Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1882-10-07
sAN FRANCISCO ITEMS.

The First National Gold Bank of San
Francisco declared quarterly dividend a.
the rate of s per cent per annum, payable
! on the l05h.
Within the past two days there has been
a ship from New York, Boston and Paila-
delphia, respe ctive;y, and all with assorted
cargoes. There is now no vessel actually
due from either of these ports.
The argument on the plea of the Gath
erer's Mate, Watts, to the jurisdiction of
the United States District Court to try
him, has been continued by Judge Hoff.
man to the l2sh instant.
Tae Viola Percy guardianship case has
been continued by Judge Finn to Tuesday
morning. Most of the time Thursday was
consumed in reading the dispositions of
many people living in Boston, where Mr..
Percy died, and to whom he said that
he wished his child left in his mothers
care.
Daniel Mcmillan, Bodie miner and
Tom Nolan, teanster of this city, Thurs
day night gave an exhibition of collar-ant-
elbow wrestling at Concordia Hall. The
match was for $500, best two in three,
square back falls. Mcmillan won the
purse in two successive falls, the first in
forty four and the second in twenty min
utes.
The steamer San Jose has arrived from
New York via Straits of Magellan and Pan
anna. She is one of the three iron steamers
built few months ago for the Pacific Mail
Company. The other two are the San
Bias and San Juan, both of which will
ultimately be brought out here for service
in the Pacific. The San Jose is advertised
to sail for Panama on the l9sh instant.
Officers w. I. Burke and Price, about
one o'clock yesterday morning, arrested
two girls, Nora and Annie Wilson, at the
Mission. The pair, who are only fifteen
years of age, were indulging in obscene
conversation and acting indecently, and
were in company with Thomas Matthews,
who was drunk. The girls gave fictitious
addresses, and the officers had a vain search
for their residences. The pair were booked
for the Industrial School, On them was
| found filthy scrap of poetry.
CaptainJ. w. White, acting Superintend.
en-. of the Twelfth Life Saving District,
has received orders from Sumner 1. Kim
ball, General Superintendent of the Life.
| Saving Service, to place three life-saying
crews on this coast. A keeper and crew
| OF Six Incu DaNe ueSn euSsStu lur SsatiON
| No. 7, situated on the beach near Golden
Gate Park. They went out to the station
on Monday, the terms of service extending
| from October lst to June Both. The keep
ers receive 500 year, and each of the
crew receive salary of $40 month. Ssa.
tion No. 8, situated on the Columbia river,
and Station Nc. ) on Humboldt bay, will
also soon be provided with crews.
During the trial of George Kendall,
boy charged with stealing coal from T.
Barnard's coal yard, on Broadway, before
Judge Rosenbaum yesterday, the complain
ing witness made an exposure of the man.
ner in which poor people residing near his
place schooled their offspring for the jail
and prison. After stating that he had
caught the accused as he was making off
with a sack full of coal, Mr.. Barnard stated
| that in the last three months he had lost
100 tons Ct coal, valued at 81, 900, by young
thieves. For five years past gang OF IS
boys in that neighborhood have stolen on
an average 20 tons of coal a month. This
coal they take home to their parents, and,
after supplying them, they sell the surplus
to saloons and groceries in exchange for
stimulan.s and groceries. MIR. Barnard
further stated that he could mention these
families to the number of two score or more
that never bought dollars worth Of fuel.
The accused was convicted Of petit lar
seny,