Gardnerville record. (Gardnerville, Nev.) 1898-1902, 1901-02-14
NEWS OF THE COAST
Taken From The Weeks
Dispatches.
Murder Zumwalt @ies at Folsom Prison
Strange Find on Goat Island Rush
ing Work ON the Railroad Tunnel Near
Oxnard.

years OF age. Deceased leaves a widow
and five children.
Thomas II. Walker, one of the best
known residents of Grass Valley, died
recently of Bright's disease. Mr..
Walker arrived in that town in 1851
and has resided there constantly from
that time.
The winter tourist season is at its
height in Southern California. The
hotels are crowded to their utmost ca
pacity and nightly turn people away.
The revenue cutter Grant has just re-
turned to Seattle from Il trip around
Vancouver island searching for some
trace of the missing ship Andrada.
Plenty Of evidence was found to prove
that the vessel had been wrecked.
While laborers were excayating for a
new building on Goat island, San Fran
cisco bay. they uncovered an iron coffin.
An inscription proved 1t to be "a young
woman named Amstead, who died
some 80 years ago. The body is said to
have appeared as though it had just
been buried.
Asa Higgins, who came round the
Horn in 1919, died at Petaluma recently
He was miner in Amador county for
several years. farmed later in Santa
Clara county and in 1855 he settled near
Petaluma and took up the raising OF
fine stock.
A Chinese vegetable gardener WAS
shot by AN unknown person at the
place where he was employed, two
miles west of Fresno. Other garden
ers found him dead and say they heard
single shot fired by one of three white
boys who came TO the place to steal
II. NJ. Shackleford of Paso Robles
has filed n eti ion iu bankruptcy. His
liabilities are placed at sl7I,215 and his
assets SS4. .495.
IL T.. Houghton. who was injured by
blast which had been placed in redwood
stumps at Sulphur Springs, has since
died at Sequel
r.. NJ. Seely. a former resident of
Oregon and railroad conductor. shot
and instantly killed his wife at Oak and
few day ago and then committed
suicide The couple had separated and
the tragedy is the result of unhappy
relations.
Work is being rushed ON the Santa
Susana tunnel on the Southern, near
Oxnard. The surface vor at each
end of the tunnel Is now done and over
500 4 et of the entire distance is al
ready opened. To hasten the compile
tion the contractors are using all mod
ern appliances. They have constructed
large elect ic power plant at the east
end and cables over the range supply
light and power at this end as we'll as
at the other The power is being
used for working drills and blowers to
drive out the smoke after the blasts and
to keep the air pure and for furnishing
a safe light for the men.
Isiah Zumwalt, who murdered his
wife, son aud graDdchild ON June 10,
1900, died at Folsom prison Zumwalt
was convicted of murder in the first
degree and sentenced to be hanged on
December 23, 1900, but on account Of an
appeal the execution was stayed, aud
before the bill of exceptions was settled
he died This Is the first case where
the death of man sentenced to be
hanged has occurred in this state. and all
the officers were in quandry as to
what to do. The coroner of Sacramento
held an inquest at the prison. and the
verdict after the inquest was that he
died from natural causes.
Peter Cameron was shot at Burbank
recently. The wounded man was shot
twice, one ball passing through his
lungs. Four shots were fired by the
constable. Cameron had been working
ut Chatsworth Park, and with n com
panion had gone over to sleep in va
cant house Officers found them there,
and when they started to run. fired on
them.
John Campbell and NJ. III. Guy, me.
hanics, engaged in fight on porch
OF n San Francisco boarding house and
struggling both fell off and struck the
ground 80 leet below. Guy was in
stantly killed. Campbell will recover,
being but slightly injured.
W. W. Rife, alias +. I. McSorley,
who has been employed at Sacramento
in the railroad yards as switchman,
was arrested by detective Max Fisher
and Fitzgerald and locked up in the
city prison. Rife is wanted at Column.
bus. o., for having made criminal as
sanlt upon Mrs. Edna Wilson. He
choked her into insensibility and then
uoured coal oil over her clothes and
set fire TO it. Neighbops rushed in and
| put out the fire in time to save the wo-
mans life.
The police of Tacoma have arrested
| nine hard characters there. Of late
many bnrglaries have been committed
and the arrested men are supposed to
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