Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1885-10-29
BRIEF NOTES.


The Yolo County Teachers Institute will
commence its session this morning.
The pay car, after completing its work
here yesterday, left over the California and
Oregon Railway.
1t Vow, by officer Frazee, for exhibiting
! and John Fitzgerald, by officers Sullivan
and Coffey, Tor petit larceny
A good sized audience listened to pleas.
ing lecture by A. C. Herrick at Calvary
baptist Church last evening, on Rome.
Mount Vesuvius and Pompeii.'
The total tax due from railroads in Cali
lorna for the year 1885 is 1919 500 20, of
which 1923, 1872 % is for county purposes
and S2G6, 754 As for State purposes.
A reward of $500 has been offered by the
! Governor for the arrest and conviction of
Inc person or persons who murdered John
sherman in Modoc county on the LIST of
| last June.
The steamer Apache came up to the CITY
! yesterday without detention on the bars.
though bringing seventy-five tons of freight.
and arrived at \. N. She left on her re-
| turn trip at ll:30.
In Department Two of theSuperior Court
| yesterday the case of Jane L. Conner VS..
| Lee Stanley, administrator. which has been
| on trial for about a week, was submitted to
the Court and taken under adviSement.
The Governor has appointed C. H. e.
Hardin, of San Francisco, and James G.
Smith, Of Oakland, as delegates to the Ma
uonal Cattle and Horse-Growers' Conven-
! ton to be beld at st. Louis November %,
1880, and in Chicago on the 18th and 18th
OF November, 1885.
| Warren Post, No. 81. GAR. will hold
a camp fire at Changers Hall, Tenth and
IL streets, at O'Clock this evening. Com
rades OF Sumner Post, veterans of the late
war together with their families. and
ladies of Sumner and Warren Relief Corps
! are invited to be present.
! The Sherman and Prescott excursion
! party arrived here at 1:35 P. N. Yesterday.
and, after remaining here half an hour,
went on to San Francisco. Several of the
| eXcurslonists intimated their intention of
returning to Sacramento and spending a
| few days before starting homeward
At the auction sale Of the W. II. Pierce
! property in Elk Grove, by order of the
Sheriff, on Tuesday, the Friend d Terry
Lumber Company, of this city, bought in
the whole for $1.S75. This included a
! dwelling and lot, planning mill building
and lot, together with all the mill machin-
| cry, etc.
! The steamer Neponset, No. 3 came down
stream yesterday with a cargo of grain and
merchandise. After passing through the
draw she got aground, at point little
lower down than the bar has usually been
found, and remained fast for some time,
appearing to be stuck on a log or snag,
finally wriggling off.
George Woods, well known as a C. P. r.
X. conductor almost since the road was
commenced, and prior TO that prominently
connected with stage lines, died at the
| Railroad Hospital yesterday morning of
disease of the brain, after an illness of
several months, aged about 60 wears. The
remains will be forwarded to Santa Cruz
| for interment.
Sergeant Barwick says that the weather
at o'clock last night by the Signal Service
reports was light rain falling from Olympia
to Portland. and threatening weather at
Roseburg Oregon, and Cape Mendocino
Cal. The barometer was falling from
Olympia to San Luis Obispo, with south
erly winds north of this State and general
" westerly winds in California.
On warrant sworn out in Justice
Halnes Court by Deputy Sheriff Smith
Ralph Miles has been arrested by Consta-
bic Harvey for misdemeanor, in taking
forcible possession al Gait of property
which was under attachments matter
referred to in yesterdays RECoRD-U UNION.
He gave bonds in the sum of $500 for his
appearance in Court next Tuesday morn
ing.
Warrants were drawn yesterday by the
State Controller as follows: For the San
Francisco harbor improvement fund.
50, AS 81; Mining Bureau, 1922 Oh: Yo-
semitic Valley appropriation, $3.50; State
University, Department of Geology, 81 900:
silk culture, $3.50 80; District Agricultural
IN
Society, No. 3, $500; support of State
Printing Office, S5,431 9S
The overland express was about an hour
behind time in its arrival here from the
East yesterday morning, owing to trouble
on the U. p" The train from Lathrop.
due here at 9 A. NJ, was an hour and ten
minutes late, having waited at that place
for the Southern Pacific connection. The
local train from San Francisco. due here at
1l:25 A. NJ, was nearly an hour late, in con-
sequence OF heavy fog on the bay.
Officers Sullivan and Coffey last evening
observed man standing about the en-
trance to the Red House in such a peculiar
manner that they concluded he was a
thief waiting for chance TO operate The
officers separated and gave HIM opportu-
nifty, but it was half an hour or longer be-
fore he felt safe, and then his theft was
that OF hat, which he slipped beneath
his coat Sullivan ran across the street
and arrested him, but when the hat was
found beneath his clothing he declared he
could not understand how it got there.
subsequently his memory improved, and
he asserted that friend gave it to him.
He Is registered on the house slate
as John Fitzgerald petit larceny"
POLICE COURT,-In the Police Court yes
terday the cases of William Wilcox and
Irene Whittier, for disturbing the peace
and battery; James Wilcox, for batter.
and Mary Wilcox, for disturbing the
peace, were continued until November Sd.
THE cases of Henry Wittpen and f.
Camenzind, for disturbing the peace. were
continued until November 18th w Dan
Fay, charged with having been drunk, was
discharged Jack Donovan, previously
convicted of disturbing the peace, was fined
s. or five days.. Mrs. Murphy was tried
on a charge of embezzlement, and the case
taken under advisement until Saturday,.
James Smith, arrested for having been
drunk, was discharged. ..... George Brown,
similarly charged forfeited his Deposit.
The cases of All OFT, for vagrancy, and You
Quon and Tun Quoy, for robbery, were set
for the 31st.
BASEBALL CHALLENGE.-Elia Steinman,
manager of the Ariel Baseball Club of this
city, published in the REcoRD-U UNION this
morning challenge to the Atlas to play
series of matches-either best two in three,
or three in five-for $50 side each game,
and the gate receipts of all the games, after
paying expenses. He suggests that the first
game be played on November Sth and the
others at intervals of a week, alternately
at Agricultural and Recreation Park, the
choice of place for the first game being de-
cided by " tossing up" He has deposited
forfeit of $40 in this office as evidence
that he means business, and would like
to have it covered.
THE TAX RoLL-County Audito. Miller
has footed up the State and county tax roll
for 1885, and turned it over to Sheriff Will
son. The amount of assessment on the
country roll is S13, 325 O05, which, at the
rate of 81 40 on each 800, makes a tax of
Sl93,212 81. The city roll amounts to $12,-
1869, the tax upon which, at 81 %, will
be Si52, 49, o. Total property on the
assessment list, S25. 524 $50; total tax upon
1t, S34570S 81. Taxes are now due. and
PAYABLE to the Sheriff