Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1884-11-12
BRIEF NOTES.

| Adolph Lotthammer. of this city, has
been granted patent for digitarium."
| Guess what it is and you may have it,
In the Police Court yesterday so fines
| were levied upon Edward Peterson and
Raphael NasqueZ, two DRINKS, and T.. En-
NETT similarly charged, was set at liberty.
Yesterday afternoon there was a row in
| Chinatown A citizen stated that he saw
| half dozen Cinnamon who had evidently
been engaged in it, as all were more or less
besmeared with gore.
The slaughter-house cases, in which the
| Heilbrons and Hagemann are interested as
defendants, were yesterday, in the Police
Court, set for trial December I'd, and n
venire ordered to issue for 100 jurors.
The only arrests recorded at the police
station last night were those of John Fox
| by special Alexander, for disturbing the
peace, and Ed. Boynton, by Constable
Chance, of Brighton, on a charge OF en-
| beZZlcnent.
Chief Jackson and officer Farrell went
| cut hunting Yesterday. Jackson shot four
! times at killdee," and Farrell then sur
rounded it and poured two charges of shot
| into it. The bird was bagged, and the
weary hunters brought it in triumph to the
| city. Congratulations have been poured in
upon them.
| An officer went out yesterday to the rifle
range near which horse was shot last
Sunday, to investigate the affair. He found
that the animal was not killed, but only
| wounded in one leg, and will probably be
all right in few weeks; also, that the
| shooting was not done by members Of any
of the military companies. as had been
| supposed but by two men named Wilson
and johnson, who fred several shots from
| their rifles without using the regular tar
gets or bulkheads.
Stud-Horse Poker.
Several communications have been re-
ceiyed at this Office relative to the game Of
stud-horse poker They are from mothers
and fathers OF young men who have been
victimized by those engaged in that I'M
savory business, and one is from a victim
himself The Chief of Police was inter
viewed regarding the matter yesterday. 1t
can be said of Mr.. Jackson that he is an
excellent officer, and he claims, and truth
| fully, too, that under the existing laws and
ordinances he is powerless to suppress this
egregious and growing evil. Night before
last he was aroused from his slumbers by
some one tapping on his door, and when 1t
was opened he found the parents of boy
who had been robbed of his money at one
of the games They were frantic, the
mother almost crazed, and the officer was
! bcsceched TO restore. if possible, the money
taken from their child. They claimed that
the loss of the money would cause them
70 want for food during the next fort
night The Chief did what he could
for them-sent an officer with them 10
| try, if possible, to have those running the
game restore the money. Their efforts
were fruitless and the family was reduced
| TO want and misery The Chief was asked
| by reporter yesterday how it was that
Chief Crowley in San Francisco, succeeded
III suppressing the games. He replied that
for months the game ran in San Francisco
the same as it did here, perhaps not so
| bold and fragrant but games were to be
found all over the city. The officers at the
Bay found the same difficulty in suppress
ing the evil that now confronts the Sacra-
mento police. Seven suicides of young
men, three of them leaving young wives
and helpless families, were found to have
been committed because they had lost all
their means, their honor and self
respect by being victimized by this
most dcbasing and degrading of all
games. Public opinion became aroused,
the populace became indignant and the
result was that an ordinance was drawn
and passed by the City Supervisors, max
ing the dealing of or playing at the game a
misdemeanor 1t is asserted by parties who
claim 10 know, that one game played in a
public house III this city-not a cigar stand
or a saloon, either-pays the proprietor OF
the house Cne-half of their profits for the
privilege Of the use of small room, in size
about I2X12. His profits aggregate 81 ,20O
per month and the other 81 200 is divided
between the three men who own the came
One dealer was heard to say at an uptown
hotel that his game in certain beer saloon
was worth to him $50 a night. No less
than twenty -seven young men, employed
in diFrent capacities in this city, were yes
terday notified by their employers that il
they were caught frequenting those haunts
of vice they would be discharged. The peo-
pie are aroused upon this question, and
any young man who values his standing
in society, or the confidence of his en-
ployers, will give all such places wide
berth.
An ordinance has been drawn, and will
be presented to the Board of Trustees on
Monday next, and by them no doubt viii
be passed, that will make the dealing OIL
playing at the game misdemeanOr, pun
ishabe by fine of $500 together with in.
prisonment in the county Jail for Il perioc
OF six months.