Sacramento daily record-union., 1882-01-17
The ME ETROPOLIS.
Items of Interest from Gan
Francisco.

SAN FRAEcIsco. January 16Sh.-The Pro-
duce Exchange this morning, by unanimous
vote, raised the initiation f.e from $500 to
81, 900, and limited the membership to 200
The present membership is 1856 On the
question of adopting the call system of deal
ing in wheat, the Exchange, by an over
whelmiug majority, voted to sppoint com
mittee to draw up plan of procedure. The
new deal may therefore be considered as
sured. Not over dozen or twenty members
on the floor opposed it.
BOARD OF SUPERVISORS.
At the regular meeting of the Board of Su-
pervisors this evening, resolution was intro
duced and referred to the Committee Of the
Whole, which authorizes the Mayor to ap.
point committee of three competent engi-
neers, whose duty it shall be to make a
thorough examination of tie different routes
by which the transcontinental railroads can
enter the city. This committee is required to
report to the Mayor the most practicable
route or routes, ana file maps and drawings OF
the same, which are to be on exhibition in his
cffice for thirty days. The Board took no ac-
sion in regard to granting the franchise to the
Ocean Shore Company.
TRIPLETT's DEATH.
An autopsy was held to-day upon the body
of j. G. Triplett, whose death was supposed
to have been caused by a heavy blow received
on the head from club in the hands of Wm.
Dreyer. From appearances death was the
result of an old gunshot wound and not the
blow. The preliminary examination of
Dreyer will come off Thursday.
BODY FOUND.
The body of an unknown man was found
to-day floating in pool of water near the
foot of Battery street. The remains were in
an advanced stage of decomposition, and
there was nothing by which they could be
identified.
MISCELLANEOUS.
Tax Collector Grady collected only about
$1,000 last week.
John Yeatop, boy of 1S, is wanted by the
police for terribly beating his mother with
club.
For year ending Saturday, January 14sh,
there has not been one escape from the Cali
fornia State Prison at San Quentin.
The four coal coliers of the Oregon Navi-
cation and Railway Company are now in
service Their names are the Mississippi,
Walla Walla, Willamette and Umatilla.
The last named three were built to order and
are large carriers.
The new Mechanics Pavilion on Larkin
and Polk will, it is anticipated, be finished
by the middle of next month. 1t will be "A
feet wider than the old building, but 127 feet
shorter. There will be garden on the south
side "a feet wide, extending the whole length
of the building. About ninety men are EN-.
ployed in the construction of the building.
The internal revenue receipts in this dis
trict last week were as follows:
Tax paid for spirit stamps. ps.,............ s4,4O5
Cigars ana Tobacco ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS l7,l24
eer.....,............ .......,........... o,ool
Miscellaneous. ................ ....... 434
Total OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES. S57,624
Previously since July list. ........... 1926, ,9S3
Total July l, 1881, to January "A, 1882. 81 9sS,7o7
The total for the first two weeks in January
is S134 260, which is $40, 600 more than for
the came time in 1881.
Rev. r. Townsend Huddart, who died last
Friday, came to this coast in 1850, and off
ciated as Chaplain at the ceremonies held in