Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1882-07-03
steamer Oyerdue-An Interesting Dis
course-Precauti0n Agatnst Smuggling.

, By order of the Custom.house authorities
the revenue cutter Richard Rush will pro.
coed down to where the steamer Belgic nov
} lies at anchor in quarantine, and remain in
the immediate vicinity Of the vessel. The
object is to prevent smuggling.
News from the Hawaiian Islands.
SAN Francisco, July 2d-The steamship
Suez arrived from Honolulu to-day with the
following news up to June 221:
The new Gibson Ministry of King Kala.
kaua is very popular. They have their own
way with the Legislative Assembly now in
session. Premier Gibson has introduced a
loan bill, which no doubt will pass, to borrow
$1,000 900 to promote immigration and GER
tain internal improvements. The loan will
be taken up in Honolulu.
The Government now proposes to immi-
CRATE people without contracts to labor.
The Portuguese immigration from the
Azores is checked for the present, on account
of excessive charges.
The British steamship Monarch has arrived
from st. Michaels at Honolulu, with S65
Portuguese immigrants on board.
Attention is now directed to Japan as a
favorable field for recruiting people for this
archipelago. A movement is on foot to in.
troduce colored laborers and their families
from the United States into the Islands. 1t
is the purpose of the Government to provide
l iuE Luc pacodSn vi WibiiOub thcif
being subject to any contract for service or
charges whatever.
1t is generally understood, though not yet
officially announced, that the coronation of
King Kalakaua will take place February II,
1888, the anniversary of his accession to the
Hawaiian throne.
Overdose of Laudanum Hotel Thief
Caught.
SAN Francisco, July 2d.-To-day Eliza
beth McEvoy died at her residence, Ala Fol.
som street. from an overdose of laudanum.
Deceased had been i'll for some time, and was
in the habit of using the drug TO relieve pain.
BY accident she took an unusually large guam.
tity to-day, with fatal results.
c. II. Dwight, alias Z. d. Parsons young
man of q years, who has acquired an unen-
viable notoriety i'll the East as hotel thief,
was arrested here to-day, it having been as
certained that he had resumed his vocation in
this city. Dwight; alias Parsons, neither of
which is the cognomen of the prisoner, is the
son of prominent official of Burlington, L.,
and came to this city from Chicago on this 10Th
of June, he having been engaged in hotel
thieving in the latter city. and the case com.
promised owing to the big h social standing of
| his family. On arriving here he registered
at the Baldwin Hotel, representing himself
to be a correspondent of several prominent
Eastern journals. He left the hotel without
paying his bill and took lodgings elsewhere.
| On the ooh of June room No. 20 at the Lick
! House was entered and number Of valuable
articles purloined. He confessed the theft
when arrested.
League OF DelIyerance-Propose Mass
Meeting.
! SAN Francisco, July 2d.-To-day the Ad-
visory and Organizing Committee of the
League of Deliverance held a meeting.
| Representatives from various branches made
reports of highly satisfactory character,
The membership is rapidly increasing. The
conduct of the Board OF Health was dis
cussed at considerable length, and heartily
condemned. A committee was appointed to
prepare resolutions fer presentation at mass
meeting to be held tomorrow night. The
Executive Committee was instructed to ST.
lect speakers and complete all arrangements
for the meeting.
The Sand L,t-PrOspect OF n Compare
lively Quiet Fourth-Another Sudden
Death.
SAN Francisco. July 2d.-Dennis Kear-
nsy addressed quite large gathering at the
| sand lot this afternoon, devoting much at.
| tention to the Democratic ticket.
Chief of Police Crowley reports that there
has been less violation of the ordinances pro.
hibiting discharge of fireworks on the public
streets this year than for many previous
| Fourths of July. All possible effort has
the law, the task being difficult ore as the
time-honored custom of Eoisily giving ex-
| preston to patriotism by the explosion of
crackers and bombs is not easily suppressed.
