Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1881-10-07

proving throug. The temporary car was 26
BY 6 feet, and once had one hundred people
on It. It ard the locomotive moved as
steadily on the only two wheels of each car
as any of our street or passenger cars. The
appearance of the neatly. painted engine was
much improved by the addition of a cab.
The two forms of wooden rails fare well. Tbs
section, run over 80 times by the six-ton en-
CINE, IS yet entirely uniujured. The Antioch
and other visitors expressed themselves as
fully convinced that tie single-track road is
success, even to its wooden rails, when OF
the best material. The engine and car made
mile at ore time previous to the trial. with
forty men on the car, in two minutes, or at
the rate of thirty miles an hour. A speed Of
fifteen or twenty miles per hour. for loaded
train, can easily be relied on.
The Fair 1t San Base.
SAN JOSE, October 65h.-The fourth day
OF the fair shows an increased attendance.
The city is gov thronged with strangers.
The receipts are larger than last year. The
gamblers started IN at the fair grounds this
forenoon. but were shut off by the officers.
One of them made complaint against the
proprietor Of g wheel game, which has been
running since the fair opened, and that insti-
tuition will go to the wall this afternoon,
leaving the gamblers entirely out in the cold.
THE RACES.
SAN JOSE, October 6sh.-There were two
trotting races to-day, the first for the 2:25
Farrelps Starr King, Tenants Pinola, Titus
Bullet, and MeIntYre's Trade Wind. Pinola
did not start. Starr King Was the favofits
in the pools, selling at 81 to S. 80, aud won
easily in three straight heats. Time, 2:33I9-
2:34II-2:S4.
The next was free-for-all race, for purse
of $3.50, between Brigadier and Abbotsford,
which attracted great deal Of attention.
Before the start the pools sold az S65 to S13
in favor of Brigadier. The first heat was
won by Brigadisr, the second and third by
Abbotsford, and the fourth by Brigadier. It
was then SO late that the last heat was post
poned until tomorrow. Time, 2:22-2:21l-
2:2S4-2:24a
The gamblers started in in the forenoon,
but were promptly shut off by the officers
One of them determined that the wheel
games should not run, and entered COM
plant, and no wheel was running in the
afternoon or gambling games of any kind
In town the saloon men and hotel-keepers
say business is very dull, compared wish
other years, on account Of the stand taken
against gambling. The city is quieter, and
few arrests have been made by the polics-n
fact, not more than on ordinary occasions.
The great trottipg race of the week comes off
tomorrow for a purse of $500, two-mile
heats. Susie, Dave, Gold Note, Pete and
Echora are entered.
Election OF Grand Officers, L. o. q. T.
VALLEJO, October 6sh.-The annual cleo.
ton of officers took place in the Grand Lodge
of Coed Templars this morning. resulting as
follows: Grand Chief Templar, Robert
Thompson, of San Francisco; Grand Vice
Templar, Emily Pitts Stevens of San Fran
cisco; Grand Counsellor, IL. s. Graves, of
Yuba county; Grand Secretary. George 3.
Katzensteiu. of Sacramento Grand Treas
urer, 1. S. Halsey. Of Vallejo; Represent
atives in Grand Ledge of the United States,
George B. Katzenstein, Mrs. G. B. Katzen-
stein, Fl. S. Graves, J. L. Holland of So
nora; Trustees of the Good Templars' Home
for Orphans, w. Ii. Mills, of Sacramento
Dr. z II McDnnald cf Sar, Ern r,n;Sc., :.