Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1882-07-26
SAN FRANCISCO NEWS.

The Supervisors have engaged w. Z.
Burnett to defend them in the suit brought
to compel the Election Commissioners to
call an election for municipal officers.
Suit has been brought by Deidrich Hoff-
man against the City Railroad Company to
recover $50, 600 damages for being thrown
out OF his wagon by one Of the defendants
cars.
Mr.. Bodfish filed with the Supreme
Court yesterday copy of the resolutions
adopted by the Board of Supervisors re.
questing Mr.. Cowdery to withdraw his pc
tition for rehearing in the water case.
After long and irksome tour, the Visit
ing Committee of the Veterans Home
Association returned, last Friday, and re-
port that of all the tracts of land seen not
one is deemed suitable for the site of the
Veterans Home building.
Donald Mcdonald, better known as
Old Mac" who was sent to the County
Hospital Saturday, died at that institution
Monday morning of Inflammation of the
bowels. Donald was about 60 years old,
and for many years was an attache of the
Health Office.
Five families from Michigan have ar
rived under the auspices of the California
immigration Association, en- route for San
Luis Obispo county. Permanent settle
ments on Government lands in Mendocino
and Lake counties, under the guidance of
the association, last week, are reported as
follows Mendocino l, Lake 3.
Monday at noon Henry Hooper, years
of age, while playing with some compan-
ions on the edge of the pond at the north
end of Dupont street, fell in and was
drowned. His companions were too young
to save him. An inquest was held by
Coroner Weeks in the afternoon, and the
jury returned a verdict of accidental
drowning. a like verdict was rendered in
the case of John J. O'Donnell, the ll.year.
old boy who was drowned in Mission Bay
last Sunday.
Suits have been brought in the Superior
Court by Columbus Bartlett, special coan-
sci for the collection of delinquent taxes,
to recover from the Spring Valley Water
Works S57, 500, city tax, and S35, $40,
State tax, on defendants franchise for the
fiscal year 1872; also, to recover from
the~San Francisco Gaslight Company $685.
SCI IS, city tax, and $40, go 80, State
tax, for the same year. Similar suits were
recently brought in the same Court by
David Mcclure as special counsel for the
city.
In the Gaze of 81. H. Allen, tried in Co.
lusa county for assault to murder John
Carl with a knife, on the ground of va.
rance between the information and the
proof, the Superior Judge instructed the
jury to bring in verdict of not guilty,
which the jury did. The District Attor.
ney then asked the Judge to make an or
der instructing him to amend his informa.
ton, which was denied The defendant
then, on motion of his counsel, was dis.
charged from custody. The District At.
torney appealed the case to the Supreme
Court, which ON Tuesday rendered an
opinion, saying: 1t was doubtless the
duty of the Court to have made the or.
der. But we see no practical
utility in the appeal, as new and proper
could have been and can be
fled without the order. The appeal is
dismissed, on the ground that no ends of
Justice can be subserved by any action ON
,ur part.