Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1884-02-04
PACIFIC SLOPE.
LAST NIGHTS DISPATCHES TO THs REooRD-uSlos
CALIFORNIA,
Memorial Exercises Race Postponed =
Funeral.

Funeral.
SAN FRANCISCO, February 31-Columbia
Lodge, B mai Birth, held memorial exercises
this afternoon in honor of DR.. Eduard Las.
ker, the German patriot. There was large
attendance, and resolutions commemorative
OF his virtues were adopted.
The 100-ysrd race between Harmon and
kittlemsn, for the championship and 81 000
announced to take place yesterday, was post.
poned on account of the poor track. The race
will come off tomorrow at the Recreation
Grounds. weather and track permitting.
The funeral services Of Colonel James A.
Layen were to day largely attended. Among
the floral wresths was one from the Sacra-
mento telegraphers.
A st. Patrick's Day Convention has been
organized, with William Simpson as Presi-
dent.
4 Lighted Pipe Creates AN Excitement.
lone, February Si.-An alarm of fire was
again sounded this afternoon at o'clock, and
on investigation was found to proceed from
one Of the rooms in the Union Hotel, one Of
the guests having placed lighted pipe in his
coat pocket, laid down on the bed and went
to sleep. The damage was nominal.
Small WaterspOut.
LIvERMoRE, February 3l-A small water
spout burst near Ellis. San Joaquin county,
this afternoon. The water covered the track
for depth of over foot, delaying the train
few minutes, but doing no other damage as
far as reported
Funeral at Yreka.
YREKA, February 3d.-1'he funeral of r.
o. Dewitt. to-day, was largely attended by
Mssons, Red Men, United WorkmeD, FIRE.
men and numerous friends from all parts Of
the county, making one of the largest funeral
H. !
was a popular and highly esteemed business
man in Yreks for over tweBty-eiRht years.
a. The Code In San BernardIno County
COTTON, February 3d.-This afternoon two
Mexicsns were engaged in game of cards In
q saloon in this place. A dispute arose, and
they both agreed to go outside out of town
and settle the stfsir with revolvers. They
unbitched their horses and led them off tc-
gather, as though engaged in social CONVEX
satiOn, till they got outside the town, when
they commenced shooting. Five shots apiece
were fired, one of them being shot in the left
breast and hip, and had MS right thumb shot
off. The other was uninjured. Tney were
promptly arrested ard taken to the Couaty
Jail.
Trains Delayed by WasbGu;s
BAKERSFIELD, February 3l.-The north
err. bound freight and emigrant train met
with s. troublesome accident near cameron S
station last night. The two engines belonging
to it and two freight cars plunged into an ex-
iensive wash out, and delayed the northern
bound passenger train, that came few hours
after it. about sixteen hours. About hslf an
iuch Cf rain fell here to-day, and there is
likely 10 be more tonight.
Los ANGELES, January 3I-The roads are
washed out east and north. No trains ar
rived from the east or north day and none
were dispatched in either direction. The
railroad bridge across the San Gabriel is re-
ported impossible. No other damage is re-
ported.
Cotton, February 81. - All trains are
abandoned on the Southern Pacific Railroad.
Eight miles Of track have been washed awsy
On the Colorado desert at Cactus, and two
bridges at Pomona and the piles out Ct the
bridge over the San Gabriel river. No trains
are running on the California Southern Rail
wsy. Heavy wasAouts in the Temecula caa-
yen are reported.
A ResuscItated River.
DAGGETT, February 3l.-The recent heavy
rains aave astoni led toe old dry bed of ths
Nj, ave river by filing it with a stream three
hundred feet wide and from four to eight feet
deep. Nothing like it has been known siuco
1862 Today two Cinnamon, attempting Is
cross it, we're swept away by the rapid GUY
rent. One was saved, bat the other was
drowned.