Sacramento daily record-union., 1882-01-25
SAN FRANCISCO.
Items of Interest from the
Metropolis.

SAN FRANCISCO, January 24th.-The in
vestigation into the alleged embezzlement of
Chief Clerk Best, of the Lighthouse Service.
was continued to-day. and is said TO have de-
veloped fraudulent transactions that will
bring the total defalcations up to nearly So.
600. To-day photographed copy was re-
csived here of Goodall, Perkins & Co. 5
voucher signature, which is said to have been
forged by the accused. The photograph
shows that the voucher is dated May 81, 1881,
for 50, 5OO Colonel Williamson. Best's supe-
riar, who has been succeeded ia his Office by
recent appointment. is thought to have been
a wrong-doer only to the extent of having
placed too much confidence in his suboIdi-
nate.
UNITED STATES MARSHAL.
Judge Field has notified Judge Sawyer by
telegraph that United States Marshal Poole
has been appointed ad interim to succeed
himself. Mr.. Poole qualified in $40, ,0O0
bonds. The old Deputies have been re-
appointed.
CITY FUNDS.
The counting of the funds in the city treas.
ury was this afternoon concluded, and were
found correct to cent. They consisted of
coin in vault, s., $50, 200; coin in trays, $780,
494 so; currency, 81, ,559; coupons, 81, ,7S5; /;
warrants of the State Controller, 81, 319 Al i;
school department demands not yet paid,
81, 107 OIL; State Treasurer's receipts, $685.
GAG eO Total 50 o09 III OK
MISCELLANEOUS.
The new catalogue of the Free Library is
nearly completed. Il will contain about
$4,000 volumes.
Out of twenty cases of felony tried in De-
partment Twelve of the Superior Court last
week only one of the accused was acquitted.
George O'Connor is in custody on suspi-
cion of being the person who assaulted Will
lam Marks with a slung-shot on Sunday
night.
Of the eleven suits brought in the General
Department of the Superior Court Monday.
FIVE were for DEGREES sevsring matrimonial
bonds.
George II. Lawrence is booked at the city
prison by Detectives Bee and Bradford as en-
route to Illinois. He was arrested on re-
QUESTION from the Governor of that State and
is wanted for larceny.
Presiding Judge Allen has rendered judg.
ment of foreclosure for S127, S91 10 in one
case of the German Bank against William
Hollis and the Real Estate Associate, and
judgment for S19. 072 II in another.
The tramp brigade is steadily applying for
admission into the County Hospital various
excuses being given. The authorities cor-
nected with the Institution say that not one.
fourth of those applying could be accommo-
dated, even if they were sick and deserved
admittance.
Laurena Lynch is suing in Judge Sawyer's
Court for S1G,0 damages, alleged to have
been sustained through the negligence Of Pa
ciic Mail Steamship servants in 1876, when
plaintiff was injured through breakage of fur
niture on one of the conpany's steamers in a
storm in the China sea.
John, Joseph and William Krelliog, pro-
prietors of the Tivoli, who were arrested on
complaint of Marx 2. Schetzel, upon charge
of having violated ths Sunday law, appeared
before Judge Rosenbaum Monday and asked
for trial by jury. The request was granted,
and the trial set for o'clock on the afternoon
of the 1st of next month.
Last Saturday Judge Rosenbaum made an
order that every other case on the city prison
register should be tried in his Court, thinking
thus to facilitate business in the two Police
Courts. The effect of the order, howev sr, was
to create great c,nfusion, for Monday, when
the Court opened, the case of John Smith,
charged with battery and carrying a con-
cealed weapon. came up, and it was discov-
cred that the first charge THAT of battery
was placed in Number 0ne and the other in
Number Two.
From January Let to the 2l5t inclusive the
Southern Pacific Railroad Company built
and laid on the southern extension of their
road to New Ofleans 145. .2S55 feet of track,
equal to a fraction over 271l miles. Although
the period covered represents twenty.one
days, work was carried on only on fifteen
days. The men are not worked on Sunday,
nor were they on the holidays. TIE longest
distance of track laid during that period in
ne day was 81, 900 feet, or fraction under
four miles. Up TO Saturday last track had
been laid 207i miles from the eastern end Of
the Rio Grande bridge, or 203.63 miles east
Ell Paso.
The commercial banks of San Francisco
own bank premises worth 81, Ola, 1913 81, have
s., ,230. GA 10 worth of United States bonds
(cost price, have loans on stocks and bonds
SO 79l, 313 II, on personal securities, $40. 799-
192 SO, other securities (grain, ETC. J. $40, 794-
sos 56 They have combined paid up capi.
tai of S14, 102 ZIG 80 of which IS 031, 200 is of
the home banks ard sc, OIL ,016 80, the amount
due the London Offices by the four English
banks. The amount due depositors is S22,-
S03, 236 27. and the surplus of the home
banks, S7,747, 96t The net increase in t
liabilities of the banks during the year 1881
was 81, $40. 609.
Fish Commissioner Redding states that the
Commissioners are at present having half of
the one hundred Thousand whitefsh egss, re-
ceived a few days ago, distributed in Donner
Lake and Lake Tahoe. A man in charge of
them has been sent up. He also states that
a few of the first lot of Eastern trout that
were received here will be ready for distribu-
tion in about two or three weeks hence. The
United States Fish Hatchery in the McCloud
river, which was destroyed last summer by
floods, has been re-erected, and everything is
now again in complete order at that estab-
lishment. Several improvements have been
introduced in the construction of the build
ings.
The new system of local trains in Oakland
has had one good effect on the comfort of pay
ing passengers in keeping off the horde of
servant girls, hoodlums and others whose
practice it has heretofore been to crowd the
local trains. On Sunday, when the new
timetable went into effect, it was rather
rough on some of these people, and for time
uuiiHS tuc udy tnSre WAS d StTlnS VI pSueS-
trians walking on the mole that extended
from the depot to West Oakland. When the
local trains enter the depot all the passengers
must leave the cars, and cannot get out ex-
cept by passing through the gate, at which a
man stands to take tickets. They must either
pay 10 cents for a ticket, or wait until the
train is taken out, when the gates are opened.
and then they can walk to West Oakland A
few hoodlums now ride down and jump off as
the train enters the depot, and then jump on
the up train as it comes out of the depot
but, as these are to be arrested for trespass,
the nuisance will soon be abated. Passengers
from Oakland to Berkeley are now compelled
to take the cars at the Sixteenth street depot,
or ride to the end Of the mole, and pay Ii
cents for the ride.
1t is believed that a hiatus exists in the
office of the United States Marshal. The
four years term of A. w. Poole expired on
Sunday, and with his administration neces-
sarily tie terms of servics of his deputies.
The law is defective in not making the Mar
shal an incumbent until his successor is ap.
pointed and has qualified. Mr.. Poole not
having been resppoiuted, and no one else
having been named to succeed him, the larse
causes a complete clcgging of the wheels of
Justice in the Federal Courts. Judge Hoff-
man cannot hold Court to try any criminal
cause for there is no Marshal or deputy to
open Court or transport and hold prisoners,
while Commissioner OBeirne cannot hold
any examination, for there is no officer TO
serve subpoena or commitment. There Is
no officer empowered to make any arrest,
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