Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1881-10-06
LOCAL. INTELLIGENCE.
SUPERVISORS VS.. REPORTERS FEES

LOCAL. INTELLIGENCE.
SUPERVISORS VS.. REPORTERS FEES
On Tuesday judges CLARK and benson,
sitting in bank, decided case which involved
question of some little interest. It was an
action brought by Winfield j. Davis, Official
Reporter Of this county, against the Board
Of Supervisors, to recover compensation for
taking down in shorthand the evidence given
at the Nobel incest examination in the Police
Court. a law was passed by the last Legis-
lature authorizing q committing magistrate
to employ a shorthand reporter in examina-
ton cases. and providing that the compensa-
ton for such service should come from the
county treasury, upon the certificate of the
magistrate. The Supreme Court, in the case
of Fox ys. Lindiey-a case takeu up from
Los Angeles, in which the reporter presented
the magistrates certificate to the Treasurer,
who refused to pay it--declinsd to order a
writ of mandate to issue to compel the
Treasurer to pay. In the present case the
claim was presented regularly to the Board
of Supervisors, accompanied by certificate
from the magistrate that the services had been
rendered. The Board refused to allow the
Angeles case. The claimant then instituted
suit against the Board to recover the amount
OF the claim, and the case was argued last
Tuesday, upon an agreed statement of facts,
before Judges Clark and benson. Upon
conclusion Of the hearing, the Judges de-
cidsd that the case here presented was diff
ferent from the Los Angeles case, inasmuch
as in thai the claim was presented direct
to the Treasurer for pay, and il the
ID
form and presented to the Board for allow
ance in the usual manner. The Court
decided that the statute authorizing the SER
vice to be rendered, and indicating that it
should be paid for from the county treasury,
implied the responsibility of the county TO
pay it. and tbs bill having been regularly pre-
scented to the Board as just claim under the
statute, It was their duty to allow what the
services were reasonably worth and as the
amount of the claim was not disputed, jndg-
ment was ordered in favor of the plaintiff for
the amount claimed, and for costs.
VALUABLE WoRK.-Advance sheets of the
work on the g Insects injurious to fruit and
fruit trees OF The State Of California, and
remedies recommended for their extermipa-
tion," about TO be issued by Matthew
Cooke, Chief Executive Horticultural
officer, have been received from the
author. This is q carefully prepared,
practical treatise upon the subject, by one
who is thoroughly competent and a master of
the subject in hand, and will prove of i'm
Inense value to the growers OF fruits and vines
throughout the State and elsewhere. TIE
work is free from prolixit7 and abstruseness,
and enters at once, in every branch of the
treatise, upon a clear description Of the class
of pests under consideration, illustrating, by
numerous cuts, their appearance at the varl-
Gus stages of existence, aud suggesting the
BEST known aud most economical methods
for their determination, with cuts Of the
instruments used and the method of opera
ton. Tne volume consists of Y pages, with
full index to all insects, remedies, etc. 1t
also has the Acts OF the last Legislature upon
the subject list OF the officers and mem
bers of the Stale Board Of Viticultursl Com
missiorers officers and members of the State
Board Of Horticultural Commissioners, and
standing committees of the same, and the
County Boards OF Horticultural Commits
sioners, so lar as organized. The work is
published at the State Printing Office, and
presents very neat typographical appear
ance. It viii soon be ready for delivery, and
will be supplied gratis by the several County
horticultural Boards to all persons engaged
in the business of fruit or vine-growing.
Others will be enabled TO procure copies at a
nominal charge for postage, etc.
COUNTY HosPIFAL.-The report of DIR. G..
A. White, Superintendent of the County
Hospital, for the month of September, is as
follows Number of patients in hospital
September 1st 129; admitted duliag the
month, 81: died, Il; discharged, Il; re-
manning, al; meals furnished destitute
applicants, 46. Mortality list: John Nc
Cabe, railroad injury. Indian Rosa, aged 80,
nativity, California; cause of death, ana
sarca. All Chez, 50, China gunshot wound
of intestines Con. Creedon, Al. Ireland ;
consumption. Casimono Donosa, 80, Chill !;
consumption. William Wallace, 90, Ireland !;
albuminuria. Hans johnson, 81, Denmark !;
consumption. jacob Gier, q, Switzerland !;
suicide arsenic poisoning). John Muirhead,
Al, Canada; hepatitis. Lawrence Conley,
As, Ireland; malarial fever (epistaxis)
Joseph Kanary, IS, Ireland endocarditis.
The current expenses have been; Salaries,
SS26 IS subsistence, 1886 IS; miscellaneous,
S242 70; total, S2,005 %.
MERCHANDISE REPORT. = The following
freight passed Ogden for Sacramento on
the ID For Waterl1ouse & Lester, 10
bundles wagon bows Hale Bros & Co., 5
bales quilts Lindley & Co., 80 pals to-
bacco Huntington. Hopkins & Co., case
hardware, bundle packing, barrels tackle
blocks, boxes wrenches, 146 bars iron, car
steel: R. Dermer & Co., l bale wick Cont
mental Oil Company, l car coal oil; Yates Il
Co.. 80 boxes lamp chimneys; Locke 4
Iavengon, 2 rolls carpet; w. A. & G. S.
Houghton, l case books, box stationery ;
Reynolds & CorBin, 2 cases cigars i. Eikus
& Co, 5 cases hats, l bale blankets; Il.
Fisher, 2 bags almonds, l barrel currants, l
case citron, 10 boxes ralsins Billingsley x
Co, 100 nests baskets, l case tinware. The
following freight came by the Atchison, To-
peka and Santa Fe Railroad: II. &. Kirk &
Co. 6 boxes drugs, box chalk Hall, Luhrs
& Co.. case cigars.
INQUIRY ANswERED.-A communication
has been received from Z. Jewell, of Nevada
City, inquiring in relation to the remains
found in the American river last month,
upon which an inquest was held by Coroner
Vermilya and given in these columns. desir-
ing TO know whether the thumb of the left
hand OF deceased was missing, and also
whether he was a man of over six feet in
hight? The skeleton was found lodged upon
the limb of q tree which was lying in the bed
of the river, and about six feet above the
water, showing that the man was drowned
and the body lodged there early in the season
while the river was at good hight. 1t had re-
manned there, also, so long that the entire
feet and hands were gone. Inc skeleton was
buried in fve-foot ten-inch coffin, which is
believed to have been about the hight Of the
deceased when living.
BOARD OF EDUCATION. City Board of
Education met in special session last evening.
All present except Director Tracy. Director
Stevens in the chair. These bills were al
lowed: c. C. Beasley. SIT so; L. F. Bsssett.
SIS; John Lynd, S25 20 !; Corbett 4 Bullard,
$50 05; S. Moore, 81 VIM. Gwynn, 81.
The matter of arranging fer an assistant
teacher of German was referred to the Com
mittee on Course of Study. with power to
act. The Superintendent was authorized to
procure stationery for the department.. No
rics was given that the ungraded school at
Twenty-fourth and n streets will open next
Monday morning. The Board then adjourned.
Police CoCRT.-In this Court the charge
of disturbing the peace against Lucy E.