Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1885-01-21

Detective jim Hanley who escorted Jerry
Slatterv TO Salinas last Friday, returned to
this city last evening with Chief Jackson, of
the capital, where jim stopped over Satur-
day and yesterday morning. The Bay City
Hawkshaw was very tired when he landed
here, and there was weary look about his
gills that betokened a stomachic disorder of
the first order.
How do you like Sacramento, James 2"
queried Chris. Cox and John Wright, as
Hanley sank into a chair after reporting
for duty.
The ex-custodian of Mr.. Slattery looked
around to see if Jackson was in sight, and
then whispered, IFS - of place.
They have owls and mushrooms for break
fast up there every Sunday morning"
Have WHAT"
"Owls and mushrooms. oh, it's straight
l tell you," lie added as his brother cops
exchanged glances implying dubiousness
had one for breakfast this morning,
broiled."
Cox whistled bar from the " Come
mara Pet" and Hanley broke in with
g You needn't think it was boiled owl
and that was the bird. | tell YOU | ate
an owl this morning. It's common dish
up there. Jackson eats them all the time
They taste first-rate, too, but the - thing
chasing mice through my internal arrange
ments, and was taking an occasional chew
on the lining of my stomach" and Jim
groaned until his handsome features were
distorted almost beyond recognition.
Cox and Wright consulted for one mo-
ment, and then called Jackson to one side
and asked him if Sacramento was very red
during their companion stay.
Red? No." laughed the Chief, he
didn't drink drop; but we've played even
on him for one of his little jokes of last
summer"
"What did you do to him?"
"Well, you see, Jim is very fond of
mushrooms, and | walked him up the
levee yesterday to get some. We picked
lot, and on the way back we tried Jim's
pistol, and killed couple of little boot
owls. | picked the feathers off as we
walked along, and when jim asked me
what was going TO do with them | told
him they were fine eating.
&" WHAT Jim yelled; eat one of them
big-eyed, ugly-faced things? Why, I'd
lust as soon eat monkey He kept on
laughing at the idea, but insisted that it
was SC, and told him it was discovered by
an Assemblyman who thought that he was
a chump, and tried to transplant wisdom
in his nut by eating one while he was
drunk. l took the birds into the restau-
rant and ordered them broiled with the
mushrooms but winked at the waiter, with
whom | had left mess OF meadow larks
the night before. He understood me- and
the larks came on, done to a turn. JIM
watched me tackle mine, and then lie went
to work, with considerable reluctance at
first, but finally he cleaned his up i'll good
shape. He though t it was all right at first,
but he commenced to think about the looks
of his breakfast, and he's been getting
sicker and sicker all the time"
The three officers fairly yelled AT the con-
clusion, and turned to look for Hanley,
but he had fled long before, and was con-
tributing his owl breakfast to the fish that
play about the foot of the Washington
Street sewer while waiting for their daily
bread, without caring whether it be toast
with quail on top or owl meat.-[San n-en
cisco Alta, January 10th.