Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1882-04-08


cans is giving place to belief that the dispo
sition shown by the Democrats in Congress
| to obstruct further consideration Of the Chi
| nese question will react against them.
1t is reported that active steps are being
| taken in the city to organize anti.coolis
| clabs, having in view local action against the
| Chinese, and some iudiscreet persons are re-
viying the talk of violent measures, and hint
ing at armed organizations. l. is question
able how much backing there may be to
such talk
Anti Chinese Meeting.
SAN Francisco, April 75s-As a meeting
held this evening in front OF the Mint, Pro-
test was read and adopted, earnestly and
solennly protesting against the trades and
business now engaged In hy the Pacific Mail
| Steamship Company end others, IN importing
coolies. declaring that such trade is ahhorrent
| to Justice and hu uIarity, and done in viola
| tion cf the expressed will of the people re.
| questipg all owners aud masters Of vessels to
desist from such traffic, and if they persist in
| the trade in defiance of the popular will. it
should be at their own peril. A resolution
was adopted that from and after the 1st day
of May, 1882, all coolies in San Franeisco
| shall be confined to the following limit: Pa.
| cifc street on the north, Kearny street on
| the east, Sacramento street on the south, and
| Stockton street on the west; and that after
| the above date no Chinese shall be allowed to
| pass outside the above limits. except for the
actual purpose Of embarking for China.
Democratic decentralization.
SAN FRANCIsoo April 7th-The Commit.
tee of Fifty on reerg nzation of the Democ-
| racy of the CRY, and the District Committee
| Of two from the County COMMITTEES met this
evening, and reports of the organization Of
local clubs in the Ninth, Tenth, Eleventh and
Twelfth Senatorial Districts were presented.
The reports included the name Of each tenn
porarY President OF the organized club All
the reports wers adopted, and after the trans
action OF ordinary routine business the com
mitted adjourned subject to the call Of the
President Of the Cora of Ten.
The Panama Canal.
SAN FRASCIsoo, April 7sh.-H. B Slaven,
of this city, has just returned from visit to
the lsthmus of Panama, whore he is inter.
eSted in a sub-contract OF the De Lesseps
Canal. He stated that the report of sickness
and death among the canal employees has
been very much exaggerated. Of the foreign
populatio on the clnal, averaging from
l 800 to 2 000 the deaths last year numbered
less than 100. The principal disease is Pan.
anna fever. There are az present about 600
men employed by the dredging machine,
which Is an Improvement upon the model
used in the Suez Canal. The most of his
contract is through q swamp will incluae
canal 16j feet wide and 80 .eet deep, and vii!
bs finished IN about thrae years. The entire
canal will be completed in six or seven years.
Supplies for work are being rapidly for
w4rded from Paris, New York and San
Francisco. The reports OF the canal COM
pany's uusound financial condition are untrue.
All the stock has been subscribed for, S10,-
coo 000 has already been expended and $780,.
000, coo is now in hand. The stock is held
principally in France. The surveys for all
tie work have been completed and accepted.
suit for an Galce.
San FRANCISCO, April 7.h.-T. J. Clup;e
has commenced suit In The name Of the Peo.
pie Of the State of California, with the coz
sent of the Att2rney- General, On behalf OF
George A. Knight, TO Gust John @. Maynard
from the Office of Insurance Commissioner
1t is alleged, on behalf of K isht, that on
the 18th of April, 1881. Governor Perkins
sent the name of Mr. Knight to She State
Senate TO succeed Mr.. Maynard IS Insurance
Commissioner at rhe expiration OF his term of
othce-Apr1 3, 1882; that on the 18Th OF
April the Senate confirmed the sams and
that on the Sd of April. 1882 Governor Per-
kins executed Mr.. Knights commission. On
the 5sh Of April, in conformity Herewith,
Mr.. knight demanded the office from MIR.
Maynard, but he refused to deliver up the
same; wherefore Knight prays that he be put
in possession of the Office of Insurance Com
missioner, and that Maynard be fined S5, 000
and compelled to pay costs of suit. John G.
Maynard, the present occupant of the cffice, |
it Will De remembered, was formerly Secre-
tary of the Democratic State Central Com
mittee, and George a. Knight two years ago
contested the Third Congressional District in
behalf Of the Republicans.
Crushed to Death.
SAN FRANoIsCo April 9TH Herman F
IL L Tztl.. o.
Stetsou, wholesale stove dealers, corner of
Market and Beale streets, was killed this of.
ternoon by piece OF machinery falling upon
him.
Boy Killed by Fall.
SAN FRANCISCO, April 7th.-A boy named
Charles j. Kohler, living at 237 Stevenson
street. and employed in Bancroft's printing
house on Market street, this morning at
about II o'clock fell through the elevator
hatch on the fifth f)or, aud was almost in
staEtly killed by striking on the pavement in
the basement. The lad was fifteen years old.
Drowned Sailors.
San FRANCISCO, April 7th.-John CLARK,
the mate of the codfshiDg schooner FL. l.
Tiernan, which, after missing stays, struck
on Mile Rock, at the mouth of the Golden
Gate, and was subsequently run ashore at
LiGs Point, was washed eff Mile Rock, on
which he jumped at the time the vessel
struck, and was drowned A sailor named
B. Sheehan was also washed overheard few
minutes later ard drowned. Neither of the
bodies has been recovered. The only things
saved from the wreck have been the sails and
rigging, etc
Unknown Man Found Drowned.
| SAN FRANCISCO April 7th.-The body of
an unknown man was recovered from the bav
south of Alcatraz Island at half past z
o'clock this morning, and taken TO the NOR
| que. The remains are those of man about
+. forty years Of age, five feet eight inches in
! hight, dark hair, sandy mustache, dark COM
| plexion and regular teeth. On the back OF
his right hand is the figure of an anchor, and
on the left forearm wreath encircling
| heart with an arrow through il, surmounted
| by star and the letters g H. T." under the
| heart, all done 10 India ink. The body was
clothed in dark diagonal cloth suit, aud in
! the pockets was ten-cent piece, q razor, five
| keys, pocket knife, gold collar button and
green shade for one eye.
weeks Mortality.
SAN FRANCISCO. April 7th-During the
| past week the total number of deaths re-
ported at the Health Office was 101-males
; sc, females As.
THROWN Our OF Court. Judge Sawyer,
of the United States Circuit Court, on
Thursday dismissed suit to recover Sl0,-
0,O00, begun some time ago by Rudolphe