Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1882-08-19
SAN FRANCISCO ssws.

No examination has yet been had in thu
case OF the half-breed Russian, Vladimi,
Navmoff, who was brought here by ths
steamer ST. Paul for trial, on the charge 81
killing one Shapasnikoff, on one of the
Aleutian islands on last Fourth of July,
By some inexplicable inadvertence the wit.
nesses to the tragedy were not brought
and the examination cannot be made unit
the arrival of the revenue cutter Thomas
H. Corwin, which is expected in few DAYS
with the absent witnesses.
| Suit for 1929 has been begun by John G.,
Henning in the Justices Court against the
Preside and Ferry Railroad Company.
| For cause of action the plaintiff alleges
| that on May 3lst field of barley owned
| by him was set on fire by sparks emitted
from the steam dummies running from the
| junction of Union and Steiner streets 10
the Preside. On June 25sh the crop was
again set ON fire in the same manner, de.
| stroying the rest Of the crop and damagin o
the improvements on the land.
The City of Rio de Janeiro arrived in
port Thursday night at 6: 80 O'Clock from
Panama. she had on board, besides sixty.
| nine white passengers, a crew of three
Chinese and nine Chinese passengers. The
latter Celestials claimed to be merchants,
and, with the exception of two, laid claim
to Spanish names. The vessel was boarded
by Quarantine Officer Lawlor and the
Custom-house officers. The white passen-
gers were allowed to land, but the Chinese
were kept on board. and will take passage
for China as soon as possible.
George Thatcher, the minstrel, was re-
Gently sued in the Justices Court nv Gold
stein & Cohn. The suit was to recover
Sl52 for fifty.two weeks rent of wig
which the minstrel wore in a burlesaue on
Pinafore," played here several years ago.
The case was successfully defended, and
Judgment was entered for Thatcher, who
returned East. Not satisfied with the rul-
ings of the Justices Court the wig. makers
appealed, and when the case was called in
Judge Edmonds' department of the Supe-
rior Court, Thatcher failed to appear, and
Judgment was entered in favor of the
plaintiffs for Sl52 and costs
Nineteen of the twenty-six property
owners on Bernard street, between Jones
and Leavenworth, have filed communiea-
ton with the Board of Supervisors inform
ing that body that they have entered into
q private contract for the construction of
an iron.stone pipe sewer in the street.
The property.owners notify the Board in
the communication that they have repeat
eddy sailed the attention of the Board Of
Health to the filthy condition of the street,
but have been afforded no relief. A large
amount of sickness, it is stated, prevails in
the block, and the Supervisors are asked
to remedy the evil.
An old suit, the papers of which are yell
low with age and musty from long storage
In pigeon holes, made it's annual appear
ance few days since in Department 6,
Superior Court. The action is one con-
nected with the early history of San Fran
cisco, having been brought November Is,
1850, by Robert E. Hunter and Philip S.
Hunter against John Townsend and Cor.
nellie de Boom, to recover $50, GOO and
other large sums for an alleged breach of
contract. 1t appears that although all
necessary proceedings were taken for bring.
ing the case before the Courts, neither the
attorneys or parties to the action have ever
appeared in Court, and the case has been
called regularly on each Court term since
1850, and in no instance has been respond
ed to, and has, therefore, been continued.
1t being rule of the Courts not to strike
case from the docket unless some one of
the parties at interest are in Court. The
plaintiffs are said to be the Hunters, after
whom Hunters Point is named, and
have heirs resident of this city, but none OF
whom have ever appeared. One of the
papers indicate that John Townsend Of the
defendants is deceased, and that the sd-
ministrator Of his estate has been substi-
tuted for him in the case Little is known
of the case by the clerks of the Court, and
it is supposed that compromise must have
been made by the parties htigant, hence
the disoon tinuanCe of the proceedings.