While protectinp himself from an AS
sault of Francisco Penna, IA Mexican at
San Gabriel M n. Wright n raneher.
struclx him ON the head with n revolver
and caused his death. He was exoner.
ated by a ooroner's Jury.
Mrs Charles A Parie Mt one time n
wealthy younp woman of Los Angeles
and San E,,nc;sco died Mt Tacoma n
fe,v dovs aro throuoh destination She
leaves four children in various insti.
mtions of California. Her husband
died sometime ago and she took the
downward path.
In evamininy an old chest he had re-.