Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1884-12-10
PACIFIC SLOPE.
ESPECIAL DISPATCHES TO THE K,coKnusroS
CALIFORNIA.
Sentence Postponed-Runaway Accident
Death.

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Death.
STOCKTON. December 9th.-Uzza French
convicted of murder i'll the first degree APP
peared in Court for sentence to-0ssy, but
the sentence was postponed until the 30th
| inst, 10 give the defense an opportunity 10
plead for arres; of judgment and for . new
trial.
J. W. Smith, the Democratic noryineo
for Mayor, had small bone of the right
leg broken near the ankle to-day His
horse ran away, and he jumped from the
buggy
Mrs. Organ, the young wife Of Walter
Organ, business manager of the Stockton
Independent, died to-day, after brief ill.
ness. Mr.. AMI Mrs Organ were married
in San Francisco seven weeks ago De
ceased was the daughter of the late General
| George S. Evans.
An Aged Forger.
SAN JosE. December 9th-J. c. Warner.
aged about 40 years. was lodged i'll the
County Jail to-day on Il charge OF forging
q check for S}5 ON the Bank of San lose.
He gave the check to ]. Il. peppin. hotel
| keeper at Coyote, 10 whom he owed $50.
| and received so change. Warner WAS ar
| rested in jacksonville. where he had lust
passed another forged check
Murderer Hanged by a Mob.
DAGGErr December 9th.-As predicted
| i'll Yesterdays message n mob of twenty
| men surrounded the officers in charge of
the two prisoners, Lou Farthing and Wm.
White, alias Wm Petts, charged with the
murder of Josiah o. Harris ON the night of
the 9th instant. They were taken out To 4
telephone pole near town, and Pitts was
hanged. Farthing was told to leave the
country Circupstantal evidence pointed
feet from the murdered mans bed. Harris
died from the effects of six or seven blows
of wagon spoke while sleeping in his bed.
| His head was crashed 10 Jelly. Pitts was
Il deserter from the United States army,
| having enlisted under the name of Vim, II.
! White in the Second Cavalry, Company +,
stationed ut Fort Ellis, Montana.
San Francisco Money Market.
| SAN Francisco, December 9th.-Money
favors the lender. While the rates for
commercial time loans are and . per cent,
we note tendency 70 drop the lower fig
ure, and the indications point To $ per cent
| as the minimum rate before long, eSpcci-
ally for large amounts. The Hibernia Saw
ings Bank has just paid out $35, coo ON Cali
iornia-street residence property for one
year ut 6 per cent. The other savings banks
| are frequently eXacting per cent on city
| mortgages. uc mon Loan ASSoIlatlOil
has Just closed Il siX-year monthly Install
ment loan of 100 at per cent. Exchange
on New York is quoted at 20Gt15c per
$1o0 for sight drafts. and 25G; 20c for
telegraphic transfers. The rates in London
are 10! Ia 40 13-16d, for hank bills and 50kd
for commercial bills. Refined silver is
sold at 16G G@1S per cent. discount. MeXi-
| can dollars may be had at S6@ S5lc apiece.
The Los Angeles and Hueneme Railroad.
HUENEME, December 9th-The party
who have been surveying the Los Angeles
and Hueneme Railroad have arrived here
the field work being finished. So soon as
the estimates of costs are figured out, it is
expected that work will be at once com
menced. The road will be about sixty
miles long, with one tunnel of 1000 feet
and no bridges to speak of.
The Weather.
DAGGErT, December 9th-Rain set III al
4 p. NJ. yesterday, and continued very heavy
and hard until \. NJ.
HuENEME. December 9th.-The winter
opened rather roughly last night. The
wind blew slightly from the northeas,
all day, when suddenly, at 10 P. NJ, il
whipped around to the southeast and
brought torrents of rain something more
than an inch falling before daylight, and
the surrounding hills being whitened with
snow. Everything indicates long storm
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