Gardnerville record. (Gardnerville, Nev.) 1898-1902, 1900-05-03
NEWS Of THE WORLD
Taken From The Weeks
Dispatches.
John Owens Arrested For Murder
Confesses-A Car of Wheat For Fam
ine-stricken India = Indians Eat n
Dead Man.

Rural free delivery will be established
Hay | at Sacramento, with one carrier.
The length of the route is 20 miles, area
fovered n square miles. aud population
1900. q. I. Bogges will be the carrier.
Application has been made for au-
lhority to organize the First National
bank of Snmpter, Or, with a capital of
f25. 600
The will OF the late General John
Droville. The estate, valued at 81 000,-
300, is left entirely to his wife.
Senator Perkins has filed proposed
amendment to the naval bill appropriat-
ing 5000 for chapel at Mare island. The
bill carries an item of $l5, 900 for jail.
Henry Benjamin Jones, for several
years instructor at the university of
California, died at the city hospital in
San Francisco few days ago of stom-
ach trouble.
During 1899 San Francisco imported
about l,75G. 900 tons of coal, of which
fully so per cent is consumed for steam
uses, viz, .392, 600 tons.
In Santa Clara county, Cal, the
Standard Electric company expects to
have its poles and wires from Blue lakes
to Alyiso by May 90 That point is to
be the distributing point for lines rum
ming to San Francisco, Oakland and
San Jose. This company proposes to
transport power 150 miles. The longest
present transmission is Redlands to Los
Angeles, So miles.
Mrs. Leland Stanford has presented
to the Catholic church at Sacramento
her mansion on the. corner of Eighth
and n streets. together with an en-
1owment Of s75, 900 The building is
to be used as a home for children and
will be under the care of the sisters of
mercy
Judge Smith ut Santa Cruz recently
sentenced Cornelius Blackburn to ten
years in san Quentin for stealing a
horse and buggy. Blackburn is an ex-
convict and wanted in various parts of
the state for stealing horses and buggies.
dc was arrested at Sacramento. He
tried the insanity dodge without avail.
The Fresno Minister'S union has re-
solved 90 ship a carload of grain to
iamine-strieken India. The chamber
of commerce will cooperate in the
shipment and the citizens generally
will lend their aid in making contribu-
tions 10 fill the car
William Boots, the well-known horse
breeder of California, died at his home
at AIilpitas, some days ago. 20 years old.
Chief of Police Main of Seveston, B.
C., was recently murdered by Chinese
thieves he was trying to arrest. and his
body buried. The Chinese had cut him
10 pieces.
Thousands of Japanese are flocking
into the United States and British Co
lumbis Most are laborers. One re-
port says the Japs are coming in order
II avoid being compelled to serve III the
army in case of war with Russia, which
,hey consider certain.
The Sonoma County Water company
of Pataluma has sold out their plant to
the fetaluma Power and Water COM
pany for S240, 900. The sale includes
everything owned by the company.
The formal transfer will be made Nav |.
Two British Columbia Indians We're
recently arrested for taking part in a
death dance" One was found guilty
while the other was acquitted. The
death dance has many cannibalstic
features. and the guilty buck is accused
Of eating parts of a dead Indian
The Grand Parlor of the Golden
West is in session at Oroville this week.
Mrs. b. j. Pemberton of Los Banos
was so severely burned by the explosion
of a fiyc-gallon gasoline can she was
handling that she died.
Oscar Boehm, the keeper of notori-
ons resort near Windsor, has been SEN
fenced 10 pay fine of $500 and serve
six months IN jail. He was convicted
of keeping a house of ill-repute.
II is stated that the attempt to con-
sDli late tie fish canneries of Puget
sound has proven failure.
J. W. Shanklin, the defaulting ex-
city clerk of Fresno, who was brought
back from Oregon recently ON an in
aictnent, WAS given preliminary ex-
animation on another embez2lement
charge preferred by City Treasurer
Spinney and held to answer ON $1,000
bonds He is ont on bail. His trial on
the indictment viii take place on May 7.
John Owens, Il farmland, who form
erly lived ut Healdsburg, was arrested
Mt Madison, Iolo county, few days
ago, charged with the murder of Daniel
IL. Wilson. Wilson was well-to- do
farmer Of Suisun, and one night about
four years ago he was mysteriously shot
from ambush dying instantly. Many
people have been arrested charged with
the crime but We're subsequently dis
charged. After being i'll Jail awhile
Owen confessed to the crime.
Work is progressing rapidly on the
coast division OF the Southern, Pacific
company. The contractors expect to
have the road finished SO trains can run
IN Gaviota nv Auuust 1