Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1880-09-11
LOCAL INTELLIGENCE.

ASAoRAHENTo INVENTION patent
from the United States Patent Office have
issued to Stephen Uren. of this city, for an
apparatus for converting scrap into bar steel.
The device consists of block of metal with
a central square cavity with slightly rounded
corners. It passes clear through the block
and forms the mold or matrix, in which is
placed heated scrap to be welded into a bar
or lngot. The block is to be arranged Oh the
anvil of a drop hammer. A hammer or
plunger, shaped to fit the matrix, has a cap,
and in its center a doyetail rib, so that it can
be secured to the lower end of the drop-ham-
mer or weight, in place of the ordinary ham,
mer face The heated scrap or waste steel is
placed III the m2trix after being brought to
near the point of fusion-so as to adhere to-
getker-,ud then by several drops of the
hammer ito the cavity or matrix, the whole
is weldtd lnto a bar block or iugot of the
shape o. the matrix. Chains, with a plug
or key, tached to the matrix block or frame
are then connected to the hammer or plunger
head. SO hat when the hammer is lifted it
lifts the block with it. Wood bars are then
placed beneath the block to elevate it. the
chains oisclnaectsd, so IS to free the ham
mer, anC the iugot is then driven ont by the
plunger, citing like a punch. The ircot is
then really TO be drawn iuto bars. MIR. Uren
claims that this process enables him to pro-
duce s homogeneous steel bar or ingot out Of
worthless scraps Of steel
BOARD or SUPERVISORS The Board Of
supervisors held It's final session for the term
yesterday. The following business was trans
acted The report of extra work in making
out statistical and military rolls, and claim
for sam, was received from Assessor J. 3. |
Houston, and on motion of Mr.. Blair, was
referred 20 the District Attorney for report
as to the duty Of the Board in the premises
The monthly reports of the county officers
were re eeivad by which fees Of officers were
reported ss follows w. D.. Gerber, County
Recarder, 1915 so; W. E. Gerber as Audi
tor, eS4; A. Hebron, Sheriff, 1928 G5. On
motion, The Clerk was ordered to advertise |
for bids Tor county printing. stationery. adj /
veTtisiG- snd hospital supplies. The Com |
mittee On accounts and Expenditures for |
August made It's report, which was adopted. |
The elailns q l.. Lawson, So, Tor helping |
tOToler; John Leman, 50, for same, and L. I
Foster 50 for bookbindIng, were rejected /
The claims OF Daniel Foley. S14, for services /
In Road District No. 2 /; G. Ii. 2 avnasn. $50, !
for assisting She County Clerk on assessment /
books; !. J. Agard, SIP so. services on rolls. |
were held ovsr for further consideration. All /
the other accounts presented were allowed /
for amounts claimed. The Beard then ad- |
Journed.
! SHALL STREKE.-Upon the arrival of
steamers and barges, loaded with about 20,- |
coo sacks Of grain, from the upper Sacramen-
to, night before last, the workmen on the |
boats demanded an increase of wages, their
pay bei2 $40 per month and board Others
about the wharf who were applied to- Joined in |
the elevating spirit, and none Of them would |
work for less than tiity cents per hour, at
transfsrrirg the grain Yesterday morning |
Captain Foster applied to r. B. Croker for /
hands to help out Of the situation, so the !
boats could De released, and he sent nineteen /
men with an overseer to aid IN the transfer, |
Upon arriving at the wharf they partook Of |
the strike breeze and at once wanted to know !
what wages would be paid, and thew were in I
formed tnst they should have s. so per day. |
They refused to work for this, notwithstand- !
ing they are only getting 81 per day at the |
work Of shoveliag to FL in the slough and |
stubbornly declined to work unless paid fifty /
cents each per hour. They were at once al |
lowed 20 dsFar5. Captain Foster then teie-
graphed 30 tie Bay for hands and twenty
are expected up this morning that can be re'
lied upon, and by whose aid the present siege
will be raised and the river business resumed. !
PortcE CouRE-The transactions in the
Poll Court yesterday were as follows: Rit
Cur lings, battery. fined $50 and costs. Cy
IcC intock, examined in relation to charges
of stealing jewelry from Mary Grevieh, on ] |
stree, between Third and Fourth, May Goth /
last. was held 10 answer to the Superior
Court with bail fixed in the sum Of 81. COO /
The cases Of Charles Brooks and Harry
Burnett, disturbing the peace, were dismissed. /
Zoe Curry, carrying concealed weapons, was
fined $40 and costs. Mrs lawson, disturbing
the ace, was fined $50 and coets-zoes to
Cou y Jail for thirty days, not being able to
nav ne fine John McCatfeTy, drunk, was
discharged; John Kelly, drunk, forfeited
s. deposit and left The cases OF James
McAllister, for battery, and W. X. Brown
violating sidewalk ordinance, were continued
until the Ilth inst; and that Of Mrs. r.
M0zeaux, violating health ordinance con
tiuued until the 18th inst.
MERCHANDISE REPORT. The following
freight for Sacramento passed Ogden on the
sth: For Weinstock & Lubin, boxes soap
Booth & Co, 60 boxes and % packages to-
baeco; Adams. Mcneil & Co, 10 packages
tobacco; Whittier, Fuller & Co, 2 boxes
glass Louis e. Cooke, 4 cases cards Cont
mental Oil Company, ] tank of oil Hunt
ington, Hopkins L Co., 20 bars iron, l drum
machine bolts. 10 bundles sheet iron, box
hardware, COO kegs nails, so boxes carriage
bolts; r. Stone s CO., l case saddiery hard
ware 4 Lyon s, Co, boxes dry goods
S. ]. Nathan & Co, l case shirts Hail.
Luhrs & Co., 50pails tobacco.
TIE RIvgR-The steamer Dana, with the
barge Jacinto, came down yesterday; also
steamer Dover with barge Garfield They
brought down 1900 sacks of wheat. This
was the first trip and load Of the barge Car
field. She brought 10. 600 sacks, with which
load she drew three feet of water. The tenn
porary want of help for handling her cargo
by reason of the small strike among boat
hands. detained the AIodoc, so she did not
leave yesterday till P. N.
CRIMINAL TRIAL To-DAY.-The case of
the people vs. Wong All Can, for grand lar
ceny. viii be before the Superior Court to- |
day. This is the Chinaman who was ar |
rested for breaking into and stealing from |
fellow countrymans cabin about $500 in gold |
coin, near Walnut Grove, last summer
JAPANESE MATING (best quality, 26 cents |
Der ward China mating, 10 cents per yard |
or IS bolt 40 yardsl; hemp carpet, % cents |
per yard, at the Red House.
EVER READY THE Criterion is now pre-
pairing for the Fall trade, and will open . |
new. choice and varied assortment Of dry |
goods.
THE LoSDos PALACE will open this even
ing. No. 420 ] street.
"BIANKErs,' BLANKETS, at the Me
chanics' Store.
BOYS PANTS, F" st the Mechanics Store !