Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1883-05-09
SAN Francisco Money Market.

san fraHctscO Money Market.
SAN Francisco. May Ssh.-Monsy con-
| tinues in good demand at per cent. for call
| loans on prime securities. The usual run of
commercial paper is discounted at 70S per
| cent. The savings banks are loaning on CITY
property of 6 per cent. and pay the mortgage
tax, which practically is only little over 4
per cent. to the borrower. Fine silver has
| been In pretty good demand since tha LIST
instant, owing to the large shipment to Hong
kong and Shanghai on the 5.h and to the
Mint purchases on the 81. Mexicsn dollars
era moving off about as fast as received.
Exch aDge On New York ia strong. Some lots
have been taken in by the bankersat 1O@l2Ir,
but the counter rates are 15c for sight drafts
aud 20@25c for kilograms. Sterling bills are
very scarce. The banks are purchasing at
495@494 and are drawing ct 49IS949s. Re-
fined SILVER has advanced to 143@15a per
cent. discount. a lot of large bars from the
| Progresso mine in Mexico were to-day sent
from the Bank OF California to the Selby
! Smelling Works. Mexican dollars are steady
at 96I@97c.
Grand Lodge, 1. o. o. IF.
| SAN JOSE, May Sth.-The Grand Lodge of
| Odd Fellows met in the thirty-6rst annual
session here this afternoon. After the report
of the Committee on Credentials and the ap-
pointment of committees, number of reso-
subordinate Lodges, by three. e.forrths vote,
to provide for widows and orphans fund
| Another was to amend Section 2, Article VI,
| of the constitution of subordinate Lo]ges so
as to permit Lodges TO elect one representa-.
| tive to the Grand Lodge for each seventy.fiye
members. The grand officers then submitted
their reports. Seventeen Lodges have been
| instituted during the year, of which four
were Rebekah Degree Lodges, and five halls
/ E11 IoIta I'D
bursements, S4,l04 81; cash on hand Eay
1st, 1916 SO.
The Jewell Murder Trial.
SAN JOSE, May Ssh.-The case in chief for
the prosecution in the Jewell murder case
closed this forenoon. This afternoon the de.
| fsnse introduced their Witnesses, showing
| that Jewell owned pair of pincers last No
| vember. Witnesses to prove defendants
good character prior to the murder were iu-
troduced. 1t il expected that tomorrow
Jewell will attempt to prove an alibi.
Sensation in Tehama County.
RED BLUFF, May Sth.-Chas. H. Simp-
son, appointed by the Board Of Supervisors
at the February meeting TO expert the books
of the late county officers, submitted his re-
| port to the Board this morning, and created
much discussion in this place. He relates
that @. II. Greene, as County Clerk, is in
| O6Dk6C 10 lll5 COuuEy III tI4C SUN VI SZOO ~,
as Recorder, 1881 55-in sll, 1896 81. jack
son Eby, Assessor, S25 IS; P. c., Treasurer,
S32 As; NJ. Agner, School Superintendent,
50 "a J. T. Matlock. District Attorney, So
G. T. Foster, as Sheriff 1921 40 as delin-
quent tax collector, 1929 43 as license col
lector, S61S 50-in all, S1,179 49, The full
| deficiency amounts to 81, S4S So, and is al
| most entirely due to errors in bookkeeping.
The report was received by the Board,
l. L l.A l.
certaIned. The officers will doubtless make
the deficiency good without being pushed by
law. The period covers three years
Land Troubles suicide-TOwn Election.
HoLLIsTER, May Sth.-In q difficulty over
! land matters, Albert Thompson, stock
raiser of the Gabilan, twenty miles south of
here, shot and slightly wounded young man
named J. W. Brannan. BranDan endeavored
to prevent Thompson from riding over some
land claimed by both parties, and was trying
to beat him down from his horse with his
gun, when Thompson shot. There is great
| deal Of trouble about land matters going on
in different portions Of this county. and it is
| feared that shooting viii be resorted TO before
the difficulties can be settled.
| A young man named Charles Schmidt, q
native of Baden Baden, recently from the
| Sandwich Islands, disappeared from Paicines,
where he was working in q woodworking
| shop, on the 18th of April. His body has
| been found two miles south of Psicines.
He committed suicide by hanging 1t sup
| posed he was out of his head, az no other rea-
| son can be given for the act.
There was but little excitement at the town
election. The officers elected are George W.
Austin, Marshal; G. G. johnson. Treasurer;
| A, L. Smith, Assessor Z. S. Hawkins and
| c. G. Lathrop. Councilmen.
The Election In Redwood City.
REDWOOD CITY, May sth.-Considerable
interest was taken in the municipal election
held yesterday. There were three tickets in
the feld-Citizens', Taxpayers and Peoples.
1t resulted in complete victory for the Tax
payers. The following are elected Trustee,
A. league Clerk, John w. Glepnan; Mar
shal, j. Christ; Treasurer, L. jacobsen Po-
lice Justice. A. G. Welch; Street Superin.
tendent, j. S. Hughes.
Eeath in Jail.
NAPA, May Sth.-James 0'Rourke, pris-
| oner in the jail hare awaiting trial for the
murder of his wife in st. Helena short time
ago, died last night from psralytic stroke.
Napa Election.
NApA, May 8th.-Tbe city election passed
| off quietly yesterday, and very little interest
Derry, were elected Trustees George Allen,
Marshal, and I. T. Rsney, Clerk.
Murder Trial in Lake County.
| LAKEPoRT May S5h.-The trial of Mathews
for the killing of Moore at Lower Lake, COM
menced here to-day. Up to last night ten
! Jurors had been secured.
Drowned In FIT.
ORLAND (Colusa county, May S.h.-Geo
S. Kline, aged 10, was yesterday found
drowned in ditch six miles west of here.
He probably fell in while in fit being SUBJ
| ret to such. He was brother to Joseph
Kline, Of Dixon.