Gardnerville record. (Gardnerville, Nev.) 1898-1902, 1900-03-13

San Francisco pays annually si.ooo,-
900 for telephone service.
Oil rs fuel for welding Is now used by
Southern Pacific company.
Dry weather in Arizona interferes
/ with all industrial projects
A telegraph line is to be built this
season from Ashcroft to Atlin, b. G.
A special election held at Santa Ana
to vote on the issue of $4,000 school
bonds for a new high school building
resulting in victory for the improve
ment.
w. H. Pierce, Sutter county rancher,
who has wife and six children living
near Live Oak, died at the United States
hotel in Marysyille from an overdose of
laudanum. taken probably with suicidal
f intent.
George Biek of the Biek Brothers
+ mine of Forbestown, Butte county, was
crushed in the mine by bank caving
+ on him Fifty men We're employed in
digging for the body lie was badly
crushed. =
The register and receiver of the Unit
ed States land Office Yisalia, received
orders from the United States general
land Office to suspend from disposition
LOS, ,0ss acres of land in the oil regions
of Tuare, Kings. Kern and Fresno
counties \ total of 1.635,000 acres
was suspended during the hyc days in
the oil region of that valley.
News comes from Gonzales, in the
northern portion of Monterey county,
that the big irrigation canal lately coll
strueted there has been opened and is
working very satisfactorily. Over 1000
acres of land have already been irri-
gated
An immense eave-in occurred at the
Iron Mountain mine, keswiek, i'll which
eight men were entonbed. All eight
men were taken out after hours of hard
work. Those who were alive ut the
time of rescue died shortly afterwards.
The Los Angeles land office has re-
ceived from the surveyor generals Of
flee maps of two townships--lS. range
! north, and range | south-which will
enable stflers who have squatted for
years 81 about $4,000 acres III calabasas
to secA-s patents to their claims. Ten
mouths ar given the sqnitters to file
claims.
Samuel Spear, a young man employed
by the Power Development company of
Bakersfield. was killed by an electric
shock Spsar was running a telephone
line AMI cut the wire he was working
with. The end flew up and touched an
electric wire above him and l00D volts
passed through his body. lie died after
about three ilsars, remaining IN eonaa-
tose condition during that time.
Billy Simpson, "a we'll educated Indian
living near Chico, was found in some
sllrubbv on General Bidwells rancho
with his head mashed to pulp and his
pockets ritied. Officers are searching
diligently Tor the murderer
H. NJ BRYAN and + +. Bernard, pay-
master aud check clerk of a large retail
business firm in San FRANCHISES, recently
secured $1,000 of money fhit the firm
had for paying the employees and alb
seconded.
Fruit growers Of Sutier. Yuba and
Butte counties nave organized.
Mrs Rachael Dean, who lives near
Exeter, Fresno county. was fatally
burned recently She was heating
water in the yard when her dress caught
fire. The unfortunate woman lived IL
hours after the accident. She was ~
wears old and had been married bur Il
snort time.
+. Lemars. a pipeman employed at
the Ice and Cold Storage company
plant ut I..s Angeles, was instantly
killed by the blowing out of a cylinder
head in 100 horse-power water puri-
fier. Lemars was driving the head III
place and stood directly over it. lie
was blown about 20 feet and nearly
every bone in his body was broken.
William Henry, halfbreed Indian
living ut Covelo, Cal, shot and killed
Nettie Smith, an Indian woman twice
his age. with whom he was infatuated,
and then killed himself. He had been
living with the woman aud she threat
,ned to leave him.
The body of the aged wife of Barney
Mcnamara, an old farmer living near
Santa Rosa. was found in well mt her
home few days ago. Mcnamara
claims she fell in the we'll, but officers
think otherwise aud are investigating
the case.
Lillian Klmball, formerly of Will
liams, Colusa county, was found dead
in n room in San Francisco where she
had been smoking opium
\ Jury rendered verdict of aclutt a
IN the ease of George f. Plyler at Santa
Cruz. plyler was charged with may
hem. For nearly three years he has
been in Jail This was his third trial,
he having been found guilty twice and
each time sentenced 10 II years at san
Quentin The prosecution was weak
sned by the fact that Charles Harris
irstimony could not b. Introduced in
evidence because the st.nographer failed
20 compare his notes with the type
written copy OF the testimony taken ut
/ the preliminary examination. Harris
was the victim Ex-Constabe ilar-
weston is the only one of the men
concerned in the crime who is serving u
sentence In the prison An effort is to
be made to have him pardoned.