Gardnerville record. (Gardnerville, Nev.) 1898-1902, 1900-12-27
NEWS Of THE COAST
ITEMS or INTEREST PICKED FROM
THE WEEKS DISPATCHES.
Heavy Gambling Losses Of q KIopdike
Hotel Man A rrest and Conviction of
Triple Marderer-C Chico Man In
dIcted.

OOuht Won biumenthal, the oldest
field marshal in the German army, died
a few days ago on his estate at Quel-
lendorf. Duchy Of Anhalt.
A suit brought at San Rafael by Baron
Won Schroeder forslibel against San
Francisco paper. caused great stir last
week. The case was decided against
the baron. He wanted $3.50, 900 dam
ages.
J. W. Mackay. one of tho Oldest resi-.
dence Of the North Pacific coast. died
at Victoria recently. He located the
famous coal beds at Nanimo, B. Q.
Elisha B. Francis. colored, young
coal miner, Sunday night shot and in
stantly killed his sweetheart. Lola
Jones, also colored. at Newcastle, Wash.
He WAS drunk and jealous. He is in
Jail.
Max Endleman. q hotel keeper at
Grand Forks. In the Kiondike district,
lost $4,000 in one night playing black
jack. 1t was one of the heaviest los
ings in the history Of the camp. En-
dleman did not lose his nerve in the
least and SAYS he will have them come
his way before long. Endleman is in
terested to q small extent in the house
where he made his big losing, so part
Of his money will find its way back to
his pocket.
On indictments from the grand jury
Attorney @. l. Stilson and II. Diller
we arrested in Chico recently. Stilson
is charged with the concealment of pub.
lie documents and Diller with obtaining
money under false pretenses. Both men
are old residents of Butte county. FoI
four consecutive terms Stilson WAS
county clerk of Butte county. DilleI
has been a prominent real estate dealer
and insurance agent in Chico foi
twenty-five years.
The large ferryboat on Eel river at
the crossing of the Ukiah wagon road
was carried away. The heavy rains OF
the last week had raised the water SO
high that it was impossible to hold the
boat The cable broke, and the boat
went down stream and was a total
wreck. This closes the road and all
travel will be compelled to go via
LAytonville.
Pete Mcdonald, one of the wealthiest
men of the Klondike, died recently Of
heart failure.
Louis Machen, an old resident of Los
Gatos, was run over and killed by a
train near Los Gatos How the acci-
ccIrred is not known.
,haries B. Willis, a well.to.do citi-
zen residing near San Jose, fell over
cliff recently and was killed
Mrs. James Reilly, of Stockton. drank
nitric acid, mistaking it for medicine.
and died in a few minutes in great
agony. Mrs. Reilly's son had been re-
plenishing some electric batteries, and
left the bottle of acid on the table where
his mother kept her medicine. Besides
husband and son, u daughter remains
One of the biggest land deals in
the history of Santa Clara county
was completed recently. w. S. Rich.
ards and the Santa Clara Valley Land
company syndicate, purchased the
elegant mansion and 42l acres of land
belonging to Horace Hawes, adjoin.
ing Redwood city, for 100000 and
1900 acres Of the famous San Martin
ranch in Santa CLARA county for $273,-
600. The property includes some of the
finest orchards lands in the valley
Conductor j. l.. Dumileu fell off
train at Auburn and received injuries
which caused his death
A dispatch from Vienna reports re-
cent Moslem excesses against the Chris
tian population in the central provinces
of Turkey, where two hundred Chris.
tisns have been killed.
Martin Stickel of kalama, Wash,
has been found guilty of murder III th,
first degree and sentenced to death. /
year ago William b. Shanlin was mys
teriously murdered and no clew could
be found. Last month Cornelius Knapp
and his wife were killed in the same
manner and careful gathering of evi.
dence lead officers to believe Stickel
guilty of the three murders. ie was
arrested and confessed.
The secretary of war has transmitted
to the house the report of th,
chief of engineers upon tho examin
ations and survey Of the Columbia
river between the foot of the Dale
rapids and tha head OF Collie falls,
Oregon and Washington. with view Il
the construction of canal and lock TO
overcome the distractions to nayigI
ton, authorized by the last river ana
harbor act. The estimated cost OF th
work ia given at u. 3.989,s ,s7i, or in ronna
numbers a 100000.
Upwards of 100000 will be yo'un.
tarily distributed among the 5000 EN-
ployees OF the Crane Elevator company
Of Chicago as their share of the profit
accruing during the past year
The charge against Hume Yeringtoni
former mayor Of Carson, New, OF hav.
lug in his possession pair OF tiel'
glasses stolen from saloon III Victoria
B. C., was dismissed by the poiic'
magistrate. Yerington said he wa.
given the glasses to sell by.a stranger
WHOM, he had not seen since he divided
with him the u obtained from pawn
broker. Another point IN his favoi
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