Sacramento daily record-union., 1883-10-20
SAN FRANCISCO ITEMS.

The annual session of Eastern Star Order
closed Thursday.
81. M S. Swiftsure and Ssppho have sailed
from this port.
No opium has been discovered on the last
two steamers from China.
Captain Graham, master of the English
ship Lady Cairns, was stricken with paraly-
sis on Wednesday evening. The vesse is in
the stream awaiting orders.
Suit has been commenced by Edward P.
Peckham, 8 stockbroker, against George
Hearst, the mining man, to recover 81 500
and interest, alleged to have been paid to
Hearst by plaintiff in March, 1863, the
money to be used by Hearst in purchasing an
undivided one-sixteenth part of mining
claim.
A large number of the bonds of the North.
ern Pacific Railroad have bsen disposed of in
San Francisco at 110. The road runs from
West Oakland to Suisun, distance of forty
seven miles, with an extension from Wood
land to Willows, distance of seventy.f FIVE
miles, the gap being covered by the Cslifor-
mia Pacific,
As the steam sloop Ssppho was passing out
of the harbor Thursday, q seaman missed his
footing and fell into the water. In an in
stant two life buoys were tossed to him. The
vessel was quickly hove to, boat was lower
ed, and it is said that scarcely three minutes
elapsed before the fellow was safely landed in
the rescuing boat.
At meeting Thursday evening, the Board
of Health held secret session, and resolved
to remove DR.. I. S. Titus, experimenting
Physician of the City and County Hospital,
the order to take effect on November 1st.
The reasons for the removal have not yet
been given. The CAUCUS also appointed q
Health Inspector named Cans.
No business was transacted in Judge
Toohey's Court Friday morning. as the Court
declined to proceed with the trial Of cases
without shorthand reporter. As the mat
ter now stands. both Departments Eleven
and Twelve will have to suspend all trials until
the difficulty is remedied Only minor bust
ness, such as hearing motions, etc., can be
transacted.
A boy named Frank Baker, l6 years of
age, son of druggist in San Jose, tells an
extraordinary tale of abduction and outrage.
His story is that two tramps at San Jose
locked him up in a box-csr, which arrived in
oakland yesterday at A, n. While he was
their prisoner he was horribly treated. The
boy told his story to the police, and in the
afternoon they found eight trsmps at the Six
teenth-street station, and the party, save one
who escaped were arrested. The boy posi-.
lively identified one of The men, who gave
the name of John Williams.
It is estimated that both skilled and un.
skilled coolie laborers u ow receive from fifteen
to twenty-five per cent. more pay than when
the Restriction Act went into effect. During
the scarcity of fsrm lsborers the past sum-
mer, hop pickers have received twenty-five
cents per hundred weight more than last
year, and harvest hands received an increase
OF twenty per cent. About the same increase
was asked by cigar makers. The Chinese are
reported to ask higher wages forfruit packing
than white women and children.
Chief Crowley has received telegrsphic ad-
vices from the Sheriff Of Elko, New, to the
effect that Henry Hyams, arrested there last
night on complaint Of Herman Shainwald,
charged with attempting to defraud his
creditors, had applied for q writ of habeas
corpus and would endeavor to secure his re-
lease on technical grounds. Chief Crowley
ut once telegrsphed the necessary data, fur
nished by Shaiuwald, so that the warrant
can be sworn out at Elko to hold Hysms un-
til Governor Stoneman's reputation arrives
there.