Gardnerville record. (Gardnerville, Nev.) 1898-1902, 1900-04-19


from $40 to $35 an acre. Ii will bring
many families to Glenn county.
The Inyo County Beelleeper's associa.
ton met at Valley View early this
month, and agreed to hold another
meeting at the same place on July IS,
when they hoped to make arrangements
for the sale of their crop.
The fruit growers of Gilroy who have
Joined the Cured Fruit association are
anxious and even determined to have IL
local packing house. They say that the
Gilroy prunes are SO very much better
than any other prunes that the growers
will suffer irreparable loss il they are
mixed up in the ordinary Santa
Olaras" which are shipped from San
Jose.
through Carson valley at this time, Is
business to justify capitalists to invest
tho necessary sum OF money
A railroad Is to be bullt from Thorn.
ton to Bland, Il. M.
Work has already begun on the Arix.
ona g. Utah extension north from
Cloride, Arizona. toward the Colorado
river. Camps have already been es-
tablished.
The gross earnings Of the Canadian
Pacific railway for the rsar 1899 were
e29. 23O, ,03s.s8; working expenses. aia,-
989,s72.77 net earnings, sl2,2S0. 1875. 40.
At Pittsburg the price of coal sd
vanced from % per cent to 80 per cent
ON the lst. The advance is attributed te
the increased wages of the miners, and
the coal famine in the east and 10 Ea,
rope. Operators can hardly 1ll orders
There we're more trees planted in
Carson valley this Arbor day than am
year before.
A cyclone struck Royse Texas Wed.
nes,lay and caused lose of life and
psrty,
The jury in the case of w. s. Curry,
charged in the superior court with
violating the prohibition ordinance Of
sutter county by running saloon at
Nicalaus, found him guilty.
A board of trade has been organized
to care for the interests of Vacaville
township. The membership numbers
30 representative business men and
fruit growers of the section and will be
largely increased.
John Torrance, the nine- year-old son
of Jared S. Torrance, was killed in
trunk elevator at the Hotel Green An
mex at Pasadena. The boy went down
the shaft to room only seven feet
below. Half an hour later his dead
body was found wedged between the
trunk litter platform and the top of the
shaft.
James Pierson, aged 90, and his son
George, aged 90, were buried under
mass of rock at the Roslyn mines, near
Seattle. The boy will recover but there
is no hope for the father.
John W. Smith, railroad hand. WAS
shot and probably fatally wounded by
man named Hend, near Lompoc. The
men had been drinking together and
quarrelled.
Mrs. Anna Griffith, prominent during
the recent war on account of her work
with the Red Cross society in Cali
fornia has been granted divorce from
her husband, J. M. Griffith of Los
Angeles.
The city election held at Santa Rosa a
few days ago resulted in the election of
the entire Democratic ticket, excepting
the assessor.
Lieutenant h. d. Scott, of one of the
British ships at Esquimalt, was shot
and seriously wounded by sentry
few nights ago. Scott refused to halt
when ordered and was shot in the hack
as he tried to run away.
The postotfice department has issued
notice to all postmasters that mail will
be dispatched ON April 30 by steamers
from San Francisco and Seattle for ST.
Michael and Nome. On that date and
during the open season registered mail
of all classes for postoffices on the Yukon
river and for postoffices north of st
Michael in Alaska will be forwarded by
all steamers authorized to carry mail
to those localities.
Governor Gage has commissioned the
following as port waroens of the port
OF San Francisco: Charles F. Ken
nealy. Charles II. Spear and X. e
Nickel. The senate had already con.
firmed the new wardens.
Ed Danfortl of Sacramento, was shot
in the leg by his wife few nights ago.
and received a painful wound He had
been out late and his wife took this
means of Furnishing him
The California Fruit association has
secured about IS per cent of the entire
yield of prunes, or about 81 800 acres
The association will not handle the
peach and apricot crop, the contracts
falling below the required amount.
Wayne Harris, l9-year-old messen.
ger boy, is in Jail at San Francisco
charged with murder. He stabbed An
drew Layden. another boy and caused
his death. Harris is said 10 have acted
in selfdefense.
A tremendous upheval occurred in
Whatcom county, Wash, last week.
Where there was formerly valley.
hill 20 feet high now stands with small
lake ON its crest The bed of the Nook.
sack river was thrown up and the river
has changed its course. Subterrenean
gases are said to have caused the erup.
ton
The Mountain Copper company OF
Keswick is going to use petrolium for
lue.
A six.foot bicycle path has been set