Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1885-06-22
BRIEF NOTES.

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J The railroad company contemplates erect
| in.g round house at Single Springs.
Two carloads of immigrants arrived yes
terday and three carloads will arrive thi
afternoon.
John Woodson of Gait had his right arm
: badly fractured one day last week by tn
kick of mule.
Elk Grove. Folsom. and Gait are maxim!
preparations for proper observance of thu
Fourth of July.
Judge Mcfarland viii hear to-day til,
mandamus case of P A. Miller VS.. State
Controller Dunn.
The proclamation of Grand Marshal r
NJ. Clarken is well written and appears il
the advertising columns of this issue.
State and county taxes on personal
property must be paid to Assessor Griffitts
to-day, or else there will be additional ex-
pense.
Mrs Larcener was released from the
County Jail Saturday, and yesterday officer
Franks found her. bowling drunk, at Tenth
and P streets, and using filthy language.
Sheriff Mcclellan of Butte county passed
through the city yesterday having in charge
George Frank, sentenced to one years i'm
prisonment at San Quentin for burglary.
Several large land-holders near Gait are
seriously considering the advantage to be
derived from suhdividing their estates and
disposing of their acres in small quantities.
1t is reported that the running horses
Philip S. and Porter Ashe, purchased in
, this city few weeks ago and taken East,
have got off" and may not round to for
some time.
| The snagboat Seller is doing good work
on Feather river, constructing dams to
deepen the channel. There are six or seven
dams yet to be put in, occupying about two
weeks time.
At the Park yesterday afternoon there
was foot-race, 100 yards, 500 a side, be-
tween Fred. Stone, of this city, and John
| Taylor, of Gridley. The former won by
about foot
The amount of damage done at the Whit
| tier-Fuller fire has been adjusted and the
| insurance money paid, as follows: Stock,
$4,000; building, $2,650 furniture, 1922 !;
| total, S20,972.
A man named j. Dorsey, who was on
his way from San Jose to Colfax, managed
| to get very drunk, and at the depot Satur-
| day evening created disturbance and used
the most vile language. Deputy Sheriff
| Lee arrested him.
Ihe CtdtS loOdiu vi EAdlllleTS ASK IOT
| sealed proposals to furnish stationery and
blank books in accordance with schedules
furnished by the Secretary of State Their
| advertisement appears N this issue under
| the head of new advertisements.
Mrs. Len Harris. wife of the well-known
detective, died Saturday evening after a
very brief illness, having had an attack in
the nature OF apoplexy that forenoon. Mr..
Harris was IN Arizona at the time, but has
been telegraphed to and is on his way
home.
Sacramentans generally, and railroad
employees in particular, will be sorry to
hear that IN the course of the changes being
made by the railroad company F. G. Rice,
who has been acting as Assistant Division
superintendent here, will shortly be trans
ferred to Carlin.
Phillip Oppenheim, for many years a
resident of this city, has accepted a position
as secretary and cashier with j. NJ Thomp-
son, special agent for A S. Hallides
patent wire ropeway and contractor for
street cable railroad construction at As
Fremont street, San Francisco
A match has been made between Chris.
Clifford, Of Yolo, and J. Judge, of this CITY.
TOR a race between their roadster horses,
mile heats, three in five, for $3.50 side. the
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Mr.. Clifford names the bay mare Nellie B..
and MIR. Judge names the gray mare Sake.
Leayitt Todhunter, of this city. owns
full two-year-old sister to Joe Cotton, the
horse that beat Tyrant Saturday She is
very promising filly, and it is reported that
Eastern parties have offered Mr.. Todhunter
5000 for her Mr.. Williams who has her
III his stable in the East, advised her owner
not to accept the offer as she is very fast.
The Executive Committee of the Mardi
Gras celebration met in the reading-room
of the Capital Hotel last evening. and was
well attended. They elected their Jigadier
Brindle but as he is very modest young
man the press has kindly consented to not
give his name to the public. The general
committee will meet at the Court house
tomorrow night.
J. T.. Gould, brakeman on one of the
California and Oregon freight trains while
coupling cars at Durham Friday evening,
had his left hand badly crushed by being
caught between the bumpers of the cars
The middle finger was entirely severed at
the second joint. Three months ago Mr.
Gould met with a similar accident at
which time the bones of the hand were
broken straight across.
1t is reported that fight took place at a
saloon at Twenty-first and H streets about
IL o'clock Saturday night, during which a
young man had the end of one of the
fingers of his right hand bitten off. He
started away, and his opponent fired three
pistol shots at him, one of the bullets nip
ping off a piece from the end of another
finger of the same hand that had been
hurt, and another bullet came so near hit
ting him that it passed through the side of
his shirt.
While the procession was passing through
| Second street, between J and X, Saturday
evening, some one who was shooting a
Roman candle held it in such a manner
| that the balls were fired among party of
| ladies and gentlemen on balcony. One
struck lady's hat, and in a second the
| light trimming of the latter was in blaze,
| and she tore it off without waiting to re-
| move its fastenings, and saved herself from
| being burned, but the hat was considerably
damaged.
About y o'clock Saturday night the de-
pot Waterman arrested and took to the
station house two Indians who had i'm
| blbed too much fire-water, and subSe-
quently getting into a quarrel at their
! camp, west of the Third-street bridge and
not far from the depot proceeded to fight
with their pocket knives. They evidently
aimed TO cut each others threats, as each
| received one or more slashes about the
neck. The City Physician was summoned
and dressed their injuries.
| Charles A. Grow, who lately resigned his
position as Auditor of the motive power
and machinery department of the Central
Pacific Railroad, was called to Sacramento
Saturday evening by dispatch, suggest
ing important business; but on his arrival
he was met by friends, given fine dinner
at the Restaurant de France and at a suit
able moment was presented with val
liable testimonial and souvenir to remind
him of his many friends among the rail
road employees in Sacramento and vicinity
] CLOSE the door gently
And bride the breath:
| I've one of my headaches
I'm sick unto death"