Gardnerville record. (Gardnerville, Nev.) 1898-1902, 1900-05-17
NEWS Of THE COAST
Short items Of Interest.
Big Irrigation Project In Oregon At
tempted Murder aud Suicide at San
Diego-A Wife shoots st Gopher
and Hits Her Husband.

A. w. Foster of San Rafael has beel
appointed regent of the university o
California.
The seventh annual convention OF th'
California Bankers association was hell
at Sacramento last week
Captain Thomas Mein, one of Califor
Mas most successful mining engineer
died in Oakland few day ago.
DIR. Samuel 8. Boyle, leading physician
OF Santa Rosa, who, during quarre
with J. NJ. Miller. shot and killed him
has been held to appear before the super
Tor court to answer a charge of murbe
In the second degree.
i While returning from a picnic neal
Visalia. the engine drawing train loat
Of passengers ran into Il calf. Th'
engine and one car were thrown iron
the track. Many passengers were in
jured, but none fatally
The wages of the employees of tn,
electric light and power company o.
cent
II. w. G. Nelson, a pioneer of lSt9
died al his home in Glenn county. &
few days ago. He was quite wealthy
Thomas Bedford. pioneer of 1850, also
resident of Glenn. Is dead
Twenty-Five policemen of Los Angelo,
have been armed with shot2uns to be
better prepared to cope with the high
waymen now operating in that city.
While hunting in the mountains neal
Pasadena, Victor Ward mistook his
ompanion Fred Buchanan for all ami
NAL aud shot him, infiioting u serious
wound
Peter Toner and Maze Walton are
under arrest at Hanford charged with
counterfeitin2. Part of their plant was
captured,
Mrs. William Dakan, while attempt.
ing TO shoot gopher near Sequel. acci-
dentaly shot her husband in the left
shoulder. She aimed at the gopher
shut her eyes and looked in another
direction. slightly moving the pistol.
Her husband happened to stand in line
with the weapon when II was dis
charged The bullet has not been ex-
trscted, but the wound i not consider.
ed dangerous.
Marco Bruneilo. an Italian quarry
man of San Diego. age %, fatally shot
Mrs Assonta Morris. aged 81, and a
little later put bullet thruogh his own
head His body lies in the morgue
and his victim is dying The shooting
was done n the house OF Mrs. Morris ON
on f street, where Rrunello went, hid
under an outside stairway and cody
shot his victim through the body as
she came out of the back door. He
then went into the grocery store be-
low and put bullet through his brain.
James Campbell. one OF the oldest and
weslthiest residents OF the Hawaiian
Islands. died at Honolulu IA short time
ago. In August, 1896, Campbell figured
in II sensational Kidnapping case in San
Francisco Oliver Winthrop. who is
serving life sentence for the crime,
decoped Campbell TO a cottage aud tried
to force him TO sign check for SEQ oO0
for his freedom.
Green Crawford. q years old, was
found dead with u bullet hole in his
forehead three miles of Paso Robles.
The wound was self.infticted, De
ceased left note saying he had killed
himself because he had lost his sweet
heart.
An extensive irrigation project is out
lined by corporation articles of the Ore
gon Irrigation company. A vast tract
in Crook county is covered by the maps
Of the company as the course for the
five large canals the company propose
to construct from the Deschutes river.
The secretary, ID. I. Warner, states that
the work has already begun ON two of
the canals and will begin on the others
very soon. Mr.. Warner states that
there are at least 2S7 900 acres that can
be reached by his oompany's canal and
that 100, 900 acres will be watered as u
result of the work now projected.
Benjamin r. Douglas, founder of the
X. g. Dunn Commercial agency, died
of apoplexy at his home in Santa Bar
bara some days ago.
w. j. Carlton of Oregon city COM
mitted suicide at Portland some days
ago while on a spree Before killing
himself he took two shots ut Mrs. May
Farrell with whom he had been living.
Ono of the bullets struck her in the
shoulder causing a slight wound.
The street fair and carnival at Saera'
mento last week was grand success
The schooner Dora B was lost on the
Alaskan coast near juneau, last month
during a storm. The five persons aboard
were drowned.
c. G. Morse, one of the largest seed
growers in the world, died few days
ago at his residence IN Santa Clara,
aged 81 years. Two years ago, while
in the east on business, he was stricken
with apoplexy and never was in good
health afterward. He went into the
seed business in 1878. and SO extended
his operation. that he at last became
known as the '.king of seed-growers
According to reports read at the con
yention of the state Bankers assocl.
alton at Sacramento last week Callfor-
MIA has higher per capita deposit than
any other state