Gardnerville record. (Gardnerville, Nev.) 1898-1902, 1901-05-23
A SUMMARY OF
THE DAILY NEWS
Events at Home and Abroad
That are important.
Condensed From Dailies for
the Benefit Of those too :
Busy to Hunt for
Them.

Natural soap has fea I; c..,srtl in
| southwestern Wyomiii<. /. iouii IL
yeins to l5 feet vie. alnos; white
/ and ready fer use. R,ne,,srs sly 1t is
an excellent remedy for diseases of the
hoofs of horses.
The leyee on the Fabian. Bell tract,
which consists Of 1000 acres, at Tracy,
CAL, gave way. This food will end
! operations for the season. The same
tract was flooded in February last.
Because of a quarrel and the idle
taunt Of her lover that he was mar.
ried man, Lola Whittle. q waitress In
San Jose. swallowed dose Of strych-
uine and killed herself.
Superior Judge h. G. Hart Of Sacra-
mento handed down decision in favor
Of the Contra Costa Water company as
against the city Of Oakland. Cal. II
the supreme court allows Judge Harris
decision to stand the ratepayers of Oak.
land will be compelled to pay water
rate double that which 10 now charged.
Last Saturday the .battleship Ohio
was successfully launched from the
Union iron works at San Francisco. in
the presence Of thousands of people.
Owing to the improved condition Of
Mrs. Mckinley the president was en-
abled to be present at the launching,
and delivered an interesting address TO
large number Of workmen. :
1t is announced that the Anaconda
Mining company's machine shops at
Anaconda and the Great Northern Rail-
way company's machine shops at Great
Falls, Mont, will remain closed for
good and the machinery transported
elsewhere. The Great Northern will
hereafter have practically oil its work
done at the Spokane or ST. Paul shops.
Efforts to treat with the strikers at both
places have proved unavailing
s. The Odd Fellows Grand Lodge of
California held its forty.ninth annual
session in the Odd Fellows bnilding,
San Francisco. The annual report
states that the net gain in membership
for the year is SIG. which Is more than
double the highest figure reached for a
single year since 1892.
J. w. Wolf, an expressman. was ar
rested at San Francisco by customs
inspectors for having in his possession a
trunk containing 65 pounds of smuggled
opium, on which the duty. amounting
to 1890, had not been paid. Il appears
=, iaps oh
from Victoria, where its manufacture
under license Is legal. TO point near
Seattle ON board naphtha launch.
Thence he drug was shipped in trunks,
CD pounds IN each trunk. to a certain
city III Montana. where confederate
received it. 1t was then checked as
baggage and shipped to San Francisco
by rail and sold in the Chinese quarter
and to certain drug stores
a statuesque fountain presented to
the city of San Francisco by James
Mervyn Donahue. in memory of his
father, Peter Donahae. was unveiled at
the junction of Battery. Market and
Bush streets. In the unavoidable alb.
sence of President Mckinley, Irving NJ.
Scott unveiled the statue and afterward
paid tribute to the memory of Peter
Donahue, the founder of the Union
iron works. The monument and foun-
tain cost $4,000. the sculptor being
Douglas ]. Tilden.
Captain }. Hanson, master of the
steamship Willamette, which was
wrecked In Baynes sound on the 10th of
March last. was found guilty of unskill.
fulness and negligence. and his license
was suspended for one year. The vessel
was total loss and was valued at
$l25. 600. The decision was rendered at
San Francisco by Captains Bolles and
Bulger, United States inspectors of
local and foreign steam vessels
News was received at Victoria of the
wreck of the American schooner Helene
Nicholas. upon an uncharted reef about
G2 miles from Noumea, New Caledonia.
The vessel was owned and commanded
by Captain Hansen of Tacoma, from
which port she sailed. All aboard were
saved and landed at Noumea.
Dawson (Alaska) adyices state that
Alexander Mcdonald, the richest gold
miner in Dawson. was invested with
the title and insignia of a Knight of st.
Gregory by special authority of Pope
Leo III. The presentation of the order
to Mcdonald was made by Father
Gendreau. The honor is the result of
Mr. McDonald's liberality to the church
rs exemplified by his founding of the
Dawson hospital and his gift of sea. 900
toward st. Mary's church. These gifts
were made three years ago.
A locomotive ran over and killed II.
Tracy, resident of Paso Robles, Gal.
Mr.. Tracy was deaf and did not hear
the approaching train. He was the
father of II. NJ. Tracy and H. n. Tracy
of the Tracy Engineering company Of
San Francisco and Mrs. Il. ]. Nys Of
Paao Rohloa