The silver state. [volume] (Unionville, Nev.) 1870-1903, 1876-02-01

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| to he taken East-The Crooked
| whisky Case-A ScoundreI set at
Liberty Arrival of Japanese
| C"nGnissioners--A Lively Meeting
OF the Board OF Eealth--A Fiend-
ish Mother - arrangements for
| Centennial Celebration San
Francisco Water supply.
San Francisco, Feb. /, 1876.
Tibhetts and Ellison, two bunko
players who have been in Jail serving
out sentence, have paid 1894, the
balance of their fines, and were set at
liberty.
Rosenblatt has been turned over to
the custody of O'Connor, the New
York detective, who came out for him,
aEd officer and prisoner start this
morning for the East.
The Antioch distillery case was
argued some more yesterday, and 10
avid being talked to death, the Court
adjourned till to-day, after listening to
two hours speech.
John Nicholson, conductor on the
| Central Street Railroad decoyed Josie
Green, girl Il years old, into an as
signation house, on Market street,
Friday last, and by threatening her
with a pistol, succeeded in accomplish
ing rape. The fellow was arrested,
but the friends of the girl not wishing
to make the matter worse, let him 60.
The japanese Commissioners to the
Centennial reached this city yesterday.
The party consists of G.. Kunst, III.
Shioda, I. Yamaon, II. Shibata and
W. Tawara. They have taken rooms at
the Palace Hotel, and will remain in
this city several days.
The meeting of the Board OF Health
yesterday was very lively The action
of the Hospital Committee of the Board
Of Supervisors last week in cutting
down the supply Of whisky and eggs at
the Aims House, was severely COM
msnted on--one physician stating that
several patients had already died from
lack of their accustomed stimulanis;
another in his written report stated that
fifty or more patients were suffering
from lingering diseases which rendered
stimulants necessary for the promulga-
ton of their lives, and sarcastically
added that if the Board Of Supervisors
wanted them killed off by ordering them
on treatment of bread and water, the
object could be accomplished much
more economically and expeditiously.
Some charges of fraud, collision, ETC.,
were made, and committee of three
was appointed hy the Board Of Health
to confer with the same number of Su-
pervisors, and investigate affairs at the
the hospital.
A Drunken woman living in Valpa-
raise street, Saturday afternoon beat
son nine years old so severely that in
his terror he climbed out of second.
story window and dropped in the space
between two houses. He was jammed
so tightly between the walls, that car
penters had to cut away the walls to
exiricate him.
A resolution WIS adopted in the
Board Of Supervisors last night author
izing TIE appointment of q committee
to make arrangements for celebrating
the Centennial of the National Ami
versary.
DR.. Gibbons, in his report to the
Board of Health on the watsr supply,
stated that on lands of the Spring VAL
ley Co., San Mateo Creek, be found
several diaries, the refuse from which
ran into the creek, polluting the water.
TO countoract the effects of this nd
dition to the water which San Francisco
people drink, a man named ShaGdock,
who has ranch on the same stream,
threw dead hogs, offal and other things
Of the same nature into the creek. And
yet the report winds up with the asser-
ton that the city is supplied with far
purer water than most towns in the
country, in fact water purer than from
wells.
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