Gardnerville record. (Gardnerville, Nev.) 1898-1902, 1900-09-20
NEWS Of THE COAST
Short Items Of Interest
from Everywhere.

Sui ide Of Farm-r-seet Sugar Fac.
T. ri~s tn START Rates For WRinnts--
Father XIII. His son.
J. w Mcneil was found guilty ut
snisun. last week. of manslaughler.
He was tried on charge of numbering
his nephew. j. w. Mcneil, at Benicia
last July.
The preliminary work of fixing tho
boundaries Of union high school has
been begun at Martinez As soon AS
the boundaries are fixed a special elec-
iioh will be called to vote bonds for the
purpose of erecting a high school,
\ collision between tho steamer
pauntless pnd two small launches on
the San Joaquin river caused the death
by drowning Of three occupants of the
launches, David Kent, John Doane and
John Davis, all of Sacramento.
A 7-year-old son of Chalmers King, "A
accidentally shot and killed bv his
father, in whose hands rife was dis.
charged premarurely.
Barbara, the 9-year-old dau ,hter OF
Professor David Starr Jordan. died OF
typhoid fever at tha Stanford Uniyer-
sity recently.
William Sandow. ranchcP of Pa
raiso, Salinas valley was killed recently
by bucket falling on him while dig.
ging we'll.
Daniel Lucy was hang in the Jail
yard at Butte. Mont, for the murder of
Patrick l.. Regan two years ago.
A misplaced signal caused two coal
trains to collide hear Nanaimo. b. c..
and four men were killed.
A young son of miner named Ton
kin WAS killed at Castella, northern Cal
ifornia, some days ago. While jumping
on u moving train his foot slipped and
he fell under the wheels. his body being
cut in two.
Emil Shearer, brakeman. was killed
at Kennel by being run over by train.
Eleven teachers of the state uni
versity of California have been selected
to go to the Philippines to teach ia
schools there.
A. X Zeigler. who is charged with
wife murder at Santa Cruz, filed an an.
davit to the effect that his defense
would be insanity. and asked that II
commission issue to two relatives i'll
Philadelphia for the purpose of having
their testimony taken. to prove that the
defendants mother aud brother had
died insane
William Miller shot and killed James
Mcfarland in hop yard at Pleasanton,
Both men were pickers and quarreled
over some city matter relating TO the
work. Miller has heen placed under
arrest.
The Walnut Growers association has
established rate of 10 cents a pound
for soft shell aud 9la cents for stand
ards.
]. II, Tolls, one of the most prolni.
nent business men of Pacific Grove, is
dead.
A man named Alexander had both
legs crushed below the knees by train
vt Crows Landing. while nying to
ride on brakebeum,
J. s. Dudgeon, q painter of Modesto,
was badly injured by falling from u
scaffold 30 feet high. His left leg WAS
broken and his knee dislocated.
n. ]. Anderson. "A farmer, residing
six miles south of Almaden, committed
suicide Thursday by blowing his brains
out with revolver. Anderson was IL
Swede and had lived alone on his ranch
for the past Ell years. Despondency is
supposed TO be the cause of the deed.
A Southern Pacific soulh-bound train
MAS wrecked at Green's Station, Or, Il
few days ago. A driver axle of the en-
Rine broke and the engine. mail aud tx.
press and baggage cars went into the
ditch. No one was injured
Mrs Anna Cremore, II resident of
Vallejo since 1850. died recently
Orders for ~ locomotives for use on
the government railroads of New Y Ia
land have been received by Phila,iel-
phia firm.
\ man has been arrested ut Los An
geles who j. supposed 10 he Jose Jala.
iuillA, who escaped from jail at Abu.
qnerque, n. NJ, recently, after nearly
killing trusty.
After 80 years OF ministerial work.
the Rev. Dr. Joseph Wilde OF the Ply
mouth Congregational chnrci OF Los
Angeles has retired.
SALINAS, September l5.-The Spreek-
els sugar factory will soon commence its
70 days 24-hour.a.day run. Twenty
carloads of Leets. the first of the season.
were received ut the Spreckels factory
to-day. One battery of boilers was fired
up yesterday and everything was fouad
to work well. The work of slicllg
heets will begin the latter parr of next
week.
II has been reported that Bakersfield
has an epidemic Of smallpox aud that
other communities are dist r1ed for fear
of its spreading. The fact is simply
that there are two patients, man
named Bogue, tramp. who carried il
there, aud man named Freeman, who
contracted the disease from him. Bo,h
cases have been quarantined. and all
persons known TO have been exposed are
, under surveillance