Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1881-08-17
THE EXPERT CLAIM.
warm Meeting of the finance Commit
tee About It.


was laid over to the present term for col
sideration. 1t has not yet been before th
Board for final action, but has created
lively breeze by Mr.. Sullivan appearing b
fore the Supervisors, sitting as a finance CON
mittee, and urging its allowance. Mr.. Blail
as Chairman of the committee, requisite
Mr.. Sullivan to make an itemized bill, Stain
that the law required claims to be presente
in this way. While Mr.. Sullivan and MI
Blair were figuring out the items. MIR. Christ
criticised the bill, which drew him and Mr.
Sullivan into alteration, during whic
Mr.. Christy said, You came to the Capita
Hotel when / was out the other evening t.
whip me. as you said, didn't you ?"
Sullivan-"I did not come there to WIFI
you; came there to talk with you abou
this business"
Christy-" Yes, you did. | can prove.tha
you said you came there to whip me. tolt
you two years ago that didn't want you tt
speak to me again. nor look at me-"
Sullivan-"I don't want you to talk t.
me, either. l am talking to gentlemen-tC
members of the Board. / am talking to the
Board, and not to you"
At this juncture the President of tbs
Board raped upon the desk, ana expressed
the hope that the matters before the BOARD
would be discussed in a friendly way. This
quieted matters little for few moments
but soon Mr. Sullivan resumed remarks in
tended for Mr.. Christy's benefit, when the
latter replied:
IS tell you don't want you to talk to me,
l don't want any more of it.
Sullivan" Well you will have more OF it
All am a mind to give you"
Peace finally reigned for time, when Mr.
Sullivan urged and finally demanded thai 8
vote be taken upon his claim, saying that il
it was to be rejected he wanted it done at
once.
Mr.. Wilson thought it would not be using
Mr. Cadwalader well to take action upon the
claim until he had had chance TO be heard
upon it, as he had promised to make q report
in the matter in support of the claim, and ii
would not be proper for the Board to now act
upon it and either reject or cut down until
he was heard.
MIR. Sullivan replied that such report
could not be made, as his work was private
and intended only to be used on the trial Of
the hydraulic cases.
Mr.. Buckley thought the information could
be safely reposed with the Board.
| MIR. Sullivan became disguised from failure
| to get direct action upon his claim, and
finally rising to his feet with the bill in his
hand demanded that they vote at once and
reject the bill, and added, addressing himself
to Mr. Blair, 81 don't expect to get anything
! fair from such men as you and Mr. Christy"
| He then referred to the report which ap-
peared in the RECORD UNION at the time his
prior claim was passed. and twitted Mr..
Blair Of voting against him. Mr.. Blair re-
| piled that he did not vote against him, but
only against his bill, and that he should vote
against any claim that he thought was too
high.
T. C,,1l. - IL 1f
| ing 10 the Supervisors Office, and, while pac-
ing around, came up to the rail and repeated
| to Mr.. Blair, in a haunting manner, that he
did not expect to get justice from such men
as ne and Christy, and intimated that they
were not gentlemen.
Mr.. Blair turned off the remark in a
pleasant way which was met by Sullivan re-
| peating it with intended sting. At this Mr.
Blair sprang to his feet, and stepping up to
| the rail, with his face close up to Sullivan's,
and with a strong degree of emphasis, said :
"If you insinuate that l am not gentle
man, and willing to do the fair thing will
| slap your face for you"
Sullivan stood as pale as a ghost and
speechless, and MIR. Blair repeated his re-
mark with an additional exclamation point
At last Mr.. Sullivan replied q / did not say
you was not gentleman"
Mr.. Blair" Well, if you didn't mean
what you said it's sill right
After stillmaintaining their positions, how
ever, for moment, MIR. Sullivan said, turn
ing his head in a somewhat more aggressive
manner, did you get up here to slap my
| face p
Mr. Blair Yes, and I will do it in two
seconds if you repeat the words you made
use of few moments ago."
After standing cycling each other defantly
for moment. Mr.. Sullivan started off with
a stage pace to the opposite side of the room,
and disappeared out the door. Thus the case
stands.
INTERESTING STAGE RoBBERY.-Mrs. Pratt,
wife of Superintendent R. H. Pratt, who ar
rived home yesterday from Sierra valley, in
addition to the mountain air, had, while
travelling in a stage between Randolph and
Truckee, the enjoyable and impressive expe-
rience of capture by stage robber. There
were three men, two ladies and two children
in the party besides the driver, who were
taking in the mountain scenery and expatiat-
ing upon the climate, when a masked man.
decorated with a double-barreled shotgun,
which was at full cock, and with sword
| bayonet attached at the muzzle, a revolver
and Ratchet stepped out from behind tree
standing by the track and demanded the
driver to halt. His persuasive command was
| obeyed, when he told the driver to throw out
the express box and open it. The driver re-
piled that he couldn't, as it was chained
down and locked This was too thin for
the party just then in command, and with a
show of compelling obedience in a summary
manner, the driver got the box out. The
robber directed the inmates of the stage to
get out aud stand upon the other side of the
road, which they did. The driver then, under
instructions, broke a large rock upon the
| treasure-box in trying to break it open,
but not succeeding the robber threw
his Ratchet to him, and after considerable eff
| fort with this he succeeded in getting it open.
! The driver then directed that he should bring
the box under tree by the roadside, which
he did, and then returned, under orders mi
nutely given, to the stage. The robber then
coolly but cautiously laid down his gun by the
side of the box, and getting down upon his
knees took out what coin there was and went
! through the letters and papers with the ut
most coolnes and elaboration, not appearing
| TO be in the least hurry. Coming across two
! Chinese checks, he swore in a foreign dialect
| and said, These schecks I can make no ac-
count. Having distracted S272 in coin and
| papers, he kindly replaced in the box all the
| papers and articles he did not want and per-
mitted the driver to take it into custody
again and the passengers to resume their
! places In the stage. He then said politely,
:" Good evening to you all" and ordered the
driver to drive on, while he left the road and
passed over the hill, stopping to see that the
stage passed quietly along without instituting
measures looking to his apprehension. The
passengers were not molested as to their val
tables, which was fortunate as there were q
number of fine gold watches in the party, be-
sides several hundred dollars in money.
| The PLACERyILLE RAILROAD. = Judge
Hunt, of the Superior Court of San Fran
cisco, has decided that the Central Pacific
Railroad Company may again take possession
of the railroad between Folsom and Single
Springs, by depositing S27, 600 as security for
any judgment that may be awarded upon the
Kittie bonds and by paying the Receiver
| S17, 900, as reimbursement for expenses in
cured. The Central Pacific Company has
not yet decided whether it will accept the
road and resume its operation under the last
requirement. It has heretofore offered to
give all required security for the kittle claim,
but the question. if any, will be in relation to
the added Sl7,0 600 incurred by the Receiver.
The company has ten days in which to
answer.
HAND INJuRED-B. Brier, of this city.
who is rusticating at Aliens Springs, was
severely injured in the hand few days since
| by having large stone, which several tour
lists were endeavoring to roll down the noun