Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1881-07-02
SAN FRANCISCO.
Matters and Things at the Me-
tropolis.
INTERNAL RtVBNUB COLLECTOR.
Chancellor Harrison Takes Possession
of His Office.

Chancellor Harrison Takes POSSESSION
of His Office.
Observation-Disclosures. Etc c..........E Etc.
SAN Francisco, July 1st. Chancellor
| Harrison took possession of the office of In
ternal Revenue Collector to-day He made
four removals, but no appointments are an
nounced.
| SEsSNENTS-ADJoURNMEN
| The following assessments have been levied /:
Scorpion, 20 cents; Union, 81 per share.
The Stock Boards have adjourned till Wed.
nesday next.
News Notes.
| The police made 1,707 arrests last month.
The damages by the fire on the steamer
Empire are now footed up at Sl5, GOO.
The Land League Council has resolved to
| give banquet to the members of the State
Convention.
There were 205 marriage licenses issued
last month by County Clerk Stuart, who re-
ceived $40 therefor.
Duties paid at the Custom-house yesterday
=
9ll IS for the month.
The Secretary of the San Francisco Hay
Exchange gives the receipts of hay at this
port in June at {, S04 tons, and for the fiscal
year at 6S, 697 tons.
Five boys have already been damaged in
the small compass of the Mission section by
fooling with gunpowder. The returns will
be complete by Tuesday next.
The treasure shipments from San Fran
cisco in June were 81, 224, 296 making a total
of 81 072. 53S 81 since January /. 1881, against
81, l37, S29 in the same time in 1880.
A Whitehall boat race will take place on
Sunday between j. Simons and Ben Solo,
mon. The course will be from the Pacific
Mail dock to the Mission Rock and return.
Six of the eight savings banks of the city
have already declared their dividends for the
six months ending June 80. 1881. The
average on all deposits is scarcely Per cent.
Three hundred and eighty-one complaints
were filed in the general departments OF the
Superior Court in June, at cost of 81 eacE
to the complainants, for the benefit of the
Library Fund.
The General Fund of the City Treasury
was exhausted Yesterday afternoon, and here
after demands will be registered to be paid
when the fund is replenished by taxes of the
fiscal year of 1881 50.
The Sunday-school picnic at Woodward's
was a grand success. Probably $1,000 per-
sons attended it. As each boy conducted
himself like two, the commotion may be
imagined, but not described.
The recent secret meeting of the Republi-
can Convention does not please every one,
and there is much erumbling about the City
Hall. 1t is held that better nominations for
Supervisors might have been made.
The State Mining Bureau has taken up
quarters in the upper floor of No. 212 Sutter
street. They have three large rooms forpub-
lie and private Office and library. On the
third floor they have hall 56x130 fest for
the museum.
Mayor Kalloch says in letter TO his
church that he is not candidate for Mayor
or any other political office. His church
limited to him that it desired his whole time
and attention, and that it was hardly proper
for him to give such attention to political af-
fairs as he has.
During the month of June the exports Of
wheat from this port amounted to 7S5, $40
centals, valued at 81, 677, ,65S, making total
since July l, 1880, of 1857, 095 centals,
valued at SIS, 999, 6S4, against S10,50l, ,056
centals, valued at $40, 207, ,15S, during the
same time in 1S79S0.
The Tax Collectors clerks are making out
the Qellluu6UG peT5oHal property TOllh AtN
last year, which will be handed to David
| Mcclure, the attorney appointed by the Su.
pervisors for their collection. The delin-
oueucy is S491 900 city and county and s2lI,
600 State There is also supplemental list
amounting to about 100000 to be col.
lected.
The records of the Police Department icr
the month show that in that time there wers
received at the Central Police Station
where all persons taken in charge by the po-
| lice are brought-1,707 persons. OF this
number n were arrested for felony, without
| warrants 16 were arrested on warrants charg--
ing them with felony 1923 were arrested toy
drunkenness SAG were arrested for other
| misdemeanors in the actual commission of
the crimes and 215 were arrested on warrants
charging them with misdemeanors 80 per-
sons, including prisoners en- route and those
charged with insanity, were received for safe
keeping. OF 254 warrants issued out of the
Police Courts, 231 were executed This
shows that aside from the number Of drunks
taken in, the officers during the month ar.
| rested 62S individuals in the actual commits.
sion of crime.
A correspondent from Panama says "The
American schooner Lama Of San Francisco,
twenty-five tons burden, has been seized by
the Governor of Esmeralda, Ecuador. She
was wrecked about a year ago on Charles
Island, Galapagos Group. and sold to Cap
tain NJ. M. Staples for $40 He succeeded in
getting her off the rocks, when she was seized
Mr. Staples entered protest at the United
States Consulate at Guayaquil for her recov-
ery The Esmeralda authorities excuse them
selves with the explanation that she was
sold without going through the formalities
prescribed in the Maritime Code" 1t will
be recollected that Captain Moses M. Staples
was arrested in this city last August, on
charge of running away with the schooner
Mary E. Donovan. He was examined before
United States Commissioner O'Beirne, which
examination lasted three days. and lie was
held to answer the charge in 81, 600 bail. The
United States Grand Jury subsequently
found an Indictment against him for the
otfense named. The United States District
Attorney has several times called upon his
sureties to produce him for trial, but they
have been unable to do so, and proceedings
are threatened against them as bonds
men. The Laura and Donovan are believed
to be one and the same vessel. About tho
time OF the disappearance of Captain Staples,
the owner of the Donovan, James Latin, n
shipping agent on Steuart street. wrote to all
the American Consuls in the Pacific. Spanish
ports, empowering them to seize the schooner
should she arrive in port where one OF the
Consuls is stationed.
The following statement shows the valua-
tion placed by the Assessor on the principal
kinds of taxable property located in San
Francisco, with, in some instances, the num-
ber of articles or animals. The total valua-
tion is given at S52, 551, ,760, but this amount
has been swelled about 81, ,000, GOO by the
action of the Board of Equalization in in
creasing the assessed value Of the franchises
of the Gas and Spring Valley Water Com
panies
Ronds .... sa2 4s3
Cigars and tobacco. cco....... 1857 Sss
( eoO cows .............. 125 56l
Credits 1881, ZAP
Estates ..................1 1922 555
Franchise. ...,............ eO60l5
Furniture-household ......... 4,772 404
Furniture-office ce.... 69953
10 51a horses - $50 $40