Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1884-11-18
CITY TRUSTEES.
Ordinance Relative to Stud-Horse Poker
Introduced.

The Board of City Trustees met IN regu
lar session at 10 o'clock yesterday, all the
members present.
CITY Collector Putnam made the follow
ing report on the special tax; Original roll,
$45,0 O5 %; supplement. SIG 10; total, 3d.
OIL 90. Amount collected, S43, S2S Sc; de-
linquent, 81 1893 36.
Joseph N. Herndon, Superintendent of
the City Cemeteries, reported for the month
of October: Deaths in the city, So; still
born. /; brought here for interment, IA !;
total, 40. They were inferred as follows ::
City Cemetery, 80; New Helvetia, IA st.
joseph, 4; New Masonic, l; sent abroad
3: total, 50. For sale of lots, $l57 50; for
permits SOB; total, $500 50. The collec-
tons at New Helvetia Cemetery for the
month was $5S.
The City Auditor was directed to adVer
tise for sealed proposals for the furnishing
of supplies for the city Jail, and for doing
the city printing and advertising and the
furnishing of water taps for one year.
The Clerk was directed to give ten days
notice that an election will be held in this
city on Monday, December IL, 1854, for
Schoei Directors.
Judge W. A Henry, the newly-elected
Police Judge, filed his official bond with
the Board in the sum of $4,000. His sure
| ties are L. G. Blessing, VIM. II. Chamber
lain AID c. Hinkson and S. S. Nixon.
A petition was received signed by prop
erty-owners, asking the postponement of
the work of putting sewer in the alley
between O and 2, Fifth and Seventh streets.
| The matter was taken under consideration.
| r. S. Carey, of the City Railway Com
pany, appeared before the Board and asked
to be allowed to plank that portion of the
street between the rails of the street railway
on Tenth street The request was granted
| Mark Foster, Chief Engineer of the Water
| Works, reported that during the week the
| pumps had been in operation 13S hours and
| 15,45S,000 gallons of Sacramento straight
had been forced into the water mains.
sTUD-HoRsE POKER.
Mayor Brown introduced the subject of
stud-horse poker by saying that the press
and public were having so much to say
regarding it that it had become necessary
| for the Board to take some action in the
matter. Some time since certain restrictions
had been placed upon certain games they
were restricted and licensed, and so far as
! his observations went they had become
large source of revenue, and he was credi-
bly, informed that making the games pub
lie had deferred many young men from
playing. The Chinese tan games. he said
paid annually into the city treasury a reve-
nue. of over $1,000 He said he would like
to ask the opinion of the City Attorney as
to what deposition should be made of stud
horse poker.
Mr.. Anderson said there is much talk
and unfavorable comment upon this game
of Stud-hOrSe. You, in my opinion, must
repeal the ordinance passed by you last
August licensing certain gambling games
and enforce the statute, or else you must
license stud-horse and place it under re-
strictions. We may as well face the music.
| am willing to take the bull by the horns
will enforce any ordinance you pass, or
if you repeal those already passed on that
subject granting them a license, 1 will
enforce the statute. Gambling was some
thing that could never be entirely sup
pressed. If you restrict or prohibit one
kind of q game, they will invent and play
at another. l was opposed to the licensing
of gambling in this city, but am free to
confess that it has worked we'll" He said
some of the games claimed that they were
not making much. He was, however,
credlbly informed that one game had made
within a year over $4,000. He said the
Trustees Of this city have entire and abso-
Lutte control over this matter of stud-horse
poker. 1t is game not mentioned in the
statutes. He said the Board of Trustees
could, if they so desired or thought it was
for the best interest of the community,
make the playing at stud-horse or
any other kind of poker misde-
meanor, and violators of such an
ordinance could be convicted and
severely punished He said such an ordi-
nance was passed by the town authorities of
st. Helena, a small village in Napa county
A well-knOwn citizen who violated the or
dinance at that place was arrested and fined
$500. He appealed to the Supreme Court,
but Judge Wallace, then on the bench, sus-
tanned the lower Court. and the fine i'm
posed had to be paid He said stud-horse
was no worse than seven and a half,
which had so wide a run. He said the
tically dead letter. However, he would
advise the Board TO do something, and that
Immediately. There were dozens of licensed
games running, and lot running which
were not licensed nor restricted License
and restrict all or prohibit all You can do
either. Treat all alike. If had my way
about it, he remarked, " | would make it a
felony for n man to allow an intoxicated
individual or minor to play at his game
Something must be done to protect the
Sacramento youth, and it rests with you,
What are you going to do about it p -
AN ORDINANCE.
Trustee Nielsen presented the following
ordinance, by request, and the same was
laid over for one week:
An Ordinance to License and Regulate Certain
Percentage Gaming.
The Board of Trustees of the City of Sacra-
mentO do ordain as follows:
Section l. 1t shall be unlawful for any person
to maintain. carry on, open, conduct, deal, or
play any percentage game of stud-hoTse poker,
or any other percentage game either with cards,
dice, or any other device, for money, checks or
other representative of value. unless the same
shall be carried on, conducted, dealt played
in accordance with tne following regulations:
First-For conducting, carrying on, or playing,
or dealing any such game, there shall be OBJ
tanned by the person so conducting, carrying
on, playing or dealing such game, from the
City Collector of said city, license therefor, for
which license he shall pay the sum OF - dol
lars per month, in advance. which said sum
shall be paid into the General Fund of said city.
Second-NO person under the age of twenty
one years shall be permitted to play at any such
game, and any proprietor. manager or dealer of
any such game knowingly permitting any such
minor to play at any such game shall be deemed
guilty of a misdemeanor and punished as here
matter provided.
Third-It shall be the duty of the Chief of Po-
lice to, at any and all times inspect such games
and see these regulations enforced
Fourth-Any owner, manager OF dealer of any
Stlcii Nll'fNlllbiE any
tricks or frauds to be practiced, or who practices
any tricks or frauds himself, shall be deemed
guilty of a misdcmeanor, and punished as here
mater prescribed.
Section ?. Any person knowingly permitting
any such game to be conducted upon or within
his premises without complying with the fore
going regulations shall be deemed guilty of a
misdemeanor, and punished as hereinafter pro-
vided
Section 8. Any person violating any of the pro-
visions of this ordinance shall, upon conviction
thereof, be fined in q sum not exceeding $500, or
by imprisonment in the city prison for a term
imprisonment.
Section 4. This ordinance shall take effect i'm
mediatcly.
The ordinance apparently did not suit
anybody. All the Trustees seemed TO think
if passed the license should be made several
hundred dollars per month, which would
practically be prohibition.
LIVELY RUSAwAY.-Y esterday forenoon
Chinaman was driving up street in a
vegetable wagon. and was about to turn
north through Sixth street, when two run
away horses, harnessed but without yehi-
Gle behind them, dashed up ! street and
followed the Chinaman into Sixth They
made but little noise and he knew nothing
of their approach. Nearing his wagon
they separated, one going on each side of
it, and, rs they passed, the lines of their
harness caught the celestial and tossed him
from the wagon as if he had been elevated