Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1883-03-09

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The San Francisco Water War.
| SAN Francisco, March Sth.-Shortly after
| Judge Sawyer of the United States Circuit
Court, rendered decision to-day dissolving
the Injunction in the case of the Spring Valley
| Water Company against the Board of Super
visos, the company fled sn application for a
permanent writ Of prohibition 10 the Supreme
! Court. An alternate writ of mandate was
issued, which was made returnable to-mor.
row morning. The principal ground ON
which the petition for the writ was based i'd
that the Board of Supervisors is Incompetent
TO fix the rates for water, in consequence of
its members having made pledges before
| election.
Injunction Dissolved.
SAN Francisco. March Ssh-- In the ia
| junction case of the Spring Valley Water
Company against the Board of Supervisors,
to restrain the Board from reducing the water
rates, Judge Sawyer to-day rendered de-
oision dissolvipg the injunction.
The Houck EEabeas Corpus Case.
SAN Francisco, March SEh. - Superior
Judge Lswler was occupied for two hours and
half this morning, in hearing arguments on
! the habeas corpus case of Lew Houck, alias
| Doc Davis, the Ohio murderer, and who is
| held under extrsdition papers signed by
Governor Stoaemsn, st the request of the
| Governor of Ohio. The Courtroom was
crowded, prominent among those present be.
| ing several leading Democratic politicians
and number of well-known gamblers. Mr..
Regensbereer, his counse', asked for contin.
uanoe until Tuesday next but this was op.
posed by District Attorney Sullivan, Coun-
selor Clarke and their associates, who
claimed that the proceedings should ba dis
missed on the grounds that tie Court had no
| Jurisdiction or power TO go beyond or Inquire
iato the authority by which the Governor
issued his extraditieD warrant. This, they
claimed. WAS Issued under Feoeral lave, and
was paramount to the discretion Of State
Court. Shortly before u O'clock Ju33s
Lswler took this point under advisement.
Fire In San Jose.
| SAN JOSE, March Ssh.-At 1:25 this morn
ing a FIRE broke ous in tie large two-story
wooden building on San Pedro street, rear
Julian, occupied by Bennett, Paterson & Co.
as a furniture factory. The flames spread
with remarkable rapi5ity, and before the
6remen arrived John Brittou's box factory.
close adjoining or the south, and Altert
! Lske's box factory on the north, but ten feet
| distant, were also on fire and past redemp-
tion. All three buildings were burned to the
ground. Albert Lakes dwelling, short dis.
tant northwest of his factory, was badly
scorched, and would bave burned lad any
wind prevailed. The fire caught in the paint
ture factory. a fsuit dryer, formerly owned by
Earl, but attached by William Boots, in the
rear of Lakes factory, was destroyed. The
| total loss is upwards Of $50. 000 With insur.
ance as follows: Bennett, Paterson & Co.,
So 600; loss about $3.50 Lake, So, 000 on
factory, and $1,000 on dwelling loss abeut
| Sc 900. Boots, 81, 400; loss, 81, 600 Ben
nett, Paterson & %. had large stock of
newly-made furniture on hand, and their loss
ma hn T1nf
no fire or furnace 10 the paint-room ard how
the fire originated is mystery. Lake win
begin to rebuild next Monday.
Suspicion of Murder.
JACKSON, March S5h.-The body of Jsmas
Alonzo Joy, who was reported by Z C0roner's
jury to have committed suicide by hanging in
January last, on the bare testimony of one
witness, and without any testimony from
| medical men. was exhumed yesterday on the
ranch of his father below Drytown. A care,
ful examination fully satisfied the physicians
who conducted it that deceased did not come
to his death from strGngulation Marks of
violence we're found upon the head and in the
lumbar region, which could not have been
seif-infl!ced aud which might have besn
produced by q sand.bag or similar weapon.
There were evidences of conclusion of the
brain, and positive proof that these blows
were given before death. All the surround
perhaps the most remarkable clse that has
occurred in the criminal annals of this
county. No arrests have been made at this
| writing, but it is expected that one or more
persons will be arrested shortly.
The Nevada City Murder Trial.
NEVADA, March Sth.-The jury panel in
the case of Collins, aliSs Patterson, was c,rl-
pleted this forenoon, and the examination of
witnesses entered into this afternoon. In
their opening statement, the prosecution said
that thsy intended to show that Collins, in
1882, while an inmate of the St. Louis City
Prison. confessed to fellow prisoner named
Roger O'Mears that he aud Thorne, who is
now awaiting sentence, committed the
Moore's Fiat stage robbery, and killed Cum
pings; that they would prove by numerous
witnesses that, acting upon this confession of
Collins, the detectives were enabled to fol-
low up every action made by the two men
from the time OF the murder up to their
arrest. Matt. Daley, who drovs the stage at
the time Cummings was murdered, and
William Edwards and Thomas Barrop, who
were passengers on the day of the killing,
testified as TO how the two highwsymen did
the dastardiy job. They all. swore that the
man who went through the passengers and
robbed the express bag and who had the
struggle with Cummings for possession of the
valise, was of the same build and size as
Collins.
The COursing at Merced.
MERGED, March Ssh.-This Yves the second
day of the meeting of the Pacific Coast
Coursing Club. In the finish Of the old dog
stakes, Sierra defeated Lily of Killarney,
Lady Franklin ran bye, Sierra beat Lady
franklin. Sierra received first money ts75),
Lady Franklin second, and Lily of Killarney
third. In the puppy stakes Jscobv's Lord
Dugan beat FowleI's Jersey Lily, Eiward
Schuur's Schneider beat Womington's Dem
yer, John McCormack's Rosy Mack beat
Pennies Spring. Second ties-J acoby's Lord
Dugan beat S3huur's Schneider. Spring was
to run a bye, but Jacoby and Mccormack
divided the prizes. Consolation stakes-Lady
Bird beat Chicopee, Delebute beat Specula-
tion, Longfellog beat Lady Place. Chief of
the Canyon beat Brindie, Cassie Maria beat
Cherokee. First ties-Lsdy Bird beat Dele
butte, Chief of the Canyon beat Longfellow,
Cassie Maria ran bye. Sscond ties-Osssie
Maria beat Lady Bird. Third ties-Chief
of the Canyon beat Cassie Maria. Chief of
the Canyon took tse first money, Cassie Ma
ria second, and Lady Bird third. There were
two special match races, in which Blue Cloud
defeated Chicopee after long race, aud Par
nell defeated Biindle.
Freight Train Wrecked.
Los ANGELES, March Sth.-The train from
| tbs East was three hours and half late this
evening. The detention was caused by
wrecked freight train between Benson and
| Tucson.
Fatal Runaway Accident.
SAN BUENAvENTURA, March Sth.-News OF
o fatal accident which occurred this afternoon
| eight miles from town. has just been reeeiyed.
| It appears that Mrs. j. r. Cries and Mrs.
Isabel were driving towards the home of the
| former in buggy, when a runaway team
CANA up behind them and coIlided with their
carrisge. Mrs. Cries wss thrown out and
| one of the horses stepped upon her forehead
| She only said, "What has happeneo?" and
| died in twenty minutes. Mrs. Cries was
among the earliest American women who
settled in this county, and wss universally
respected Mrs. Isabel was uniuiured.