Sacramento daily record-union., 1881-06-18

SAN Francisco, June 17th.-Petitions for
writs of prohibition were filed in the Supreme
Court to-day by the Blue Tent Consolidated
Hydraulic Gold Mine Qimited), Comfy &
Gowel Consolidated Mining Company,
North Bloomfield Gravel Mining Company,
Excelsior Water and Mining Company. AL
pha Hydraulic Mining Company, South
Feather Water and Union Mining Company,
and the Milton Mining and Water Company,
against Phil. w. Keyser, as Superior Judge
of Yuba county. commanding him to desist
from acting in the cases now pending in the
Superior Court of Yuba county between the
city of Marysville and the above mentioned
petitioners. on the ground that Keyser owns
land in the vicinity. and is consequently an
interested party. The Court granted an
alternative writ, returnable July 25th, and
temporarily staying the injunctions.
The Canned Goods Question.
SAN FRANCISCO. June 17th.-The letter of
Navy Paymaster Kenny, relative to the quail.
ity of canned goods supplied by San Fran
cisco dealers in such supplies, and his deroga-
tory statements, have created strong feeling
in trade circles. The Cali tomorrow will
publish letters from and interviews with a
number of prominent dealers contradicting
Kenny's aspersions.
photographic News.
On the sailing of the Rodgers ladies sent
out to the officers beautiful collections of rare
G,,x Al
plorer, thinks the Rodgers well fitted for her
task of search. He thinks it unjust to Com
| mander Long to assume that the Jeannette
is lost, when he started with the express un-
derstanding and provision that he would be
gone three years.
On Saturday will be opened the rifle tour
nament at Shell Mound Park for the Az
drews trophy. The contests for the other
prizes will Immediately follow.
The Society for the Prevention of Cruelty
to Animals during the month has investigated
forty-eight cases, as follows: working lame
horses 34 working horses with sores under
harness, 6 /; working old worn-out horse, l :
working unshod horse. l !; selling glandered
horse, / ; abandoning horses to die, = tor
turing calf, torturing sheep, L; dog hight
ing. OF the cases reported II were prose-
euted, 81 were re,nedied without prosecution,
and 2 were not found There were 10 con-
victions and dislnissals. During the month
the society's officers ordered from work 80
lame. sick and worn-out horses, and killed 2
disabled horses.
The Supreme Court has held in the case of
People vs. Richard Williams that stocks con-
stitute property SO as to maintain a prosecu-
ton for embezzlement.
Margaret M. O'Connor has sued David
Stearns to recover $40. $50 for damages occa.
stoned by plaintiff falling down an elevator
shaft at the Brunswick House through an un-
guarded doorway.
The Supreme Court has decided in the
Polack case that the Superior Courts are the
successors to all the powers and authority of
the late District Courts.
The Colima has arrived, seventeen days
from Panama On the 1st her purser, James
o. Lyman, died.
Peter Stoneham, a soldier at Alcatraz, has
been arrested for stealing $3.50 of Felix Russi
The Supreme Court has decided, in the
case of the st. Helena Water Company vs..
A. b. Forhss-an action to condemn to use
of plaintiff the right to use the water of
Hudson creek-shat assuming that the
Legislature has the power to authorize the