Gardnerville record. (Gardnerville, Nev.) 1898-1902, 1900-01-23


The Seventh Regiment. National
Guard of California. elected the follow
ing officers: Colonel John r. Berry, re-
rlected colonel; Captain r. V. Dodge,
company b, San Diego, lieutenant
colonel; Captain Robert Wankowski,
company A, Los Angeles, and Lieuten-
ant w. @. Secombe, company X Of San
Bernardino. were elected majors.
Maggie Larsen, ix-year-old girl was
accidentally shot in the face by her
fifteen year-old brother at College Grove
near Los Angeles and died. The brother
who did the shooting is frantic with
grief. He was playing with loaded
pistol and it was discharged full i'll the
face of the chlH. The bullet lodged in
the brain
Michael Rosendorf committed suicide
in Baker City, Or, by shooting himself
III the head. He left letter stating he
had made failure of life on account of
a mania for gambling. He said that he
carried several thousand dollars in life
insurance, which would provide for his
family, and eithout taking his own
life he could see no way of supporting
them.
The question of annexing a part of
northern Solano to Yolo county, which
has been much discussed of late years,
is again being agitated and move-
ment is on foot which seems likely to
FL Of
Maine Prairie and Silveyville townships
10 Yolo county owing 10 their geograph-
zeal location with reference to that part
of Yolo, which extends southward and
along the eastern and northern bound
ary of Solano. The farmers of north
are in sympathy with the movement,
ond the project is looked upon with ia
Yor by Yolo county. 1t if proposed to
introduce bill at the next session of
the legislature making the desired
change.
The Southern Pacific Company has
issued statement showing the earnings
of the company for the month of Nov
ember and for the first five months of
the present fiscal year. The gross earn
ings for the month of November were
-, ,725, 435, an increase of $76l, ,916 over
The corresponding month of 1898 The
operating expenses were 81, All 1853, an
increase of S26l. 1853, and the net earn
ings Were $2,27S,977, an increase of
800. .60i For the period from July lst
we're s2S,05l ,252, an increase of 81. .45O,-
i2i over the corresponding period of
1898. The operating expenses We're
SIG, ,Sl9. $50, an increase of S2,271, ,972,
and the net earnings were $ll, ,20l ,995,
an increase of 81, l72,i ,il9. The Southern
Pacific never made better financial
showing than during the period covered
by the statement.
james A. Shepherd of Lathrop, chair
man of the board of supervisors Os San
Joaquin county, died at the county hos
pital. where he hal been under care as
a private patient. Kidney and bladder
troubles, which had confined him to his
led for some time, We're the cause of his
A fire that started at midnight re.
Gently rapidly burned the Santa Maria
hotel and the McCarley building, at
Santa Maria. Nothing was saved. The
flames caught the Haslam Company's
warehouse, threatening their brick store
and also the rear end of Meade's. By
supreme efforts the citizens saved these
buildings. The fire started in the kitchen
of the hotel from an unknown cause.
The total loss is $40, 200, partly insured.
All along the line of the Southern Pa
cifc coast line work has been resumed
after the delay caused by the rain.
About 1000 workmen are now in the
employ of the various contractors. The
ground is being rapidly turned over ON
this end of the gap. Within two or
three days the extensive stonework OF
Naples viaduct will have been completed
with the exception of the skilled work
of setting the cap stones. 1t is upon
these cap stones that the steel super
structure is to rest.
The torpedo boat destroyer Goldsbor.
ough, which the Wolff & Zwicker Iron
Works of Portland have completed, was
given her trial on the Columbia this
week and attained rated speed of 32is
miles per hour
The Dawson telegraph line paid an
aggregate of $4,000 for October and
November in tolls. One day in Decem.
ber 800 was taken in at Skaguay.
Messages of commercial nature come
and go between the United States and
British Columbian points, Germany,
France, England, Belgium and New
Zealand. Messages received at Skaguay
are dispatched by the first steamer leav-
ing under American or other flag for
the south, and are telegraphed to desti-
nation from the first point touched by
the ship having connection with wire
with the outside world
Mrs. G. M, Foote of Los Angeles, Cal
aged - years. died suddenly on the
northbound Oregon express, near Mon
tague. She was seized with hemor-
rhage while at lunch in the dining car
and died III a few minutes. Mrs. Foote
was taking to Seattle for burial the re.
mains of her husband, who died a few
days ago in Los, Angeles The body
was placed caslSet and then transferrep
to the baggage car beside her husband
Mrs. O. II. Kilbourn OF. Seattle, Il daugh-
ter of Mrs. Foote accompanied the re-
mains north.