Alex. Morrison, an engineer in the en-
ploy of the Golden Gate Wooden Mills, died
suddenly at the mills to-day. Deceased was
native of Scotland, 81 years Of age and
| single.
Run Over and KILLED.
SUMMIT, July 1st.-Charles Bulger, inight
| shed. watchmau, was killed last night about
half mile west of this station about 10
o'clock, by train No. 16. He had been drink.
ing considerably during the day, and it is
| supposed that he fell in front Of the train.
One leg was cut off in two places, one above
and one below the knee, and the other just
below the knee. His body was terribly man
gled, and his head was mashed to a jelly.
Three trains passed over him before he was
found at u o'clock.
Leg Broken in a Drunken Fight.
TRUcKEE, July 1st.-In drunken fight,
which occurred in the American Hotel ga
loon last night, aman by the name of c. J.
Nolan had his left leg broken about midway
between the knee and the ankle.
Another Flowing Well.
July lbL.-AuOb0er moving well
has Just been struck on the ranch Of Messrs.
| Uhlhorn l. Naples, at depth of 326 feet.
with flow of about two and half inches.
They are going deeper for a stronger flow,
and if they do not succeed in getting it they
will perforate the pipe at the first water.
A Farmer Shoots Himself Through the
Head.
STOCKTON, July 1st.-N. r. Mitchell,
| for Ii inn 6ya rnilao af hot
| himself in the head with Colts revolver,
| Thursday night, and died Immediately. In
the afternoon he called on two of his neigh.
bors and babe them gocd-by, saying that he
hoped the Odd Fellows of his Lodge
would not think hard of him for what he was
going to do. He then went to hay-stack,
| knelt down, removed his coat and vest placed
the muzzle of the PISTOL to his head and fred.
| The friends of the deceased had been very
watchful of him of late, especially since the
18th of April, when he tried to kill himself
by throwing himself under passing train.
| Of late his youngest child has been very sick,
and he has lost considerable sleep, and this is
supposed to have affected his mind. He was
considered by all as an upright man an6
worthy citizen. He leaves a wife and six
children. He was 80 years of age, and before
leaving home that day told his wife that he
intended to kill himself. She Immediately
sent her little girl for assistance, but none
arrived in time to prevent the contamination
of his purpose.
A Chinese Thief Shot.
ORovILLE, July 1st.-Fiero Giovannetti,
an Italian gardener, who has been robbed
several times by Cinnamon, caught two
| Cinnamon in his garden carrying off two
sacks Of cabbage. He fred at them, instantly
| killing one. The Coroner's Jury pronounced
it justifsble homicide.
Suicide OF Carpenter.
SAN DIEGO. July 1st.-A carpenter named
| Flanders, who came from San Francisco
about year ago, committed suicide with
strychnine Thursday night The cause was
domestic trouble. He leaves wife and sew
eral children in San Francisco.
A wall of Water Twenty Feet High De-
stroys an Indian Settlement.
BAKERSFIELD, July 1st.-A water-spout
broke in the TETON canyon yesterday, which
occasioned great destruction, rs far as the
effect is known. This locality is the valley
of TETON creek, which discharges into the
southeastern part Of the Tulare valley, on the
lands of General Beale, at point about thirty
miles from this place. At the lower part Of
the canyon settlement remains of the In.
dians of the tribe which once claimed the
| principal part OF Kern and Los Angeles
counties, living there by the sufferancs and
under the protection of General Beale. a They
had good huts, farms, vineyards and gardens.
and were living in plenty and comfort.
Above them the canyon is occupied by white
settlers, who have good, well.improved farms,
and are an industrious. thrifty community
About 4 P. NJ. yesterday a wall of water, ap-
parently twenty feet high, was seen sweeping
down upon the Indian settlement with ire
sistible force. Immediately there was scene
Of the widest confusion. Mothers and
fathers snatched up their little ones and en-
deavored to escape to the high grounds.
Those not fortunate enough to do so were
, a;tbar syapt auay mr. saved themseIvea bp