Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1885-12-30
BRIEF NOTES.

There were no arrests made by the police
yesterday
The Governor yesterday signed land
patent issued to Maurice Golden for 40
acres IN San Luis Obispo county
Nothing further has been obtained rela-
tive 10 the identity of the twomen upon
whom the Coroner Leld inquests Monday
night
The steamer D, E. Knight came down
from MarysYille yesterday, with grain for
tne floneer Mill, and merchandise for San
| Francisco
The Canyassing Committees of the Anti
| Chlnese Association made partial canvass
of the city yesterday. They were met on
every side with encouragement.
The ladies of Sumner Relief Corps. No.
II, Will give an entertainment and dance
tomorrow evening at Changers Hall.
Tickets, including refreshments, 80 cents
| The Sacramento river at II o'clock last
night had risen to % feet inches, and had
a very slight upward tendency 1t was re-
ported yesterday to be at standstill at
knights Landing.
The Executive Committee of the Citrus
Fair will meet at the Office of Charles r.
PARSONS, al 3 P NJ to-day. As business of
importance is to be transacted full at
tendance is requested.
a meeting of those who have interested
| themselves in the high-license movement
Will be held in the banquet hall of the
! Grangers' building at O'clock this even
ing, when all petitions should be handed in.
Sacramento was enveloped in fog nearly
! all day yesterday, but parties who came to
the city by the different railroad routes re.
ported that it was only local affair. ex-
tending but few miles from the city
! limits
! The case of r. L. Patten, of Gait, who
! was to have been examined before Justice
Springfield of that place last Monday for an
assault to murder j. NJ Monahan, was con-
1 tinued until some day next week, owing to
! the illness of the Justice
Messrs. R. B. Blowers, G. D. Fiske, J. NJ.
! Rhodes and A. d. Porter have been ap-
! pointed committee to collect citrus fruits
/ in 1olo county and forward them to the
! Northern California Citrus Fair, to be held
IN this city, beginning the 18th of January.
! Some time during Sunday night some
thief stole the oranges from large tree in
A. ). Hopkins yard, at 1413 | street If
| they were taken for the purpose of exhib-
itlnS them at the Citrus Fair, Mr.. Hopkins
! says he will forgive the thief, but if for anv
! other purpose, never.
Temple Hall, Odd Fellows Temple has
been secured for the next encampment of
the Grand Army of the Republic, which
will be held on the 18th, 18th and Goth of
February. Fraternity Hall will be used
at the same time for the Convention of the
Ladies Relief Corps, G. A Il.
Capital Division, No 337, Sons of Temp
erance, which was organized few even
| lngs since, is reported to be meeting with
I ON
already joined. The meetings will here
after be held at Smiths Hall. Seventh
street. The charter will remain open for
thirty days.
1t the young gentleman who is paying
attentions to an H-street belle will in the
future not sit between the lamp and the
| window, the shadow pictures will not at
tract such assemblages as nightly gather in
front OF the residence neither will he fur
nish food for comment for passengers in
the street cars.
! The individual who recently snatched
watch and ran out of Wachhorst's store,
making good his escape, is believed to be
now under arrest at Stockton and serving a
term for disturbing the peace. Some one
who can identify the watch thief will 90
down and take look at the Stockton man
in day or two.
J. D. Lockhart, whose place of business
is on Eleventh street, between ] and K
states that he is not the J. d. Lock hardt
mentioned in the Court proceedings in yes
| terday's REcoRD-UNION as being an insol-
vent. He thinks the uame of the latter
| should be W. II. Lockhardt and that an
error was made by the clerk of the Court
in his minutes.
The weather, according to the Signal
! Service reports at Z o'clock last night, was
light snow at Spokane Falls, light rain at
Roseburg, Oregon and heavy rain at Walla
| Walla. In California the weather was
cloudy at Red Bluff, and clear over the re-
mainder of the State. AT noon Yesterday
a snow-storm was prevailing at Denver and
| Omaha and light rain at North Platte.
A man going under the name of Schultz.
but supposed to be Lewis, g the gentleman
from Los Angeles, who will be remembered
by the creditors of Habel and Trask in this
city for the kindly interest he took in the
affairs OF said creditors several months ago.
has been operating the confidence game in
San Francisco, representing himself to be
| from Cleveland, o., and about to start a
brewery at Los Angeles.
The high water of the Sacramento has
backed up the slough north of the north
| levee, and caused it to overflow the Chinese
gardens in that vicinity. The water that
ran in upon the Yolo county low lands
through breaks in the levee, has accumu-
lated to such an extent as to be encroaching
upon George Swingle's ranch-three miles
from Davisville-forty or fifty acres of
which will be overlooked.
The Holly pumps, which We're sadly in
need of repairs, are receiving a thorough
overhauling Three of the four have been
made almost as good as new. Owing to the
fact that the G. 2. pump throws more water
| than is used at night, and to prevent the
tank from OVERLOOKING, it has been stopped
occasionally, while the repairs were Being
made. Steam is up at sill times, so that the
| fire pressure can be put on at a moments
notice.
Officer Kent and Jerry Payne, who had
been up at Auburn as witnesses in the case
of Samuel Ridgway arrested here recently
for grand larceny in stealing quantity Of
jewelry from S. b. Ridgways ranch. near
COlfaX, returned yesterday. The case was
quickly disposed of. The owner of the
property was not DESTROYS of following the
matter Mp very severely, and accordingly
the charge was reduced to petit larceny
upon which the defendant pleaded guilty
and was sentenced to 100 days in the Coun-
ty Jail.
| A Sacramentan had opportunity to COM
! pare the reports of minimum temperature
| tor the tlrst eleven days of this month, as
taken at Riverside and Sacramento, and
found that every day, with one exception,
it was warmer in Sacramento than in Riv-
erside, by about eight degrees. On the day
that was the xception-December shit
was one degree warmer in Riverside than
here. The Sacramentan suggests to the
| RECORD UNION, I" You can see that we
have been a little more tropical than
semi-tropical California"
Director C. NJ. Chase, of the State Board
of Agriculture, while in the city yesterday,
expressed himself as greatly pleased with
the movement to hold the Citrus Fair here
next month. He said that while he was
resident of San Francisco, he thought Sac
ramento the central and proper place to
hold such fair, and believed it would re-
suit in great good to the northern portion
| of the State, in furnishing conclusive evil
dence to intended settlers from the East
that as fine citrus fruit as can be grown
anywhere can be raised here, and very
| profitably. Mr.. Chase stated that he
should attend the fair, and was sanguine
that the people would not fail to respond
with their fruits, ETC., and make it de-
served success.
| PRISONERS EN- RoUTE.-Sheriff Huntley,