Gardnerville record. (Gardnerville, Nev.) 1898-1902, 1900-01-16

Stout had his had crushed and viii
probably die.
Another highbinder war has broker
out i'll San Francisco among the Chi
nese. Several times shooting has &C
Cured, some of the cases proving fatal
Hundreds of acres of land in Fresh,
county were flooded recently by thu
overflowing of the San joaquin.
George Bonny, California pioneer
and member of the firm of George q
Shreve & company of San Francisco
died of pneumonia at Bordentown, N
j., last week
DIR. William A. Hammond, forme
surgeon-general of the army, died a
Washington few days ago.
Earl Newton was killed in hotel a
Los Angeles while engaged in running
on elevator.
Go See, Chinese murderer, wa
hanged at San Quentin Friday. Go Se'
was convicted of numbering a fellow
countryman at Porterville. The evi
dence was entirely circumstantial.
ID. Il. Knight, wealthy pioneer resi-
denty of Marysville. where he had re
sided since 1858, died of heart disease
He was prominently identified with til,
banking and commercial interests o
that section for many years, and was {
prominent Mason.
Financial troubles have overtaken tn,
Santa Clara county agricultural society
and its property will probably be solo
to square its accounts,
Several cases of black plague hav,
appeared in Honolulu, each being fatal
Joseph Speloher, a native of Ger
many, aged 6s years, an inmate of thu
county iniirmary at Napa, committed
suicide at that institution by hanging
himself.
Walter Nichols, aged 10, died at Pes
cadero, Cal. after having his arm am
putated as result of being shot while
pulling his gun from boat
A meeting of the San joaquin Com.
mercial association was held last week
at Hanford with good attendance.
Supervisors and citizens from several
counties were present. The report OF
the committee on publication of adver.
tising matter in the east stated that an
article had been prepared, and the as
sociation ordered tho purchase of 10000
copies for distribution. 1t also appro-
priated $500 for advertising In IS lead
ing papers III the east.
The Salinas river has overflowed its
banks and the country for several miles
around Is inundated, causing serious
damage to farmers In that locality.
4. Badynski and two other promin
ent Russians arrived at Portland re.
Gently They represent the Russian
government III an official capacity, ana
came to the Pacific coast for the pur-
pose of recommending terminus for u
great Russian steamship line. The Rus.
sian government has decided to estab.
lish line of steamers between Vladi.
yostok and some part of the Pacific
coast of the United States Mr.. Ba.
dynslli and his two companions ar,
commissioned To examine the ports OF
the Pacific and report on the advantage
of each.
Julia Marlowe Taber, the actress, has
been granted IA divorce from her hus
band, Robert Taber, at Hyde Park. n. H.
Word has been received that the
steamer Gazelle was wrecked few days
ago during q gale on sandbar neal
Anna Maria's bayou, Fla. A passing
steamer rescued the crew.
Some of the largest receivers of Cali.
fornia oranges in New York are divided
in their opinion as to the advisability O
ultimate success of the plan of try
weekly instead of daily auction sale
which will be put into effect imnedi
ately by certain receivers. Those VIII,
favor the change claim that if the sale,
are held only three times week they
will be more largely and more regularly
attended by buyers than are the daily
sales. This will result in better de.
mand and consequently better prices,
and buyers will have chance to market
their purchases between sales.
A new railroad company. known as
,pplication for franchise to construct
racks thrcngh ertain parts of San
Francisco. The road is said to be back
ID by eastern capitalists and indepen-
lent of any road now existing. 1t is
that the line is to run to
Santa Cruz.
Representative Needham appeared be-
fore the committee on Indian affairs
recently and secured the insertion III
the appropriation bill under consider
ntion of an item calling for 5000 for n
new Indian school in Southern Califor-
MA. He asked for an appropriation OF
300, 900, but in view of the fact that the
present congress proposes to use the
pruning knife wherever possible. he was
very fortunate in securing the assent OF
Chairman Sherman and the other mem-
bers of the committee to so large sum.
Montague Rogers, retired Ohio at
torney, who has lived in San Jose for u
of years died there some days
ago. He was quite wealthy.
The historic Hartford was fioated
ont Of the drydock, at Vallejo, where
the vessel has been detained for nearly
three months. The detention was caus-
ed by the discovery of msound outside
planking by Naval Constructor Hibbs,
who was determined that the Hartford s
should be ;,s good AS her re-
cord when the construction department