Gardnerville record. (Gardnerville, Nev.) 1898-1902, 1901-04-18

utDh anu hltS. MchiHlty WILL pe pIc-
sented by the ladies of the county with
. bouquet of cut flowers of enormous
proportions 1t will be the largest
bouquet on record. being over 30 feet i'll
diameter, and containing several hun
dred thousand blossoms.
John Wood, the defanlting Michigan
treasurer who gave himself up to the
Eureka police. was released. as the
township officers of Goodcar Mich, had
decided not prosecute him.
The jury in the case of little Evelyn
Blewett, whose body was nearly con-
sumed in the burning of the watchman's
cabin at the waterworks at Walkerville.
Mont, brought in a verdict 20 the effect
that she came to her death at the hands
of John Warne, the watchman, who set
fire to the cabin in order TO conceal the
crime of assault.
At Tucson, Ariz., Joseph Alexander
was convicted of the murder of Mrs. j.
j Burns, and was sentenced to imprison-
ment for life While being conducted
by the officers from the courthouse to
the territorial penitentiary, a rifle report
was heard and bullet struck Alexan-
der, mortally wounding him. No
smoke could be seen by the officers, and
there was no sign as to where the shot
came from.
The Royal City. a small steamer ply
/ ing on the Fraser river, was burned at
the wharf at Mission junction, B. O.
Two of the crew, Frank Edwards and
! Paul Porter, were burned To death.
The city council of Eureka. Cal. has
| granted the franchise of the California
and Northern Railroad company. This
company is now building between
/ Eureka and Arcata, and intends To ex-
/ tend the road to Crescent City. The
franchise allows the company to lay
/ track along the water front.
John +. Kidder, state debris commits
sioner Of California, died at his home IN
| Grass Valley He was born in New
! York city in 1880.
/ Night express train No 9, from Los
/ Angeles, was wrecked on the coast road
/ division between San Miguel and Brad
/ ley. No lives were lost, but the acci-
/ dent is costly one to the Southern
/ Pacific company, as seven cars were de-
slroyel by fire. s25. 900 in gold that was
+ in Wells. Fargo & Co.'S safe was
buried in the ruins. and most of the
| passengers' baggage went up in smoke.
| The private car of ID. o. Mills and two
| Pnllmans were saved from destruction
| by fire by the passengers, who un-
| coupled them and pushed them out of
| the way of the flames. No one was
seriously injured. A broken fiange on
the front wheel of the engine was the
/ cause of the accident.
/ Pilot Frederick w. Jordan, who was
/ suspended by the pilot commission on
/ account Of the wreck of the Rio de
4 Janeiro, has been restored To his former
/ position.
] Mrs Catherine Coarum, wife of
/ mulatto employed as cook on the
4 steamer Umatilla. shot Charles Me.
/ Daniels, night watehmsn, to death at
her home, 1885, Clay street, San Fran.
/ cisco. The two had been drinking,
/ and, according to the woman's story,
+ they auarreled, when she shot him with
/ his revolver, which he had left lying on
the table. The body was discovered in
4 the basement by the police next morn
/ ing, the woman having remained all
I night Ia the house with her victim.
/ The Coarums came from Seattle TO San
4 Francisco about six years ago. Mrs.
! Goarnm is AZ years of age.
While Orson {. West was stepping
on TO the elevator floor in the Phelan
building. San Francisco Redmond john
son, a 9.year. old boy. pushed with his
arm the lever of the elevator, causing II
10 ascend at full speed, and crushing
/ Mr.. West against the second floor.
| When the lever was reversed the fatally
,ninred man fell TO the bottom OF the
well. The coroner's jury returned
verdict that West was accidentally
killed. but consured the owner of the
buldmQ for permitting idlers to ride in
the elevator during hours of public SER
vice.
lack" Powell was shot and killed nj
Mullan, Idaho. sunday night by Deputy
Sheriff Williams. Three men fired
| from ambush at Deputy Shertfs James
/ Rose and Williams ut midnight. wound
ing Rose twice in the right arm and
once in the right thigh Deputy VIII
/ liams fired six or soven shots IN the
/ direction of the flashes, fatally wound
/ ing .Jack" Powell. Threats had been
made that with the abolition of martial
law in Shoshone county all who served
as officers under it would be ''done up
and Those officers went ont alone after
dark.
William f'inck, while riding on the
footboard of switch engine drawing
several cars, near the Judson iron works,
| Oakland, Cal. slipped and fell across
the track. The engine passed over his
| body, killing him instantly. Finck was
II years old and employed at the Jud-
son iron works.
The death at Phoenix, Ariz., of Mrs,
Robert Iche reveals the fact that uncon-
eealed and unguarded in the house was
great wealth in jewels and precious
stones. The husband of the woman is
in Jail awaiting trial for insanity, and
the sheriff took charge of the jewelry,
the estimated value of which is not less
than $50. 600 Mrs Iche has n sister in
Birmingham, England. the wife OF II
wealthy coal operator.
The supreme court of Nevada has de-
cidel that the valued insurance policy
la,v which was uasspd over the COVER