Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1883-05-11
san FRANCISCO ITEMS,

JUHn o. 0Idy HAS USSu uclu " dusWeE
twenty charges of embezzlement and
eighteen charges of forgery.
The steamship City of Toxic is due here
next week from China with about 300
Monaghan passengers en- route to Victoria,
B. c., and about 200 for this city.
Ex.Sheriff John Sedgwick has assumed
the management of the Palace Hotel, be-
ing successor to A. d. Sharon, who will
leave the city on account of serious illness.
Frank Unger, formerly Secretary of the
Pacific Exchange, has been elected Record
ing Secretary of the San Francisco Stock
Exchange, vice William Barton, who goes
into the law business.
The Trustees of the Mechanics Institute
have organized as Board of Managers of
the Eighteenth Industrial Exhibition,
opening at the Pavilion on September llth
and closing October 18Th.
Police officer Philip A. Smith, known as
one of the bravest and most faithful officers
in theservice. famous as the one who kept the
Barbary Coast" in early times under con-
troll, died Thursday morning of rheumatism
of the heart, aged 46.
The body of w. N. Mcleod, resident
of Columbia, Tuolumne county, was found
Thursday morning in pile of rocks on the
edge of the bay, presumably deposited by
the flood tide. He is supposed to have
fallen overheard from some vessel.
DR.. Henry Gibbons and wife celebrated
their golden wedding Wednesday. A re-
markable fact connected with the pleas
ant celebration was the presence OF the
groomsman and bridesmaid of the wed.
ding fifty years ago, namely, DIR. w. 2.
Gibbons and wife.
DIR. Titus and the steward of the City
Hospital called on the Mayor and an
nounced the startling fact that there was
not q days rations at the hospital, and
contractors had refused to furnish any
more supplies. Unless rations were fur
nished Immediately the l40 patients would
have to be turned out
The citizens in the vicinity of Montgom-
cry, Green and Union streets have fire..
quently of late been disturbed by an un-
known man dressed in woman's garb.
| Whether the man is crazy, or only making
fun for the children, is not known but
such amusement should not be allowed,
particularly after night.
An inquiry lately sent from this city to
Portland, asking whether it was now easy
to make the trip to the Atlantic States
from Portland, Oregon, via the Northern
Pacific Railroad, elected from John Muir,
Superintendent of Traffic of the Northern
| Pacific, the information that on June lst
there would remain only $50 or Us miles
of that railroad to be completed; that
stages run over this break daily, and that
the first. class fare on the railroad (includ-
stage transportation from Portland to st.
Paul, Mimi, viii not exceed Sl20. The
distance between the unfinished ends of
the road is being so rapidly constructed
that Mr.. Willard lately promised it would
be completed in the latter part of August.
Wednesday the downtown business of.
flee of the Triennial Conclave Committee,
at No. 26 Montgomery street, was formal
! ly opened for the transaction of the rapidly
! growing business details connected with
| the committee work. The office consists
of three rooms. The first will be occupied
by Governor Perkins Grand Commander ;
r. III. Lloyd, Grand Captain General and
w. o. Gould, Chief Aid. The second
room will be for the use of the Auditing
and Finance Committees, and will be &C.
cupied by W. l.. Merry, Chairman of the
Finance Committee, and Tristram Burgess,
Chairman of the Auditing Committee.
The third room will be occupied by II. 7.
Graves, Secretary of the Triennial Con.
clave Committee, and Marcus D. Boruck,
journalist of the ConcIave.
The last days races of the spring meet
ing of the Pacific Coast Blood Horse As
ISOLATION was held Wednesday afternoon
at Oakland Trotting Park. The first race
was dash of three-quarters of mile for
two-year.olds. The entries were Winters
Callie Smart, Hirondelle, an unnamed FLY
by Grimstead, Lizzie Dunbar and Mari
posa. The colts scored for about an hour
before start was made, though the starter
allowed ten good starts to pass without
dropping the flag. Calie won the race in
lis, Lizzie Dunbar second. The Spirit
of the Times stake for three. year-olds, dash
of a mile and three-quarters, was won by
Gano over Laura, in l:20. The consoIa.
ton purse, for beaten horses, one mile and
repeat, was won by Augusta E. in two
straight heats. Time. l:451. lao. The
other entries were Belshaw, Atalanta and
Inauguration. This race was for the Pc.
ruvian Bitters purse of $3.50. The con.
GLIDING race was hurdle race between
Mollie FL. and Hattie B., and was won
by the latter in two heats. Time, 1871,
l:554.