Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1883-12-11
LOCAL INTELLIGENCE.
CITY BOARD OF TRUSTEES


The Board of City Trustees met at the new
City Hall at 10 A. N. yesterday, all the mem
bers present.
Mark Foster, Chief Engineer of the Water
Works, filed his weekly report. The
machinery was in operation 149 hours. and
pumped 10, COG, $50 gallons OF water.
Stephen Beck was awarded contract to
construct a sidewalk on Sixteenth street,
from F to G. Bids for grading P street. from
Nineteenth to Thirtieth, will be received to-
day.
Resolutions of intention were passed as fol-
lows: To have sewer constructed in the
alley between n and 0, from Eleventh to
Thirteenth streets; and for the improvement
of the alley between I and J, and Front and
Second streets.
The returns of the late city election were
canvassed, and those receiving the largest
vote declared elected Superintendent and
School Directors. Their names have been
published.
William Laufkotter, Superintendent Of the
Cemeteries, reported ffty-two deaths for the
month of November and collections amount
ing to S4S9 70.
The City Attorney filed an ordinance,
which he had carefully drawn, providing for
the appointment of Market Inspector, as
requested by the Board of Health 1t was
lsid over under the rule, and will be consid.
cred next Monday. The ordinance makes
the Health Officer perform the duties of
Market Inspector, and gives him the right to
appoint an assistant. 1t will be his business
to seize any bad fish, meat or vegetables found
exposed for sale or show, and haul them away
at the expense of the owner, collecting there
for fee of 81 80. The keeping of such ar
ticles will be a InisdemesnOr, punishable by
a fine of not to exceed $500 or ten days i'm
prisunment, or by both fine and imprison-
ment; half of sll fines will go to the Market
Inspector.
The bill of Martin Pemish, asking for
damages amounting to 81, 600, for injuries to
his property caused by the drainage canal,
was rejected. The Trustees say be is not en-
titled to q cent.
z. w. Steinmeyer, whose team was fright
ened several weeks since in Chinatown by
discharge Of tirecrsckers, presented a bill
against the city for $3.50 damages. lie says
the bill is eminently proper, from the fact
that the Trustees gave the Chinese residents
permission to discharge tirecrackers, fire.
works, etc. on that particular occasion. The
Board tried to compromise by giving him
$500, but he refused to accept. The matter
was taken under adyisement.
After auditing q large number of bills and
ordering them paid the Board adjourned.
ADMINISTRATORS SALE.-By order Of ]. L.
Huntoou, administrator, Sherburn & Smith,
auctioneers. will sell for cash, to-day.
commencing at 10 o'clock A. NJ, at
Yolo Ranch, seven miles above this
city, in Yolo county, the personal property
of the late Z. L. Billings. The property to
be sold is as follows: Two hundred and sew
enty-fve tons of hay; 62 dairy cows; 80
yearliug calves; 10 brood mares; u colts,
three-year- and under; work horses,
carriage team, matched; l mare horse,
tom - l horse, "Tecumseh :" l horse,
"Slim Jim ;" stallion so sacks of barley.
All of the farming implements, including
wagons, plows. harrOws, mowers, ETC.; 6 sets
of harness all the dairy machinery and i'm
plements &; hogs poultry and all other per-
sonal property on the "Yolo and Gave 3"
farms.
WANTS TO RETURN THE SACE.-The old
trick of getting an individual on dark night
to go into the woods and hold an open sack
in one hand and candle in the other, while
his friends drove in all the snipe in the neigh
borhood, was played upon young man last
evening. He was taken out on the Norris
grant some four miles from the city, and when
comfortably located, his friends came back
to the city. After waiting for several hours
in the dark, damp fog, he began to smell
rodent and returned to town. At midnight
be was hunting his friends, as he said, to re-
turn the sack, but from the manner in which
they kept out Of his way, they evidently
thought he had some other motive.
LECTURE LAST EvENISG-Rev. H. J.
Becker delivered lecture last evening at the
y. NJ. c. A. rooms, No. 1909 Fourth street.
The lecture room was well filed by large
and appreciative audience. The subject,
The English Language as a Vehicle of
Modern Thought" was handled by the rev.
erend gentleman In a mastery manner. and
all present j1yed a rare literary treat. The
remarks were well timed. and evidenced the
fact that the speaker was master of his sub
lect and had, 10 his preparations made ex.
tensiye researches. The lectures at the Y.
NJ. Z. A. rooms are quite popular.
STOLEN PROPERTY night, about
II O'clock policeman discovered g colored
man with pair of blankets ard an overcoat
in his possession scaling a fence near the cor
ner Of I and Fifth streets. The officer gave
bsrth. Then commenced quite an exciting
race among the alleyways and under the side
walks. But the thief proved to be the dark
horse, and getting away from his pursuer be
blended in the surrounding fog and was gone
The blankets and coat, which he dropped, are
at the police station.
ANTI-LICENsE-A large delegation of the
anti.license citizens, headed by Joseph God
dard, were at the depot lsst evening to meet
their attorneys. Julius Buhlert and Milton
Z. Babb. who came up from the Bay on the
7:30 train. Five cases come up in Justice
Tubbs' Court tomorrow. The Anti License
Association in this city has enrolled among
its members nearly every business house in
the city. They do not intend to pay any
more license until the constitutionality of the
law hiss been decided by the highest Court.
RAISING CHICKESs.-About half-past II
last night officer Frazee noticed All Nui, a
veteran chicken thief, coming down l street,
near the corner of Fourth, with his blouse
standing cut ia q way calculated to fur
nish the observer with an idea that there
was more than ChinamRn inside. He was
stopped and searched, and three fine large
hens were found snuggly roosting under
All Nuts shirt-tail. The Chinamsn and the
chickens are cooped up st the police sta
ton.
You will never have a better chance to buy
millinery goods cheap than at the great sale
now going on st the Red House. Elegant
plumes and tips at astonishing low prices.
GENTS Christmas slippers of black velvet,
handsomely embroidered with silk snd backs
of patent leather sll sizes. Price, 81 80,
81 Is and 81. Hale Bros. & Co.