Gardnerville record. (Gardnerville, Nev.) 1898-1902, 1901-04-25


dozen dwellings. entailing total loss
Of about $4,000. The buildings con.
stituted long frame range. None of
the owners had been able to obtain
insurance, 80 the loss is total. Little or
no stock was saved.
Ebert Hendrickson, a cowboy on the
Cook range near Prescott, Ariz., died
some weeks ago, but before his death he
revealed to three companions where
would be found bar of gold, part of
the proceeds of the hold-up 30 years
ago of the stage plying between the
Vulture mine, near Wickenburg, and
the Southern Pacific station at Mari
copa. Hendrickson S companions in the
hold up are dead, and fear of capture
prevented him from attempting TO dig
the treasure from a yard in Phoenix
where it was buried. Three men re-
Gently obtained permission from the
owner to dig in yard at Adams street
and Second avenue, and took away with
them small, oblong package. Will
liam Odom, an assayer in Phoenix,
divided among three men a bar Of gold
brought by them, and stamped "Vul.
ture Gold Mine, Wickenburg, Aris.
1870" They give him 800 to hold his
tongue for week.
The British steamship Caithness ar
rived at Port Townsend from Japan.
via Victoria, B. c., having a clean bill
of health from the authorities at Will
liam shead station. When boarded by
the United States quarantine officer
smallpox was found among the crew
and the vessel was ordered to quarSn.
tine. together with British Vice Consul
Klocker and Customs Inspector Lehr,
who had been permitted by the captain
to board the vessel ahead Of the quaran.
tine officer The attention of the Can
adian government will be called to the
matter by the quarantine officer at Port
Townsend.
q. Z. Huber of Los Angeles has filed
suit for s20,0 900 damages against +. 5.
Hicks and Emeline Childs, Huber's sis.
ter and brother. in.law. They instituted
proceedings whereby Huber was con-
fined In the county Jail and hospital on
the ground of insanity, but subsequent
examination established that he is sane,
hence the damage suit
Maddened because Miss Alma Cobb
of Copperopolis, Cal. accepted the at
tentions Of George McCarty in prefer
enoe to his own. John II. Gorham lay
in wait for his rival and ridd ed his
body with bullets. Following the muir
der Gorham ran to an old vacant house,
where he had some dynamite in readi-
moss. and placing the dynamite upon
the floor. he lighted the fuse and lay
across the cartridge. which exploded
and tore him to shreds. The shooting
took place just after McCarty oade Miss
Cobb good night" at the gate of her
home. Gorham was foreman of the
Union copper mine and Mcdonald q
well-to-do sheep raiser.
Fire at the Heinze smelter at Butte.
Mont. caused 100000 damage to the
plant. The property is fully insured.
But for the good work of the fremen
and employees of the smelter the entire
plant, valued at over 81 200, coo, would
have been destroyed. The smelter viii
soon be running again.
The grocers of Vancouver, B. c., will
form themselves into a joint stock com
pany and the present number Of stores
will be cut down by half to lessen ex
penses. Profits will thus increase and
prices will be maintained on better
basis. The retailers have been forced
into this aetion by the wholesalers, who
require some protection against failures
and bad debts The latest scheme to
collect bad debts is being introduced by
sending q collector clad in scarlet uni.
form to people who have heretofore
cheated their grocers.
United States Marshal Shine, with
ak deputy marshals and ten attaches
OF the Chinese bureau, under DR. Gard
ner made a sudden descent on China
town, San Francisco. and, amid scenes
of intense excitement, chopped their
wny with axes into the slave brothels
aud took into custody many shrieking,
terrified females. The raid was the i'm.
mediate result OF orders received from
the attorney general at Washington by
United States District Attorney Wood.
worth. directing him to do all In his
power TO suppress the traffic in female
Chinese slaves. Eighteen of the women
were held in custody. and they will be
taken before the federal courts to deter
mine whether they are legally in this
country and il they are held in bondage
as the chattels OF masters.
Charles Brown and E. L. Candy,
president and cashier respectively OF
the FIRST National Bank of Vancouver,
Wash, which was closed by the con
troller Of the currency. committed sui
eide two miles from Vancouver by
shooting themselves with a revolver.
The bodies Of the men We're found
lying together in o small clump OF
bushes about half-mile north OF the
Columbia school, which is situated on
tho outskirts OF the town. Both used
the same weapon. aud Candy evidently
died first, as tho revolver was found in
Browns hand. There is said to be u
shortage of Ssl 900.
Prof Ivison, of Leuscon Mding,
suffered terribly from neuralgia of the
stomach and Indigestion for thirteen
years and after the doctors failed to cure
him they fed him on morphine. A
friend advised the use OF Kodol Dyspep-
sia Cure and after taking few bottles
OF it says, 1T has cured me entirely. /
c.r't ssv too much for kodo Dyspepsia