Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1884-04-21
Pacific Coast.


| Two convicts assaulted and seriously in
| jured guard in the British Columbia Pen
itentiary Saturday.
4 telegram has been received at Newhall
announcing the finding of the body of a
dead man near Ravenna.
Thomas Richards, gambler, was shot
and instantly killed in the C9ur d Alene
mines on the 18th instant.
! Formal charges have been preferred
against Chief of Police Watkinds, of Port
land by Mayor Chapman.
BY the falling of snowsheds of the Cen
| tral Pacific, Saturday, six Cinnamon were
killed and six others seriously injured; a
brakeman was also severely hurt.
In a saloon at Hanford, Tulare county,
| Friday night, pistol in the coat pocket OF
| AlOnZO Darrell was accidentally discharged,
inficting a painful wound in the calf of his
right leg.
In Stockton Saturday afternoon a colored
man known as - Big Steve fell off the
Oakdale train as it was leaving the city and
got one foot crushed, and it had to be
amputated.
The opening of the new route between
Saucelito and San Rafael of the Northern
Pacific Coast Railroad Company was in
augurated Saturday. and the first regular
passenger train was dispatched over it in
| the afternoon.
Professor Van Tassell made successful
balloon ascension in Stockton Saturday
afternoon. He went up about LOCO feet
and landed several miles east Of the city,
when his balloon got away and landed
about sixteen miles from town.
In the case of Turcott, sentenced at Stock
/ ton to be hanged for the killing of DIETRICH
in September last, the Supreme Court af-
tirmed the judgment Saturday. A petition
! for Il rehearing Will be filed. The time for
! the execution has not been fixed.
The innundation ON Reclamation District
! Seventeen, San Joaquin river, is extending.
! The breaks in the levee cannot be repaired.
! The river is falling slowly. The levees on
! the lower division of Roberts Island are in
tact, and everything there is safe and sound.
Gilmore, alias James Gordon, who was
| suspected of committing a murder in Chi
| cagO about year ago and made his escape
! TO the Pacific coast some months since, is
said TO be in the Cpur dAlene mines. On
coming to this coast Gilmore assumed the
name of Jordan.
In Stockton Saturday evening a little girl,
| the daughter of Master Mechanic Crosby, OF
! tllc STOCKTON anu COppefOpOlS hdllFOdu,
fell into the Stockton channel and was res
cued by f. B. Smith, vegetable dealer,
who saw her fall and who jumped from
his wagon into the water, swan to her and
took her out.
James 5. Lear, Russell Spregle, William
Wigs and James Hill were on Saturday
each held in the sum of $1,000 at Red Bluff
to appear before the Superior Court on a
charge of robbing the safe of John Simp-
son and Wells, Fargo IL Co, at Tehama, on
the night of April ID. Hill confessed what
he knew of the matter, and told straight
story, duplicating the three as the parties
who committed the deed.
Three Cinnamon and eleven China
women have been arrested in Portland,
Or charged with violation of the United
States law These Cinnamon came from
| Victoria, B. c. and are bound to San Fran
cisco. The men are charged with illegally
importing the women into the United States
! from Victoria for improper purposes. The
! Cinnamon were examined Saturday before
! the United States Commissioner, and held
to answer. The women were also held.