Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1885-06-06
BRlEF NOTES.

morning.
General Clunies new theater will
S ready for the raising of the roof on ne'
) Monday
bod McClintock, who escaped froIr I'll
f chain-gang Thursday afternoon, is believe
: to have got out of town.
= The only arrest made by the police yes
I terday was that of Joe Frey, by officer
l | Kent and Farrell, for misdemesnor.
At Twelfth and streets, about II ocloc
. Thursday night, 4 man was knocked dow
. and robbed of 500. He received sever
scalp cut.
< Frank Eldred went up to Marysville yes
: terday, to run race tomorrow with
young man of that place who is reporte,
t to be very tleet-footed.
} The commissioners appointed to purchas
I site for q Government building me
yesterday and adjourned to I P NJ Tues
2 day, when they will doubtless come to
vote.
The tr0tting mare Gersta, that was takei
suddenly sick on the Riverside road twt
or three days ago, is still alive, but appear
10 be paralyzed, and will probably neve
recover.
Last "Wednesday evening, while JOIN
Gayner was riding on Sixth street, between
\ and Q, milk wagon collided with hi
buggy, damaging the latter and causing
him to be hurt.
The United States snagboat Seller, which
has been at work on Feather river, cam,
down to the city yesterday for supplies
She has not completed the work on tina
stream, however.
There will be concert and dance a
Central Park, F street, between Sixteenth
and Seventeenth, tomorrow. Mrs. DIETRICH
the proprietor announces that families will
find it a cool and pleasant resort, and that
strict order will be maintained.
The second number of the Horse-!Secker
for distribution upon Immigrant trains
coming from the East, has been issued by
the Northern California Immigration As
| sociation, and is an interesting and vau-
able contribution to the Association work
| Warrants were drawn at the State Con-
| trollers office yesterday, as follows. State
| Board Of Fish Commissioners for the new
| hatchery, 81 $50; State Normal School at
San Jose. s., 076 40 State Normal School at
| Los Angeles, $1058; State Printing Office
salaries, 81, 800.
| The sermon delivered BY Rev W. c.
| Merrill, concerning the occasion of the
| recent floral festival. has. upon solicitation
L
| Committee, been procured and published in
pamphlet form. 1t was printed by the firm
of II. S. Croker & Co.
! 4 very large number of citizens testified
| by their presence at his funeral Yesterday
afternoon to the esteem in which they had
held the late Fred Mier Jr., and their re-
gard for his family. Sacramento Paror
No. 3, n. S. G. w, of which he had been a
member. attended in a body.
A telephone message from Woodland
yesterday announced that the office of
District Attorney Sprague at that place
was burglarized Thursday night. and the
gripsaCk Of J. II. Maguffey, the Court re-
porter, stolen. 1t was believed that the
thief was coming to Sacramento with it.
The following officers were elected for
the ensuing term by Red Jacket Tribe No.
%, Imp. 0. Z. NJ last evening Prophet.
Fred. w. Sauze Sachem, A. Dunbar
Senior Sycamore, John White JuniC Sag
amore, J. Van c. Homer: G. of R., ]. l..
Jackson; F. c., James McCaw; X of W,
William Boyne Trustees, j. J. Nagle, g.
A. Worthington and J. Van c. Horner
It was reported yesterday that the build
ing at Second and J streets, occupied by
Wells Fargo & Co., the United States
Revenue Collector, and others, had been
maze
the matter much worse than the facts war
rant. A settling of the wall is apparent,
but architects say that the introduction of
a girder will remedy the difficulty and to-
day the building will be inspected 20 de-
termine just what is needed.
A dirt team ran away on Tenth street,
near NJ, yesterday afternoon about clock.
They narrowly escaped collision with the
granite for the Capitol fence lying at Tenth
and \ streets, almost caromed against
| corner grocery, and then sped down \
street. Near Seventh street the driver was
| thrown from the wagon but did not get
| much hurt. The horses kept on down to
Sixth street, where they wanted to climb Il
| telegraph pole, but failed to DO SO and were
caught.
The highest thermometer yesterday, &C
| cording to the Signal Service reports was ::
For Olympia, So; Spokane Falls, Csc; Fort
Candy, $50; Portland, Sc; Roseburg, so:
Cape Mendocino, $50; Red Bluff. 70; Sac
| ramento, To-; San Francisco, 617; Los An
geles, To; and San Diego 67o The ba-
| rometer at o clock last night was falling
| in California and rising rapidly in Oregon,
| westerly wind prevailing along the coast,
and W ather clear in this State and clear to
cloudy and light rain in Oregon and Wash
| ington Territory.
WOODBURY. HEARD FROM. - James s.
Woodburn, of this city was rusticatng
at Hardin Springs but returned day
or two ago. A Sacramentan who
| was at the Springs at the same
! time narrates that one day James pro-
cured q shotgun and went ont for hunt.
| Soon after starting he knocked a hare over,
| but after that did not have much luck, and
not caring to shoot when it was not his
| day, he started to return. Not far from
| the hotel in the brush a Chinaman, who
| does the washing for the visitors, has a
| cabin, and keeps some chickens Descend
| ing the hill, WOodburn discovered a
speckled fowl wandering around alone,
| and brought it down with the first barrel.
| Confident that it was a grouse, he carried il
into camp with considerable pride, and
was soon expressing himself concerning it
to an admiring throng. Some one sug-
gested that he had always thought grouse
had feathers down the legs to their feet
but Woodburn declared that he had ''kiIed
lots of them and the feathers on the legs
were only prominent after the birds grew
| old Another bystander timidly intimated
| that II was the first grouse with yellow legs
that ever came under his observation
Woodburn was in the act of laughing him
~SCAA'I
the scene, and Immediately advancing to
where the mighty nimrod stood with the
fowl in his hand, broke upon his startled
ear with the query, What for you shootee
my chickeeY WOODBURY. turned in
| amazement, tinctured with q vague feeling
| that there might have been q mistake, re-
plying, This no chicken, John; this is
a grouse" No! no, him no goose,
him my chickeel Me hear gun,
see tother chickee lun; this chickee
he no come. Me sabe you You sabe him
no goose; him chickeep' and John was
getting more excited every minute over
| the idea that man would shoot his
| chicken and try to make him believe it
was goose. not knowing what grouse
was. Nothing remained for Woodburn
but to settle up, and he paid four bits for
,, the fowl. Since then they call him " Mr..
Grouse over there.
FIRE.-About go o'clock yesterday
morning an alarm was turned in from be