Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1882-07-22
Ram FRANCISCO NEWS.

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The opera was continued TO the end,
blank wall supplying the place OF the de.
stroyed fiat.
On motion of counsel representing the
| forty-one Cinnamon arrested Oh Wednes-
day for violation of the laundry ordinance
their cases were postponed in the Police
Court to await the action of the United
| States Circuit Court in the test case to be
taken before that tribunal.
Last Wednesday morning colorsd wo-
man named Ellen Mears was taken 10 the
Receiving Hospital for medical treatment,
and it appearing that she was fit subject
for the County Hospital, she was placed
in an ambulance and sent to that institu-
ton early in the afternoon. When the
hospital was reached it was discovered that
the woman had died on the way.
/ For want of prosecution, Judge Hunt
has dismissed the case of James L. Eoff
vs.. Leland Stanford, an action which was
commenced in the late Fifteenth District
Court in November 1874. The plaintiff
sued for the amount of 500, which he
deemed reasonable compensation for SER
vices rendered by him in training the trot-
ting horse Occident, and driving him IN
races against Goldsmith Maid on and about
| July, 1910. Inc utleuudue seS up III
answer that Eoff was so careless, negligent
and unfaithful that he forfeited all claim
to compensation, and in a cross complaint
Governor Stanford sued for S., 900 dam
| ages With the exception of taking
lengthy deposition of Budd Doble no other
| steps were ever taken in the case.
The annual meeting of the San Francisco
Produce Exchange was called to order
Wednesday morning by President David 5.
Cook, at the Exchange rooms, on Davis
street The President announced the re-
suit of the election for officers held on the
preceding day, as follows: President,
Charles Clayton; Vice. President, William
Babcock Treasurer, W. A. Bray Direc-
tors-H. Waterman, Willism Dresbach,
John Wishtman, Jr., Jackson Hart III. V.
Deming and E. D. Kalisher /; Committee
of Appeals-E. Ransom, R P. Tenney,
Frank Dalton, H. A. Mayhem and Thos.
Newell. The report of Treasurer Bray
showed as follows Receipts from former
Treasurer, Sll. 942 Is; total receipts for
the year, $50, 457 Al; total disbursements,
81, S26 Al; balance on hand, S27, 63l o..
The cash on hand is deposited as follows
Sather & Co.'S Bank, $4,000; Savings
Union, SC, OBJ IS; Savings and Loan AS
ISOLATION, So, l2l %; Security Savings
Bank, "a, 500 SO coin, 81 042 63. Ia the
disbursements are items of 1929 50, for ex-
pressage of samples to Europe; collecting
and arranging samples, S246 %; grain for
samples, SAB "a. The retiring President
read his report for the year past, of which
the following is q synopsis: Two were
dropped from the roll for non-payment of
dues. In conformity with resolution
adopted at called meeting of the Associa-
ton, January l6.h, the Board of Directors
amended the by-laws, limiting the men,
bership to 200 and increasing the initiation
fee from $500 to 81, 600 The result of this
was that the limit was speedily filled. seats
commanding as high as from 81, 300 to
81, 500, and the amount SO collected sggre-
gated Sic. 500.
In the opium case on examination be-
fore the United States Commissioner,
Chow Lum was again on the stand. The
Court adjourned to the stamp.room of the
Custom house, and the witness, from
twenty marked boxes of opium from Hong
kong and as many more from the seized
lot picked out correctly each lot. MIR.
Van Duzer remsrking that he was some
thing of sleight-of-hand artist himself,
rolled up his sleeves aud thoroughly mixed
the two lots again. then separated them IN
even less time than it took the Chinaman
to accomplish it. I" How do you do it,
Van ?" burst forth from his surrounding
admirers, but the vigilsnt attorney for an
answer only grinned and said it was not
the time nor place to divulge the weighty
secret. William McDermott in whose
boat the seized opium was found, testified
that he had been boatman on the bay for
twenty years, and that during portion Of
January last he was in the employ of
James Kennedy. On the night of the cap
ture he received the opium from his en-
ployer at Main street wharf, and was on
his way to the City of Sydney with it
when the boat was overhauled by the pO-
lice boat. His instructions were to deliver
1t to a man on the Sydney who would
stow it away. James Kennedy, the claim
ant, testified that he obtained the opium
from the Ty Hung Company, at No l0l4
Dupont street, paying for the same SO, 400.
1t was hauled to the Main street wharf in
five separate lots, and there placed in the
boat. 1t was to have been delivered on
board the City of Sydney for shipment to
the Sandwich Islands. He admitted say
my to the officers, Take it and let us
CO." meaning for the officers to take the
opium, and they 1.-THE prisoners) would &C.
company them-the idea being that there
was no use in delaying.
An attachment suit which has Just been
begun in this city includes in its interests
two men who have in different ways made
: themselves widely known in speculative
crcles-Jim Keene and John w. Pierson.
The attachment is entered in the Record
er's office as " Fl. Marion vs.. j. r. Keene,
lot l50xl50I, on southeast corner of Geary
and Stockton streets, Sc. 0O9." The story
OF the causes leading mp to such remark
able proceeding as a Sc, 600 suit against
a twenty millionaire, and the owner of
Foxhall at that, were related by the attor-
ney OF the plaintiff to reporter as fol-
lows "In October, 1876, Keene, who,
as you know, was then specializing here on
California street, told John W. Pierson
that he had just bought one hundred thou.
sand acres of land in Mexico for SIS, 600,
from Stratton and Denton, who are large
holders of Mexican lands. Being friend
of Persons, Keene kindly offered to let
him in on one third Of it for Sc. 900, which,
according to Keene's figuring, was one
third of the purchase with expenses
added. Thinking that 80 1884, acres
of Mexican land was good
thing to have in the family, Pierson gave
Jim check for the sum mentioned, re-
ceiving therefor the latter's promise for
transfer OF an undivided one.third interest
in the Mexican proposition. Well, that is
all he ever did receive. keene has been
absent from the city since January, 1877,
and siace that time Pierson has received
transfer for no part OF the land, nor any
part of the Sc O09. We have inquired of
S ration and Denton, and they say that
they offered Keene the land, as stated, but
he never purchased it. He paid s., 900
down on the proposition, which, not COM
pleting his contract, he would have lost
had he not received it back, with 81 ,OO9 in
addition from Person, subsequently,. for
that mythical one. third This il the case