Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1884-08-30
concerning the manner Of his death, none

i concerning the manner OF his death, none
of which has authoritative foundation.
| The remains will be brought here for
| transmission to San Francisco.
THE deceased is supposed to be Howard Y.
! Pomeroy, son of Professor John n. Pomeroy, OF
| the Hastings College of Law, who went north
with surveying party about two months ago.
He was educated at Hamilton College, New
York. and civil engineer and has been en-
gagged in railroad work on this coast, and has
also practiced his profession in this city. As
there was no other Pomeroy IN the party, as FAR
as known, the person referred TO in the dispatch
| must, it is thought, be the son of Professor
Pomeroy.
YREKA, August 29th-S. c. Peck, an old
pioneer stage man, aged 6S, died at noon
at his sons residence. He was agent
and cashier of the stage line here for many
wears. but lately acted as stage agent in
Redding.
The Central Pacific Investigation.
SAN FRANCISCO August 29th.-United
States Commissioner Pickerell is still en-
| gagged in the investigation of the Central
| Pacific Railroad affairs on behalf of the
Government His report will show that
| the Government is indebted to the COM
pany. for the past two years services rem
dered for transportation, in an amount of
| about $250,000 in coin above the companys
| obligations to the Government For the
| first three years after the operation of the
| Thurman Act, the company, as is shown
I by Congressional reports and reports OF the
| Commissioner, Immediately upon the
amount of their liability being ascertained,
paid their debts TO the Government by Mr..
! Huntington's check. In spite of all state
mentS TO the contrary, the reports show
that this company has lived up to all its
obligations in this respect.
California Fruit for the Worlds Fair
Glove Fight.
| SAN FRANCISCO, August 29th.-The South
crn Pacific has notified the State Board of
Horticulture that it will convey the fruit
| exhibit from California to the New Orleans
| Worlds Fair free. \ committee will de-
wise means 10 collect 4 creditable exhibi-
| ton of preserved and fresh fruit for the
fair, and member will attend the fair to
give the exhibition a proper and intelli-
gent representation. The Board of Horti
| culture appointed Il committee TO confer
with the Central Pacific on the subject of
reducing freights on fruit shipped East
| A spirited glove contest took place to-
night between the Montana Kid and Tom
Maynard for 800, and resulted III a victory
for Maynard i'll eight rOunds.
Attempted Assassination near MERGED.
| MERGED, August 29th.-A shooting affair
| occurred on the Smelling road. Il few miles
north of this place, about o'clock yester-
| day evening, in which a man named Ross,
resident of Contra Costa county, a sack
sewer by occupation, came near losing his
life. He was proceeding along the road in
buggy at rapid gait, when he was hailed
| by man III front and stopped when the
man commenced shooting at him with
45-caliber gun, one bullet taking
off part of one ear, and
! Ln
cushion Of the buggy seat after ripping the
timber of the same, and another passing
through the buggy-top. Ross came to
| town and Swore out a warrant against 5.
X. Spears, prominent citizen, who lives
near Smelling Mr.. Spears was arrested
and brought over here to-day, but proved
an alibi and was discharged. Ross, the
| prosecuting witness has not shown him
| self this afternoon, and is supposed to have
left town. The supposition is that the
shooting was done by a man named West
fall, and that the trouble proceeds from
family matters, Ross having paid atten-
tons to the wife of Westfall.. The man
and wife have lived apart for some time
past.
| The Smartsville Contempt Case.
SMARTsvILLE, August 29th.-Prominent
| citizens who visited the bedrock mine OPP
Grated by the arrested miners, after thor
oughly examining their perfect system of
impounding the debris, express the opinion
that if the arrested men can be punished
for contempt of Court, neither quartz nor
drift mining is safe from the attacks of the
valley people, Notwithstanding the express
sion of the valley people that only hydrau-
lie mining must cease.
Death of Supervisor.
| SoSoMA, August GOTH. E. Morse,
County Supervisor for this district, died
last night.
| The Truckee Embezzlement Case.
| TRUCKEE, August 29th.-Justice Byrne
has been occupied all day yesterday and
to-day in hearing the evidence in the ex-
animation of o. s. Mason, the attorney
charged with enlightenment Mason has
tried to prove that he was garnisheed for
the amount of money collected, and that
he did not intend to leave the State. JUS
| tice Byrne has reserved his decision until
| tomorrow at IL o'clock. The probabilities
are that he will be held over to appear be-
| fore the Superior Court Of Nevada county.
| Owing to his course of action for the past
| few months he receives but little sympathy
| from the public. Should he be discharged
| it will be on purely technical grounds.