Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1880-09-11
OREGON AND WASHINGTON TERRITORY
CALIFORNIA.
miscellaneous san Francisco Items.

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SAN FRANCISCO, September 10th A meet
ing OF the various shooting clubs of this city
and Oakland was held last evening to aid in
organizing State Sportsman's Association
A meeting Of the sportsmen generally, look
ing to this end, will be held this evening in
the Occidental Hotel. A resolution condemn
ing the course of the Forester's Club of Sac
ramento was passed, and it was recommended
that no members of the several associations
represented attend any future shooting meet
ings held by that organization.
Complete returns of the charter election
held last Wednesday have been received by
the Registrar Of Voters, but have not yet
been footed up. Excepting fifteen precincts,
representing little over GOO votes, the re-
turns stand as follows For the new charter,
3,Gl9; against, 16, 1868 blanks, n. Majority
against the charter, L, IA. Only few of
the z, 600 and odd votes not included in the
foregoing figures were in favor Of the charter.
IL. L. Highton, counsel for |. NJ. Kalloch,
charged with the murder of Charles de
Young, fled this morning in the Supreme
Court petitions for writ of mandate, a writ
of prohibition, writ of review and writ of
habeas corpus, the object being to test the
constitutional question whether q man
charged with a capital offense can be brought
to trial on information alone, and without
any action by Grand Jury.
Several months ago George Faber left this
city for FL Dorado county with the hope of
finding some new and profitable placer dig
giRgs in that county, whose mineral wealth,
as far as placers go, has long been supposed
to be exhausted. He was fortunate enough
in finding a pocket in a small unexplored
gulch, from which he has taken out about
81, 800 in coarse gold. He returned to the
city few days ago and brought with him,
besides the amount mentioned, thirty
pound chunk of quartz containing, it is cal
culated, fully ten pounds of the precious
metal
Bargain Between the WOrkingmen and
Democracy Ratified.
SAN FRANcIsco, September 10th.-The
bargain between the Workingmen and De-
mocracy was this evening ratified by the
County Conventions of both parties by an
almost unanimous VOTE and nominations will
be next in order. The following division of
offices is the basis of compromise:
W.P.C. Democrats
Mayor. Treasurer,
Auditor, District Attorney,
Tax Collector Coroner.
Sheriff, Six Supervisors,
Recorder, Six School Directors,
Six Supervisors, Police Judge,
Two Justices, Three Superior Judges,
County Clerk, Three Justices of the
Two Superior Judges, Peace
City and County Attorney.
To gain possession of the Street Depart.
ment the battle was fierce and desperate
The Workingmen, to whom the control of
the City Hall Commission and Board of
Election Commissioners. together with the
patronage of the Sheriff and Tax Collectors
Offices, had been conceded, endeavored to
secure control of the Street Department, but
here the Democrats made stand and con-
tested every inch of ground, and finally
achieved victory.
Republican Congressional Campaign.
MARTINEZ, September 10th.-The Republi-
can Congressional campaign for the Second
Congressional District will be opened here by
Hon. H. F. Page on Tuesday evening, Sep
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