Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1882-07-12

ESPECIAL DISPATCHES TO IHs RECORD uSfOS.1
The Date Not 10 be Interferred With.
SAN FRANCISCO, July 11th.-The Repub
| lican State Central Committee met this after.
noon, and decided to adhere to the date
originally fixed upon for the State Conven.
tion-August 30th.
Prohibition and Reform Convention.
SAN FRANCISCO. July 11th.-The State
| Convention in the interests of prohibition and
| reform convened this morning. About 15O
delegates from Good Templar Lodges, Home
Protection Association, Sons of Temperance,
Loyal League, U. G. T. Union and Band Of
Hope, ministers of the gospel. Protestant and
Catholic, were present. M. G. Winchester
was elected temporary Chairman, and Rev.
| George Morris temporary Secretary. A
| Committee on Credentials was appointed.
| The election of permanent officers resulted
President, NJ c. Winchester; Vice Presi-
dent, John Woods; Secretary, George
Morris Assistant Secretary, Rev. +. II.
| Wales. Various committees were appointed.
and recess was taken.
AFTERNOON SESSION.
SAN Francisco, July 1lth.-At the after
noon session held by the State Temperance
| Convention. several resolutions were intro.
duced, declaring tina. it was the sense OF
those present that no previous party afhlia.
lions could induce them to vote for the candi-
dates of any political party that did not in
its platform have plank pledging Its candi.
dates 10 favor of civil day Of rest and the
rigid enforcement of the Sunday or prohibit
| ton law.
| zThe resolutions set forth that the Conyen.
ton is willing to await the action of existing
parties, and should they adopt o prohibition
platform the Convention would support the
| candidates OF the party doing SO. Should the
| Republican party fail to comply with the de.
mand of the Convention, or attempt to strad-
die the issue, then the Convention would put
an independent prohibition ticket in the field
having upon it temperance men pledged to
the enforcement of the Sunday law.
The resolutions were warmly debated, the
extreme prohibitionists urging that an indie.
pendent ticket be Immediately nominsted
tive, while maintaining that the Sunday law
was the only living and important issue now
existing between the political parties, favored
giving the Republicans an opportunity to
come out with a prohibition platform, and
should they attempt to evsde the issue then
the prohibitionists of Republican utilization
would repudiate that party, as had the DEM
ocratic prohibitionists theirs.
The resolutions were adopted, the only dis
senting voices being those extreme members
who did not deem them sufficiently radical.
The Convention then adjourned to the call
Of the Executive Committee.
A Well.KnOwn Sacramentan Relieved OF
His Watch.
SAN Francisco, July 1lth.-This morning
Frank Rhoads, of Sacramento was relieved
of his watch and chain, while asleep on the
cara, by a pickpocket. The thief. was not
discovered until the train reached San Pablo.
The watch was a present from the Assembly
of California of 1872, of which body Rhoads
was Sergeant. alarms. The usual compE-
ment of presentation WAS engraved on the
case, and the property will therefore be of no
value to the thief.
Hospital tters-HarmoniOns Republic
SAN Francisco, July 11th.-For some time
past an average of ten patients per day have
been admitted tc the City and County Hos
pital. The total number now in the institu-
ton is SSS. OF the 80 patients now in the
Twenty sixth street Hospital, about two.
thirds are suffering from smallpox. The lat
ter are all reported convalescent.
At the meeting of the Republican State
Central Committee to-day letters were re-
ceived from several counties of the State, re-
porting harmony and an encouraging outlook.
The Money Market.
SAN Francisco, July 11th.-Money is
plentiful in all the banks, and rates favor the
borrower, provided the security be desirable.
Selected loans on real estate are quoted at 9
per cent. Exchange is dull and weak. Fine
silver is quite heavy. The demand for money
at the moment is comparatively quiet. The
rate for call loans is 4d6 per cent, and the
extremes for commercial loans are 7G9 per
cent. Mortgage paper is taken by the savings
banks at 6G9 per cent, and the borrower re-
lieved of all obligations for taxes to the ex-
tent Of the lien on his property. Drafts on
New York sell at ., premium per 500; tele-
grams on do, Toe per 500; London exchange,
493d for bank bills, and 49id for commercial
refined silver. II per cent. discount; Mexican
dollars 92il este apiece, nominal.
The Telegraph Pole Controversy.
SAN Francesca, July 11th.-The telegraph
pole controversy between Murphy, Grant L
Co.. and the American District Telegraph
Company, with regard to planting pole in
front of the formers place of business, has
been settled on an amicable basis. The pole
will be planted without further objection.
1t was stated to-day that the merchants on
Ssnsome street south of Bush propose to resist
the purpose of the telegraph company to
plant poles on the sidewalk in front of their
business places.
The sunken steamer.
SAN FRANCISCO, July 11th.-Much interest
is felt in shipping circles concerning the
wreck of the steamer Escambia and the prob
ability Of raising her. w. Z. Alighell, the
purchaser of the wreck, has made several
visits of inspection, and is confident that the
steamer Is ahoat. He thinks he will be able
to batten down the matches, pump the water
out of her, float her to shosl water, and right
her. Mighell paid 81, 400 for the wreck, and
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repaired, worth about $3.50, 200.
SIX Hundred More Coolies.
SAN Francisco. July 1lth-The Occideut
and Oriental Compapys steamship Gaelic
arrived in port to-day from Hongkong, with
500 Chinese passengers on board She has
also fourteen white passengers 10 the cabin.
The vessel is at present detained in quaran.
tine pending thorough examination by the
Quarantine Officer.
Ex-Governor stanford's Warm spring,'
Property.
San Francisco, July l1th.-A deed has
been placed on record, dated October 2, 1871,
conveying from A. A. Cohen to Leland Stan
ford tract one mile square, being portion
of the Aqua Csliente Warm Spring. Rancho.
The consideration named was $50, 600. The
property contains two springs known as Aqua
Calientes. 1t is stated that Mr.. Stanford in
tends to improve the property in every posi-
BILE way and to build a magnificent hotel,
making the Warm Springs a splendid place
of summer resort.
Death of a PrOIuInent Citizen.
SAN Francisco, July 11th.-The death of
Reuben Morton, President of the Central
Railroad Company and Superintendent of
the Geary.street Cable Railroad, is announced
as having taken place at Chicago last Sunday
evening Mr. Morton has been for Iono
time an invalid without hope Of recovery
He left the city some months ago, however.
in hopes of obtaining relief by change of air
and medical treatment Deceased was a
native of Gorham, Maine, and was aged 81
years. He came to San Francisco in 1850 in
the bark Lennox, from Boston. He spent a
time in the gold mines of the State, but sub
sequently engaged in the draying business il
the firm of j. Morton l. Co. Several years
ago he retired from the firm in question, and
became more particularly interested in the
Central Street Railroad Company as Super
intendent. and of which he afterward became
President. He was also elected Superintend.
emit of the Geary -street Cable Railroad i'm
mediately after its organization. Deceased
leaves wife but no children. The remains
are on their way to this city for interment.
Epidemic Among the Alaska Indians.
SAN Francisco, July 11th.-Acs 1rding to
letter received from. Alaska by gentleman
in this city connected with the Government,
fatal epidemic of typhoid pneumonia i
raging among the natives. On the Aleutian
Islands forty. six died during April On St.
PauPs Island ten natives died from the same
disease in one week. The majority of the
victims are males, and the letter states that
the epidemic is producing large crop Of
widows.