Gardnerville record. (Gardnerville, Nev.) 1898-1902, 1900-01-16
Pacific Coast News.
Items Of Interest Picked from
the Weeks Dispa tches.

fAoHht iiNtt DAst ''i'' wv 49,
land IA few days ago, aged 80 years.
San Francisco, Cal, has l6.415 tele-
phone subscribers-th largest number,
proportionate to the population, OF any
city i'll the world, except Stockholm.
Besides the extensive piping system
to be put in at Cape Nome, that north
ern Mecca is promised $15O,000 float
ing wharf. to be constructed between
rows of piles driven out to distance Of
1000 feet from the beach.
A railroad is projected from lone,
Cal, to Jackson and Plymouth via SUIT
ter Creek, Amador City and Drytown,
distance of 30 miles, by the Jackson,
Sutter and Amador Railway company.
Capital stock 81, 100000
The coast and geodetic survey reports
finishing the inland boundary line be-
tween California and Nevada from Lake
Tahoe to the Colorado river, a distance
of 100 miles, extending over the White
mountains, through Death valley and
the desert.
At the Union Iron works, San Fran
cisco. shipyard lies l3-inch rifle gun
for the battleship Wisconsin, now ap-
preaching completion. The cannon is
10 feet long, weighs 70 tons and Will
throw projectile ten miles. The Wis
eonsin will have four of these, the
largest guns ever put on an American
battleship.
In the superior court ut Stockton
Judge Budd decided that the anti-keno
ordinance recently passed by the Stock
ton city council is valid. The defend
ant Will appeal to the supreme court.
John +. McCee was killed by falling
$50 feet down the raise in the Black
Bear mine at Gem, Idaho. The un-
fortunate man went down the mine for
his first days work. and was coming ur
the ladder en his way 10 the surface
when his foot slipped. His body was
picked up mt the bottom OF the raise and
brought to the surface. He was married
seven weeks ago at Oroyille, Cal, hi.
wife being there now.
The police commission of Los Angeles
elected Charles Elton chief of police. &c
sncceed John NJ Glass, resigned.
Robert L. Byrd, an eastern boy Of
good connections, was recently arrested
ut san Jose on charge of grand lar.
ceny. He had stolen a horse. Byrd
was sentenced 20 states prison.
William Chamberlain was sentenced
by Judge Risley at Fresno to serve two
years in Folsom prison. Chamberlain
was arrested for stealing a calf from
Miller S Lux aud pleaded guilty, claim
ing that he had taken the calf to sup
ply food for his family.
The 4-year-old son of Louis Hutford
has been lost III the woods of the Oal
Run region, Shasta county, since Thurs
day noon For hours the little ehild
has been out in the cold wind and rain
that has marked the weather during the
period. There are small chances of the
child being brought home alive.
The Mammoth group of copper claims
near Redding We're bonded to Nova
Scotian and English capitalists for Sl03,-
00o Three thousand dollars was paid
at tine time BY the terms of the bond
10000 will have 10 be paid February
10. aud the same amonnt April /. The
Mammoth group is well-deyeloped
property. Thousands of tons of cop
per bearing ore are already blocked out
in the upper tunnel. \ lower tunnel,
lS0 feet below the main workings, Is
being dF ven to prospect the ore body.
The property is owned by X. NJ. Sealt-
ger, a j. Wallace. Antoine Jaege and
Joseph kahny, all of kedding.
Oregon is to have a now railroad. The
road viii start from Hilgard. point on
the Oregon Railway and Navigation
road, seven miles west of La Grande,
and run UP the Grande Ronde river 6
miles to Grandite. the center of Il very
rich mining district. 1t is announced
that work will begin soon, and that the
road viii be pushed to completion.
The navy department has issued an
order removing the black list, with d
right to register, from the shipwrighls
at Mare Island navy yard
G. l.. Tor, who formerly conducted
the Petaluma Wooden mills, which were
destroyed 10y fire about five years age
has been in Petaluma for the past week
with "A view of rebuilding, which will
give employment to large number oi
hands. The project is looked on favor
ably by leading citizens, who all eg
press their Willingness to subscribe 10
ward bonus for the mills.
The attorneys for Santa Cruz in ill.,.
bond case presented claims for service.
amounting to $4,000. The city council
cut the fees $4,000. which the attorney
accepted Mcguire and Lindsay re-.
ceived $4,000 and CARRIER and Cres.
well 5000.
Tax Collector Sheehan of San Fran.
cisco refused to give up his Office to
James II. Scott, elected to take the of.
flee under the new charter, which went
into effect Monday Scott tried TO force
his entrance to the Office, which had
been locked and barred by Sheehan. A
fight resulted between the two forces
and weapons of all sorts brought into
use. Two deputies We're shot, but not
fatally. The police We're called for but
did not arrive until the riot was over
and the place badly wrecked Sheehan
and Scott now have an equal force at
work, and the courts will be called up.
on to decide who is lawfully tax col.
lector.
San Diego is making grand prepera.
tions for u water carnival to be held