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PACIFIC COAST.
Passengers south and East.
MODESTO, Cal, April 29-Following
is list Of south bound passengers pass
ing here this evening;
Ed schieffeln and wife, Alameda;
Mrs c. Schieff, lin, Miss Lizzie Schiefelin.
Los Angeles; B Moore, NJ Munson, Mrs
w X Welsh, G G Smith, II G Smith.
Chas Reg s.e, X IL Marks, Mrs M y
Parks, X L Kent, Sam Miller, Z Z
Kohier, J O Mathews, 7 ) Samson, J
Crook, $ Gevof. ID james, Mrs U Il
Tyler. San Francisco; X c Montgomery,
Sacramento; G y Halles, Oaklauk; I
Walsh, Los Angeles.
The sharon scandal SIN On.
SAN FRANCISCO, April 20.--In the
Sharon divorce case, the day was mainly
occupied by expert Hyde in his exam
nation Of letters offered in evidence.
Nothing Of a startling character WAS
elected.
Caucus or the sixth District Re
pubItenW DeIegates-ResoI
in Favor OF Hard for Delegate
at-Lnrge County Preferences
for District Delegates -Oppost-
tiou to blaine.
SAN FRANCISCO, April 29--The Sixth
Congressional District delegates met this
III - L.. h,n,l...Nat Hntat
Judge Adams, Of San Luis Obispo
county, explained the object Of the con-
ference, which was the unifcation OF
southern counties, that they might make
their influence felt in the politics Of the
State. Prior to the meeting the dele
gates from Los Angeles county held "A
| meeting to discuss the situation and to
devise such mems as would secure to
| Los Angeles county the next Congrcs-
sional candidate for the Sixth Congress.
sional District. Another caucus will be
held tomorrow morning ut eleven
o'clock, in Oakland.
The Congressional Convention was
called to order by II. I. Payne. Of Lo,
Angeles county, Judge Adams, Of San
| Luis Obispo, was elected chairman and
II. q. Otis, OF Los Angeles, Secretary.
The Convention then went into private
session with closed doors, chiefly for The
purpose Of mani x candidate for dele
gate ut large. A resolution was adopted,
which was introduced by William Nj.
Smith, of San Diego, pledging the dele
gates to support Thomas X. Bard, of
Ventura, for delegate at large, rs the
choice OF the district and to work for
his election The vote, under the two
thirds rule, was as follows; Iuy
county. 3; Los Angeles county, l8j San
Bernardino county, 8; San Benito
county, l; San Diego county, 8; San
Luis Obispo county, 3; Tulare county, 4;
30 votes out Of the II which the Sixth
Congressional District Is entitled to cast.
The Santa Barbara delegation declined
to vote.
The Conference separated Into county
delegations to allow each county to ex-
press its choice In the caucuses the
names of candid ,tes for District dele.
gates were mentioned. Among the
names menti0nsi were those Of Col j.
j. Warner. uf Los Angeles, h. G.. Reed,
Of San Diego, w. u Norway, of Santa
Barbara; DR.. H. W. Crooks, of Santa
Barbara, aud DIR. Flint, Of San Benito.
The I.o. Angeles delegation hope to
have the next State Convention ut Los
Angeles. There will be an effort made
by members Of tho Sixth District Con.
vention to prevent the pledging of dele
gates to the National Convention for
Blaine, first, last and all the time.
A mend ments to the Barry bill
Adopted.
SACRAMENTO, April 20.-The Senate
took up section 3 Of the Barry bill and
adopted the amendments without divi-
sion. Sections 4 and not having been
amended by the committee were passed
temporarily. The amendment to Sec
ton 0 was adopted without division.
The first debate was on the first amend
ment TO the secti' u providing that no act
of any agent of corporation violating
the provisions Of the act shall
he construed t. be the act Of
the corpurntiol,, unless authorized or
ra iii Il by the Board of Directors there
of. The amendment was adopted by
the following vote: Ayes - Brooks,
Cronan, Gross, Dougherty. Frazer, Har.
rigan, Kellogg, knight, Mccarthy, Nc.
Ciure, Nelson, Perry, Routier, Ryan,
Vroomau, Wallis, Whitney, Twenty.
Noes = Baldwin, Chandler, Del Valle,
English, F,l,her, Foster, Johnson, Lang
ford, Lynch, R,ddy, Reynolds, Spencer
(of Napn), Spencer (of Stanislaus), Sulli-
van, Wolfskill. The next amend
ment was adopted by vote Of 26
to 10; the next by q to 10. The last
a..
was to strike out the provision requiring
Imprisonment for violation of the act,
thereby leaving the punishment to the
discretion Of the courts under the gen.
eral head Of mi 'demeanor, under the
provs on OF the Code providing for eth
er fine or imp,i comment or both, was,
after argument, adopted by a vote of 22
to 10. This completed the committee
amendments.
Brooks offered the following amend.
ment or substitution, IN Section 4: mo
corporation organized under the laws of
any other government, State or sover-
eigntv, shall be permitted to operate any
railroad, or carry by rail within this
State on more favorable conditions than
are prescribed by law to similar corpora.
tiOns OfbunlHcu ulueT tue laws VI tuls
State.
Oakland Running Races.
SAN FRANCISCO, April 90 The Oak
land running races opened to-day, with
a half-mile dash for all ages. 1t was
won by Harry Rose, with Jon-Jon sec.
ond aud Red Oak third; time, 40 seo-
onds.
The second race, mile and three
eighths, for all ages, Trade Dollar and
Jocko were the only starters and was
won by the former in 2i2S.
The third aud last race was q handi
cap of three.qu rters and repeat. Bry.
ant w. took the first heat, then run
dead heat with Haddington, finally tax
ing the third heat time, l:l5, l;l5 and
l:l5i. The attendance was large.
The stock Board.
SAN Francisco, April 90. - Best &
Belcher, Sl.s5; Chollar, 81 90; Con.
soldated Virginia, -; Crown Point,
81 25; Eureka Con-, 81 90; Gould 4
Curry, 81 30; Hale h Norcross, 81 90;
Mexican, Sl.39; Northern Belle, -;Ophir,
so; Potosi, so; Savage, ,65; Sierra
Nevada. 81 90; Union Consolidated,
S2.3.: Yellow Jacket. 50 05.