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

Condensed From Dailies for
the Benefit of those too
Busy to Hunt for
Them.

6dcram6nto, answered ring NJ MS
door-bell one night recently. and a
gray.bearaed man stood before him,
who, upon inquiry. turned out to be a
brother whom he had not seen for forty
years. They lived in Missouri when
the osGil war broke out, when one
brother joined the Union army and the
other the Confederacy.
Mrs. Anna O'Gara OF l00i Franklin
street, Oakland. jumped from the ferry
steamer Oakland while on its way to
cued from drowning by Charles A.
Blank, who lesped into the water and
held the woman till boat reached
them. She has made other attempts At
suicide.
Frank Cardin, a wheat exporter. has
returned to Tacoma from q trip through
the grain fields Of Washington and
Idaho. He says that the crop never
looked better than now, and that In all
probability the yield this year will be a
record breaker Much new land has
been put under the plow this year. and
avery large portion Of 1t is being planted
10 wheat.
A man named Smith went from Gift
ton TO Douglas, Ariz.. on visit to h ;
wife. who was employed in restaurant
there. When he arrived az the restau'
rant he suddenly became insanely jeal.
Qua and fred two shots at his wife,
killing her instantly. Two cowboys,
Park Whitney and Al Slaughter. who
started TO interfere. were serio sly
wounded by Smith. He then placed
the revolver to his own head and killed
himself.
Hazel Beilby. 10 years old, committed
suicide at the home Of her parents. Is
miles west Of Ukiah, Cal, by taking
carbolic acid. The cause Is said to have
bsen due TO a severe reprimand she re.
csived from her mother. -
A fire which might have cost the
lives of six little children was discovered
in the house of the Rev. James Morgan,
colored Baptist minister. near Lodi,
Cal. but neighbors promptly extin-
guished the flames. Six children. who
were locked in the house, were carried
out almost unconscious II was during
Mrs. Morgan's absence on business at
Lodi that the fire occurred Incendiar-
ism is suspected, as the men who fought
the flames declare that the fumes Of
coal oil were strong, and especially SO
in the cellar, where the fire originated.
Angelina Lopez, Mexican woman 50
years old, was assaulted in her little
cabin near Santa Anita, Cal, and was
brutally beaten by Francisco Duarte, a
Mexican desperate. Four years age
Dnarte was tried for murder. but was
acquitted on the ground Of self-defense,
and has since been terror to the neigh
borhood where hs lived.
The United States army transports
Lawton and Rosecrans arrived at San
Francisco with officers aud men of the
Thirty.ninth anj Thirty fifth infantry.
On the Roseorans wero Ave deported
men classed by the authorities at Msnill
AS worthless" One of them Ia San.
lingo Maceo, son of the late General
Maceo, the Cuban patriot. He went tc
the Philippines from Cuba about year
ago. and acted for time a. interpreter
for tho Maeabebs scouts, but the young
fellow became so troublesome and OBJ.
poxious that he was deport>d. ST.
At meeting at San Francisco of the
officers Of the League Of the Cross Cadets
it was decided to hold the annual en-
campmsnt at Napa from July IS to the
21st. The camp will be called Camp
Power, in honor of the colonel of the
regiment.
Three boys named Charles Smith.
aged ID, James Hayburn and Willie
Zettle, who are still younger. have con
fessed to having stolen upward OF &c
bicycles in San Jose since January lst
They maintained repair shop and
repainted aud disguised the stolen
goods, which were afterward sold by
confederates in San Francisco and Oak
land. Wheels stolen in those cities
were taken to San Jose and sold
Two years ago IS Mongolian pleas
ants were brought from Oregon and
liberated short distance from Grass
Valley, Cal These beautiful birds are
now said to be quite abundant In that
nsighborhood.
Half block Of residences in Marsh
street. San LUIS Obispo. were destroyed
BY fire. The total loss is about $4,000.
we'll insured. The fire is supposed te
have been caused by tramp. who dis.
appeared.
James II. Ardern of one of the mining
companies of Dawson arrived at Seattle
on his way TO London. He said that
the cleanup this year in the Dawson
camp would. from conservative esti
mate. amount to $4,000, 600, making II
the biggest output in the history OF the
Klondike.